Every jurisdiction in this catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it. This page watches each jurisdiction's law, follows a bill through its own jurisdiction's process where its stages are recorded, and names the catalog entries each instrument touches.
9 instruments in New Hampshire. Tracked across 51 jurisdictions. Every other jurisdiction on the board is still watched by hand.
A bill that died is listed only where a guide, an agency, or a news story has described it as current law. That is the failure that puts a number in front of a veteran which no assessor, registrar, or school will honor.
▲Expands benefitsCreates a grant and loan programme for veterans services funded by a new special veteran number plate.
Added RSA 110-B:92 to 110-B:101 and RSA 261:97-g to 261:97-i. The programme funds work on ending veteran homelessness, attracting and retaining veterans and matching their skills to employers, improving access to physical and mental health care, suicide prevention, oral health care and substance use disorder treatment, military skills transfer and certification, and education including apprenticeships and the trades. The authority is a public instrumentality organised as a nonprofit under RSA 292, governed by an eleven-member board of which five seats belong to the state veterans council. Funding comes from a new Special Veteran Number Plate renewed annually at $30 per set on top of the ordinary registration and plate fees: $1 per registration up to $50,000 a year is spent promoting the plate programme itself and the remainder goes to the first for veterans fund, distributed on priorities set by the governor and the state veterans council. A trust fund sits in the state treasurer’s office, nonlapsing and continually appropriated, and no state agency money may be transferred into it without authorisation from the general court. Administrative revenue is capped at $200,000 a fiscal year with the excess credited to the trust fund. Only municipalities, other political subdivisions and publicly-supported section 501(c) nonprofits may apply for assistance, which comes as grants, block grants and loans with up to half of each year’s assistance allowed to be loans whose repayments return to the plate fund. Tracked because the programme is three weeks old, no criteria or guidelines have been adopted under RSA 110-B:96, II, there is no grant history, and the first annual report is not due until December 1.
▲Expands benefitsPoints several veteran tax credits, the Veterans Home and the employment preference at the RSA 21:50 definition, which reaches a general discharge.
A conforming act with substantive effect. Effective August 31, 2026 it replaced older discharge language with a cross-reference to the definition in RSA 21:50 across the code, touching at least RSA 72:28-b (all veterans’ tax credit), RSA 72:35 (tax credit for service-connected total disability), RSA 72:36-a (exemption for a specially adapted homestead), RSA 119:1 and 119:2 (the New Hampshire Veterans’ Home and the qualifications of its board of managers), RSA 119:6 (veteran employment preference at the home), RSA 283:4 (preference in public employment) and RSA 261:86 (special number plates for former prisoners of war, Purple Heart recipients and Pearl Harbor survivors). Because RSA 21:50, I(a)(2) reaches an honorable discharge, a general discharge under honorable conditions and an uncharacterized discharge based on a service-connected injury, illness or disability, every one of those provisions is now open to a veteran with a general discharge who was previously outside it. RSA 72:28, the standard and optional wartime credit, was not amended and still requires an honorable discharge, so the two neighbouring property tax credits now carry different discharge tests. Tracked because no published New Hampshire benefit guidance reflects the change, a veteran refused before August 31, 2026 should apply again, and because RSA 72:27-a, IV arguably requires a town that previously adopted RSA 72:28-b, 72:35 or 72:36-a to vote again before the wider eligibility applies locally, which is unresolved.
▲Expands benefitsRaises the ceilings on the optional veterans', combat service and surviving spouse credits, though a town must vote again before its amount rises.
Amends RSA 72:28, II to raise the optional veterans’ tax credit band from $51 to $750 up to $51 to $1,000; RSA 72:28-c, II to raise the optional tax credit for combat service from $50 to $500 up to $50 to $750; and RSA 72:29-a, II to raise the optional surviving spouse credit from $701 to $2,000 up to $701 to $2,500. All three take effect April 1, 2027, and the published statutes print the current and future versions of each paragraph side by side under bracketed effective-date headers. Tracked as watching a later date, and flagged in substance for a reason particular to New Hampshire: none of these increases reaches a single veteran automatically. RSA 72:27-a, IV provides that an amendment to a credit amount applies in a municipality that previously adopted the provision only after the municipality complies with the adoption procedure, so a town that adopted a credit in an earlier year keeps its voted amount until a fresh warrant article or council vote passes. The act raises ceilings, not credits, and a veteran told their credit is going up in April 2027 should ask whether their town has voted.
=No change to benefitsChanges the membership of the state veterans council and gives it the First for Veterans programme to run; no benefit changes.
Amended RSA 110-B:89 effective July 1, 2026. The state veterans council is now 5 members appointed by the governor and council, 4 of whom must be veterans as defined by RSA 21:50 and the fifth a family member of a veteran or of a currently serving member of the armed forces, all of whom must be New Hampshire citizens, on staggered three-year terms. Paragraph II adds the duty to "administer the New Hampshire first for veterans program for the adjutant general" alongside meeting at least semi-annually to provide guidance and recommendations on the adequacy and delivery of veterans programmes, and lets the adjutant general designate a member as liaison to the state veterans advisory committee. Tracked because it is the operational counterpart to 2026 chapter 304: the same five-member council supplies five of the eleven seats on the New Hampshire first for veterans authority board under RSA 110-B:95, III and administers the programme, so the council is now the dominant voice in how the plate revenue is spent, and published descriptions of the council still give its former composition.
▲Expands benefitsLets a Guard member transfer the tuition waiver to a spouse, until the paragraph is repealed on July 1, 2027.
Added RSA 110-B:63-c, IV, letting a member of the New Hampshire National Guard who has completed an initial mandatory service obligation of no less than 6 years transfer the tuition waiver to a spouse for use in a degree-enhancing curriculum in the community college or university system, at the cost of a 4-year reserve duty service obligation running from the date of transfer, with the spouse able to transfer it back and the two barred from using it simultaneously. Section 1 of the same act added the DEERS-based definition of spouse at RSA 110-B:63-b, VI. Section 4 of the act repeals paragraph IV effective July 1, 2027, and the published statute carries the bracketed note. Tracked as watching a later date because the window to transfer closes on that date: a member who wants to move the benefit to a spouse must do it before July 1, 2027 and should weigh the additional 4-year obligation, and because a member who transfers shortly before the repeal will be relying on a paragraph that no longer exists when the spouse enrols, which the act does not address.
=No change to benefitsPuts the state veterans cemetery under its own director rather than the adjutant general; no eligibility changes.
Amended RSA 110-B:74 to replace administration of the New Hampshire State Veterans Cemetery by the adjutant general with direction by "an unclassified director of the state veterans cemetery who shall be qualified to hold that position by reason of education and experience", and rewrote the director’s duties in RSA 110-B:76 in ten paragraphs effective September 6, 2022. The replacement version of RSA 110-B:74 does not take effect on a calendar date. The published statute prints both versions under contingent headers: one "effective until the terms of 2022, 322:3, II and 6, II are met" and one "effective upon the terms of 2022, 322:3, II and 6, II being met". Flagged because a reader of the statute cannot tell which version is currently operative, the catalog therefore cannot state who directs the cemetery, and a condition-contingent effective date of this kind will not appear in any secondary description of the cemetery. Eligibility for interment is separately left to regulations the adjutant general adopts under RSA 110-B:78, I, so the statute states no service or discharge test at all.
=No change to benefitsRepeals a general tax on interest and dividends that never reached military retired pay or other earned income; no veteran benefit changes.
Repealed RSA 77 in its entirety effective January 1, 2025. The interest and dividends tax was the only New Hampshire tax on personal income; the state has never taxed wages or other earned income. For a taxable period beginning on or after January 1, 2025 there is no New Hampshire tax on interest, dividends, capital gains, wages, pensions, military retired pay, Survivor Benefit Plan annuities or any other personal income, and no personal return to file. Tracked because a great deal of published material still describes New Hampshire as taxing interest and dividends at 5 percent or at a phased-down rate, and because the absence of a personal income tax is the structural reason New Hampshire delivers all of its veteran tax relief as local property tax credits under RSA 72 rather than as refundable income tax credits the way several other states in this catalog do.
▲Expands benefitsMakes the VA's total disability certification conclusive for the credit unless the town has contrary evidence the veteran can rebut.
Rewrote RSA 72:35, III effective January 1, 2019. An applicant for the tax credit for service-connected total disability furnishes certification from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs that they are rated totally and permanently disabled from service connection, and the selectmen or assessors "shall accept such certification as conclusive on the question of disability unless they have specific contrary evidence and the applicant, or the applicant’s representative, has had a reasonable opportunity to review and rebut that evidence", with a further right to submit additional evidence on the question of disability. Any decision to deny "shall identify the evidence upon which the decision relied and shall be made within the time period provided by law", and the credit must be divided evenly among the number of tax payments the municipality requires annually. Tracked because it is the strongest procedural protection in the New Hampshire file and almost no benefit summary mentions it: a veteran whose credit is refused on an assessor’s doubt about the rating, or refused without reasons, has a specific statutory answer and an appeal under RSA 72:34-a to the board of tax and land appeals or the superior court.
▲Expands benefitsLets a town extend its veterans' tax credit to a veteran with 90 days of service in any era, not only wartime.
Added RSA 72:28-b effective August 8, 2016, letting a town or city adopt a credit equal to its existing standard or optional veterans’ tax credit under RSA 72:28 but open to a veteran who served 90 days on active service in any era rather than only within a listed qualifying war or armed conflict. Training for active duty by a National Guard or reserve member counts as service. The credit is unavailable to a person who is eligible for or receiving a credit under RSA 72:28 or RSA 72:35, so the credits form a single choice rather than a stack. A municipality that already had a standard or optional credit before August 18, 2016 and adopts this section may phase the all veterans’ credit in over three years to match. Tracked for two reasons. The phase-in date of August 18, 2016 in the text of paragraph II does not match the act’s own effective date of August 8, 2016, and a town relying on the phase-in may be reading a ten-day window that the act does not explain. And because the credit exists only where a town has voted for it under RSA 72:27-a, a peacetime veteran’s eligibility turns entirely on the municipality, which no statewide summary can state.
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