Alex Schadenberg
Executive Director, Euthanasia Prevention Coalition

New Hampshire legislature

The New Hampshire assisted suicide bill (House Bill 254) is likely dead in 2025 following a close vote to table the bill in the House of Representatives.

William Skipworth reported for The New Hampshire Bulletin on March 20, 2025 that:

By a single vote, the New Hampshire House of Representatives decided to table a proposal to legalize assisted suicide.

By tabling this bill, the House decided not to advance it to the Senate, but didn’t kill it entirely. Lawmakers can still bring it back up for a vote should they choose. The bipartisan vote to table it was 183-182.

Skipworth reported that a similar bill was debated last year:

The debate over assisted suicide is not a new one in the New Hampshire State House. The practice was almost legalized last year when 2024’s House Bill 1283, a very similar piece of legislation, was approved by the House, but failed in the Senate.

In tabling the bill House majority leader Jason Osborne said:

“I do enjoy a debate of nine speakers such as we have lined up here as much as the next guy,”

“But I also know that we don’t need to have the same debate every year.”

On March 21, 2024, the New Hampshire House passed assisted suicide House Bill 1283 by a vote of 179 to 176. The bill was referred to the Senate where it was stopped on May 16, 2024 by a vote to 17 to 7 when they sent the bill for further study. 

New Hampshire assisted suicide bill is dead in 2024 (Link).