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SB 304 · 2025 · Senate · Executive Departments and Administration Committee

Report on Canada tariff impacts

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directing the commissioner of the department of business and economic affairs to assemble a report on the effects of tariffs on Canada and New Hampshire residents.

Directs the commissioner of the department of business and economic affairs to assemble a report on the effects of tariffs on Canada on New Hampshire residents.AI-generated

Status

Killed in the Senate — Inexpedient to Legislate · November 3, 2025
  1. ✓Introduced
  2. ✕Senate
  3. House
  4. Governor
  5. Law

Analysis

This bill directs the commissioner of the department of business and economic affairs to assemble a report on the effects of tariffs on Canada and New Hampshire residents.

From the bill's official ANALYSIS section.

In the bill's words

Quoted verbatim from the bill as introduced.

“This section shall be known as the "Tariffs Are a Tax Act".”
RSA 12-O:77, I

The title the sponsors wrote into the statute, and the argument in five words.AI-generated

“Canada is New Hampshire's number one export market, totaling $1.4 billion in annual goods. (c) New Hampshire imports $2 billion in goods from Canada annually, including $444 million in fuel oil, $111 million in fish and crustaceans, and $78 million in wood products.”
RSA 12-O:77, II(b)-(c)

The trade numbers the bill puts in statute: what New Hampshire sells to Canada, and what it buys.AI-generated

“182,000 New Hampshire jobs rely on international trade.”
RSA 12-O:77, II(e)

The single figure the case rests on.AI-generated

“The commissioner shall prepare a report to be presented no later than October 1, 2025, to the governor, executive council, the fiscal committee of the general court, the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the state library. The report shall be posted online on the website of the department.”
RSA 12-O:77, III

What the bill actually would have done: one report, to named officials, published online.AI-generated

Official record

Bill page — docket & status

gc.nh.gov · the authoritative source

Sponsors

Sen. Rebecca Perkins KwokaDPrimeMinority Leader
  • Sen. Cindy RosenwaldDDeputy Democratic Leader

Also: Sen. Pat LongD, Sen. Donovan FentonD, Sen. David WattersD

Public testimony

No one submitted online testimony on this bill. See the record

Votes

yeanay
Starting text: Bill as introduced
  • Mar 27, 2025SenateCommittee report: Inexpedient to Legislate3–2
    Overall
    60% yea
  • Mar 27, 2025SenateRoll callSen. Pearl Moved Laid on TableAdopted16–8How they voted
    Overall
    67% yea
    Party-line vote
    Republicans
    16–0100% yea
    Democrats
    0–80% yea

Hearings and debates

  • Mar 19, 2025Public hearingSenate Executive Departments and Administration1:18:42–1:20:111m 29slocated in the stream transcriptHearing
  • Mar 27, 2025Floor debateSenate floor3:17:42–3:21:213m 39slocated in the stream transcriptCommittee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate; Pending Motion Inexpedient to Legislate; Sen. Pearl Moved Laid on Table — adopted, roll call 16-8

Timestamps locate where this bill is taken up in the chamber's YouTube stream.

Legislative history

  1. Feb 13, 2025SenIntroduced 02/13/2025 and Referred to Executive Departments and Administration; SJ 6
  2. Mar 19, 2025SenHearing: 03/19/2025, Room 103, SH, 10:00 am; SC 12
  3. Mar 27, 2025Sen: Inexpedient to Legislate, 03/27/2025, Vote 3-2; SC 14
  4. Mar 27, 2025SenSen. Pearl Moved Laid on Table, RC 16Y-8N, MA; 03/27/2025; SJ 9
  5. Mar 27, 2025SenPending Motion Inexpedient to Legislate; 03/27/2025; SJ 9
  6. Oct 31, 2025SenInexpedient to Legislate, Senate Rule 3-23, 10/31/2025; SJ 1

Coverage

No reporting linked yet.

Documents (PDF)

  • Introducedversion

Bill text & amendments link direct to gc.nh.gov; committee reports stream from the state record.