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AI Laws in New Hampshire
As of 2026-08-12, AI Laws USA tracks 8 AI rules in New Hampshire: 7 state-level rules and 1 county or city rule. Federal AI protections apply statewide on top of these — see the federal page. Each entry links to its official source.
New Hampshire state-level AI rules (7)
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In effect
New Hampshire HB 143 (AI chatbot child-safety)
New Hampshire · Effective 2026-01-01 · N.H. RSA ch. 270 (HB 143, 2025); RSA 270:1-270:2
New Hampshire targets AI chatbots whose sole purpose is open-ended generative conversation. An owner or operator of such a program may not knowingly direct a communication to a child that is intended to facilitate, encourage, solicit, or recommend that the child imminently engage in sexually explicit conduct, illegal drug or alcohol use, self-harm or suicide, or violence. A harmed child — or the child's parent or next friend — may sue for damages, with a minimum of $1,000 in liquidated damages per violation. The Attorney General may also bring an enforcement action.
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In effect
NH Deepfake Law (HB 1432)
New Hampshire · Effective 2025-01-01 · 2024 NH Laws ch. 243; RSA 638:26-a; RSA 507:8-n
New Hampshire makes it a Class B felony to knowingly create, distribute, or present a deepfake with intent to embarrass, harass, defame, extort, or cause financial or reputational harm — and it was the first state law to create a private right of action specifically for deepfake victims. Satire, parody, and news reporting are exempt.
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In effect
NH Consumer Privacy Act
New Hampshire · Effective 2025-01-01 · RSA 507-H (2024 NH SB 255)
New Hampshire residents can access, correct, delete, and port their personal data, and opt out of targeted advertising, data sales, and profiling used in solely automated decisions. Applies at low thresholds (35,000 residents), so it covers many businesses.
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In effect
NH Election Deepfake Law
New Hampshire · Effective 2024-08-01 · RSA 664:14-c (2024)
Prohibits distributing AI-generated deepfakes of candidates or election officials within 90 days of an election unless clearly disclosed as AI-manipulated. Depicted candidates can seek injunctions and damages.
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In effect
New Hampshire HB 1688 (state-agency AI limits)
New Hampshire · Effective 2024-07-01 · N.H. HB 1688 (2024), effective July 1, 2024
New Hampshire set rules for how state agencies may use artificial intelligence. Agencies may not use AI to classify people in ways that cause unlawful discrimination, and they may not use real-time or remote biometric identification such as facial recognition to surveil public spaces — except by law enforcement acting under a warrant. Agencies also may not use deepfakes for deceptive or malicious purposes. When an AI recommendation cannot be reversed once carried out, a qualified human must review it first, AI-generated content must be disclosed, and the public must be told when they are interacting with AI.
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In effect
NH DOI AI Bulletin
NH · Effective 2024-02-20 · New Hampshire ID Docket INS 24-011-AB (2024-02-20)
The NH Department of Insurance adopted the NAIC Model Bulletin on Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems by Insurers. Insurers licensed in NH must maintain a written AI program with governance, risk-management, testing, third-party-AI oversight, and documentation controls. The bulletin operationalizes existing unfair-trade-practice and unfair-discrimination law as applied to insurers' AI use cases — underwriting, pricing, claims, fraud detection, and marketing.
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In effect
Cease-and-Desist Order to Life Corporation over AI voice-clo
New Hampshire · Effective 2024-02-06 · Cease-and-Desist Order to Life Corporation over AI voice-clone voter-suppression robocalls
The NH Attorney General's Election Law Unit issued a cease-and-desist order to Life Corporation for AI-generated robocalls that cloned President Biden's voice to suppress votes in the 2024 primary, applying existing state voter-suppression law to deepfake audio.
County and city AI rules in New Hampshire (1)
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Proposed / pending
Nottingham Planning Board pursuing a local data center morat
Nottingham, NH · Nottingham Planning Board pursuing a local data center moratorium
After backlash to a proposed warehouse-to-data-center conversion on Route 4, Nottingham's planning board held a June 3, 2026 workshop to move toward a local moratorium and regulation of data centers.
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