Governor Chris Sununu Signs 33 Bills Into Law, Vetoes 2

Concord, NH – Today, Governor Chris Sununu signed the following 33 bills into law:

• HB 135: Relative to requisites for a criminal search warrant
• HB 243: Requiring the tabulation of votes in elections to be done in public
• HB 279: Increasing the penalty for on-premises licensees overserving alcohol
• HB 593: Establishing a committee to study the process for forfeiture of items used in connection with drug offenses
• HB 653: Relative to providing additional duties to the interbranch criminal and juvenile justice council
• HB 1014: Relative to instruction in government and civics, including information on election laws and voting and requiring certain educational institutions and local governments to use a holiday's statutorily designated title in official communications, publications, and documents
• HB 1055: Relative to the property tax exemption for charitable organizations
• HB 1076: Relative to wine manufacturer licenses and relative to on-premises licenses for beverage manufacturers
• HB 1098: Relative to ballots delivered to elder care facilities
• HB 1107: Relative to public school curriculum frameworks
• HB 1114: Extending the commission to investigate and analyze the environmental and public health impacts relating to releases of perfluorinated chemicals in the air, soil, and groundwater in Merrimack, Bedford, Londonderry, Hudson and Litchfield
• HB 1168: Establishing a committee to study the impact of the housing crisis on people with disabilities
• HB 1186: Relative to firearm purchaser's privacy
• HB 1191: Relative to the establishment of an exemption to the meals and rooms tax for participants in the restaurant voucher program
• HB 1201: Relative to payment of wages for deceased employees
• HB 1282: Relative to the duration of child support
• HB 1321: Relative to repealing penalties for the sale of kegs of malt beverages without a receipt
• HB 1334: Relative to the sale of beer in refillable containers
• HB 1336: Relative to employees' firearms in locked vehicles
• HB 1349: Relative to generalized anxiety disorder as a qualifying condition for the therapeutic cannabis program
• HB 1407: Relative to childcare staffing ratios
• HB 1450: Requiring the university system of New Hampshire and the community college system of New Hampshire to further work toward implementing comprehensive higher education alignment strategies and findings identified in the governor’s public higher education task force report
• HB 1490: Relative to the solid waste management act
• HB 1494: Relative to OHRVs
• HB 1540: Relative to the definitions of full course meals and full-service restaurant for purposes of alcohol licensing
• HB 1559: Repealing the chapter relative to cash dispensing machines, relative to disability pensions for public safety employees who are victims of violence, and relative to establishing the New Hampshire Canadian trade council fund
• HB 1584: Relative to home day care licensing requirements
• HB 1588: Relative to court jurisdiction over persons receiving special education
• HB 1598: Relative to the department of health and human services management of social security payments and veterans benefits for children in foster care
• HB 1624: Relative to allowing the distillation of hobby liquors
• HB 1655: Including in the commissioner of the department of education's rulemaking authority the authority to make rules regarding collection of fees for criminal background check processing
• HB 1678: Establishing a New Hampshire farm to school local food incentive pilot program
• HB 1688: Relative to the use of artificial intelligence by state agencies
• The Governor has also vetoed the following two bills:
• HB 1581: Relative to cultivation locations for alternative treatment centers
• SB 543: Establishing the state environmental adaptation, resilience, and innovation council

NOTE: A copy of the HB 1581 veto message can be found here.

NOTE: A copy of the SB 543 veto message can be found here.