For Immediate Release
Date: August 02, 2024

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Governor Chris Sununu Signs 45 Bills Into Law, Vetoes 3

Concord, NH – Today, Governor Chris Sununu signed the following 45 bills into law:

  • HB 458: Reestablishing the commission to study the assessing of power generation
  • HB 494: Renaming the agricultural product and scale testing fund the agricultural products regulatory fund
  • HB 596: Prohibiting the use of racial profiling in law enforcement activities and in sentencing
  • HB 1018: Relative to on-premise and off-premise liquor licenses and relative to land in current use
  • HB 1030: Repealing certain task forces, study committees, and study commissions, repealing the John G. Winant memorial commission and making the maintenance of the memorial a duty of the joint legislative historical committee, and establishing a committee to study the appeals process administered by the environmental councils established under RSA 21-O
  • HB 1059: Relative to the state building code
  • HB 1065: Relative to fire sprinkler requirements in residential buildings
  • HB 1078: Relative to the department of safety establishing a repository of maps showing radio systems within the state
  • HB 1079: Relative to critical incident stress management team members and establishing a rural and underserved area educator incentive program and making an appropriation therefor
  • HB 1095: Relative to the administration of occupational boards by the office of professional licensure and certification
  • HB 1127: Relative to the revocation and suspension of drivers' licenses
  • HB 1195: Relative to allowing school districts to approve different apportionment methods for school administrative unit costs
  • HB 1243: Revising the laws relative to retail installment sales of motor vehicles, and relative to the sale of a vehicle to a Massachusetts resident
  • HB 1259: Relative to property and casualty insurance laws administered by the insurance department
  • HB 1265: Relative to the penalty for failure to file school expenditure reports, relative to certain adequacy grants, and requiring mandatory reporting by school districts of school expenses
  • HB 1274: Relative to judicial administration
  • HB 1278: Relative to qualifying medical conditions for purposes of therapeutic cannabis
  • HB 1313: Relative to access to the voter checklist by candidates
  • HB 1352: Relative to firefighting personal protective equipment
  • HB 1355: Relative to the New Hampshire National Guard recruitment and reenlistment incentive program and continuing a recruitment and retention incentive program and efforts within the department of transportation
  • HB 1358: Relative to tenant and contract manufacturers of beer, wine, and liquor and establishing a committee to study the acquisition of land by China
  • HB 1380: Relative to brew pub licenses
  • HB 1388: Relative to ethical standards for members of the general court
  • HB 1465: Relative to studies of nuclear energy technologies and renaming the office of offshore wind industry development
  • HB 1568: Relative to reimbursement for ambulance services under the state Medicaid plan and making an appropriation therefor
  • HB 1573: Making an appropriation to the department of health and human services to enhance oversight of children in residential placements
  • HB 1585: Relative to the position of certified assisted living medication aide and relative to the state loan repayment program for qualified nursing professionals and making an appropriation therefor
  • HB 1596: Requiring a disclosure of deceptive artificial intelligence usage in political advertising
  • HB 1613: Establishing a trust fund for money from soil and water environmental contamination court settlements
  • HB 1623: Relative to involuntary retirement or decommissioning of electricity generators
  • HB 1639: Relative to children with disabilities placed at state facilities for detained or adjudicated youth
  • HB 1649: Relative to prohibiting certain products with intentionally added PFAS and relative to civil actions for PFAS contamination, and relative to settlement of lawsuits against manufacturers of PFAS for impacts to public drinking water systems
  • SB 266: Relative to administration of school assessment and accountability programs by the department of education
  • SB 340: Relative to communication between parents and school districts regarding special education, special education reporting requirements, and the office of the advocate for special education
  • SB 371: Relative to the licensing and regulation of physicians
  • SB 383: Relative to local tax caps
  • SB 402: Relative to allowing pharmacists to administer influenza, COVID-19, and other FDA licensed vaccines without explicit approval from the general court.
  • SB 404: Relative to expanding child care professionals' eligibility for the child care scholarship program
  • SB 455: Relative to Medicaid reimbursement rates for prosthetic and orthotic devices
  • SB 480: Relative to the regulation of real estate practice
  • SB 499: Relative to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and the Summer EBT program and making appropriations therefor and relative to providing disaster relief funding to municipalities after a natural disaster
  • SB 508: Relative to the duties of the superintendent of the county department of corrections concerning mental health and substance use disorder screening of inmates and coordination for services upon reentry into the community and relative to enforcement of New Hampshire anti-discrimination laws as they relate to Jewish people
  • SB 513: Relative to permitting charity auctions by non-profit corporations
  • SB 521: Relative to the educational credentials for master teacher
  • SB 547: Relative to certain requirements relative to the LCHIP programs

Additionally, the Governor vetoed the following three bills today: