Bill Text: NH HB1156 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to public health, safety, and state sovereignty.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-03-14 - Lay on Table (Rep. Hoell): Motion Adopted DV 186-185 03/14/2024 House Journal 8 P. 80 [HB1156 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2024-HB1156-Introduced.html

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HB 1156  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2024 SESSION

24-2157

05/02

 

HOUSE BILL 1156

 

AN ACT relative to public health, safety, and state sovereignty.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Granger, Straf. 2; Rep. McCarter, Belk. 8; Rep. T. Mannion, Hills. 1; Rep. Noble, Hills. 2; Rep. Belcher, Carr. 4; Rep. Cushman, Hills. 28; Rep. Santonastaso, Ches. 18; Rep. Burnham, Straf. 2

 

COMMITTEE: State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill provides that the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization shall have no jurisdiction in New Hampshire.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-2157

05/02

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to public health, safety, and state sovereignty.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and World Health Organization; Jurisdiction.  The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization shall have no jurisdiction in New Hampshire. The state and its political subdivisions, including, but not limited to counties, cities, towns, precincts, water districts, school districts, school administrative units, or quasi-public entities, shall not engage in the enforcement of, or any collaboration with the enforcement of, any requirements, mandates, recommendations, instructions or guidance provided by either organization. Furthermore, any requirements, mandates, recommendations, instructions, or guidance by either organization shall not be used in this state to justify any mask, vaccine or medical testing requirements and shall have no force or effect in New Hampshire.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.