Bill Text: NH HB1334 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to the sale of beer in refillable containers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-07-24 - Signed by Governor Sununu 07/12/2024; Chapter 194; eff. 07/12/2024 [HB1334 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2024-HB1334-Introduced.html

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HB 1334  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2024 SESSION

24-2435

08/02

 

HOUSE BILL 1334

 

AN ACT relative to the sale of beer in refillable containers.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. L. Turcotte, Straf. 4; Rep. Ammon, Hills. 42; Rep. Prout, Hills. 13; Rep. Cordelli, Carr. 7; Rep. Peternel, Carr. 6

 

COMMITTEE: Commerce and Consumer Affairs

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill allows for the sale of beer in a refillable container.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-2435

08/02

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to the sale of beer in refillable containers.

 

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

 

1  New Paragraph; Branding on Refillable Containers.  Amend RSA 179:40 by inserting after paragraph II the following new paragraph:

III. Where a licensee is authorized the retail sale of beer in a refillable container, such licensee, at his sole discretion, may fill such refillable container with his product regardless of the branding on the refillable container.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect upon its passage.