Bill Text: NH HB371 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to the definition of occasional food service establishment.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-12 - Committee Report: Ought to Pass 02/11/2025 (Vote 13-0; Consent Calendar) [HB371 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2025-HB371-Introduced.html

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HB 371  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2025 SESSION

25-0422

08/11

 

HOUSE BILL 371

 

AN ACT relative to the definition of occasional food service establishment.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. J. Aron, Sull. 4; Rep. Aylward, Merr. 5; Rep. Bixby, Straf. 13; Rep. Comtois, Belk. 7; Rep. Creighton, Hills. 30; Rep. Pauer, Hills. 36; Sen. Avard, Dist 12; Sen. Innis, Dist 7; Sen. Pearl, Dist 17; Sen. Watters, Dist 4

 

COMMITTEE: Environment and Agriculture

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill expands the definition of occasional food service establishment.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

25-0422

08/11

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

 

AN ACT relative to the definition of occasional food service establishment.

 

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

 

1  Occasional Food Service Establishment; Definition.  Amend RSA 143-A:3, V to read as follows:

V. "Occasional food service establishment" means any food service establishment where food is [served or] provided for the public and served on premises or taken away and consumed off premises [on the premises of the establishment], whether or not there is a charge for such food, no more than 4 days during a [30] 28-day period. Any part of a day shall be considered one full day for the purposes of this definition.

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