Bill Text: NH HB479 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishing a committee to study the use and problems associated with regulating the distribution and disposal of certain solid waste within landfills and transfer centers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-13 - Introduced (in recess of) 01/09/2025 and referred to Environment and Agriculture House Journal 3 [HB479 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2025-HB479-Introduced.html

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HB 479  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2025 SESSION

25-0774

05/08

 

HOUSE BILL 479

 

AN ACT establishing a committee to study the use and problems associated with regulating the distribution and disposal of certain solid waste within landfills and transfer centers.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Parshall, Ches. 8; Rep. Gruber, Ches. 16; Sen. Fenton, Dist 10

 

COMMITTEE: Environment and Agriculture

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill establishes a committee to study the use and problems associated with regulating the distribution and disposal of certain solid waste within landfills and transfer centers.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

25-0774

05/08

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

 

AN ACT establishing a committee to study the use and problems associated with regulating the distribution and disposal of certain solid waste within landfills and transfer centers.

 

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

 

1  Committee Established.  There is established a committee to study the use and problems associated with regulating the distribution and disposal of certain solid waste within landfills and transfer centers.

2  Membership and Compensation.

I.  The members of the committee shall be as follows:

(a) Two members of the house of representatives, appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives.

(b)  One member of the senate, appointed by the president of the senate.

II.  Members of the committee shall receive mileage at the legislative rate when attending to the duties of the committee.

3  Duties.  The committee shall examine the use and problems associated with regulating the distribution and disposal of certain solid waste within landfills and transfer centers.  The committee shall review past legislation on subject and may solicit information and testimony from any individual or entity with experience or expertise relevant to the study.

4  Chairperson; Quorum.  The members of the study committee shall elect a chairperson from among the members.  The first meeting of the committee shall be called by the first-named house member.  The first meeting of the committee shall be held within 45 days of the effective date of this section.  Four members of the committee shall constitute a quorum.

5  Report.  The committee shall report its findings and any recommendations for proposed legislation to the speaker of the house of representatives, the president of the senate, the house clerk, the senate clerk, the governor, and the state library on or before November 1, 2025.

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