Bill Text: NH SB19 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to hotel and motel operations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-12-30 - To Be Introduced 01/08/2025 and Referred to Commerce; Senate Journal 2 [SB19 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2025-SB19-Introduced.html

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SB 19  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2025 SESSION

25-1023

07/05

 

SENATE BILL 19

 

AN ACT relative to hotel and motel operations.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Innis, Dist 7

 

COMMITTEE: Commerce

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill:

 

I.  Repeals the requirement that hotel keepers post a notice of rental rates in hotel rooms.

 

II.  Repeals the requirement that motel operators place signs displaying rates for rental units.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

25-1023

07/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

 

AN ACT relative to hotel and motel operations.

 

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

 

1  Trade and Commerce; Hotels, Tourist Cabins, Etc.; Registered Departure Date.  Amend RSA 353:3-b to read as follows:

353:3-b Registered Departure Date. All hotel keepers and all persons keeping public lodging houses, tourist camps, or cabins shall, upon the registration of each guest, [cause an entry to be made in the book or card system required by RSA 353:3 which shall] record the guest's agreed upon departure time and date. No guest shall, without the consent of the hotel keeper or such person keeping a public lodging house, tourist camp, or cabin remain in a rental unit beyond the departure time and date so recorded at registration.

2  Repeal.  The following are repealed:

I.  RSA 353:3-a, relative to posting of rental rates.

II.  RSA 353:5, relative to motel signs.

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