Bill Text: NH HB1042 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requiring certain health advisory notices to be provided to renters of vacation or recreational rental units.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-16 - Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Voice Vote 02/16/2022 House Journal 3 [HB1042 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2022-HB1042-Introduced.html

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HB 1042  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2022 SESSION

22-2020

11/05

 

HOUSE BILL 1042

 

AN ACT requiring certain health advisory notices to be provided to renters of vacation or recreational rental units.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Rung, Hills. 21; Rep. Bartlett, Merr. 19; Rep. Crawford, Carr. 4; Rep. Gottling, Sull. 2; Rep. J. MacDonald, Carr. 6

 

COMMITTEE: Judiciary

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires that certain health advisory notices be provided to renters of vacation or recreational 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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

22-2020

11/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Two

 

AN ACT requiring certain health advisory notices to be provided to renters of vacation or recreational rental units.

 

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

 

1  New Section; Vacation or Recreational Rental Units; Public Health Notice Required.  Amend RSA 540-C by inserting after section 2 the following new section:

540-C:2-a  Public Health Notice Required.  At the time a rental agreement is agreed upon, the owner or owner's agent of a vacation or recreational rental unit shall provide the renter with written notice containing at least the following information:

I.  All water bodies, including lakes, ponds, rivers, and oceans, may experience fecal bacteria or cyanobacteria counts at a level that risks the health of humans and animals.

II.  The New Hampshire department of environmental services issues a health advisory when fecal bacteria or cyanobacteria counts at designated public beaches and water bodies are higher than the state standards.  Such advisories are issued approximately 24 hours after sampling.

III.  Current health advisories may be found on the department of environmental services Internet website.

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