Bill Text: NH HB1371 | 2024 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relative to allowing the land use master plan to include a section on waste reduction.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-5)

Status: (Passed) 2024-07-30 - Signed by Governor Sununu 07/26/2024; Chapter 266; eff. 09/24/2024 [HB1371 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2024-HB1371-Enrolled.html

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HB 1371 - VERSION ADOPTED BY BOTH BODIES

 

 

2024 SESSION

24-2441

12/05

 

HOUSE BILL 1371

 

AN ACT relative to allowing the land use master plan to include a section on waste reduction.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Ebel, Merr. 7; Rep. M. Murray, Hills. 37; Rep. Stavis, Graf. 13; Rep. Rochefort, Graf. 1; Rep. Wolf, Merr. 7; Rep. Preece, Hills. 17; Rep. Massimilla, Graf. 1; Rep. Rung, Hills. 12; Rep. Germana, Ches. 1; Rep. Stapleton, Sull. 6; Sen. Avard, Dist 12; Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Sen. Pearl, Dist 17; Sen. Perkins Kwoka, Dist 21

 

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill allows town master plans to include a waste reduction section.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-2441

12/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to allowing the land use master plan to include a section on waste reduction.

 

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

 

1  Municipal Land Use Master Plan; Waste Reduction Section.  Amend RSA 674:2, III by inserting after subparagraph (o) the following new subparagraph:

(p) A waste reduction section outlining a municipality’s solid waste reduction plan, including ways to reduce solid waste disposal, such as increasing reuse, recycling, composting, hazardous and electronic waste management. Such efforts may include education and outreach, a needs analysis, grant funding, community polling, a town waste committee, and regional cooperation.

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