Bill Text: NH HB1554 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to certified culvert maintainer program reporting and requiring the commissioner of the department of environmental services to regulate the cutting of native aquatic vegetation on submerged lands in public waters or certain public-owned water bodies and establishing rulemaking authority for such regulation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-07-30 - Signed by Governor Sununu 07/26/2024; Chapter 270; eff. 09/24/2024 [HB1554 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2024-HB1554-Introduced.html
HB 1554 - AS INTRODUCED
2024 SESSION
24-2810
08/10
HOUSE BILL 1554
AN ACT relative to certified culvert maintainer program reporting.
SPONSORS: Rep. McConkey, Carr. 8
COMMITTEE: Resources, Recreation and Development
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ANALYSIS
This bill specifies who in a municipality shall submit a quarterly report on culvert maintainers.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
24-2810
08/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four
AN ACT relative to certified culvert maintainer program reporting.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Excavating and Dredging Permit; Certain Exemptions. Amend RSA 482-A:3, XVIII to read as follows:
XVIII. The department shall develop a certification program for culvert maintainers, in accordance with paragraph XVII, and shall determine the educational requirements for certification, including continuing education requirements. Professional engineers who are duly licensed by the New Hampshire board of professional engineers are exempt from the program requirements of this section. The road agent, highway director, board of selectmen, or certified official of a municipality who supervises [All] certified individuals who perform such work in the municipality shall submit a quarterly report to the department fully identifying work that they performed during each quarter and documentation of continuing education requirements.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.