Bill Text: NH HB496 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requiring the liquor commission to distribute certain information in liquor stores.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-14 - Introduced (in recess of) 01/09/2025 and referred to Commerce and Consumer Affairs House Journal 3 [HB496 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2025-HB496-Introduced.html

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HB 496-FN - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2025 SESSION

25-0820

08/11

 

HOUSE BILL 496-FN

 

AN ACT requiring the liquor commission to distribute certain information in liquor stores.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Turer, Rock. 6; Rep. Haskins, Rock. 11; Rep. Preece, Hills. 17; Sen. Perkins Kwoka, Dist 21; Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Sen. Prentiss, Dist 5

 

COMMITTEE: Commerce and Consumer Affairs

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires the liquor commission to produce and distribute information about alcohol use disorder at liquor stores.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

25-0820

08/11

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

 

AN ACT requiring the liquor commission to distribute certain information in liquor stores.

 

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

 

1  New Paragraph; Advertising; Alcohol Use Disorder; Distribution of Informational Materials.  Amend RSA 175:4 by inserting after paragraph IV the following new paragraph:

V. ?The commission shall prepare, in conjunction with the department of health and human services’ division for behavioral health, informational materials related to considering and identifying the signs of alcohol use disorder and accessing resources available for persons who may have concerns about alcohol use disorder.  The latter information shall refer individuals to the 988 or 211 crisis line(s) or equivalent referral resource. Such materials shall be distributed to the consumer with each ?purchase made at a state liquor store by at least one of the following means: as part of the printed or electronic receipt for the purchase; on bags or other packaging materials; as a separate printed item.  Similar information shall also displayed in each state liquor store in either printed poster or electronic static or video format.? The content developed under this paragraph may also be re-formatted and distributed by the? liquor ?commission via any other print, signage, and/or electronic means, and to any other group of recipients in any suitable venue, that the commission may deem appropriate.

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

 

LBA

25-0820

1/9/25

 

HB 496-FN- FISCAL NOTE

AS INTRODUCED

 

AN ACT requiring the liquor commission to distribute certain information in liquor stores.

 

FISCAL IMPACT:

The Office of Legislative Budget Assistant is unable to complete a fiscal note for this bill as it is awaiting information from the Liquor Commission.  The Department was contacted on 1/2/25 for a fiscal note worksheet.  When completed, the fiscal note will be forwarded to the House Clerk's Office.

 

AGENCIES CONTACTED:

Liquor Commission