Revision: March 27, 2014, midnight
HB 1138 – AS INTRODUCED
2014 SESSION
08/04
HOUSE BILL 1138
AN ACT relative to homestead food producers selling food products at farm stands, farmers’ markets, or at the homestead residence where they are produced.
SPONSORS: Rep. Comtois, Belk 7; Rep. Sad, Ches 1; Rep. Sylvia, Belk 6; Rep. Groen, Straf 10; Rep. Palmer, Hills 23; Sen. Cataldo, Dist 6
COMMITTEE: Environment and Agriculture
This bill raises the maximum annual gross sales for homestead food operations exempt from licensure.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
14-2234
08/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fourteen
AN ACT relative to homestead food producers selling food products at farm stands, farmers’ markets, or at the homestead residence where they are produced.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Homestead Food Producer; Exemptions. Amend RSA 143-A:12, II-III to read as follows:
II. Homestead food operations selling less than a maximum annual gross sales of [$10,000] $20,000 of food, excluding potentially hazardous food, from the homestead residence, at the owner’s own farm stand, or at farmers’ markets are exempt from licensure under this subdivision.
III. Homestead food operations that exceed the [$10,000] $20,000 maximum annual gross sales limit or homestead food operations who wish to sell food products, excluding potentially hazardous food, to restaurants or other retail food establishments, over the Internet, by mail order, or to wholesalers, brokers, or other food distributors who will resell the homestead product shall be licensed under RSA 143-A:4.
2 Homestead Food Producer; Exemptions. Amend RSA 143-A:5, VII to read as follows:
VII. Homestead food operations selling less than a maximum annual gross sales of [$10,000] $20,000 of food, excluding potentially hazardous food as defined in RSA 143-A:12, I(b), from the homestead residence, at the owner’s farm stand, or at farmers’ markets.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.