HB1246 (2024) Detail

Relative to allowing for payment of wages in gold or silver.


HB 1246  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2024 SESSION

24-2205

10/08

 

HOUSE BILL 1246

 

AN ACT relative to allowing for payment of wages in gold or silver.  

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Granger, Straf. 2; Rep. Belcher, Carr. 4; Rep. Coulon, Graf. 5; Rep. Soti, Rock. 35

 

COMMITTEE: Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill allows employers to pay the weekly or biweekly wages due to employees in gold or silver.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-2205

10/08

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to allowing for payment of wages in gold or silver.  

 

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

 

1  Payment of Wages; Weekly or Biweekly; Gold or Silver Added.  Amend RSA 275:43, I(d) - (e) to read as follows:

(d)  By a payroll card provided that the employer shall provide to the employee at least one free means to withdraw up to and including the full amount of the employee balance in the employee's payroll card or payroll card account during each pay period at a financial institution or other location convenient to the place of employment.  None of the employer's costs associated with a payroll card or payroll card account shall be passed on to the employee; [or]

(e)  With checks on a financial institution convenient to the place of employment where suitable arrangements are made for the cashing of such checks by employees for the full amount of the wages due; provided, however, that if an employer elects to pay employees as specified in subparagraphs (b), (c), or (d), the employer shall offer employees the option of being paid as specified in subparagraph (e), and further provided that all wages in the nature of health and welfare fund or pension fund contributions required pursuant to a health and welfare fund trust agreement, pension fund trust agreement, collective bargaining agreement, or other agreement adopted for the benefit of employees and agreed to by the employer shall be paid by every such employer within 30 days of the date of demand for such payment, the payment to be made to the administrator or other designated official of the applicable health and welfare or pension trust fund; or

(f)  With gold or silver.

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

Amendments

Date Amendment
March 13, 2024 2024-0303h

Links


Date Body Type
Jan. 18, 2024 House Hearing
March 6, 2024 House Exec Session
March 6, 2024 House Floor Vote

Bill Text Revisions

HB1246 Revision: 41189 Date: March 13, 2024, 8:35 a.m.
HB1246 Revision: 39715 Date: Dec. 1, 2023, 3:24 p.m.
HB1246 Revision: 44195 Date: Sept. 29, 2023, 10:04 a.m.

Docket


March 21, 2024: Inexpedient to Legislate: MA RC 182-155 03/21/2024 HJ 9 P. 102


March 13, 2024: Minority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2024-0303h


March 13, 2024: Majority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate 03/06/2024 (Vote 11-9; RC)


Feb. 23, 2024: Executive Session: 03/06/2024 01:00 pm LOB 305


Jan. 5, 2024: Public Hearing: 01/18/2024 02:30 pm LOB 307


Dec. 1, 2023: Introduced 01/03/2024 and referred to Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services