Bill Text - HB1423 (2024)

Requiring the commissioner of the department of natural and cultural resources to identify all old growth and mature forests on public land in the state of New Hampshire.


Revision: Oct. 3, 2023, 4:25 p.m.

 

2024 SESSION

24-2052.0

08/02

 

HOUSE BILL [bill number]

 

AN ACT requiring the commissioner of the department of natural and cultural resources to identify all old growth and mature forests in the state of New Hampshire.

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires the commissioner of the department of natural and cultural resources to identify all old growth and mature forests in the state of New Hampshire.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-2052.0

08/02

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT requiring the commissioner of the department of natural and cultural resources to identify all old growth and mature forests in the state of New Hampshire.

 

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

 

1  New Paragraph; Forestry; Old Growth Forestland.  Amend RSA 227-G:4 by inserting after paragraph XI the following new paragraph:

XII. Identification and mapping of all mature and old growth forestland, under public and private management in the state of New Hampshire, to be used for the purposes of potential in situ forest carbon storage, flood and drought mitigation, water quality, and biodiversity protection pursuant to 227-G.

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