Bill Text - HB1578 (2024)

Relative to organic food certification and labeling.


Revision: Dec. 15, 2023, 3:32 p.m.

HB 1578  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2024 SESSION

24-2167

08/05

 

HOUSE BILL 1578

 

AN ACT relative to organic food certification and labeling.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Bailey, Straf. 2

 

COMMITTEE: Environment and Agriculture

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill repeals the certification program and the organic processors-handlers certification fund.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-2167

08/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to organic food certification and labeling.

 

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

 

1  Repeal.  The following are repealed:

I.  RSA 426:6-a, relative to organic labeling and advertising.

II.  RSA 426:6-b, relative to organic certification.

III.  RSA 426:6-d, relative to organic processors handlers certification fund.

IV.  RSA 426:8, relative to rulemaking relative to organic processing.

V.  RSA 426:8-a, relative to fess relative to organic processing.

VI.  RSA 6:12, II(b)(347), relative to the organic processors handlers certification fund.

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