Bill Text - HB1581 (2024)

Relative to cultivation locations for alternative treatment centers.


Revision: May 22, 2024, 4:09 p.m.

HB 1581 - VERSION ADOPTED BY BOTH BODIES

 

 

2024 SESSION

24-2203

12/05

 

HOUSE BILL 1581

 

AN ACT relative to cultivation locations for alternative treatment centers.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Vail, Hills. 6; Rep. W. Thomas, Hills. 12; Rep. Seibert, Hills. 21; Rep. Newell, Ches. 4

 

COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill allows a second cultivation center to be considered for alternative treatment centers.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-2203

12/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to cultivation locations for alternative treatment centers.

 

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

 

1  New Paragraph; Use of Cannabis for Therapeutic Purposes; Alternative Treatment Centers; Cultivation Location.  Amend RSA 126-X:7 by inserting after paragraph X the following new paragraph:

XI. The department may authorize an alternative treatment center to operate additional cultivation locations, which may be a greenhouse, and which shall be subject to rules adopted by the department under RSA 126-X:6, III, and all applicable provisions of this chapter, including, but not limited to, compliance with local zoning laws. The department shall, in conjunction with the local governing body of the town or city where the additional cultivation location would be located, solicit input from qualifying patients, designated caregivers, and residents of the town or city in which the additional cultivation location would be located.

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