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2024 SESSION
24-2207.0
12/10
HOUSE BILL [bill number]
AN ACT relative to allowing for the consumption of alcohol in artist performance areas.
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ANALYSIS
This bill includes the stage and performance areas in the definition of entertainers under an exception to liquor license requirements.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
24-2207.0
12/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four
AN ACT relative to allowing for the consumption of alcohol in artist performance areas.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Liquor Licenses; Enforcement; Entertainer; Definition. Amend RSA 179:19 I (b) to read as follows:
(b) "Entertainer" means a person who, with or without compensation, performs in a premises licensed to sell alcoholic beverages[.] while on stage or designated performance areas or in areas designated for entertainers. "Entertainer" shall not include a "dancer" as defined under subparagraph I(a).
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.