Bill Text - HB1621 (2024)

Requiring the liquor commission to distribute certain information in liquor stores.


Revision: Nov. 13, 2023, 2:09 p.m.

 

2024 SESSION

24-2491.1

08/10

 

HOUSE BILL [bill number]

 

AN ACT requiring the liquor commission to distribute certain information in liquor stores.

 

SPONSORS: [sponsors]

 

COMMITTEE: [committee]

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires the liquor commission to produce and distribute information about alcohol use disorder at liquor stores.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-2491.1

08/10

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT requiring the liquor commission to distribute certain information in liquor stores.

 

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

 

1  New Paragraph; Advertising; Alcohol Use Disorder; Posters and Brochures.  Amend RSA 175:4 by inserting after paragraph IV the following new paragraph:

V.  The commission shall prepare, in conjunction with the bureau of drug and alcohol services, a brochure to be handed out with each liquor purchase and a poster which contains information related to considering and identifying signs of alcohol use disorder and accessing resources available for persons who may have concerns about alcohol use disorder through the bureau of drug and alcohol services system of care access points or an equivalent.  Such posters shall be posted and available to the public in all state liquor stores.  The content developed under this paragraph may also be re-formatted and distributed by the liquor commission via any other print, signage, and/or electronic means, and to any other group of recipients, that the commission may deem appropriate.

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