HB454 (2025) Detail

Requiring that retailers of fuel blends with 15% ethanol also offer fuel blends with 10% or lower ethanol content.


HB 454  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2025 SESSION

25-0910

11/09

 

HOUSE BILL 454

 

AN ACT requiring that retailers of fuel blends with 15% ethanol also offer fuel blends with 10% or lower ethanol content.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. T. Walsh, Merr. 10; Rep. Vose, Rock. 5; Rep. Hill, Merr. 2; Rep. S. Smith, Sull. 3

 

COMMITTEE: Commerce and Consumer Affairs

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires a fuel retailer to sell a fuel blend with 10% ethanol or less if they sell a fuel blend with 15% or more of ethanol.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

25-0910

11/09

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

 

AN ACT requiring that retailers of fuel blends with 15% ethanol also offer fuel blends with 10% or lower ethanol content.

 

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

 

1  New Section; Sale of Ethanol Fuel Blends.  Amend RSA 339 by inserting after section 30-a the following new section:

339:30-b  Sale of 15% and 10% or Lower Ethanol Fuel Blends.

All retailers of ethanol fuel blends shall offer for sale at least one fuel blend with a percentage of 10% ethanol or lower, if such retailer offers for sale a fuel blend with a percentage of 15% ethanol or greater.  The retailer shall post the prices of such fuel blends as required in RSA 339:30-a.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.

Links


Date Body Type
Feb. 19, 2025 House Hearing
March 19, 2025 House Exec Session
Oct. 28, 2025 House Exec Session

Bill Text Revisions

HB454 Revision: 46311 Date: Jan. 10, 2025, 2:32 p.m.

Docket


Nov. 10, 2025: Committee Report: Refer for Interim Study 10/28/2025 (Vote 17-0; CC)


Oct. 8, 2025: Executive Session: 10/28/2025 11:00 am GP 229


Aug. 27, 2025: Full Committee Work Session: 09/10/2025 10:00 am GP 229


March 19, 2025: Retained in Committee


March 13, 2025: Executive Session: 03/19/2025 10:00 am LOB 302-304


March 7, 2025: Subcommittee Work Session: 03/12/2025 10:00 am LOB 302-304


Feb. 13, 2025: Public Hearing: 02/19/2025 10:45 am LOB 302-304


Jan. 10, 2025: Introduced (in recess of) 01/09/2025 and referred to Commerce and Consumer Affairs HJ 3 P. 11