Bill Text - HB1205 (2026)

Prohibiting state and county owned lands from participating in carbon sequestration projects.


Revision: Dec. 1, 2025, 9:32 a.m.

HB 1205  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2026 SESSION

26-2591

08/09

 

HOUSE BILL 1205

 

AN ACT prohibiting state and county owned lands from participating in carbon sequestration projects.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. A. Davis, Coos 2; Rep. Tierney, Coos 1; Rep. Durkin, Coos 1; Rep. Cole, Hills. 26

 

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill prohibits the enrollment of state and county owned lands in carbon sequestration projects.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

26-2591

08/09

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

 

AN ACT prohibiting state and county owned lands from participating in carbon sequestration projects.

 

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

 

1  New Section; Public Land Enrollment in Carbon Sequestration Prohibited.  Amend RSA 79 by inserting after section 37 the following new section:  

79:38  Public  Land Enrollment in Carbon Sequestration Programs Prohibited.  No land owned by the state or by a county shall be enrolled in a carbon sequestration program.  

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