CHAPTER 78

HB 647-FN - FINAL VERSION

 

8May2025... 2218EBA

2025 SESSION

25-0083

08/06

 

HOUSE BILL 647-FN

 

AN ACT relative to the fee for a newborn lifetime hunting and fishing license.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Spillane, Rock. 2; Rep. Darby, Hills. 11; Rep. Love, Rock. 13; Rep. Popovici-Muller, Rock. 17; Rep. Potucek, Rock. 13; Rep. Ulery, Hills. 13; Rep. Coker, Belk. 2; Rep. Khan, Rock. 30; Rep. Gagne, Hills. 16; Sen. Innis, Dist 7; Sen. McGough, Dist 11; Sen. Sullivan, Dist 18

 

COMMITTEE: Fish and Game and Marine Resources

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill allows the director of the fish and game commission to set the rate for lifetime hunting and fishing licenses for newborns through regulations.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

8May2025... 2218EBA 25-0083

08/06

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

 

AN ACT relative to the fee for a newborn lifetime hunting and fishing license.

 

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

 

78:1  Lifetime Licenses; Newborns.  Amend RSA 214:9-c, I(b)(2) to read as follows:

(2) In addition further, the executive director may issue discounted lifetime licenses to residents who have not yet reached their first birthday. The executive director shall establish the discounted amount of such lifetime licenses in rules adopted under RSA 541-A, except that the fee for a combination hunting and freshwater fishing lifetime license for a resident who has not yet reached his or her first birthday shall be [$300] set by the executive director as prescribed in paragraph II.

78:2  Lifetime Licenses; Newborns.  Amend RSA 214:9-c, II to read as follows:

II.  The executive director shall obtain an actuarial table based on an appropriate annuity from the commissioner of insurance and shall set the fee for the various licenses, including newborns, annually on July 15 of each year for the following year based on the age of the applicant.  The fee for any applicant under 16 years of age shall be the same as the fee for a 16-year-old applicant, except for newborns [as provided in subparagraph I(b)(2)] which shall be set by the executive director.  In addition the applicant shall pay the agent's fee in accordance with RSA 214-A:4.

78:3  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.

 

Approved: June 10, 2025

Effective Date: July 01, 2025