CHAPTER 126

HB 338 – FINAL VERSION

05/06/09 1465s

2009 SESSION

09-0783

08/05

HOUSE BILL 338

AN ACT relative to definitions of electronic waste.

SPONSORS: Rep. Sad, Ches 2; Rep. Borden, Rock 18; Rep. B. Williams, Graf 8; Rep. S. Harvey, Hills 21; Rep. Webb, Merr 2; Sen. Fuller Clark, Dist 24; Sen. Odell, Dist 8

COMMITTEE: Environment and Agriculture

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill adds video display media recorder/players, and computers to the list of items that may not be placed in a landfill or incinerated.

This bill is a request of the commission to study the recycling and disposal of electronic waste (2008, 33).

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

05/06/09 1465s

09-0783

08/05

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nine

AN ACT relative to definitions of electronic waste.

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

126:1 New Paragraph; Computer; Definition. Amend RSA 149-M:4 by inserting after paragraph IV-a the following new paragraph:

IV-b. “Computer” means a free standing unit capable of manipulating data according to a list of instructions. It does not include devices with embedded computers, such as automobiles, robots, machines, toys, etc., where the primary function of the embedded computer is to control the function of the device.

126:2 New Paragraph; Video Display Media Recorder/Player; Definition. Amend RSA 149-M:4 by inserting after paragraph XXVIII the following new paragraph:

XXIX. “Video display media recorder/player” means an electronic component capable of playing and/or recording analog or digital video signal on or from various types of media, including magnetic tape, optically scanned disks, integral hard drives or other types of memory devices. This includes electronic components such as a videocassette recorder (VCR), a digital video disk (VDR) or a component with a digital hard drive.

126:3 Refuse Reduction; Certain Electronic Media Prohibited. Amend RSA 149-M:27, IV to read as follows:

IV.(a) No person shall dispose of any video display device, central processing unit of a computer, or non-mobile video display media recorder/player in any solid waste landfill or incinerator in New Hampshire after July 1, 2007.

(b) Owners or operators of such facilities shall not be found to have knowingly disposed of a video display device, central processing unit of a computer, or non-mobile video display media recorder/player if the facility has implemented mechanisms to avoid such disposal which shall include, at a minimum, posting of signs at the facility or providing written notification to, or agreements with, the facility’s customers concerning the disposal prohibition.

126:4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved: June 22, 2009

Effective Date: June 22, 2009