HB 1574 – AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

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2012 SESSION

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06/01

HOUSE BILL 1574

AN ACT relative to an employee’s lunch or eating period.

SPONSORS: Rep. Hoell, Merr 13

COMMITTEE: Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill increases the time an employee may be required to work before being granted a lunch or eating period.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

14Mar2012… 0842h

12-2786

06/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twelve

AN ACT relative to an employee’s lunch or eating period.

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

1 Protective Legislation; Lunch or Eating Period. Amend RSA 275:30-a to read as follows:

275:30-a Lunch or Eating Period. An employer may not require an employee to work more than [5] 6 consecutive hours without granting [him] the employee a 1/2 hour lunch or eating period, except if it is feasible for the employee to eat during the performance of his or her work, and the employer permits [him] the employee to do so.

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