HB 114 – AS INTRODUCED

2015 SESSION

15-0255

03/06

HOUSE BILL 114

AN ACT relative to grocery sales by stores licensed to sell alcoholic beverages.

SPONSORS: Rep. Murphy, Hills 7

COMMITTEE: Commerce and Consumer Affairs

ANALYSIS

This bill eliminates minimum grocery inventory language from the definition of “grocery or convenience store” in the alcoholic beverages title.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

15-0255

03/06

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fifteen

AN ACT relative to grocery sales by stores licensed to sell alcoholic beverages.

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

1 Alcoholic Beverages; Definitions. Amend RSA 175:1, XXXVI to read as follows:

XXXVI. “Grocery or convenience store” means any retail establishment where groceries are regularly and customarily sold for consumption off premises. [Such establishment shall have and maintain groceries which are readily available to the public, the wholesale value of which shall not be less than $3,000, exclusive of cigarettes, magazines, newspapers, wine and beverages. Such groceries shall be representative of grocery items commonly found in such stores.]

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