New Hampshire HB 1018: prohibiting the use of certain second generation anticoagulant rodenticides.

Bill Text

HB 1018 - AS INTRODUCED

2026 SESSION

 26-2336

 08/05

HOUSE BILL 1018

AN ACT prohibiting the use of certain second generation anticoagulant rodenticides.

SPONSORS: Rep. C. Harvey, Ches. 6; Rep. Darby, Hills. 11; Rep. Gruber, Ches. 16; Rep. H. Howard, Straf. 4; Rep. Jacobs, Ches. 15; Rep. Newell, Ches. 4; Rep. Dupont, Hills. 20; Sen. Altschiller, Dist 24; Sen. Birdsell, Dist 19; Sen. Fenton, Dist 10; Sen. Watters, Dist 4

COMMITTEE: Environment and Agriculture

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ANALYSIS

 This bill prohibits the use of certain second generation anticoagulant rodenticides.

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 Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

 26-2336

 08/05

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

AN ACT prohibiting the use of certain second generation anticoagulant rodenticides.

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

 1 New Paragraph; Definitions; Second Generation Anticoagulant Rodenticide. Amend RSA 430:29 by inserting after paragraph XXXII-a the following new paragraph:

 XXXII-aa. "Second generation anticoagulant rodenticide" means any pesticide product containing any of the following active ingredients:

 (a) Brodifacoum.

 (b) Bromadiolone.

 (c) Difenacoum.

 (d) Difethialone.

 2 New Subparagraph; Pesticides Controls; Prohibited Acts. Amend RSA 430:41, I by inserting after subparagraph (e) the following new subparagraph:

 (f)(1) Except as provided in subparagraph (2), any second generation anticoagulant rodenticide.

 (2) Subparagraph (1) shall not apply to any of the following:

 (A) The use of any second generation anticoagulant rodenticide by a state or municipal employee for public health activities, the protection of a drinking water supply, to control vectors for mosquito borne illnesses, or for control of an actual rodent infestation that has been deemed a public health issue where it has been documented that all other rodent control alternatives, including nonchemical alternatives, are inadequate to control the infestation.

 (B) The use of any second generation anticoagulant rodenticide at a medical waste generator or a facility registered annually and subject to inspection under 21 U.S.C. section 360 et seq. and compliant with the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, 7 U.S.C. section 135 et seq.

 (C) The use of any second generation anticoagulant rodenticide for agricultural activities conducted in the following locations:

 (i) A warehouse used to store foods for human or animal consumption.

 (ii) An agricultural food production site, including but not limited to a slaughterhouse or cannery.

 (iii) A distillery, meadery, brewery, or winery.

 (iv) A drug or medical equipment manufacturing facility.

 3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2027.