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HB1018 • 2026

prohibiting the use of certain second generation anticoagulant rodenticides.

prohibiting the use of certain second generation anticoagulant rodenticides.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Cathryn Harvey (D), Samantha Jacobs (D), Regina Birdsell (R), Will Darby (D), Jodi Newell (D), Donovan Fenton (D), James Gruber (D), Pierre Dupont (R), David Watters (D), Heath Howard (D), Debra Altschiller (D)
Last action
2026-03-05
Official status
HOUSE
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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prohibiting the use of certain second generation anticoagulant rodenticides.

prohibiting the use of certain second generation anticoagulant rodenticides.

What This Bill Does

  • prohibiting the use of certain second generation anticoagulant rodenticides.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-03-05 H

    Inexpedient to Legislate: MA VV 03/05/2026 HJ 6 P. 16

  2. 2026-02-20 H

    Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate 02/17/2026 (Vote 11-3; CC) HC 9 P. 15

  3. 2026-02-18 H

    Executive Session: 02/17/2026 10:00 am GP 153

  4. 2026-02-11 H

    Full Committee Work Session: 02/17/2026 10:00 am GP 153

  5. 2026-02-05 H

    Public Hearing: 02/11/2026 11:00 am GP 153

  6. 2025-11-07 H

    Introduced 01/07/2026 and referred to Environment and Agriculture HJ 1 P. 2

Official Summary Text

prohibiting the use of certain second generation anticoagulant rodenticides.

Current Bill Text

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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

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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.