HB453 • 2026

prohibiting municipalities from banning use of grounds maintenance and snow and ice removal equipment with internal combustion engines.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Thomas Walsh (R), Gregory Hill (R), Steven Smith (R), Michael Vose (R), Sherman Packard (R), Keith Murphy (R)
Last action: 2026-01-07
Official status: HOUSE
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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prohibiting municipalities from banning use of grounds maintenance and snow and ice removal equipment with internal combustion engines.

What This Bill Does

prohibiting municipalities from banning use of grounds maintenance and snow and ice removal equipment with internal combustion engines.

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Bill History

2026-01-07 H
Inexpedient to Legislate: MA VV 01/07/2026 HJ 1 P. 77
2025-11-13 H
Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate 09/24/2025 (Vote 17-0; CC) HC 51 P. 15
2025-09-03 H
Full Committee Work Session: 09/24/2025 09:00 am GP 154
2025-09-03 H
Executive Session: 09/24/2025 01:00 pm GP 154
2025-01-31 H
Retained in Committee
2025-01-22 H
Executive Session: 01/30/2025 02:00 pm LOB 301-303
2025-01-15 H
Public Hearing: 01/23/2025 01:00 pm LOB 301-303
2025-01-10 H
Introduced (in recess of) 01/09/2025 and referred to Municipal and County Government HJ 3 P. 11

Official Summary Text

prohibiting municipalities from banning use of grounds maintenance and snow and ice removal equipment with internal combustion engines.

Current Bill Text

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HB 453 - AS INTRODUCED

2025 SESSION
25-0908
11/09

HOUSE BILL
453

AN ACT
prohibiting municipalities from banning use of grounds maintenance and snow and ice removal equipment with internal combustion engines.

SPONSORS: Rep. T. Walsh, Merr. 10; Rep. Vose, Rock. 5; Rep. Hill, Merr. 2; Rep. Packard, Rock. 16; Rep. S. Smith, Sull. 3; Sen. Murphy, Dist 16

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

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ANALYSIS

This bill prohibits municipalities from banning the use of grounds maintenance and snow and ice removal equipment with internal combustion engines.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
25-0908
11/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

AN ACT
prohibiting municipalities from banning use of grounds maintenance and snow and ice removal equipment with internal combustion engines.

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

1 New Section; Maintenance; Internal Combustion Engines. Amend RSA 41 by inserting after section 11-d the following new section:
41:11-e Grounds Maintenance or Snow and Ice Removal Equipment Powered by Internal Combustion Engines.
A local governing body shall not prohibit a person as defined in RSA 382-A:1-201(b)(27) from operating grounds maintenance or snow and ice removal equipment powered by internal combustion engines on any property within any municipality. A local governing body may prohibit the municipality from purchasing any snow or ice removal equipment powered by internal combustion engines, if a majority of the citizenry of the municipality votes in favor of such prohibition.

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