HB454 • 2026

requiring that retailers of fuel blends with 15% ethanol also offer fuel blends with 10% or lower ethanol content.

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)
Last action: 2026-01-07
Official status: HOUSE
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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requiring that retailers of fuel blends with 15% ethanol also offer fuel blends with 10% or lower ethanol content.

What This Bill Does

requiring that retailers of fuel blends with 15% ethanol also offer fuel blends with 10% or lower ethanol content.

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Bill History

2026-01-07 H
Refer for Interim Study: MA VV 01/07/2026 HJ 1 P. 45
2025-11-10 H
Committee Report: Refer for Interim Study 10/28/2025 (Vote 17-0; CC) HC 51 P. 5
2025-10-08 H
Executive Session: 10/28/2025 11:00 am GP 229
2025-08-27 H
Full Committee Work Session: 09/10/2025 10:00 am GP 229
2025-03-19 H
Retained in Committee
2025-03-13 H
Executive Session: 03/19/2025 10:00 am LOB 302-304
2025-03-07 H
Subcommittee Work Session: 03/12/2025 10:00 am LOB 302-304
2025-02-13 H
Public Hearing: 02/19/2025 10:45 am LOB 302-304
2025-01-10 H
Introduced (in recess of) 01/09/2025 and referred to Commerce and Consumer Affairs HJ 3 P. 11

Official Summary Text

requiring that retailers of fuel blends with 15% ethanol also offer fuel blends with 10% or lower ethanol content.

Current Bill Text

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HB 454 - AS INTRODUCED

2025 SESSION
25-0910
11/09

HOUSE BILL
454

AN ACT
requiring that retailers of fuel blends with 15% ethanol also offer fuel blends with 10% or lower ethanol content.

SPONSORS: Rep. T. Walsh, Merr. 10; Rep. Vose, Rock. 5; Rep. Hill, Merr. 2; Rep. S. Smith, Sull. 3

COMMITTEE: Commerce and Consumer Affairs

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ANALYSIS

This bill requires a fuel retailer to sell a fuel blend with 10% ethanol or less if they sell a fuel blend with 15% or more of ethanol.

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Matter removed from current law appears [
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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
25-0910
11/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

AN ACT
requiring that retailers of fuel blends with 15% ethanol also offer fuel blends with 10% or lower ethanol content.

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

1 New Section; Sale of Ethanol Fuel Blends. Amend RSA 339 by inserting after section 30-a the following new section:
339:30-b Sale of 15% and 10% or Lower Ethanol Fuel Blends.
All retailers of ethanol fuel blends shall offer for sale at least one fuel blend with a percentage of 10% ethanol or lower, if such retailer offers for sale a fuel blend with a percentage of 15% ethanol or greater. The retailer shall post the prices of such fuel blends as required in RSA 339:30-a.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.