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SB510 • 2026

ensuring state-operated, publicly accessible spaces have designated smoking areas undetectable to visitors.

ensuring state-operated, publicly accessible spaces have designated smoking areas undetectable to visitors.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Keith Murphy (R), Tim McGough (R), Regina Birdsell (R), Howard Pearl (r)
Last action
2026-04-23
Official status
HOUSE
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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ensuring state-operated, publicly accessible spaces have designated smoking areas undetectable to visitors.

ensuring state-operated, publicly accessible spaces have designated smoking areas undetectable to visitors.

What This Bill Does

  • ensuring state-operated, publicly accessible spaces have designated smoking areas undetectable to visitors.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-04-23 H

    Inexpedient to Legislate: MA VV 04/23/2026 HJ 11

  2. 2026-04-15 H

    Executive Session: 04/08/2026 10:00 am GP 231

  3. 2026-04-15 H

    Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate 04/08/2026 (Vote 12-1; CC)

  4. 2026-04-01 H

    Full Committee Work Session: 04/08/2026 10:00 am GP 231

  5. 2026-03-18 H

    Public Hearing: 03/25/2026 11:45 am GP 231

  6. 2026-02-26 H

    Introduced (in recess of) 02/19/2026 and referred to Executive Departments and Administration HJ 5 P. 124

  7. 2026-01-29 S

    Ought to Pass : MA, VV; OT3rdg; 01/29/2026; SJ 2

  8. 2026-01-22 S

    Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 01/29/2026; Vote 4-0; CC; SC 3

  9. 2026-01-15 S

    Hearing: 01/21/2026, Room 103, SH, 01:30 pm; SC 2

  10. 2025-11-21 S

    Introduced 01/07/2026 and Referred to Executive Departments and Administration; SJ 1

Official Summary Text

ensuring state-operated, publicly accessible spaces have designated smoking areas undetectable to visitors.

Current Bill Text

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SB 510 - AS INTRODUCED

2026 SESSION
26-2106
06/07

SENATE BILL
510

AN ACT
ensuring state-operated, publicly accessible spaces have designated smoking areas undetectable to visitors.

SPONSORS: Sen. Murphy, Dist 16; Sen. Pearl, Dist 17; Sen. McGough, Dist 11; Sen. Birdsell, Dist 19

COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration

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ANALYSIS

This bill requires that any designated smoking area on publicly-owned or publicly-operated property accessible to the public is constructed or maintained so that cigarette smoke is not detectable by sight or smell in any public or common area. It exempts properties or areas under state control that are not accessible to the visiting public.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
26-2106
06/07

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

AN ACT
ensuring state-operated, publicly accessible spaces have designated smoking areas undetectable to visitors.

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

1 New Paragraph; Indoor Smoking Act; Smoking Prohibited. Amend RSA 155:66 by inserting after paragraph II the following new paragraph:
II-a. Any publicly-owned or publicly-operated property accessible to the public shall provide, if smoking is not entirely prohibited on the premises, a designated smoking area that is constructed or maintained so that smoke is not detectable in any public or common area. This provision shall not apply to publicly-owned property or areas under state control that are not accessible to the visiting public.

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

LBA
26-2106
Revised 03/26/2026

SB 510-FN-
FISCAL NOTE
AS INTRODUCED

AN ACT
ensuring state-operated, publicly accessible spaces have designated smoking areas undetectable to visitors.

FISCAL IMPACT:
The Office of Legislative Budget Assistant states this bill has no fiscal impact on state, county
and local expenditures or revenue.

AGENCIES CONTACTED:
None