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HB1543: relative to employee drug testing.

Citation
2020 HB1543
Official source

Bill details

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House status
Inexpedient to Legislate
Committee
House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
Hearing
01/23/2020 at 11:00 AM
Selected version
Current official bill text

Sponsors

Topics

Business and labor

Official links

HB 1543 - AS INTRODUCED

2020 SESSION

20-2518

04/01

HOUSE BILL 1543

AN ACT relative to employee drug testing.

SPONSORS: Rep. Klein-Knight, Hills. 11; Rep. Josephson, Graf. 11; Rep. Adjutant, Graf. 17

COMMITTEE: Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services

ANALYSIS

This bill prohibits an employer from using a failed drug test for cannabis use as grounds for terminating the employment of, or to deny promotion to, any employee.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

20-2518

04/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty

AN ACT relative to employee drug testing.

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

1 New Subdivision; Employee Drug Testing. Amend RSA 275 by inserting after section 77 the following new subdivision:

Employee Drug Testing

275:78 Protections for Failed Drug Test for Cannabis Use. No employer shall use a failed drug test for cannabis use as grounds for terminating the employment of, or to deny promotion to, any employee.

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