HB150: enabling homestead operations to use commercial kitchen equipment in preparing food for sale.

CHAPTER 18

HB 150 - FINAL VERSION

6Mar2025... 0420h

2025 SESSION

25-0468

08/11

HOUSE BILL 150

AN ACT enabling homestead operations to use commercial kitchen equipment in preparing food for sale.

SPONSORS: Rep. Comtois, Belk. 7; Rep. J. Aron, Sull. 4; Rep. Aylward, Merr. 5; Rep. Bixby, Straf. 13; Sen. Innis, Dist 7; Sen. Pearl, Dist 17

COMMITTEE: Environment and Agriculture

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ANALYSIS

This bill defines commercial kitchen equipment and allows for its use in homestead food operations.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

6Mar2025... 0420h 25-0468

08/11

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

AN ACT enabling homestead operations to use commercial kitchen equipment in preparing food for sale.

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

18:1 Homestead Food Operations; Use of Commercial Equipment. Amend RSA 143-A:12, I(a) to read as follows:

(a) "Homestead food operation" means a person who produces homestead food products, excluding potentially hazardous food, only in the home kitchen of that person's primary residence in New Hampshire. A homestead food operation may use commercial kitchen equipment so long as the equipment is able to be cleaned and sanitized in the processing area. For purposes of this subparagraph, "commercial kitchen equipment" means the specialized tools and appliances used in professional kitchens to prepare, cook, and store food and that can withstand heavy use and high-volume cooking.

18:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

Approved: May 14, 2025

Effective Date: July 13, 2025