HB454: requiring that retailers of fuel blends with 15% ethanol also offer fuel blends with 10% or lower ethanol content.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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.