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RSA 176-A:1 · Addiction, Treatment, and Prevention Fund

Title: XIII: ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
Chapter: 176-A · ALCOHOL ABUSE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT FUND
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176-A:1 Addiction, Treatment, and Prevention Fund. –

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There is hereby established an addiction, treatment, and prevention fund to fund alcohol education and abuse and problem gambling prevention and treatment programs.

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The fund shall be nonlapsing and continually appropriated for the purposes of funding alcohol education and abuse and problem gambling prevention and treatment programs. The commissioner of the department of health and human services may accept gifts, grants, donations, or other funding from any source and shall deposit all such revenue received into the fund. The state treasurer shall invest the moneys deposited in the fund as provided by law. Interest earned on moneys deposited in the fund shall be deposited into the fund.

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III.

Moneys received from all other sources other than the liquor commission pursuant to RSA 176:16, III, including any community benefit contribution made by New Hampshire's hospitals, shall be disbursed from the fund upon the authorization of the governor's commission on addiction, treatment, and prevention established pursuant to RSA 12-J:1 and shall not be diverted for any other purposes. Funds disbursed shall be used for alcohol and other drug abuse prevention, problem gambling prevention, treatment, recovery services, and other purposes related to the duties of the commission under RSA 12-J:3. Source. 2000, 328:3. 2004, 126:1, 2. 2005, 77:1, eff. July 1, 2005 at 12:01 a.m. 2014, 18:3, eff. July 22, 2014. 2018, 342:14, eff. Dec. 31, 2018. 2019, 346:218, eff. July 1, 2019. 2023, 79:403, 408, I, eff. Dec. 31, 2023. 2025, 141:297, eff. July 1, 2025.

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Source note

Source. 2000, 328:3. 2004, 126:1, 2. 2005, 77:1, eff. July 1, 2005 at 12:01 a.m. 2014, 18:3, eff. July 22, 2014. 2018, 342:14, eff. Dec. 31, 2018. 2019, 346:218, eff. July 1, 2019. 2023, 79:403, 408, I, eff. Dec. 31, 2023. 2025, 141:297, eff. July 1, 2025.

Source history

2000, 328:3
2004, 126:1, 2
2005, 77:1, eff. July 1, 2005 at 12:01 a.m
2014, 18:3, eff. July 22, 2014
2018, 342:14, eff. Dec. 31, 2018
2019, 346:218, eff. July 1, 2019
2023, 79:403, 408, I, eff. Dec. 31, 2023
2025, 141:297, eff. July 1, 2025

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