New Hampshire legislation · 2026 Regular Session
New Hampshire SB644: requiring background checks for solid waste and hazardous waste facility owners.
Status: Signed into law, June 22, 2026
What the bill says
An act requiring ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ANALYSIS This bill requires 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 Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type. 26-2095 08/09 STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six AN ACT requiring background checks for solid waste and hazardous waste facility owners. 145:1 Background Checks. RSA 147-A:4, II-c and II-d are repealed and reenacted to read as follows: II-c.(a) Applications for permits shall be upon such f.
From the chaptered text, June 12, 2026:
AN ACT requiring ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ANALYSIS This bill requires 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 Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type. 26-2095 08/09 STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six AN ACT requiring background checks for solid waste and hazardous waste facility owners. 145:1 Background Checks. RSA 147-A:4, II-c and II-d are repealed and reenacted to read as follows: II-c.(a) Applications for permits shall be upon such forms and shall include such information as the department requires by rules adopted under RSA 147-A:3. The application information shall include, but not be limited to, a performance history of the applicant and of its owners, officers, directors, partners, members, or managers relative to the operation, financial security, and ownership of all facilities owned or operated by such persons. (b)(1) The applicant and all persons and entities set forth in subparagraph (b)(2) seeking a permit under this chapter shall be subject to a criminal records check consisting of a New Hampshire criminal records check and a fingerprint-based criminal record check utilizing national crime information databases, as set forth in subparagraphs (b)(3) through (b)(6). The department may make rules under RSA 541-A exempting certain types of permit applications from the performance history and criminal records …