---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to regulatory authority for apples, coal grading, potatoes, cider, milk, and lumber."
description: "relative to regulatory authority for apples, coal grading, potatoes, cider, milk, and lumber."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 1628"
citation: "New Hampshire HB 1628 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Peter W. Bixby"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-12-15"
last_action: "2024-07-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc9d8489-050a-4031-b324-9a9a560f4e34"
source_url: "https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_status.aspx?lsr=3138&sy=2024&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2024"
source_hash: "a56de06ee7a9757240c422718915afc6f03025098a06178e5e61538d6a0c20b3"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nh"]
---

# New Hampshire HB 1628 (2024) — relative to regulatory authority for apples, coal grading, potatoes, cider, milk, and lumber.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Amendment #2024-2313e** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2024&id=2024-2313e&txtFormat=amend)
2. **latest version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billText.aspx?sy=2024&id=2237&txtFormat=html)

## Sponsors

- Peter W. Bixby — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-12-15** Introduced 01/03/2024 and referred to Environment and Agriculture HJ 1 P. 27 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-02-21** Public Hearing: 03/06/2024 11:15 am LOB 301-303
- **2024-03-13** Executive Session: 03/06/2024 11:15 am LOB 301-303
- **2024-03-13** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2024-0956h 03/06/2024 (Vote 12-0; CC) `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-03-21** Amendment # 2024-0956h: AA VV 03/21/2024 HJ 9 P. 4
- **2024-03-21** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2024-0956h: MA VV 03/21/2024 HJ 9 P. 4 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2024-03-26** Introduced 03/21/2024 and Referred to Energy and Natural Resources; SJ 8 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-30** Hearing: 05/07/2024, Room 103, SH, 09:20 am; SC 18
- **2024-05-07** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 05/16/2024, Vote 4-0; SC 19 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-15** Special Order to Beginning of Calendar, Without Objection, MA; 05/15/2024; SJ 12
- **2024-05-15** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 05/15/2024; SJ 12 `committee-passage-favorable, passage`
- **2024-06-21** Enrolled Bill Amendment # 2024-2313e Adopted, VV, (In recess of 06/13/2024); SJ 18 `amendment-passage`
- **2024-06-25** Enrolled Bill Amendment # 2024-2313e: AA VV (in recess of) 06/13/2024 HJ 16 P. 45
- **2024-07-02** Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 06/13/2024); SJ 18 `enrolled`
- **2024-07-02** Enrolled (in recess of) 06/13/2024 HJ 16
- **2024-07-26** Signed by Governor Sununu 07/19/2024; Chapter 252; eff. 09/17/2024 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bc9d8489-050a-4031-b324-9a9a560f4e34`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).