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Senate Commerce committee hears housekeeping changes to hotel law, committee later votes to advance bill
Summary
A bill to remove century-old rate-posting and booking-card requirements for lodging businesses drew support at a Senate Commerce hearing as an industry “housekeeping” change; committee moved the bill forward in executive session.
Senate Commerce Committee members heard testimony supporting Senate Bill 19, which would update New Hampshire lodging statutes to reflect modern recordkeeping and marketing practices and repeal century-old requirements to post room rates.
Sponsor Sen. Dan Innes (D-7) told the committee the bill “is really a hotel housekeeping bill” and that it aligns statutory language on recordkeeping with how the lodging industry “actually operates” by allowing a single record keeping standard instead of both a book and a card system. He said the bill also repeals…
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