– This week, Governor Kelly Ayotte signed the following bills into law:

• SB 18 – Permitting the commissioner of health and services to authorize additional beds for pediatric intermediate care facility under certain circumstances
• SB 19 – Relative to hotel and motel operations
• SB 65 – Relative to stormwater management for solar arrays
• SB 73 – Relative to the operation of bingo games
• SB 160 – Relative to the administration of raffles
• SB 161 – Making technical changes to the statutes governing out-of-state placement for children
• SB 196 – Relative to the exemption from competitive bidding requirement for certain state agency projects
• SB 201 – Relative to the administration of raffles
• SB 212 – Changing references from “votes” to “ballots” in the law regarding elections
• SB 233 – Relative to the grid modernization advisory group
• SB 254 – Relative to controlled substance inventories and relative to surrogate parent criminal history records checks
• SB 285 – Relative to the changing of the term “physician assistant” to “physician associate”