CONCORD, NH - 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"