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HB1283: prohibiting sobriety checkpoints.

Citation
2018 HB1283
Official source

Bill details

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House status
Passed/Adopted
Senate status
Inexpedient to Legislate
Committee
Senate Judiciary
Hearing
03/29/2018 at 09:45 AM
Selected version
Current official bill text

Sponsors

Topics

Criminal justice and courts

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HB 1283 - AS INTRODUCED

2018 SESSION

18-2077

04/01

HOUSE BILL 1283

AN ACT prohibiting sobriety checkpoints.

SPONSORS: Rep. Stone, Rock. 1; Rep. Verville, Rock. 2; Rep. Costable, Rock. 3; Rep. Wallace, Rock. 33; Rep. Gagne, Hills. 13

COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice and Public Safety

ANALYSIS

This bill prohibits a law enforcement agency from conducting a sobriety checkpoint.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

18-2077

04/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen

AN ACT prohibiting sobriety checkpoints.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Rules of the Road; Sobriety Checkpoints. Amend RSA 265:1-a to read as follows:

265:1-a Sobriety Checkpoints. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, no law enforcement officer or agency shall establish or conduct sobriety checkpoints [for the purposes of enforcing the criminal laws of this state, unless such law enforcement officer or agency petitions the superior court and the court issues an order authorizing the sobriety checkpoint after determining that the sobriety checkpoint is warranted and the proposed method of stopping vehicles satisfies constitutional guarantees].

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2019.