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HB1807: relative to exploitation of elderly, disabled, or impaired adults and establishing a protective order for vulnerable adults.

Bill status: Signed by Governor

Citation
2018 HB1807
Official source

Bill details

Version history, amendments, and roll-call votes were not present in the imported local bill data.

House status
Concurred
Senate status
Passed/Adopted with Amendment
Committee
Senate Health and Human Services
Hearing
03/27/2018 at 01:30 PM
Selected version
Current official bill text

Sponsors

Topics

Health and Human Services

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CHAPTER 308

HB 1807-FN - FINAL VERSION

04/26/2018 1740s

23May2018... 2090-EBA

2018 SESSION

18-2452

01/10

HOUSE BILL 1807-FN

AN ACT relative to exploitation of elderly, disabled, or impaired adults.

SPONSORS: Rep. Cushing, Rock. 21; Rep. Baldasaro, Rock. 5; Rep. McMahon, Rock. 7; Rep. Wallner, Merr. 10; Rep. LeBrun, Hills. 32; Rep. Heath, Hills. 14; Rep. Campion, Graf. 12; Rep. P. Long, Hills. 10; Rep. Messmer, Rock. 24; Sen. Carson, Dist 14; Sen. Fuller Clark, Dist 21; Sen. Hennessey, Dist 5

COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill clarifies the law relating to financial exploitation of elderly, disabled, or impaired adults.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

04/26/2018 1740s

23May2018... 2090-EBA 18-2452

01/10

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen

AN ACT relative to exploitation of elderly, disabled, or impaired adults.

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

308:1 Financial Exploitation of Elderly, Disabled, or Impaired Adults. Amend the introductory paragraph of RSA 631:9, I(b) to read as follows:

(b) In the absence of legal authority a person knowingly or recklessly through the use of undue influence, harassment, duress, force, compulsion, [or] coercion, or under any circumstances where the person knew that the elderly, disabled, or impaired adult lacked capacity to consent, or consciously disregarded a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the elderly, disabled, or impaired adult lacked capacity to consent:

308:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2019.

Approved: June 25, 2018

Effective Date: January 01, 2019