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HB378: raising the minimum age for marriage.

Citation
2019 HB378
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House status
Died On The Table
Committee
House Children and Family Law
Hearing
02/19/2019 at 10:00 AM
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Topics

Children and Family Law

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HB 378 - AS INTRODUCED

2019 SESSION

19-0281

05/06

HOUSE BILL 378

AN ACT raising the minimum age for marriage.

SPONSORS: Rep. Levesque, Straf. 4; Rep. Read, Rock. 17; Rep. Desilets, Rock. 7; Rep. Hoelzel, Rock. 3; Rep. Steven Smith, Sull. 11; Rep. Walz, Merr. 23; Rep. Altschiller, Rock. 19; Rep. Mulligan, Graf. 12; Rep. M. Griffin, Rock. 7; Rep. Weber, Ches. 1; Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Sen. Fuller Clark, Dist 21; Sen. Hennessey, Dist 5; Sen. Feltes, Dist 15; Sen. Rosenwald, Dist 13

COMMITTEE: Children and Family Law

ANALYSIS

This bill raises the minimum age for marriage from 16 to 18 years of age.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

19-0281

05/06

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nineteen

AN ACT raising the minimum age for marriage.

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

1 Marriage; Age. Amend RSA 457:4 to read as follows:

457:4 Marriageable. No person below the age of [16] 18 years shall be capable of contracting a valid marriage, and all marriages contracted by such persons shall be null and void.

2 Prohibitions. Amend RSA 457:8 to read as follows:

457:8 Prohibitions. No town clerk shall issue any certificate for the marriage of any person below the age of consent, and no magistrate or minister of religion shall solemnize the marriage of any such person, if such clerk, magistrate or minister knows or has reasonable cause to believe that such person is below such age[, unless permission for such marriage has been given under this subdivision]. No magistrate or minister of religion shall solemnize any marriage by proxy.

3 Repeal. The following are repealed:

I. RSA 457:6, relative to a marriage petition by a party under age.

II. RSA 457:7, relative to grounds for granting a marriage petition by a party under age.

III. RSA 5-C:45, relative to the marriage license of a party under age.

4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2020.