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HB1117: relative to the circumstances constituting criminal threatening.

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HB 1117 - AS INTRODUCED

2022 SESSION

22-2788

04/08

HOUSE BILL 1117

AN ACT relative to the circumstances constituting criminal threatening.


ANALYSIS

This bill adds the intent to coerce or terrorize the people of one age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, creed, color, marital status, familial status, mental or physical disability, religion, or national origin to the criminal threatening statute.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

22-2788

04/08

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Two

AN ACT relative to the circumstances constituting criminal threatening.

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

1 Assault and Related Offenses; Criminal Threatening. Amend RSA 631:4, I(b)-(d) to read as follows:

(b) The person places any object or graffiti on public property or the property of another with a purpose to coerce or terrorize any person or the people of one age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, creed, color, marital status, familial status, mental or physical disability, religion, or national origin; or

(c) The person threatens to commit any crime against the property of another with a purpose to coerce or terrorize any person or the people of one age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, creed, color, marital status, familial status, mental or physical disability, religion, or national origin; or

(d) The person threatens to commit any crime against the person of another with a purpose to terrorize any person or the people of one age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, creed, color, marital status, familial status, mental or physical disability, religion, or national origin; or

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2023.