Bill Text - HB1184 (2012)

Relative to the use of videotape evidence of criminal activity.


Revision: Dec. 14, 2011, midnight

HB 1184 – AS INTRODUCED

2012 SESSION

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04/09

HOUSE BILL 1184

AN ACT relative to the use of videotape evidence of criminal activity.

SPONSORS: Rep. D. McGuire, Merr 8

COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice and Public Safety

ANALYSIS

This bill provides that photographic, videotaped, or digitally recorded evidence shall not, by itself, constitute grounds for making an arrest without a warrant.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

12-2523

04/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twelve

AN ACT relative to the use of videotape evidence of criminal activity.

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

1 New Paragraph; Arrest Without a Warrant. Amend RSA 594:10 by inserting after paragraph II the following new paragraph:

III. Photographic, videotaped, or digitally recorded evidence of criminal activity shall, by itself, not constitute sufficient grounds for making an arrest without a warrant under this section.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.