Revision: Jan. 22, 2013, midnight
HB 442 – AS INTRODUCED
2013 SESSION
04/03
HOUSE BILL 442
AN ACT prohibiting residency restrictions for registered sex offenders and offenders against children.
SPONSORS: Rep. Robertson, Ches 6
COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice and Public Safety
This bill prohibits a political subdivision from adopting residency restrictions for sexual offenders or offenders against children.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
13-0651
04/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Thirteen
AN ACT prohibiting residency restrictions for registered sex offenders and offenders against children.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; Registration of Criminal Offenders; Release into Community. Amend RSA 651-B:3 by inserting after paragraph IV the following new paragraph:
V. No political subdivision of the state shall adopt an ordinance or bylaw that restricts in any way the residence of a sexual offender or an offender against children. Any such ordinance or bylaw adopted by a political subdivision of the state prior to the effective date of this section shall be null and void on the effective date of this section.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.