Bill Text - HB283 (2017)

Defining bodily injury in the criminal code.


Revision: Jan. 30, 2017, 10:50 a.m.

HB 283 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2017 SESSION

17-0758

04/01

 

HOUSE BILL 283

 

AN ACT defining bodily injury in the criminal code.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. P. Schmidt, Straf. 19; Rep. Patten, Merr. 17; Sen. Lasky, Dist 13

 

COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice and Public Safety

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill inserts a definition of "bodily injury" into the criminal code.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

17-0758

04/01

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

 

AN ACT defining bodily injury in the criminal code.

 

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

 

1  New Paragraph; Criminal Code; General Definitions.  Amend RSA 625:11 by inserting after paragraph VI the following new paragraph:

VII.  "Bodily injury" means any harm to the body which causes loss of or impairment to the health or of the function of any part of the body that is not severe, permanent, or protracted.

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