Revision: June 26, 2018, 10:45 a.m.
CHAPTER 308
HB 1807-FN - FINAL VERSION
04/26/2018 1740s
23May2018... 2090-EBA
2018 SESSION
18-2452
01/10
HOUSE BILL 1807-FN
AN ACT relative to exploitation of elderly, disabled, or impaired adults.
SPONSORS: Rep. Cushing, Rock. 21; Rep. Baldasaro, Rock. 5; Rep. McMahon, Rock. 7; Rep. Wallner, Merr. 10; Rep. LeBrun, Hills. 32; Rep. Heath, Hills. 14; Rep. Campion, Graf. 12; Rep. P. Long, Hills. 10; Rep. Messmer, Rock. 24; Sen. Carson, Dist 14; Sen. Fuller Clark, Dist 21; Sen. Hennessey, Dist 5
COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
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AMENDED ANALYSIS
This bill clarifies the law relating to financial exploitation of elderly, disabled, or impaired adults.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
04/26/2018 1740s
23May2018... 2090-EBA 18-2452
01/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen
AN ACT relative to exploitation of elderly, disabled, or impaired adults.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
308:1 Financial Exploitation of Elderly, Disabled, or Impaired Adults. Amend the introductory paragraph of RSA 631:9, I(b) to read as follows:
(b) In the absence of legal authority a person knowingly or recklessly through the use of undue influence, harassment, duress, force, compulsion, [or] coercion, or under any circumstances where the person knew that the elderly, disabled, or impaired adult lacked capacity to consent, or consciously disregarded a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the elderly, disabled, or impaired adult lacked capacity to consent:
308:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2019.
Approved: June 25, 2018
Effective Date: January 01, 2019