Bill Text - HB1807 (2018)

Relative to exploitation of elderly, disabled, or impaired adults and establishing a protective order for vulnerable adults.


Revision: June 26, 2018, 10:45 a.m.

CHAPTER 308

HB 1807-FN - FINAL VERSION

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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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