Bill Text - HB1216 (2020)

Relative to the impaired driver education program.


Revision: Dec. 2, 2019, 11:47 a.m.

HB 1216 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2020 SESSION

20-2377

11/04

 

HOUSE BILL 1216

 

AN ACT relative to the impaired driver education program.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Forsythe, Merr. 8; Rep. Murphy, Hills. 21; Rep. A. Lekas, Hills. 37; Rep. Mullen, Hills. 7; Sen. French, Dist 7

 

COMMITTEE: Transportation

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill allows persons charged with driving or operating under the influence of drugs or liquor to register for an impaired driving education program after attending or waiving their arraignment.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

20-2377

11/04

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty

 

AN ACT relative to the impaired driver education program.

 

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

 

1  New Paragraph; Motor Vehicles; Driving or Operating Under the Influence of Drugs or Liquor; Penalties for Intoxication or Under Influence of Drugs Offenses.  Amend RSA 265-A:18 by inserting after paragraph X the following new paragraph:

XI.  Any person charged with violating any provision of RSA 265-A:2, 265-A:3, or 265-A:19 who would be required to complete an IDCMP if convicted may, at his or her discretion, register for such a program after attending or waiving arraignment in a criminal proceeding.  Such registration shall not be considered as evidence of his or her culpability in judicial or administrative proceedings.

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