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2024 SESSION
24-2985.0
09/05
SENATE BILL [bill number]
AN ACT relative to felony criminal threatening.
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ANALYSIS
This bill elevates the use of an item that reasonably appears to a victim to be a deadly weapon in certain criminal threatening situations to a class B felony.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
24-2985.0
09/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four
AN ACT relative to felony criminal threatening.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Criminal Code; Assault and Related Offenses; Criminal Threatening. Amend RSA 631:4, II(a)(2) to read as follows:
(2) Uses a deadly weapon as defined in RSA 625:11, V, or uses an item that reasonably appears to the victim to be a deadly weapon, in the violation of the provisions of subparagraph I(a), I(b), I(c), or I(d).
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2025.