CHAPTER 71

HB 1260-FN - FINAL VERSION

22Feb2024... 0419h

2024 SESSION

24-2264

09/05

HOUSE BILL 1260-FN

AN ACT relative to the criminal penalty for violations of privacy involving minors.

SPONSORS: Rep. Rhodes, Ches. 17; Rep. N. Murphy, Hills. 12; Rep. B. Boyd, Hills. 12; Rep. Z. Nutting, Ches. 11; Sen. Abbas, Dist 22; Sen. Fenton, Dist 10

COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice and Public Safety

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AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill makes it a class B felony to violate the privacy of a minor when the actor knows or reasonably should know that a child under the age of 18 is the one entitled to privacy.  Subsequent violations are a class A 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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

22Feb2024... 0419h 24-2264

09/05

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

AN ACT relative to the criminal penalty for violations of privacy involving minors.

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

71:1  New Paragraph; Breaches of the Peace and Related Offenses; Violation of Privacy.  Amend RSA 644:9 by inserting after paragraph VI the following new paragraph:

VII.  If a person violates paragraphs I, III-a, or IV in any location in which a reasonable person knows or should know the person entitled to privacy therein is a child under the age of 18, that person shall be guilty of a class B felony.  Any person who is convicted of a second or subsequent offense under this paragraph, based on a complaint which alleged that the person has had one or more prior convictions under this paragraph, or under a reasonably equivalent offense in an out-of-state jurisdiction, shall be guilty of a class A felony.

71:2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 30 days after its passage.

Approved: June 14, 2024

Effective Date: July 14, 2024