HB 756 - AS INTRODUCED

2001 SESSION

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04/01

HOUSE BILL 756

AN ACT relative to the penalty for certain acts of theft, destruction, or violence in a safe school zone.

SPONSORS: Rep. K. Hutchinson, Rock 29

COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice and Public Safety

ANALYSIS

This bill provides that bomb threats made in a safe school zone shall be reported to the local law enforcement agency and that any person convicted of making a bomb threat in a safe school zone may be subject to an extended term of imprisonment.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

01-0978

04/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One

AN ACT relative to the penalty for certain acts of theft, destruction, or violence in a safe school zone.

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

1 Safe School Zones; Criminal Penalties for Bomb Threats. Amend RSA 193-D:3 to read as follows:

193-D:3 Criminal Penalties. Any person convicted of an act of theft, destruction, or violence as defined in RSA 193-D:1 committed in a safe school zone at any time of year, and any person who makes or otherwise communicates in any way a bomb threat while in a safe school zone at any time of year may be subject to an extended term of imprisonment as provided in RSA 651:6.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2002.