2003 SESSION

03-0299

05/10

HOUSE BILL 153-FN

COMMITTEE: Children and Family Law

ANALYSIS

This bill expands the grounds for termination of parental rights to include conviction for murder, manslaughter, attempted murder, or attempted manslaughter of the other parent, or felony assault which resulted in serious injury to the other parent.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

03-0299

05/10

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Three

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

79:1 Grounds for Termination of the Parent-Child Relationship; Felony Convictions in Which the Other Parent Is the Victim. Amend RSA 170-C:5, VII to read as follows:

VII. The parent has been convicted of one or more of the following offenses:

(a) Murder of another child of the parent or of the child's other parent, pursuant to RSA 630:1-a or 630:1-b.

(b) Manslaughter of another child of the parent or of the child's other parent pursuant to RSA 630:2.

(c) Attempt, pursuant to RSA 629:1, solicitation, pursuant to RSA 629:2, or conspiracy, pursuant to RSA 629:3, to commit any of the offenses specified in subparagraphs VII(a) and VII(b).

(d) A felony assault under RSA 631:1, 631:2, 632-A:2, or 632-A:3 which resulted in serious bodily injury to the child [or], to another child of the parent, or to the child's other parent.

79:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2004.

(Approved: May 30, 2003)

(Effective Date: January 1, 2004)