HB 744 - AS INTRODUCED

2003 SESSION

03-0101

01/10

HOUSE BILL 744

AN ACT relative to motor vehicle accidents involving uninsured motorists.

SPONSORS: Rep. Gorman, Hills 62; Rep. D. Cote, Hills 62

COMMITTEE: Commerce

ANALYSIS

This bill makes it an unfair insurance practice for an insurer to threaten with loss of license or by any other method an uninsured motorist who has been involved in an accident with its insured.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

03-0101

01/10

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Three

AN ACT relative to motor vehicle accidents involving uninsured motorists.

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

1 New Subparagraph; Discrimination; Uninsured Motorists. Amend RSA 417:4, VIII by inserting after subparagraph (g) the following new subparagraph:

(h) Threatening with loss of license or by any other method an uninsured motorist who has been involved in an accident.

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