Bill Text: NH HB100 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to the definition and use of toy smoke devices.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-06-19 - Signed by Governor Sununu 06/16/2017; Chapter 122; Eff. 6/16/2017 [HB100 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2017-HB100-Introduced.html

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HB 100 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2017 SESSION

17-0136

05/04

 

HOUSE BILL 100

 

AN ACT relative to the definition and use of toy smoke devices.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Welch, Rock. 13; Rep. Weyler, Rock. 13

 

COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice and Public Safety

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill exempts toy smoke devices from the prohibition on the sale or use of smoke bombs.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

17-0136

05/04

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

 

AN ACT relative to the definition and use of toy smoke devices.

 

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

 

1  Toy Smoke Device; Exemption from Prohibition on the Sale or Use of Smoke Bombs.  Amend RSA 644:16-b, I to read as follows:

I.  In this section, "smoke bomb'' means any kind of device containing chemicals which when ignited gives off dense clouds of smoke; provided that this definition shall not include a toy smoke device, as defined by the American Pyrotechnics Association in APA Standard 87-1 (2001), section 3.1.1.7.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect January 1, 2018.