Bill Text: NH HB368 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibiting smoking and e-cigarettes in motor vehicles when a passenger is under 16 years of age.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-02-20 - Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Regular Calendar 213-157 02/20/2025 House Journal 6 P. 19 [HB368 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2025-HB368-Introduced.html
HB 368 - AS INTRODUCED
2025 SESSION
25-0415
05/11
HOUSE BILL 368
AN ACT prohibiting smoking and e-cigarettes in motor vehicles when a passenger is under 16 years of age.
SPONSORS: Rep. Schmidt, Straf. 14
COMMITTEE: Transportation
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ANALYSIS
This bill prohibits smoking and e-cigarettes in motor vehicles when a passenger under the age of 16 is in the vehicle.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
25-0415
05/11
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five
AN ACT prohibiting smoking and e-cigarettes in motor vehicles when a passenger is under 16 years of age.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Special Rules of the Road; Smoking Prohibited. Amend RSA 265 by inserting after section 107-a the following new section:
265:107-b Smoking Prohibited.
I. No person shall smoke tobacco products or e-cigarettes in a motor vehicle at any time when a child under the age of 16 is in the vehicle.
II. The fine for a violation of this section shall be $100, provided that a police officer may enforce the provisions of this section only as a secondary action when the police officer detains a driver of a motor vehicle for a suspected violation of another provision of Title XXI.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 120 days after its passage.
