Bill Text: NH SB145 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibiting smoking in motor vehicles when a passenger under the age of 16 is in the vehicle.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-23 - Pending Motion Rerefer to Committee; 02/23/2017; Senate Journal 7 [SB145 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2017-SB145-Introduced.html

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SB 145  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2017 SESSION

17-0395

03/01

 

SENATE BILL 145

 

AN ACT prohibiting smoking in motor vehicles when a passenger under the age of 16 is in the vehicle.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Sen. Hennessey, Dist 5; Rep. Frost, Straf. 16; Rep. Kotowski, Merr. 24; Rep. Berrien, Rock. 18; Rep. J. MacKay, Merr. 14; Rep. Cahill, Rock. 17

 

COMMITTEE: Health and Human Services

 

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ANALYSIS

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

17-0395

03/01

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

 

AN ACT prohibiting smoking in motor vehicles when a passenger under the age of 16 is in the vehicle.

 

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 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.

III.  Enforcement of this section by law enforcement agencies shall be accomplished only as a secondary action when a driver of a motor vehicle has been cited or charged with a violation or some other offense.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 120 days after its passage.