Bill Text: NH SB358 | 2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered


Bill Title: Relative to use of navigation devices in motor vehicles.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2016-05-31 - Signed by the Governor on 05/27/2016; Chapter 0154; Effective 05/27/2016 [SB358 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2016-SB358-Chaptered.html

CHAPTER 154

SB 358 - FINAL VERSION

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2016 SESSION

16-2728

03/01

 

SENATE BILL 358

 

AN ACT relative to use of navigation devices in motor vehicles.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Boutin, Dist 16; Sen. Avard, Dist 12; Sen. Birdsell, Dist 19; Sen. Bradley, Dist 3; Sen. Carson, Dist 14; Sen. Cataldo, Dist 6; Sen. Feltes, Dist 15; Sen. Hosmer, Dist 7; Sen. Lasky, Dist 13; Sen. Little, Dist 8; Sen. Sanborn, Dist 9; Sen. Soucy, Dist 18; Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Rep. Packard, Rock. 5; Rep. Chirichiello, Rock. 6; Rep. Sykes, Graf. 13; Rep. M. O'Brien, Hills. 36

 

COMMITTEE: Transportation

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill specifies types of navigation devices exempt from the prohibition on mobile electronic device use while driving.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen

 

AN ACT relative to use of navigation devices in motor vehicles.

 

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

 

154:1  New Paragraph; Mobile Electronic Device Prohibition; Navigation.  Amend RSA 265:79-c by inserting after paragraph IV the following new paragraph:

V.  Nothing in this section shall prohibit a driver, regardless of age, from receiving aural routing information from a hands-free global positioning device or navigation service through a mobile electronic device; or receiving turn-by-turn routing information from the screen of a global positioning device or navigation service through a mobile electronic device that is integrated into the vehicle or mounted on the dashboard, windshield, or visor of the vehicle.

154:2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved: May 27, 2016

Effective Date; May 27, 2016

 

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