HB 196 - AS INTRODUCED
2021 SESSION
21-0362
04/08
HOUSE BILL 196
AN ACT adding trespass as an exception to the charge of criminal threatening.
SPONSORS: Rep. Yakubovich, Merr. 24; Rep. Binford, Graf. 15; Rep. Roy, Rock. 32; Rep. T.
Lekas, Hills. 37; Rep. Rhodes, Ches. 15; Rep. Aron, Sull. 7; Rep. Piemonte, Rock.
4; Rep. DeSimone, Rock. 14
COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice and Public Safety
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ANALYSIS
This bill adds an exception to the criminal threatening statute for a person who displays a
firearm to warn away a trespasser.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
 HB 196 - AS INTRODUCED
21-0362
04/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty One
AN ACT adding trespass as an exception to the charge of criminal threatening.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 1 Criminal Threatening. Amend RSA 631:4, IV to read as follows:
2 IV. A person who responds to a person criminally trespassing pursuant to RSA 635:2
3 or [a] other threat which would be considered by a reasonable person as likely to cause property
4 damage in excess of $1,500, serious bodily injury, or death to the person or to another by
5 displaying a firearm or other means of self-defense with the intent to warn away the person
6 criminally trespassing or making the threat shall not have committed a criminal act under this
7 section.
8 2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.


Statutes affected:
Introduced: 631:4
latest version: 631:4