Bill Text: NH HB143 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to the issuance of no trespass orders on municipal or school district property.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-16 - Public Hearing: 01/24/2025 11:00 am Legislative Office Building 202-204 [HB143 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2025-HB143-Introduced.html

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HB 143  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2025 SESSION

25-0332

09/11

 

HOUSE BILL 143

 

AN ACT relative to the issuance of no trespass orders on municipal or school district property.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Harvey-Bolia, Belk. 3; Rep. Osborne, Rock. 2; Rep. Pauer, Hills. 36; Rep. Peternel, Carr. 6; Rep. Terry, Belk. 7; Rep. Thibault, Merr. 25; Rep. Creighton, Hills. 30; Sen. McGough, Dist 11

 

COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice and Public Safety

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill provides that an order to leave or not enter any municipal or school district property shall not be issued to any person unless approved by a unanimous vote of the governing body in a duly noticed public meeting, unless a court order restraining the person from entering the property has been issued.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

25-0332

09/11

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

 

AN ACT relative to the issuance of no trespass orders on municipal or school district property.

 

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

 

1  New Section; Criminal Trespass; Order Against Trespass on Public Property.  Amend RSA 635 by inserting after section 2 the following new section:

635:2-a  Order Against Trespass on Public Property.

I.  An order to leave or not enter any municipal or school district property shall not be issued to any person unless approved by a unanimous vote of the governing body in a duly noticed public meeting.  The person subject to the order shall have the right to a hearing with the governing body, in a non-public session or public session at the election of the person, before any such vote by the governing body.  The person may appeal the decision to approve such an order by the governing body to the superior court.

II.  Governing body approval shall not be required for such an order when a court order restraining a person from entering the public property has been issued to the person and remains in effect.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.