HB 489 - AS INTRODUCED
2025 SESSION
25-0808
11/06
HOUSE BILL 489
SPONSORS: Rep. Nalevanko, Ches. 9; Rep. Aldrich, Belk. 6; Rep. J. Aron, Sull. 4; Rep. Proulx, Hills. 15; Rep. Warden, Hills. 39
COMMITTEE: Transportation
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ANALYSIS
This bill allows volunteer emergency workers to use a rear-facing blue light on their private vehicles when involved in emergency service.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
25-0808
11/06
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Rear Facing Blue Lights; Volunteer Emergency Responders. Amend RSA 266:78-b, III to read as follows:
III. Blue colored lights are authorized only for vehicles owned or leased by state, county, municipal, or federal law enforcement agencies, state department of corrections, fire marshal vehicles, emergency response vehicles owned or leased by city, town, village district, or federal fire departments, forestry departments, or emergency medical departments, or emergency response vehicles owned or leased by a private ambulance service contracted with a city, town, or village district and vehicles privately owned or leased by sworn law enforcement officers or emergency response employees or volunteers of a city, town, or village district when authorized by their department heads. When blue colored lights are installed on a private vehicle owned by or leased to a law enforcement officer, such lights shall be covered when the vehicle is being driven by someone other than a law enforcement officer. A blue colored light installed on emergency response vehicles other than those vehicles used by a sworn law enforcement officer, state probation and parole officers, and state correctional officers in the performance of their official duties shall be limited to a single, rear-facing blue colored emergency light on each vehicle. A private ambulance service that is no longer contracted with a city, town, or village district shall remove the single rear-facing blue colored light upon the expiration of the contract.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.