Bill Text: NH SB149 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to the crime of aggravated driving while intoxicated.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-23 - Hearing: 01/28/2025, Room 100, State House, 01:15 pm; Senate Calendar 7 [SB149 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2025-SB149-Introduced.html

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SB 149-FN - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2025 SESSION

25-0923

09/08

 

SENATE BILL 149-FN

 

AN ACT relative to the crime of aggravated driving while intoxicated.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Birdsell, Dist 19; Sen. Avard, Dist 12; Sen. Lang, Dist 2; Sen. Gannon, Dist 23; Sen. Ricciardi, Dist 9; Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Rep. Roy, Rock. 31; Rep. Osborne, Rock. 2

 

COMMITTEE: Judiciary

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill adds wrong-way driving to the list of aggravating factors that can elevate a driving while intoxicated offense to an aggravated driving while intoxicated offense.

 

This bill is at the request of the department of safety.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

25-0923

09/08

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

 

AN ACT relative to the crime of aggravated driving while intoxicated.

 

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

 

1 Aggravated Driving While Intoxicated; Aggravating Factor Added.  Amend RSA 265-A:3, I(d)-(e) to read as follows:

(d)  Carries as a passenger a person under the age of 16; [or]

(e)  Drives a vehicle with a gross combination weight rating of 10,001 pounds or more; or

(f)  Drives or operates a vehicle in violation of 265:26, I;

2  Aggravated Driving While Intoxicated; Aggravating Factor Added.  Amend RSA 265-A:3, II(d)-(e) to read as follows:

(d)  Carries as a passenger a person under the age of 16; [or]

(e)  Drives a vehicle with a gross combination weight rating of 10,001 pounds or more; or

(f)  Drives or operates a vehicle in violation of 265:26, I; or

3  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect January 1, 2026.

 

LBA

25-0923

12/4/24

 

SB 149-FN- FISCAL NOTE

AS INTRODUCED

 

AN ACT relative to the crime of aggravated driving while intoxicated.

 

FISCAL IMPACT:  

Estimated State Impact
		FY 2025	FY 2026		FY 2027	FY 2028
Revenue		$0	$0		$0	$0
Revenue Fund		None
Expenditures*		Indeterminable
Funding Source		General Fund
Appropriations*		$0	$0		$0	$0
Funding Source		None
*Expenditure = Cost of bill            *Appropriation = Authorized funding to cover cost of bill
Estimated Political Subdivision Impact
		FY 2025	FY 2026		FY 2027	FY 2028
County Revenue		$0	$0		$0	$0
County Expenditures		Indeterminable
Local Revenue		$0	$0		$0	$0
Local Expenditures		Indeterminable

 

METHODOLOGY:

This bill adds, deletes, or modifies a criminal penalty, or changes statute to which there is a penalty for violation. Therefore, this bill may have an impact on the judicial and correctional systems, which could affect prosecution, incarceration, probation, and parole costs, for the state, as well as county and local governments. A summary of such costs can be found at: https://gencourt.state.nh.us/lba/Budget/Fiscal_Notes/JudicialCorrectionalCosts.pdf

 

AGENCIES CONTACTED:

Judicial Branch, Judicial Council, Department of Justice, Department of Corrections, New Hampshire Association of Counties, and New Hampshire Municipal Association