NH HB1240

Expands the class B felony criminal threatening statute to include situations where the perpetrator uses what "reasonably appeared to the victim to be a deadly weapon," not just actual deadly weapons as currently defined in RSA 625:11, V

Applies to criminal threatening offenses involving threats to commit a crime of violence, placing someone in fear of imminent bodily injury, or threatening to cause serious public harm

Requested by New Hampshire county attorneys

State and county expenditure impacts are indeterminable due to potential changes in prosecution, incarceration, probation, and parole costs

Effective date: January 1, 2027