NH HB1313

Repeals RSA 132:37 through RSA 132:40, which prohibit entering or remaining on public ways or sidewalks within designated buffer zones adjacent to reproductive health care facilities

Named "The Sidewalk Free Speech Act," asserting that buffer zones infringe upon First Amendment free speech rights protected under both federal and New Hampshire constitutions

Cites the U.S. Supreme Court decision in McCullen v. Coakley (2014), which struck down Massachusetts buffer zone law, as precedent supporting the repeal

Takes effect upon passage

Fiscal impact on state and local government expenditures is indeterminable due to potential changes in judicial and correctional system costs from removing the criminal penalty