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NH SB149

Bill

Official Source

Status

Engrossed

3/28/2025

Primary Sponsor

Regina Birdsell

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Origin

Senate

2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Adds wrong-way driving as an aggravating factor that elevates a standard DWI offense to aggravated driving while intoxicated under RSA 265-A:3
  • Wrong-way driving joins existing aggravating factors including carrying a passenger under age 16 and driving a vehicle weighing 10,001 pounds or more
  • Requested by the New Hampshire Department of Safety
  • Effective date of January 1, 2026
  • Fiscal impact on state and county expenditures is indeterminable due to potential changes in prosecution and incarceration costs

Legislative Description

Relative to the crime of aggravated driving while intoxicated.

Last Action

Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Voice Vote 01/07/2026 House Journal 1

1/7/2026

Committee Referrals

Criminal Justice and Public Safety3/28/2025
Judiciary1/22/2025

Full Bill Text

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