Legislative Review Page - Police

Below you will find Legislative House and Senate Bills pertaining to Police related issues. Click on the House or Senate Bill number to go the State of New Hampshire Bill Status page. Also on this page you will find links to view the full text of the bill and docket information.

If the status of a Bill is not listed on our page, it is still in the legislative process and will require that you look to the State site for further information relative to its disposition. Our page will only indicate if the Bill has been adopted or defeated.

Bill Number Description of legislative initiative
HB334 (New Title) relative to the state’s authority to prohibit or regulate firearms, firearms components, ammunition, firearms supplies, and knives.
HB1143 relative to speed limits on certain residential ways.
HB1185 relative to the police standards and training council.
HB1212 relative to resisting arrest.
HB1218 relative to state authority to accept federal aid.
HB1246 permitting resident application for pistol or revolver licenses to be submitted to the state police or the sheriff's department.
HB1248 relative to emergency management compacts.
HB1278 relative to obstructions on highways.
HB1318 relative to carrying firearms.
HB1327 relative to official oppression.
HB1341 repealing the provision relative to the unauthorized use of firearms in the compact part of a city or town.
HB1352 relative to citizen complaints against a police officer.
HB1375 relative to access to firearms by persons convicted of nonviolent felonies.
HB1388 relative to speeding in the compact part of cities and towns.
HB1398 relative to lighting on bicycles at night.
HB1438 relative to confidentiality of police personnel files.
HB1449 requiring a search warrant for searches of privately-owned property.
HB1452 prohibiting the establishment of sobriety checkpoints.
HB1468 relative to seizure of personal property.
HB1486 prohibiting the state from accepting federal funds that could be used to enhance the militarization or federalization of law enforcement.
HB1499 relative to criminal coercion.
HB1511 relative to felons possessing firearms.
HB1514 establishing the crime of oppressing an inhabitant's free exercise of rights.
HB1520 prohibiting law enforcement officers from failing to investigate criminal complaints against public servants.
HB1523 relative to the return of personal property seized by law enforcement agencies from a person charged with a crime.
HB1524 expanding the definition of official oppression.
HB1526 decriminalizing possession of less than one ounce of marijuana.
HB1532 relative to trespass on land which is not posted.
HB1535 relative to arrest records under the right-to-know law.
HB1581 relative to procedures for arrest.
HB1584 relative to the authority of police chiefs.
HB1588 recodifying the laws relative to sheriffs, constables, and police officers.
HB1621 repealing certain statutes.
HB1630 relative to traffic control at public meetings or functions.
HB1631 allowing persons licensed to provide emergency medical services to work public gatherings and events.
HB1648 requiring prosecution of a law enforcement officer for failure to enforce the crime of interference with custody.
HB1682 relative to forfeiture of personal property.
HB1690 prohibiting the use of cell phone data extraction devices by law enforcement agencies.
HB1695 increasing certain speed limits.
HB1696 Limiting the offense of speeding to cases resulting in property damage or personal injury to another and excluding speeding offenses from the habitual offender statute.
HB1699 relative to driving under the influence of drugs.
SB267 relative to the establishment of school zones and school zone speed limits by municipalities.
SB276 establishing a criminal offense for vandalizing or defacing state, municipal, or commercial property.
SB281 authorizing law enforcement officers to share relevant communicable disease information with public health authorities. 
SB283 relative to disposition of nursing home patient accounts.