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CHAPTER 391

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HOUSE BILL NO.    438-FN   

INTRODUCED BY: Rep. Pepino of Hills 40

REFERRED TO: Public Protection and Veterans Affairs

AN ACT requiring criminal history record and protective order checks for sales of handguns by dealers using a premium telephone service and making an appropriation therefor.

                                                                            

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CHAPTER 391

HOUSE BILL - FINAL VERSION

HB 438-FN

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the year of Our Lord one thousand

nine hundred and ninety-four

AN ACT

requiring criminal history record and protective order

checks for sales of handguns by dealers using a premium

telephone service and making an appropriation therefor.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Represen-

tatives in General Court convened:

CHAPTER 159-C

SALE OF HANDGUNS; CRIMINAL RECORD CHECK

record within 7 days, the person requesting the amendment may petition the superior court of the county of residence for an order directing the department to amend the record. The court shall award the petitioner an attorney's fee if it determines that the record should have been amended by the department. If the record as corrected demonstrates that such person is not prohibited from receipt or possession of a handgun by state or federal law, the department shall destroy any records it maintains which contain any information derived from the criminal history records and protective order check set forth in RSA 159-C:1, I.

RSA 159-C:1, or willfully and intentionally disseminates any criminal history record or protective order information to any person other than the subject of such information shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

resulting in a determination that the potential buyer or transferee was prohibited from receipt or possession of a handgun pursuant to state or federal law, the estimated costs of administering this chapter, the number of instances in which a person requests amendment of the record pertaining to such person pursuant to RSA 159-C:5, and the number of instances in which the superior court issued an order directing the department to amend a record pursuant to RSA 159-C:5.

FISCAL NOTE for an act requiring criminal history record checks for sales of handguns by dealers using a toll-free telephone number.

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