HB 246 - AS INTRODUCED

2001 SESSION

01-0538

05/01

HOUSE BILL 246

AN ACT relative to marriage between first cousins.

SPONSORS: Rep. Grassie, Straf 19

COMMITTEE: Children and Family Law

ANALYSIS

This bill permits marriage between first cousins.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

01-0538

05/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One

AN ACT relative to marriage between first cousins.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Marriages Prohibited; Men; Cousins Deleted. Amend RSA 457:1 to read as follows:

457:1 Marriages Prohibited; Men. No man shall marry his mother, his father's sister, mother's sister, daughter, sister, son's daughter, daughter's daughter, brother's daughter, sister's daughter, [father's brother's daughter, mother's brother's daughter, father's sister's daughter, mother's sister's daughter,] or any other man.

2 Marriages Prohibited; Women; Cousins Deleted. Amend RSA 457:2 to read as follows:

457:2 Marriages Prohibited; Women. No woman shall marry her father, her father's brother, mother's brother, son, brother, son's son, daughter's son, brother's son, sister's son, [father's brother's son, mother's brother's son, father's sister's son, mother's sister's son,] or any other woman.

3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.