CHAPTER 258
HB 263 – FINAL VERSION
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2014 SESSION
03/10
HOUSE BILL 263
AN ACT relative to reporting a person as medically unfit to drive.
This bill immunizes from civil and criminal liability persons who report someone as medically unfit to drive.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
29Jan2014… 2282h
20Mar2014… 0914h
13-0029
03/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fourteen
AN ACT relative to reporting a person as medically unfit to drive.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
258:1 New Section; Drivers’ Licenses; Medically Unfit Person. Amend RSA 263 by inserting after section 6-c the following new section:
263:6-d Reporting Medically Unfit Person; Immunity. Any licensed health care provider who reasonably and in good faith believes a person cannot safely operate a motor vehicle based on clinical evaluation appropriate to his or her practice and who reports such to the division of motor vehicles shall be immune from any civil or criminal liability that might otherwise result from making the report. All reports made and medical records reviewed and maintained by the division of motor vehicles pursuant to this section shall be considered motor vehicle records under RSA 260:14.
258:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2015.
Approved: July 28, 2014
Effective Date: January 1, 2015