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HB 404 - AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

 

20Feb2025... 0150h

2025 SESSION

25-0838

08/11

 

HOUSE BILL 404

 

AN ACT relative to information on the hike safe card.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Darby, Hills. 11; Rep. Telerski, Hills. 11

 

COMMITTEE: Fish and Game and Marine Resources

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill includes domestic partners and their children in the definition of family for purposes of purchasing a "Hike Safe" card.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

20Feb2025... 0150h 25-0838

08/11

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

 

AN ACT relative to information on the hike safe card.

 

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

 

1  Family "Hike Safe" Card.  Amend RSA 206:26-bb, I(c) to read as follows:

(c) A voluntary hike safe card. The executive director shall adopt rules under RSA 541-A for the issuance to purchasers on the department's Internet site, and subsequent annual renewals, of a hike safe card prior to a person's need for a search and rescue response. The executive director shall establish the fee for an individual hike safe card and a family hike safe card in rules adopted pursuant to RSA 541-A. A "family" shall consist of the purchaser, the purchaser's spouse or domestic partner, and the purchaser's minor children, [or] stepchildren, or the minor children of the purchaser's domestic partner. In addition, if the purchaser or the purchaser's spouse or domestic partner has been appointed as a family guardian for an individual under RSA 464-A, that individual shall be considered part of the purchaser's family. A transaction fee determined by the department shall be for the Internet license agent as provided in RSA 214-A:2. The executive director shall forward to the state treasurer the sum collected from each individual hike safe card purchased and each family hike safe card purchased, less the amount of such transaction fee, for deposit in the fish and game search and rescue fund under RSA 206:42. For purposes of this subparagraph, "domestic partner" means someone who shares the same address as the purchaser.

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