HB 1459 - AS INTRODUCED

2018 SESSION

18-2321

03/01

HOUSE BILL 1459

AN ACT prohibiting autonomous vehicles on New Hampshire highways.

SPONSORS: Rep. Guthrie, Rock. 13

COMMITTEE: Transportation

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ANALYSIS

This bill prohibits operating autonomous vehicles on ways of the state.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

18-2321

03/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen

AN ACT prohibiting autonomous vehicles on New Hampshire highways.

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

1 New Subdivision; Autonomous Vehicles. Amend RSA 265 by inserting after section 161 the following new subdivision:

Autonomous Vehicles

265:162 Autonomous Vehicles; Operation Prohibited. No person shall operate an autonomous vehicle upon any way or allow an autonomous vehicle owned by him or her to be operated upon any way.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2019.