CONCORD, NH – This week, Governor Kelly Ayotte signed the following bills into law:
HB 98 – Relative to professional limited liability company (PLLC) assistant manager status.
HB 99 – Relative to a waiver from property taxes for disabled veterans.
HB 122 – Relative to payment of claims arising out of actions or activities of the New Hampshire national guard.
HB 140 – Establishing a voluntary “blue envelope” program for drivers with autism spectrum disorders and trauma and stressor-related disorders.
HB 150 – Enabling homestead operations to use commercial kitchen equipment in preparing food for sale.
HB 167 – Prohibiting the sale of ski, boat, and board waxes that contain intentionally added per and polyfluorinated alkyl substances.
HB 192 – Relative to recommendations of the joint committee on employee classification.
HB 211 – Relative to the use of air rifles for hunting game.
HB 231 – Prohibiting school district personnel from transporting students to medical or mental health appointments, visits, or procedures without parental consent.
HB 261 – Relative to election audits.
HB 267 – Relative to animal chiropractors.
HB 269 – Relative to the date for correction of the voter checklist.
HB 271 – Relative to initial license requirements for licensed social work associates.
HB 277 – Relative to the use of the term “foal” and “colt.”
HB 304 – Relative to labeling requirements for food produced in homestead kitchens.
HB 370 – Reestablishing the commission to study the delivery of behavioral crisis services to individuals with mental illness with an impairment primarily due to intellectual disability.
HB 426 – Relative to property tax exemptions for charitable organizations for the prior tax year.
HB 478 – Establishing a foster care oversight subcommittee within the oversight commission on children’s services.
HB 507 – Relative to the timeline for credentialing of mental health care providers.
HB 508 – Relative to decreasing assessment rates for entities providing VoIP and IP-enabled services, as well as certain local exchange carriers and their affiliates.
HB 513 – Allowing the department of transportation to execute a right-of-way use agreement, subject to Federal Highway Administration approval, for snowmobile operation along Interstate 89 in the town of Sutton, from NH Route 114, traveling south for one mile.
HB 597 – Establishing a designated behavioral health access point within the enhanced 911 system.
HB 745 – Naming a bridge in the city of Keene after Charles Redfern.
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WILTON, N.H. (WHDH) – A woman died in a Wilton, New Hampshire, house fire Wednesday morning, according to the New Hampshire State Fire Marshal’s Office.
At 9:08 a.m., Wilton firefighters responded to Burns Hill Road after a caller said their home was filling up with smoke. When they arrived, a single-family home was on fire and they found out two people were still inside on the second floor.
A man and a woman were both taken out of the house by firefighters and taken to Elliott Hospital. The woman was pronounced dead and the man is in serious condition.
Officials have not released the name of the victim at this time.
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At this time, investigators are looking into the cause of the fire and are trying to determine if a power outage in the area played a factor. The fire is not currently considered suspicious.
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Diane Durgin, 67, is accused of shooting at a Black man who inadvertently drove to her property after a prearranged truck part sale, prosecutors said.
A New Hampshire woman is accused of violating the state’s Civil Rights Act four times after she allegedly shot at a man because he was Black, prosecutors said.
Diane Durgin, 67, of Weare, N.H. could face up to a $5,000 fine for each violation she is found to have committed, the office of New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella said in a press release Tuesday.
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Durgin is also charged with criminal threatening against a person with a deadly weapon and attempted first degree assault with a deadly weapon, Michael Garrity, a media representative for the New Hampshire Attorney General, said in an emailed statement to Boston.com.
Durgin had a final pre-trial conference last week, Garrity said.
In a civil complaint filed Tuesday, Durgin is accused of threatening physical force against the victim, the AG said. Prosecutors asked the court to issue a preliminary injunction barring Durgin from repeating her alleged behavior and from contacting the victim and his family.
During the morning hours of Oct. 20, 2024, the victim claims, he “mistakenly” drove to Durgin’s home after a prearranged purchase of a truck part with a seller online, prosecutors wrote as part of their request for an injunction.
When the man — whom prosecutors identified in court documents as X.G. — arrived, Durgin allegedly stepped out of her home and approached his car with a gun “holstered by her waist,” prosecutors wrote.
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Upon noticing that X.G. was Black, Durgin allegedly “removed her gun and pointed it at X.G.,” prosecutors said in the injunction request.
While X.G. explained that he was lost, Durgin called the victim a “Black mother[expletive],” and threatened to “kill him,” prosecutors allege.
As the victim attempted to drive away, Durgin allegedly took her gun and fired two shots at the fleeing man’s car, missing both times, the AG’s office said.
While on the phone with a dispatcher, Durgin allegedly said she shot the man’s car because the victim is Black, the AG said.
“The guy is Black. And he, he…he says he’s meeting someone here and I think he’s coming here to steal,” Durgin allegedly said.
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Police located X.G. and brought him to the Weare Police Department, stopping along the way at the correct seller’s home to complete the truck part purchase, prosecutors wrote in court documents.
To prove a violation of the New Hampshire Civil Rights Act, the AG must show that Durgin “interfered or attempted to interfere with the rights of the victim to engage in lawful activities by threatening to engage in or actually engage in physical force or violence, when such actual or threatening conduct was motivated by race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, sex, gender identity, or disability,” prosecutors said.
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