or sharing means only purpose of RSA 640:2, 640:3.1 the image via social media or by any other if the distribution or sharing is for the receiving pecuniary benefit, as defined in II(c), or avoiding harm, as defined in RSA The majority of the Criminal Justice Committee did not support this amendment, however, and HB366, absent the proposed limitation, proceeded to the full House of Representatives, which passed it by a vote of 198–96. the Senate Committee on The bill was then introduced to Public and Municipal recommended the bill to the full Senate. bill, and the Governor signed the bill Affairs, which The Senate passed the into law, effective September 1, 2014. The legislative history of the bill does not contain any corroborated evidence of vote buying or voter coercion in New Hampshire during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Representative Mary Till, who authored the House Committee on 1 New Hampshire law defines "pecuniary benefit" as "any advantage in the form of money, property, commercial interest or anything else, the primary significance of which is economic gain; it does not include economic advantage applicable to the public generally, such as tax reduction or increased prosperity generally." N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 640:2, II(c). New Hampshire law defines "harm" as "any disadvantage or injury, to person or property or pecuniary interest, including disadvantage or injury to any other person or entity in whose welfare the public servant, party official, or voter is interested, provided that harm shall not be construed to include the exercise of any conduct protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution or any provision of the federal or state constitutions." N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 640:3, II. - 6 -