Bill Text: NH HB1175 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Relative to recording interactions with public officials.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-11 - Remove from Table (Rep. Labranche): Motion Failed DV 50-288 03/10/2022 House Journal 5 [HB1175 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2022-HB1175-Introduced.html

HB 1175  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2022 SESSION

22-2149

08/11

 

HOUSE BILL 1175

 

AN ACT relative to recording interactions with public officials.  

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Labranche, Hills. 22; Rep. Gallager, Merr. 15; Rep. Laughton, Hills. 31; Rep. Abramson, Rock. 37; Rep. Veilleux, Hills. 22; Rep. Stapleton, Sull. 5; Rep. Roy, Rock. 32; Rep. Craig, Coos 4; Rep. A. Lekas, Hills. 37; Rep. Prout, Hills. 37

 

COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice and Public Safety

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill allows for a person to record interactions with public officials during the performance of their duties.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

22-2149

08/11

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Two

 

AN ACT relative to recording interactions with public officials.  

 

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

 

1  New Subparagraph; Recording a Public Official; Not Prohibited Recording.  Amend RSA 570-A:2, II by inserting after subparagraph (m) the following new subparagraph:

(n)  A person to record a public official in public while the public official is in the process of performing his or her duties.  

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect January 1, 2023.

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