Bill Text: NH HB1209 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requiring bonding for clerks of court.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-08 - Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Voice Vote 02/08/2018 House Journal 3 P. 7 [HB1209 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2018-HB1209-Introduced.html
HB 1209 - AS INTRODUCED
2018 SESSION
18-2020
04/03
HOUSE BILL HB 1209
AN ACT requiring bonding for clerks of court.
SPONSORS: Rep. Brewster, Merr. 21
COMMITTEE: Judiciary
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ANALYSIS
This bill requires clerks of court to be individually bonded for not less than $500,000.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
18-2020
04/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen
AN ACT requiring bonding for clerks of court.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Officials and Employees Bonds; Bonds of Court Employees. Amend RSA 93-B:1-a to read as follows:
93-B:1-a Bonds of Court Employees.
I. All court employees shall be bonded by the state under this chapter. In addition to the losses against which employees are indemnified under RSA 93-B:1, all court employees shall be indemnified for any errors and omissions committed in their capacities as court employees.
II. All clerks of court shall be individually bonded for not less than $500,000.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.