Bill Text: NH HB1256 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requiring the attorney general to prepare an inventory of all untested rape kits.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-09 - Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Voice Vote 03/09/2016 House Journal 23 P. 35 [HB1256 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2016-HB1256-Introduced.html

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HB 1256 - AS INTRODUCED

 

2016 SESSION

16-2204

04/06

 

HOUSE BILL 1256

 

AN ACT requiring the attorney general to prepare an inventory of all untested rape kits.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Cushing, Rock. 21; Rep. Harvey, Hills. 29; Rep. Eaton, Ches. 3; Rep. DiSesa, Straf. 16; Rep. Mangipudi, Hills. 35; Rep. Pantelakos, Rock. 25; Rep. Lovejoy, Rock. 36; Rep. Moody, Rock. 17; Rep. Lachance, Hills. 8; Rep. Hirsch, Merr. 6; Sen. Carson, Dist 14

 

COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires the attorney general to perform an inventory of all untested rape kits in the state and to submit a report on the status of such kits.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

16-2204

04/06

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen

 

AN ACT requiring the attorney general to prepare an inventory of all untested rape kits.

 

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

 

1  Department of Justice; Inventory of Untested Rape Kits; Report.  The attorney general shall perform an inventory of all untested rape kits in this state and shall submit a report on the status of all untested rape kits to the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the senate president no later than November 1, 2016.  

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect upon its passage.