Bill Text: NH HB1319 | 2022 | Regular Session | Enrolled


Bill Title: Relative to granting certain corrections personnel death benefits if killed in the line of duty.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)

Status: (Passed) 2022-06-17 - Signed by Governor Sununu 06/15/2022; Chapter 182; eff. 08/14/2022 House Journal 14 [HB1319 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2022-HB1319-Enrolled.html

HB 1319-FN - VERSION ADOPTED BY BOTH BODIES

 

 

2022 SESSION

22-2240

10/08

 

HOUSE BILL 1319-FN

 

AN ACT relative to granting certain corrections personnel death benefits if killed in the line of duty.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Emerick, Rock. 21; Rep. Cushing, Rock. 21; Rep. Leishman, Hills. 24; Rep. G. Griffin, Hills. 5; Rep. Theberge, Coos 3; Rep. Mooney, Hills. 21

 

COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill adds correctional officers, probation-parole officers, and correctional line personnel classified under group II of the retirement system to persons granted death benefits if killed in the performance of his or her 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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

22-2240

10/08

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Two

 

AN ACT relative to granting certain corrections personnel death benefits if killed in the line of duty.

 

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

 

1  Death Benefit for Police Officer or Firefighter Killed in Line of Duty; Corrections Personnel.  Amend RSA 21-I:29-a, I(g) to read as follows:

(g) "Police officer" means:

(1)  Any law enforcement officer with the power of arrest, including auxiliary, intermittent, special, part-time, or reserve police officers, or sheriffs and their deputies who are employed by a city, town, village district, county, or precinct within the state of New Hampshire[,].

(2)  Police officers employed by the university system of New Hampshire[,].

(3)  Court security officers and bailiffs[,and].

(4)  Correctional officers, probation-parole officers, and correctional line personnel meeting the definition of permanent policemen under RSA 100-A:1, VII.

(5)  Any state law enforcement officer employed by the state of New Hampshire who has power of arrest as determined by state law.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

 

LBA

22-2240

10/22/21

 

HB 1319-FN- FISCAL NOTE

AS INTRODUCED

 

AN ACT relative to granting certain correction personnel death benefits if killed in the line of duty.

 

FISCAL IMPACT:      [ X ] State              [    ] County               [    ] Local              [    ] None

 

 

 

Estimated Increase / (Decrease)

STATE:

FY 2022

FY 2023

FY 2024

FY 2025

   Appropriation

$0

$0

$0

$0

   Revenue

$0

$0

$0

$0

   Expenditures

$0

Indeterminable

Indeterminable

Indeterminable

Funding Source:

  [ X ] General            [    ] Education            [    ] Highway           [    ] Other

 

 

 

 

 

METHODOLOGY:

This bill expands the eligibility of a $100,000 line-of-duty police officer death benefit to include correctional officers, probation-parole officers, and correctional line personnel killed in the line of duty.  To the extent an eligible individual is determined to have been killed in the line of duty, general fund appropriations and expenditures would increase.  The Department of Correction states the fiscal impact is indeterminable as they cannot predict the number of employees that would be affected by this bill.  The New Hampshire Association of Counties states only one correction officer has passed away in the line of duty, which occurred 50+ years ago.

 

It is assumed any fiscal impact from this bill will not occur until  after FY 2022.

 

 

AGENCIES CONTACTED:

Department of Corrections and New Hampshire Association of Counties

 

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