Bill Text: NH HB648 | 2013 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Permitting current marital masters to remain in office until retirement, resignation, disability, or nonrenewal of appointment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-20 - Signed by Governor 06/20/2013; Effective 06/20/2013; Chapter 0089 [HB648 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2013-HB648-Chaptered.html

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CHAPTER 89

HB 648-FN – FINAL VERSION

20Mar2013… 0529h

2013 SESSION

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HOUSE BILL 648-FN

AN ACT permitting current marital masters to remain in office until retirement, resignation, disability, or nonrenewal of appointment.

SPONSORS: Rep. G. Richardson, Merr 10; Rep. Wallner, Merr 10; Rep. Walz, Merr 23

COMMITTEE: Judiciary

ANALYSIS

This bill permits current marital masters to remain in office until retirement, resignation, disability, or nonrenewal of appointment.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

20Mar2013… 0529h

13-0734

09/10

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Thirteen

AN ACT permitting current marital masters to remain in office until retirement, resignation, disability, or nonrenewal of appointment.

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

89:1 Circuit Court Judges; Marital Masters. RSA 490-F:7, III is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:

III. Upon the retirement, resignation, disability, or nonrenewal of appointment of a marital master, the position shall be converted to a full-time judicial position, provided that the fiscal committee of the general court approves and further provided that sufficient funds have been appropriated for the salary and benefits of the full-time judicial position. Once converted to a full-time judicial vacancy, the governor may nominate and the council may confirm any qualified person pursuant to part 2, article 46 of the New Hampshire constitution.

89:2 Repeal. The following are repealed:

I. 2011, 272:3, relative to marital master contracts.

II. 2012, 66:1-7, relative to the prospective repeal of provisions relative to marital masters.

III. 2012, 66:8, relative to marital master contracts.

89:3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved: June 20, 2013

Effective Date: June 20, 2013