SB 323  - AS INTRODUCED

2016 SESSION

16-2729

08/10

SENATE BILL 323

AN ACT relative to the powers of hospital security staff.

SPONSORS: Sen. D'Allesandro, Dist 20

COMMITTEE: Health and Human Services

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ANALYSIS

This bill gives hospital security staff the power to detain persons on hospital property in certain cases.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

16-2729

08/10

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen

AN ACT relative to the powers of hospital security staff.

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

1  New Section; Detention Powers of Health Care and Hospital Security Officers.  Amend RSA 627 by inserting after section 8-b the following new section:

627:8-c  Detention Powers of Health Care and Hospital Security Officers.  Any health care or hospital security officer shall have the power to detain any person who he or she has reasonable grounds to believe has committed any offense under the laws of the state, or for medical reasons under the direction of a licensed physician, APRN, or RN providing medical care to a patient, while on the property of the hospital by which they are employed, as long as necessary to surrender the person to a peace officer, or until such medical care can be administered, provided such detention is accomplished in a reasonable manner.  

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