Bill Text: NH SB39 | 2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Exempting information and records contained in law enforcement personnel files from disclosure under the right-to-know law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-18 - Rereferred to Committee, Regular Calendar 23Y-1N, Motion Adopted; 03/18/2021; Senate Journal 8 [SB39 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2021-SB39-Introduced.html
SB 39 - AS INTRODUCED
2021 SESSION
21-1003
04/08
SENATE BILL 39
SPONSORS: Sen. Carson, Dist 14
COMMITTEE: Judiciary
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ANALYSIS
This bill exempts information and records contained in personnel files, internal investigations, and pre-employment background investigations of any state or local law enforcement officer from public access or disclosure under the right-to-know law.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
21-1003
04/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty One
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; Access to Governmental Records and Meetings; Exemption for Law Enforcement Personnel Records. Amend RSA 91-A:5 by inserting after paragraph XI the following new paragraph:
XII. Information and records contained in personnel files, internal investigations, and pre-employment background investigations of any state or local law enforcement officer.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
