HB490: relative to law enforcement access to financial records under the New Hampshire right to privacy act.

CHAPTER 233

HB 490 – FINAL VERSION

30Mar2005… 0820h

06/09/05 1583s

2005 SESSION

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01/04

HOUSE BILL 490

AN ACT relative to law enforcement access to financial records under the New Hampshire right to privacy act.

SPONSORS: Rep. MacKay, Merr 11

COMMITTEE: Commerce

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill clarifies law enforcement access to financial records under the New Hampshire right to privacy act.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

30Mar2005… 0820h

06/09/05 1583s

05-0845

01/04

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Five

AN ACT relative to law enforcement access to financial records under the New Hampshire right to privacy act.

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

233:1 Disclosure of Records. Amend RSA 359-C:5, II-a to read as follows:

II-a. This section is not intended to prevent a financial institution from disclosing to the county attorney or the attorney general, or either of their authorized designees, the financial or credit records of a customer or any other person, or the information contained therein when the director, officer, employee or agent of the financial institution has reasonable cause to believe the customer, or other person, is utilizing the services of the institution to defraud the institution or any other person.

233:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2006.

(Approved: July 11, 2005)

(Effective Date: January 1, 2006)