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HB306: requiring the estimated cost of a prison sentence to be contained in the presentence investigation report.

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Criminal justice and courts

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HB 306 - AS INTRODUCED

2017 SESSION

17-0757

04/08

HOUSE BILL 306

AN ACT requiring the estimated cost of a prison sentence to be contained in the presentence investigation report.


ANALYSIS

This bill requires presentence investigation reports to include an estimate of the cost of incarceration.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

17-0757

04/08

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

AN ACT requiring the estimated cost of a prison sentence to be contained in the presentence investigation report.

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

1 New Paragraph; Sentences; Presentence Investigation. Amend RSA 651:4 by inserting after paragraph II the following new paragraph:

III. A presentence investigation report prepared pursuant to this section shall include an estimate of the cost of any recommended prison sentence, based on the most recent average annual cost of incarceration as calculated by the department of corrections.

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