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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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Sponsors
- Peter Schmidt House · Straf 19
- Patten House · Merr 17
- Katherine Rogers House · Merr 28
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.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.