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SB425: relative to bail commissioner fees.

Citation
2024 SB425
Official source

Bill details

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House status
Interim Study
Senate status
Passed/Adopted
Committee
House Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Hearing
03/29/2024 at 11:00 AM
Selected version
Current official bill text

Sponsors

Topics

Criminal justice and courts

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SB 425 - AS INTRODUCED

2024 SESSION

24-3037

09/10

SENATE BILL 425

AN ACT relative to bail commissioner fees.

SPONSORS: Sen. Gannon, Dist 23; Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Sen. Avard, Dist 12; Sen. D'Allesandro, Dist 20; Sen. Innis, Dist 7; Sen. Ward, Dist 8; Sen. Pearl, Dist 17; Sen. Ricciardi, Dist 9; Sen. Gendreau, Dist 1; Sen. Carson, Dist 14; Sen. Murphy, Dist 16; Rep. O. Ford, Rock. 3; Rep. Piemonte, Rock. 9; Rep. Guthrie, Rock. 15

COMMITTEE: Judiciary

ANALYSIS

This bill increases the bail commissioner fee to $60.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-3037

09/10

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

AN ACT relative to bail commissioner fees.

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

1 Proceedings in Criminal Cases; Bail and Recognizances; Bail Commissioners; Fees. Amend RSA 597:20 to read as follows:

597:20 Fees. The bail commissioners in such cases shall be entitled to a fee of [$40] $60. However, clerks of court or members of their staffs who are bail commissioners shall be entitled to collect such fee only when called while not on active duty. In jurisdictions where the bail commissioner is a full-time salaried police officer, constable, sheriff, deputy sheriff, state police employee, or anyone else authorized to execute police powers, such person shall not receive the fee established in this section, but instead such amount shall be remitted to the town or city in which the district court is situated. If the defendant is indigent, the fee shall be waived.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2025.