CHAPTER 134
HB 1725-FN – FINAL VERSION
15Feb2006… 0663h
2006 SESSION
09/01
HOUSE BILL 1725-FN
AN ACT extending the pilot project relative to abuse and neglect hearings and relative to confidentiality in pilot project abuse and neglect cases.
COMMITTEE: Children and Family Law
This bill continues the pilot project relative to abuse and neglect hearings for 2 years and extends the pilot project to Sullivan county.
The bill also clarifies that information relating to hearing schedules is exempt from the confidentiality provisions under the Child Protection Act, for purposes of the pilot project.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
15Feb2006… 0663h
06-2784
09/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Six
AN ACT extending the pilot project relative to abuse and neglect hearings and relative to confidentiality in pilot project abuse and neglect cases.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
134:1 Court Pilot Project Continued and Expanded; Confidentiality. Amend the section heading and paragraphs I and II of 2002, 243:2 as amended by 2004, 221:1 to read as follows:
243:2 Abuse and Neglect Hearings in the Grafton [and], Rockingham, and Sullivan County Courts; Pilot Project.
I. A pilot project in the Grafton [and], Rockingham, and Sullivan county courts is established to assess opening hearings in child abuse and neglect cases to members of the public qualified by the court, absent a finding that opening the hearing or that disclosure of some or all of the evidence would be contrary to the best interests of the child or would cause unreasonable harm to one or more of the parties.
II. All observers of and participants in hearings conducted under this section shall be subject to the confidentiality provisions of RSA 169-C:25; except that information regarding court hearing schedules may be provided by the court to members of the public qualified by the court to attend such hearings.
134:2 Repeal Extended. Amend 2002, 243:4 as amended by 2004, 221:1 to read as follows:
243:4 Repeal. Section 2 of this act, relative to the pilot project in Grafton [and], Rockingham, and Sullivan counties, is repealed.
134:3 Repeal Effective Date Extended. Amend 2002, 243:5, I as amended by 2004, 221:1 to read as follows:
I. Section 4 of this act shall take effect June 30, [2006] 2008.
134:4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved: May 19, 2006
Effective: May 19, 2006