Revision: Jan. 21, 2010, midnight
CHAPTER 190
HB 627-FN – FINAL VERSION
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2006 SESSION
05/10
HOUSE BILL 627-FN
AN ACT relative to extended jurisdiction over certain 17-year-old offenders.
SPONSORS: Rep. Bickford, Straf 3; Rep. B. Richardson, Ches 5; Rep. Julie Brown, Straf 1; Rep. Gile, Merr 10; Rep. Keans, Straf 1
COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice and Public Safety
This bill permits the court to retain jurisdiction over certain 17-year-old offenders until their eighteenth birthday and removes the requirement that such offenders be committed to the youth development center.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
04Jan2006… 0204h
22Mar2006… 1039h
04/20/06 1757s
05-0529
05/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Six
AN ACT relative to extended jurisdiction over certain 17-year-old offenders.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
190:1 Delinquent Children; Jurisdiction Over Certain Persons. Amend RSA 169-B:4, V(c) to read as follows:
(c) Who is [committed to the custody of the department of health and human services at the youth development center pursuant to RSA 169-B:19, I(j)] subject to the jurisdiction of the court prior to the minor’s seventeenth birthday and for whom the department has filed a motion with the court requesting that the court retain jurisdiction under this subparagraph; provided that the department’s motion is filed within the 90 days prior to the minor’s seventeenth birthday and provided further that the court’s jurisdiction pursuant to this subparagraph shall continue until the minor’s eighteenth birthday.
190:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect July 1, 2007.
Approved: May 30, 2006
Effective: July 1, 2007