CHAPTER 40
HB 649-FN-A-LOCAL – FINAL VERSION
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HOUSE BILL 649-FN-A-LOCAL
AN ACT establishing a commission to study the costs and funding of medicolegal investigations and autopsies.
This bill establishes a commission to study the costs and funding of medicolegal investigations and autopsies.
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Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Six
AN ACT establishing a commission to study the costs and funding of medicolegal investigations and autopsies.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
40:1 Commission Established. There is established a commission to study the costs and funding of medicolegal investigations and autopsies.
40:2 Membership and Compensation.
I. The members of the commission shall be as follows:
(a) Five members of the house of representatives, 3 from the finance committee, one from the ways and means committee, and one from the municipal and county government committee, appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives.
(b) Three members of the senate, appointed by the president of the senate.
(c) The attorney general, or designee.
(d) The chairperson of the board of registration of funeral directors and embalmers, or designee.
(e) The director of vital records administration, or designee.
(f) An assistant deputy medical examiner, appointed by the governor.
(g) A representative of county government, appointed by the New Hampshire Association of Counties.
(h) A representative of city and town clerks, appointed by the New Hampshire City and Town Clerks’ Association.
(i) A representative of the cremation industry, appointed by the governor.
(j) The state chief medical examiner, or designee.
II. Legislative members of the commission shall receive mileage at the legislative rate when attending to the duties of the commission.
40:3 Duties. The commission shall study and recommend changes to current statutes and procedures relative to the costs of autopsies, transportation, and medicolegal investigations and the financial responsibility for those costs by the state and the counties.
40:4 Chairperson; Quorum. The members of the commission shall elect a chairperson from among the members. The first meeting of the commission shall be called by the first-named house member. The first meeting of the commission shall be held within 45 days of the effective date of this section.
40:5 Report. The commission shall report its findings and any recommendations for proposed legislation in the 2007 legislative session to the speaker of the house of representatives, the president of the senate, the house clerk, the senate clerk, the governor, and the state library on or before November 1, 2006.
40:6 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved: April 18, 2006
Effective: April 18, 2006