CHAPTER 145
HB 554 – FINAL VERSION
2007 SESSION
09/03
HOUSE BILL 554
AN ACT requiring that funds in the civil legal services fund be distributed to New Hampshire Legal Assistance to establish an office in Concord.
SPONSORS: Rep. Hager, Merr 12; Rep. Osborne, Merr 12; Rep. Gile, Merr 10
This bill requires that funds in the civil legal services fund be distributed to New Hampshire Legal Assistance to establish an office in Concord.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
07-0953
09/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seven
AN ACT requiring that funds in the civil legal services fund be distributed to New Hampshire Legal Assistance to establish an office in Concord.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
145:1 Civil Legal Services Fund; New Hampshire Legal Assistance; Concord Office. Amend RSA 525-A:2 to read as follows:
525-A:2 Civil Legal Services Fund. There is established in the office of the state treasurer a separate fund to be known as the civil legal services fund. The money in this fund shall be distributed to New Hampshire Legal Assistance to be used to establish and operate [an office] offices in the [city] cities of Nashua and Concord to provide civil legal services to low-income persons in the [city] cities of Nashua and Concord and the surrounding [area] areas, and to provide additional attorneys, paralegals, or both, to the staff of the New Hampshire Legal Assistance offices in Manchester, Claremont, Portsmouth, and Littleton. These civil legal services shall include services related to such issues as housing, social security and other government benefits, health care, domestic violence, and consumer issues. New Hampshire Legal Assistance shall report semi-annually to the judicial council as to its use of these funds in accordance with RSA 525-A:1.
145:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect July 1, 2007.
Approved: June 18, 2007
Effective: July 1, 2007