CHAPTER 234
SB 133-FN – FINAL VERSION
.03/15/07 0457s
2007 SESSION
09/03
SENATE BILL 133-FN
This bill changes the amount of the entry fee to be deposited in the escrow fund for court facility improvements from $3 to 7 percent. The bill also adds the supreme court and the judicial branch family division to the courts required to collect this amount.
The bill also repeals the $20 sum which is added to each case entry fee and fee for a motion to bring forward.
This bill was requested by the supreme court.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
03/15/07 0457s
07-0756
09/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seven
AN ACT relative to the escrow fund for court facility improvements.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
234:1 Supreme Court; Entry Fees. Amend RSA 490:24, I to read as follows:
I. For the benefit of the [general fund of the] state, there shall be paid to the clerk for the entry of every reserved case, bill of exceptions, petition, appeal, or other action, for the filing of every motion or other document supplementary to the entered case, and for any service rendered by the clerk, such fees as shall from time to time be established by the court. The clerk shall set aside 7 percent of each entry fee paid into the court for deposit into a special escrow account established under RSA 490:26-c.
234:2 Repeal. RSA 490:24, II, relative to a $20 sum added to entry fees, is repealed.
234:3 Escrow Fund for Court Facility Improvements. Amend RSA 490:26-c, I to read as follows:
I. [Three dollars from] Seven percent of each entry fee collected in the [municipal] judicial branch family division and in the supreme, district, superior, and probate courts shall be deposited in escrow for court facility improvements. Moneys in the escrow fund shall be used for improvements to existing facilities by the department of administrative services as recommended and approved by the supreme court.
234:4 Judicial Branch Family Division; Entry Fees. Amend RSA 490-D:12 to read as follows:
490-D:12 Judicial Branch Family Division Clerks; Fees.
I. The administrative judge of the judicial branch family division shall appoint a clerk with responsibility for each judicial branch family division site. In the interest of the effective administration of justice, any such clerk may have responsibility for one or more judicial branch family division sites. Judicial branch family division clerks shall have the same duties as clerks of the superior and district courts and as registers of probate with respect to the judicial branch family division jurisdiction which was previously within the superior, district, and probate courts. Judicial branch family division clerks shall hold office at the pleasure of the administrative judge of the judicial branch family division.
II. Fees as established by the supreme court under RSA 490:26-a shall be paid to the clerk of the judicial branch family division for the benefit of the state. The clerk shall set aside 7 percent of each entry fee paid into the court for deposit into a special escrow account established under RSA 490:26-c.
234:5 Superior Court; Entry Fees. Amend RSA 499:18, II to read as follows:
II. The clerk shall set aside [$3] 7 percent of each entry fee paid into the court for deposit into a special escrow account established under RSA 490:26-c.
234:6 District Court Entry Fees. Amend RSA 502-A:28, II to read as follows:
II. The clerk shall set aside [$3] 7 percent of each entry fee paid into the court for deposit into a special escrow account established under RSA 490:26-c.
234:7 Probate Court Entry Fees. Amend RSA 548:23-a, II to read as follows:
II. The register shall set aside [$3] 7 percent of each entry fee paid into the court for deposit into a special escrow account established under RSA 490:26-c.
234:8 Effective Date. This act shall take effect July 1, 2007.
Approved: June 25, 2007
Effective: July 1, 2007