SB 351-FN – AS INTRODUCED
2008 SESSION
09/01
SENATE BILL 351-FN
AN ACT requiring that funds in the civil legal services fund be distributed to New Hampshire Legal Assistance to establish an office at a location in Carroll county.
SPONSORS: Sen. Kenney, Dist 3; Rep. Knox, Carr 4; Rep. Carolyn Brown, Carr 1
This bill requires that funds in the civil legal services fund be distributed to New Hampshire Legal Assistance to establish an office at a location in Carroll county.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
08-2842
09/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eight
AN ACT requiring that funds in the civil legal services fund be distributed to New Hampshire Legal Assistance to establish an office at a location in Carroll county.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Civil Legal Services Fund; New Hampshire Legal Assistance; Carroll County 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 offices in the cities of Nashua and Concord and at a location in Carroll county to provide civil legal services to low-income persons in the cities of Nashua and Concord and the surrounding areas and in Carroll county, 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.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect July 1, 2008.
LBAO
08-2842
12/05/07
SB 351-FN - FISCAL NOTE
AN ACT requiring that funds in the civil legal services fund be distributed to New Hampshire Legal Assistance to establish an office at a location in Carroll county.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Judicial Council states this bill may increase state restricted expenditures by an indeterminable amount in FY 2009 and each fiscal year thereafter. There will be no fiscal impact on state, county, and local revenue or county and local expenditures.
METHODOLOGY:
The Judicial Council states this bill requires that funds in the civil legal services fund be distributed to NH Legal Assistance to establish an office at a location in Carroll County. The Council states it cannot determine the annual cost to establish an office in Carroll County; however, the FY 2008 and FY 2009 annual budgeted expenditures are $270,000 for the North Country office, $470,000 for the Nashua office, and $700,000 for the Concord office.