HB 696-FN-LOCAL – AS INTRODUCED
2009 SESSION
04/01
HOUSE BILL 696-FN-LOCAL
AN ACT relative to fees for registration of criminal offenders.
SPONSORS: Rep. Shurtleff, Merr 10; Rep. Dokmo, Hills 6
This bill increases the annual registration fees to be paid by criminal offenders.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
09-1030
04/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nine
AN ACT relative to fees for registration of criminal offenders.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Registration of Criminal Offenders; Registration Fee. Amend RSA 651-B:11, I to read as follows:
I.(a) [An offender] Tier I and tier II offenders shall pay [a] an annual fee of [$50] $70 to the department within 10 days of the registration that occurs within the month of the anniversary of his or her birth. Such payment shall be made in person or shall be mailed to the department. The department shall retain $40 of this amount to be used to defray the costs of maintaining the sex offender registry. Such funds shall be nonlapsing and shall be continually appropriated to the department for such use. The department shall forward the remaining [$10] $30 to the law enforcement agency which registered the offender within the month of the anniversary of the offender's birth to defray any costs associated with implementing the provisions of this chapter. [The department shall forward these fees to the registering law enforcement agencies in a manner determined by the department but no less frequently than once a year.]
(b) Tier III offenders shall pay an annual fee of $100 to the department within 10 days of the registration that occurs within the month of the anniversary of his or her birth. Such payment shall be made in person or shall be mailed to the department. The department shall retain $40 of this amount to be used to defray the costs of maintaining the sex offender registry. Such funds shall be nonlapsing and shall be continually appropriated to the department for such use. The department shall forward the remaining $60 to the law enforcement agency which registered the offender within the month of the anniversary of the offender's birth to defray any costs associated with implementing the provisions of this chapter.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
LBAO
09-1030
Revised 02/24/09
HB 696 FISCAL NOTE
AN ACT relative to fees for registration of criminal offenders.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Department of Safety states this bill will increase state expenditures and local revenue by an indeterminable amount in FY 2010 and each year thereafter. This bill will have no fiscal impact on state and county revenues or county and local expenditures.
METHODOLOGY:
This bill increases the annual registration fees to be paid by criminal offenders from $50 to $70 for tier I and Tier II criminal offenders and to $100 for tier III offenders. The proposed legislation continues to allocate $40 of the fee to the Department of Safety to be used to defray the costs of maintaining the sex offender registry, however increases the allocable amount to municipalities from $10 to $30 for tier I and tier II offenders and allocates $60 to municipalities for each tier III offender. The Department of Safety states local revenue will increase as a result of the increased fee amounts allocable to the municipalities, however, the Department can not estimate the revenue increase as it dies not know how many sex offenders would fall into each tier.
The Department also notes that the proposed legislation requires that funds received be remitted to municipalities on a monthly basis instead of a yearly basis. As such, the Department states that state expenditures will increase by an indeterminable amount as a result of the additional administrative efforts associated with the increased frequency of payments.
Furthermore, the Department states that in the past, increases in the annual registration fee have stimulated an increase in the number of hearings requested by offenders. The Department notes that state expenditures will increase by an indeterminable amount as a result of the subsequent increase in the number of hearings requested and held as a result of the fee increase.