HB 1259-FN – AS INTRODUCED
2012 SESSION
HOUSE BILL 1259-FN
AN ACT relative to payment of medical expenses for individuals who surrender themselves to law enforcement or corrections officials.
SPONSORS: Rep. Shurtleff, Merr 10
COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice and Public Safety
This bill provides that a person who surrenders himself or herself for confinement in a state or county correctional facility and who, in the judgment of law enforcement or corrections officials, requires transportation to a medical facility for treatment prior to incarceration, shall be liable for all expenses related to such treatment.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
12-2101
04/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twelve
AN ACT relative to payment of medical expenses for individuals who surrender themselves to law enforcement or corrections officials.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; Temporary Removal of Prisoners; Illness or Emergency. Amend RSA 623:1 by inserting after paragraph IV the following new paragraph:
V. A person who surrenders himself or herself for confinement in a state or county correctional facility and who, in the judgment of law enforcement or corrections officials, requires transportation to a medical facility for treatment prior to incarceration, shall be liable for all expenses related to such treatment. The state or county shall bear no financial responsibility for the person’s medical treatment.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
LBAO
12-2101
11/17/11
HB 1259-FN - FISCAL NOTE
AN ACT relative to payment of medical expenses for individuals who surrender themselves to law enforcement or corrections officials.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Department of Corrections, and the New Hampshire Association of Counties states this bill may decrease county expenditures by an indeterminable amount. There is no fiscal impact on state and local expenditures, or state, county and local revenue.
METHODOLOGY:
The Department of Corrections states this bill makes a person who surrenders themselves for confinement in a state or county correctional facility that is found to require transportation to a medical facility for treatment prior to incarceration shall be liable for all expenses related to such treatment. The Department states incarceration at a state correctional facility begins the moment an inmate enters a correctional facility and cannot leave under their own free will. As such, there is no moment “prior to” incarceration where an inmate could be liable for expenses related to their medical treatment, therefore there is no fiscal impact on state expenditures. The Department states the fiscal impact on county facilities cannot be determined.
The New Hampshire Association of Counties states this bill will decrease county expenditures to the extent an individual who surrenders to a county correctional facility and requires medical treatment prior to incarceration is liable for those medical expenses.