HB1347 (2012) Detail

Requiring the courts to file reports of complaints against court officers, court staff, and any other person involved in the administration of justice.


HB 1347 – AS INTRODUCED

2012 SESSION

12-2111

08/05

HOUSE BILL 1347

AN ACT requiring the courts to file reports of complaints against court officers, court staff, and any other person involved in the administration of justice.

SPONSORS: Rep. Lambert, Hills 27

COMMITTEE: Judiciary

ANALYSIS

This bill requires the courts to file reports of complaints against court officers, court staff, and any other person involved in the administration of justice.

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

12-2111

08/05

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twelve

AN ACT requiring the courts to file reports of complaints against court officers, court staff, and any other person involved in the administration of justice.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 New Section; Complaints Against Court Officers. Amend RSA 490 by inserting after section 32 the following new section:

490:32-a Complaints Against Court Officers.

I. Any person wishing to file a complaint against a judge, justice, magistrate, marital master, justice of the peace, guardian ad litem, courthouse staff, court officer, or attorney may contact the administrative office of the courts with such complaint.

II. The administrative office of the courts shall take the complainant’s name, the date of the complaint and a brief description of the nature of the complaint and submit a monthly report of such to the clerks of the house and senate.

III. The house clerk and senate clerk shall ensure that the information contained in the report required by paragraph II shall be posted to the general court’s website.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.