Revision: Jan. 25, 2017, 9:41 a.m.
SB 133-FN - AS INTRODUCED
2017 SESSION
17-0769
04/03
SENATE BILL 133-FN
AN ACT relative to security screening at state correctional facilities.
SPONSORS: Sen. D'Allesandro, Dist 20
COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration
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This bill makes changes to the security screening procedure at state correctional facilities.
This bill is a request of the department of corrections.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
17-0769
04/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen
AN ACT relative to security screening at state correctional facilities.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 State Prisons; Security Screening Required. Amend RSA 622:6-a to read as follows:
622:6-a Security Screening Required. All individuals entering the secure perimeter of a state correctional facility, including but not limited to visitors, state officials, employees, contractors, and vendors, [shall] may be subject to a security screening using a full body security scanner. The full body security scanners shall be installed and operated in a manner that [enables] is intended to enable the detection of contraband [but does not display or record an image of an individual's private body parts]. With the exception of images that are used for investigative purposes or show contraband and are needed as evidence for prosecution, no image [may] shall be copied[,] or duplicated[, or retained for more than 24 hours].
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
17-0769
1/18/17
SB 133-FN- FISCAL NOTE
as introduced
AN ACT relative to security screening at state correctional facilities.
FISCAL IMPACT: [ X ] State [ ] County [ ] Local [ ] None
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STATE: | FY 2017 | FY 2018 | FY 2019 | FY 2020 |
Appropriation | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Revenue | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Expenditures | Indeterminable | Indeterminable | Indeterminable | Indeterminable |
Funding Source: | [ X ] General [ ] Education [ ] Highway [ ] Other | |||
METHODOLOGY:
This bill provides the Department of Corrections the authority to choose to conduct a security screening using a full body security scanner on all individuals entering the secure perimeter of a state correctional facility. Chapter 263, Laws of 2016 amended RSA 622 by requiring the Department to scan all individuals entering a state correctional facility and appropriated $1,110,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017, to the Department to purchase six body scanners estimated to cost $185,000 each; three for the state prison for men in Concord, two for the northern New Hampshire correctional facility in Berlin, and one scanner for the new state prison for women in Concord. The $1,110,000 appropriation contained in Chapter 263, Laws of 2016 to purchase the six scanners must be spent by June 30, 2017 or it will lapse back to the general fund. If the Department is not required to scan all individuals entering a State correctional facility the Department may not need to purchase all six of the body scanners; however, the Department is unable to estimate how many scanners would not be purchased as a result of this bill. Further, if fewer scanners are purchased then future operating costs may decrease by an indeterminable amount.
AGENCIES CONTACTED:
Department of Corrections