Bill Text - SB190 (2017)

Repealing the sunset provision on the first responder's critical injury benefit fund.


Revision: June 12, 2017, 9:26 a.m.

CHAPTER 111

SB 190-FN - FINAL VERSION

 

03/16/2017   0781s

2017 SESSION

17-0857

01/03

 

SENATE BILL 190-FN

 

AN ACT repealing the sunset provision on the first responder's critical injury benefit fund.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Soucy, Dist 18; Rep. White, Graf. 13; Rep. Doucette, Rock. 8

 

COMMITTEE: Commerce

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill repeals the prospective repeal of the first responder's critical injury benefit.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

03/16/2017   0781s 17-0857

01/03

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

 

AN ACT repealing the sunset provision on the first responder's critical injury benefit fund.

 

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

 

111:1  First Responder's Critical Injury Benefit.  Amend RSA 281-A:32-a, II to read as follows:

II.  Payments awarded under this section shall be subject to all other provisions of RSA 281-A.  Total compensation payments for all additional compensation claims paid under this section shall not exceed $125,000 per claimant.  [No payments shall be made after July 1, 2018.] Benefits paid under this section for all claimants shall not exceed $500,000 per biennium.

111:2  Repeal.  2014, 242:2, I, relative to the prospective repeal of the first responder's critical injury benefit, is repealed.

111:3  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect upon its passage.

 

Approved: June 08, 2017

Effective Date: June 08, 2017