Bill Text - HB1209 (2018)

Requiring bonding for clerks of court.


Revision: Nov. 7, 2017, 1:40 p.m.

HB 1209 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2018 SESSION

18-2020

04/03

 

HOUSE BILL HB 1209

 

AN ACT requiring bonding for clerks of court.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Brewster, Merr. 21

 

COMMITTEE: Judiciary

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires clerks of court to be individually bonded for not less than $500,000.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

18-2020

04/03

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen

 

AN ACT requiring bonding for clerks of court.

 

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

 

1  Officials and Employees Bonds; Bonds of Court Employees.  Amend RSA 93-B:1-a to read as follows:

93-B:1-a  Bonds of Court Employees.  

I.  All court employees shall be bonded by the state under this chapter.  In addition to the losses against which employees are indemnified under RSA 93-B:1, all court employees shall be indemnified for any errors and omissions committed in their capacities as court employees.

II.  All clerks of court shall be individually bonded for not less than $500,000.  

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