Bill Text - HB1205 (2022)

Allowing the department of environmental services to have access to enhanced 911 information.


Revision: March 10, 2022, 1:01 p.m.

HB 1205 - AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

 

10Mar2022... 0404h

2022 SESSION

22-2080

12/08

 

HOUSE BILL 1205

 

AN ACT allowing the department of environmental services to have access to enhanced 911 information.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Potucek, Rock. 6; Rep. M. Pearson, Rock. 34; Rep. Abrami, Rock. 19; Rep. Guthrie, Rock. 13; Rep. Silber, Belk. 2; Rep. Stapleton, Sull. 5; Rep. Harley, Rock. 20

 

COMMITTEE: Judiciary

 

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AMENDED ANALYSIS

 

This bill allows the department of environmental services to have access to certain enhanced 911 information relative to addresses across the state.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

10Mar2022... 0404h 22-2080

12/08

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Two

 

AN ACT allowing the department of environmental services to have access to enhanced 911 information.

 

 

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

 

1  New Paragraph; Sheriffs, Constables, and Police Officers; Enhanced 911 System; Definitions.  Amend RSA 106-H:2 by inserting after paragraph V the following new paragraph:

V-a.  "Division" means the division of emergency services and communications of the department of safety.

2  Sheriffs, Constables, and Police Officers; Enhanced 911 System; Information Not Subject to Right-to-Know Law.   Amend RSA 106-H:14 to read as follows:

106-H:14  Information Not Subject to Right-to-Know Law.

I.  Any information or records compiled under this chapter shall not be considered a public record for the purposes of RSA 91-A regardless of the use of such information under paragraph II.

II.  Notwithstanding [any provision of law to the contrary] paragraph I, the [bureau] division shall [only] make information or records compiled under this chapter available only as follows:

[I.](a) On a case-by-case basis to a law enforcement agency that requires the information or records for investigative purposes; and

[II.] (b) To the department of environmental services solely for the [purpose] purposes of estimating the location of wells subject to RSA 482-B and for creating and maintaining an inventory of drinking water sampling sites and the materials used for water system service lines needed to comply with the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act.  The department of environmental services shall not be required to release such data under RSA 91-A.

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