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2023 SESSION
23-0974.0
04/07
SENATE BILL [bill number]
AN ACT establishing a criminal penalty for failure to report a medico-legal death.
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ANALYSIS
This bill adds a criminal penalty for failure to report a medico-legal death.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
23-0974.0
04/07
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three
AN ACT establishing a criminal penalty for failure to report a medico-legal death.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Office of the Chief Medical Examiner; Mandatory Reporting of Medico-Legal Deaths. Amend RSA 611-B:12 to read as follows:
611-B:12 Mandatory Reporting of Medico-Legal Deaths. It shall be the duty of anyone who finds the body of any person whose death is suspected to have been caused or to have occurred in any manner described in RSA 611-B:11, or who finds remains which are thought to be human to immediately notify the medical examiner and the county attorney for the county where the body or remains are found. Any person who violates this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2024.