Bill Text - HB1544 (2024)

Relative to indemnification for municipalities adopting policies to address homelessness.


Revision: Oct. 20, 2023, 10:21 a.m.

 

2024 SESSION

24-2508.0

12/08

 

HOUSE BILL [bill number]

 

AN ACT relative to indemnification for municipalities adopting policies to address homelessness.

 

SPONSORS: [sponsors]

 

COMMITTEE: [committee]

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill allows public property to be used to aid and shelter the homeless and indemnifies the  government units in charge.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-2508.0

12/08

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to indemnification for municipalities adopting policies to address homelessness.

 

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

 

1  Use of Public Property; Aid to the Homeless.  Amend RSA 35-B:6 to read as follows:

35-B:6  Use of Public Property.

I.  All public property may be used for leisure time activities, and temporary shelter and or aid for the homeless provided that prior approval for its use has been granted by the appropriate authority in charge of that property.  A cooperating agency may establish its own system of just compensation for the leisure time use of such properties.  Similarly, any authority or body in charge of any public property may refuse use of its property for leisure service activities or providing temporary shelter and or aid to the homeless if interference in the intended use of the property would result.

II.  Notwithstanding RSA 507-B:2, the appropriate authority in charge of public property or any of its employees shall not be held liable for damages in any civil action alleging negligence related to their duty of care to a designated area created to aid and or provide temporary shelter for the homeless or its residents.

III.  Any action to recover damages arising out the appropriate authority in charge of public property or any of its employees duty of care related to a designated area created to aid and or provide temporary shelter for the homeless and or its residents shall be dismissed unless the complaint describes with particularity the means by which the appropriate authority in charge of public property or its employees intentionally acted to create the harm or risk of harm complained of.

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