Bill Text - SB578 (2024)

Relative to criminal pre-trial services and monitoring.


Revision: Nov. 6, 2023, 12:57 p.m.

 

2024 SESSION

24-3126.0

09/05

 

SENATE BILL [bill number]

 

AN ACT relative to criminal pre-trial services and monitoring.

 

SPONSORS: [sponsors]

 

COMMITTEE: [committee]

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill prohibits criminal defendants on pre-trial release from being required to pay for pre-trial services or monitoring, including electronic monitoring.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-3126.0

09/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to criminal pre-trial services and monitoring.

 

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

 

1 New Paragraph; Bail and Recognizances; General Provisions; Release of a Defendant Pending Trial.  Amend RSA 597:2 by inserting after paragraph X the following new paragraph:

XI.  New Hampshire court systems and counties shall not, under any circumstances, require defendants to pay for their own pre-trial services or monitoring, including, but not limited to, electronic monitoring equipment and use thereof.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect January 1, 2025.