Revision: May 21, 2025, 11:35 a.m.
Rep. Alexander Jr., Hills. 29
Rep. Berry, Hills. 44
Rep. Mazur, Hills. 44
Rep. Giasson, Hills. 29
Rep. Reinfurt, Hills. 29
May 21, 2025
2025-2331h
09/08
Floor Amendment to SB 148-FN
Amend the title of the bill by replacing it with the following:
AN ACT prohibiting those convicted of murder from financially profiting from the death of the victim and specifying that library user information exempted from disclosure in the right-to-know law includes information regarding library cards and library membership status.
Amend the bill by replacing all after section 2 with the following:
3 Right to Know: Library Cards. Amend RSA 91-A:5, IV to read as follows:
IV. Records pertaining to internal personnel practices; confidential, commercial, or financial information; test questions, scoring keys, and other examination data used to administer a licensing examination, examination for employment, or academic examinations; and personnel, medical, welfare, library user (including, but not limited to, library cards and library membership status), videotape sale or rental, and other files whose disclosure would constitute invasion of privacy. Without otherwise compromising the confidentiality of the files, nothing in this paragraph shall prohibit a public body or agency from releasing information relative to health or safety from investigative files on a limited basis to persons whose health or safety may be affected.
I. Section 3 of this act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
II. The remainder of this act shall take effect upon its passage.
2025-2331h
AMENDED ANALYSIS
This bill enacts a chapter that prohibits a person who murders another person from certain financial benefits from the estate of the decedent or other contractual provisions, and enacts provisions governing the disposition of the estate in such instances. This bill also requires any entity that contracts with someone convicted of a murder for certain payments related to the commission of the crime to notify the department of justice and for the department of justice to notify the estate or immediate family of the decedent to allow for suit to recover any money owed.
This bill further exempts library card and library membership files and information from disclosure under the right-to-know law.