HB 631-FN - AS INTRODUCED
1999 SESSION
HOUSE BILL 631-FN
AN ACT authorizing the department of safety to issue photographic identification cards to persons required to have criminal background checks for employment or other lawful purposes.
SPONSORS: Rep. Welch, Rock 18; Rep. Pepino, Hills 40; Rep. Mikowlski, Rock 29
COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice and Public Safety
This bill authorizes the department of safety to issue photographic identification cards for persons who have undergone criminal background checks. These cards can be used when applying for other safety-related clearance matters.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
99-0353
05/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine
AN ACT authorizing the department of safety to issue photographic identification cards to persons required to have criminal background checks for employment or other lawful purposes.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Criminal Background Check Identification Cards. Amend RSA 260 by inserting after section 21 the following new section:
260:21-a Criminal Background Check Identification Cards. Individuals required to undergo criminal background checks for employment or for any other lawful purpose may apply for and be issued a photographic identification card by the department of safety which shall be renewable every 4 years. Permissible usage of such identification cards shall include proof of right to possess, carry, or acquire a firearm. Such cards shall only be issued after department of safety personnel have verified, via review of National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) records, that no data exists to indicate that possession of a firearm by the individual requesting the card would be in violation of federal, state or local law.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2000.
LBAO
99-0353
2/10/99
HB 631-FN - FISCAL NOTE
AN ACT authorizing the department of safety to issue photographic identification cards to persons required to have criminal background checks for employment or other lawful purposes.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Department of Safety stated this bill may increase state highway fund expenditures by an indeterminable amount in FY 2000 and each year thereafter. There will be no fiscal impact on county and local expenditures or state, county and local revenue.
METHODOLOGY:
The Department cannot estimate the number of individuals required to undergo background checks who may apply for and be issued a photographic identification card, therefor, the Department cannot estimate the cost of issuing the cards.