HB 1429 - AS INTRODUCED
2000 SESSION
HOUSE BILL 1429
AN ACT relative to requirements for personnel employed in state corrections facilities which are operated by private entities.
SPONSORS: Rep. Dwyer, Hills 43
COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice and Public Safety
This bill establishes requirements for personnel employed in state corrections facilities which are operated by private entities.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
00-2231
09/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand
AN ACT relative to requirements for personnel employed in state corrections facilities which are operated by private entities.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Subdivision; Employment Requirements; State Corrections Facilities Operated by Private Entities. Amend RSA 622 by inserting after section 58 the following new subdivision:
Employment Requirements; State Corrections Facilities
Operated by Private Entities
622:59 Employment Requirements; State Corrections Facilities Operated by Private Entities.
I. In this section, "state corrections facility" means any secure building, complex of buildings, halfway house, or other structure used to house persons sentenced to a term of imprisonment, ordered to be detained in a state corrections facility, or otherwise committed to the care and custody of the commissioner of corrections.
II. No private entity shall own, operate, manage, or administer any state corrections facility, nor provide for the housing, custody, keeping, or maintaining of any inmate in any state corrections facility, unless any person employed in such state corrections facility to guard, supervise, monitor, detain, or rehabilitate inmates or to protect the facility is a state employee who has successfully completed the appropriate training course prescribed by the commissioner of corrections.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.