HB 1500-FN - AS INTRODUCED

2000 SESSION

00-2842

09/01

HOUSE BILL 1500-FN

AN ACT relative to judicial retirement compensation and benefits for supreme court chief justice Brock.

SPONSORS: Judiciary Committee

COMMITTEE: [committee]

ANALYSIS

This bill allows chief justice David Brock to receive judicial retirement compensation and benefits if he voluntarily resigns after a vote to impeach him by the house of representatives and prior to the beginning of his impeachment trial by the senate.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

00-2842

09/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand

AN ACT relative to judicial retirement compensation and benefits for supreme court chief justice Brock.

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

1 Judicial Compensation and Benefits for Supreme Court Chief Justice Brock. If supreme court chief justice David Brock voluntarily resigns from the court during the period between a vote to impeach him by the full house of representatives and prior to the beginning of an impeachment trial by the senate, he shall be entitled to receive the retirement compensation and benefits under RSA 490:2 beginning upon the date he would have begun receiving such compensation and benefits if he had served as a supreme court justice until he was 65 years of age.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.