HB 623 - AS INTRODUCED
2001 SESSION
04/09
HOUSE BILL 623
COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice and Public Safety
This bill reduces from 10 days to 7 days the time period for a criminal offender to notify a local law enforcement agency of an address change and provides that upon release, a criminal offender shall not reside within 1000 feet of a school, day care center, park, playground, or other site where children gather on a regular basis.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
01-0075
04/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One
AN ACT relative to the registration of criminal offenders.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Registration of Criminal Offenders; Change of Name or Alias; Time Period Amended. Amend RSA 651-B:5 to read as follows:
651-B:5 Change of Name or Alias, or Address; Duty to Inform. When any person required to be registered under this chapter changes residence, or [their] his or her name or alias, the person shall give written notification of the person's new address, name, or alias to the local law enforcement agency to which [he] such person last reported under RSA 651-B:4 within [10] 7 days of such change of residence, name, or alias. Such notice shall not relieve the person of the duty to report under RSA 651-B:4 at the new place of residence. The local law enforcement agency receiving such notice shall forward a copy to the division within 3 days after receipt. The division shall notify the local law enforcement agency at the new place of residence, or the appropriate out-of-state law enforcement agency if the new place of residence is outside New Hampshire, and shall include such change-of-address or change-of-name information in the LENS system.
2 New Section; Residential Restriction. Amend RSA 651-B by inserting after section 5 the following new section:
651-B:5-a Residential Restriction. No person required to be registered under this chapter shall, upon release, reside within 1000 feet of a school, child care facility, park, playground, or other site where children gather on a regular basis. The department shall adopt rules under RSA 541-A relative to the enforcement of this section.
3 Applicability. Section 2 of this act shall apply to persons released on or after the effective date of this act, and to any person who obtains a new address on or after the effective date of this act.
4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.