2001 SESSION

01-0805

10/09

HOUSE BILL 341-FN

COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration

ANALYSIS

This bill changes the designation of New Hampshire security officers to campus police force, and adds the officers of the New Hampshire hospital campus police force to group II of the New Hampshire retirement system.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

01-0805

10/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One

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

1 New Subparagraph; New Hampshire Hospital Police Force Added. Amend RSA 100-A:1, VII by inserting after subparagraph (f) the following new subparagraph:

(g) A full-time police officer of the New Hampshire hospital campus police force appointed under RSA 135:41 who has general police powers including the power of arrest pursuant to RSA 135:42 and has completed the police training established by the police standards and training council pursuant to RSA 135:43.

2 Exclusion of Security Officers Deleted. Amend RSA 100-A:1, VII-a (b) to read as follows:

(b) Any bingo or lucky 7 inspector, [security officer appointed pursuant to RSA 135:41,] or any person employed in the bureau of trails of the department of resources and economic development; or

3 Subdivision Heading Changed. Amend the subdivision heading preceding RSA 135:41 to read as follows:

Hospital [Security] Campus Police Force

4 New Hampshire Hospital Campus Police Force. Amend RSA 135:41-43 to read as follows:

135:41 Hospital [Security] Campus Police Force. The superintendent of the New Hampshire hospital is authorized to organize a hospital [security] campus police force for the purpose of patrolling the hospital's buildings, roads, and grounds of the campus of the state office park south and providing for general security on the campus. The hospital [security] campus police force shall be under the immediate control of and responsible to the superintendent of the hospital.

135:42 Authority. All [security] police officers of the hospital [security] campus police force shall be ex officio constables and shall possess general police powers including the power of arrest, but such powers shall extend only to the campus of the state office park south and only to the period during which such members are on official active duty. The only [2] 3 instances where the authority of members of the hospital [security] campus police force shall extend beyond the campus of the state office park south are:

I. Where a member of the [security] campus police force is in hot pursuit of a person or persons who have committed a crime or violation while on the campus or who have committed the crime of escape from the hospital; [and]

II. Where a member of the hospital [security] campus police force is acting to return a court-committed patient to the hospital's custody[.]; and

III. Where a member of the hospital campus police force, while performing in an official police capacity, observes or is faced with an emergency situation which places the general public at risk of imminent bodily harm.

135:43 Training.

I. The superintendent of New Hampshire hospital shall require that all employees hired as [security] hospital campus police officers after July 30, [1977] 2001, and all [security] hospital campus police officers who have not become permanent employees before July 30, [1977] 2001, complete a program of police training as established by the police standards and training council pursuant to RSA 188-F and as appropriate to such officers' exercise of limited police powers.

II. [Security] Hospital campus police officers already serving under permanent appointment on July 30, [1977] 2001, shall not be required to meet any requirements of paragraph I as a condition of tenure or continued employment.

5 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

LBAO

01-0805

1/23/01

HB 341-FN - FISCAL NOTE

FISCAL IMPACT: