Bill Text: NH HB379 | 2024 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requiring notice be provided to tenants during residential eviction proceedings regarding legal counsel.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2024-01-03 - Refer to Interim Study, Motion Adopted, Voice Vote; 01/03/2024; Senate Journal 1 [HB379 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2024-HB379-Amended.html

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HB 379-FN - AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

 

14Feb2023... 0347h

2023 SESSION

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04/10

 

HOUSE BILL 379-FN

 

AN ACT requiring notice be provided to tenants during residential eviction proceedings regarding legal counsel.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Read, Rock. 10; Rep. Seibert, Hills. 21; Rep. Newell, Ches. 4; Rep. Staub, Hills. 25; Rep. Gallager, Merr. 20; Rep. Veilleux, Hills. 34

 

COMMITTEE: Judiciary

 

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AMENDED ANALYSIS

 

This bill provides that tenants subject to eviction shall be provided with instructions on the process for contacting and obtaining assistance from New Hampshire Legal Assistance

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

14Feb2023... 0347h 23-0290

04/10

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three

 

AN ACT requiring notice be provided to tenants during residential eviction proceedings regarding legal counsel.

 

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

 

1  New Paragraph; Actions Against Tenants; Notice to Tenants.  Amend RSA 540:3 by inserting after paragraph III the following new paragraph:

III-a.  The eviction notice shall clearly state that an indigent tenant may be eligible for assistance from New Hampshire Legal Assistance for legal counsel in the eviction proceeding and shall include instructions on the process for contacting and obtaining such assistance.  This paragraph does not guarantee a right to legal assistance.  

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

 

LBA

23-0290

Amended 2/16/23

 

HB 379-FN- FISCAL NOTE

AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE (AMENDMENT #2023-0347h)

 

AN ACT requiring notice be provided to tenants during residential eviction proceedings regarding legal counsel.

 

FISCAL IMPACT:      [    ] State              [    ] County               [    ] Local              [ X ] None

METHODOLOGY:

The Office of Legislative Budget Assistant states this bill, as amended, has no fiscal impact on state, county, and local expenditures or revenue.

 

AGENCIES CONTACTED:

None