HB 1328  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2024 SESSION

24-2365

12/10

 

HOUSE BILL 1328

 

AN ACT relative to public safety providers defined as essential services.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Proulx, Hills. 15

 

COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill deems all first responders as providing essential services.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-2365

12/10

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to public safety providers defined as essential services.

 

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

 

1  Homeland Security and Emergency Management; First Responders; Defined as Essential Services.  Amend RSA 21-P:35, IX to read as follows:

IX.  "First responders" means state, county, and local governmental and nongovernmental emergency public safety fire, law enforcement, public safety telecommunications or dispatcher, emergency response, emergency medical services providers including hospital emergency facilities, emergency management, public health, clinical care, public works, and other skilled support personnel, such as equipment operators, that provide immediate support services necessary to perform emergency management functions.  First responders are essential services providers.

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