HB 1079  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2024 SESSION

24-2349

05/10

 

HOUSE BILL 1079

 

AN ACT relative to critical incident stress management team members.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Proulx, Hills. 15

 

COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill provides that critical incident stress management teams may include emergency room employees.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-2349

05/10

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to critical incident stress management team members.

 

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

 

1  Critical Incident Stress Management Team.  Amend RSA 153-A:17-a, I(f)(1) to read as follows:

(f)(1) "Critical incident stress management team member" or "team member" means an emergency services provider, including any law enforcement officer, sheriff or deputy sheriff, state police officer, civilian law enforcement employee, firefighter, civilian fire department employee, emergency room employee, emergency medical personnel, telecommunicators, and local dispatchers specially trained to provide critical incident stress management and crisis intervention services as a member of an organized and registered team.

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