New Hampshire HB 1424: relative to services of a summons.

Bill Text

HB 1424 - AS INTRODUCED
2026 SESSION
26-2447
09/06
HOUSE BILL 1424
AN ACT relative to services of a summons.
SPONSORS: Rep. Popovici-Muller, Rock. 17; Rep. Lynn, Rock. 17; Rep. Booras, Hills. 8
COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice and Public Safety
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ANALYSIS
This bill establishes a process for the service of summons to testify to a law enforcement officer
or other employee of a law enforcement agency, or to a public official.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

HB 1424 - AS INTRODUCED
26-2447
09/06
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six
AN ACT relative to services of a summons.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Service of Summons to Law Enforcement Officers and Public Officials. Amend
RSA 516 by inserting after section 5 the following new section:
516:5-a Service of Summons to Law Enforcement Officers and Other Public Officials. Any law
enforcement officer or any other employee of a law enforcement agency, whether full-time or less
than full-time, or any public official, elected or appointed, may be summoned to attend and testify or
give his or her deposition, by reading to him or her, by giving to him or her in hand, or by delivery to
the officer's or to the official's agency or organization at that agency's or organization's address
housing said agency's or organization's offices, an attested copy of the writ of summons, and by
paying or tendering to him or her the fees established for his or her travel to and from the place
where his or her attendance is required, and for one day's attendance.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2027.
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