Judiciary and Family Law

The House Committee on Judiciary and Family Law.

Bills Referred, 1997-1998

• HB 52: authorizing the assignment of superior court judges to hear cases in the district court. (Signed into law)
• HB 103: relative to the standard of care owed by landowners to children. (Killed)
• HB 133: establishing a family resource council to address the efficient delivery of services to children and families. (Killed)
• HB 146: relative to gifts by agents under general powers of attorney. (Killed)
• HB 153: exempting emergency medical technicians from jury duty. (Killed)
• HB 164: relative to certain discussions under the right-to-know law. (Killed)
• HB 189: excluding rooms and rental units leased or subleased from charitable organizations under a transitional housing program from the definition of "tenancy" for the purposes of landlord/tenant laws. (Killed)
• HB 211: defining the terms "psychological injury" and related terms under the child protection act. (Killed)
• HB 218-LOCAL: clarifying that local health officers are state employees for purposes of defense and indemnification of lawsuits filed against them. (Killed)
• HB 234-FN-LOCAL: relative to disposition by counties of funds of deceased patients of county nursing homes. (Signed into law)
• HB 250-FN-LOCAL: establishing a formal hearing process for board of tax and land appeals or court appeals limited to a review of the record for certain property tax abatement applications. (Killed)
• HB 260: defining "marriage" to mean a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife. (Killed)
• HB 278: relative to the doctrines of adverse possession and prescription. (Killed)
• HB 290: relative to digital signatures. (Signed into law)
• HB 300: establishing a study committee on judicial pensions. (Signed into law)
• HB 312: establishing a procedure for making and accepting offers of judgment in civil cases. (Killed)
• HB 320: requiring attorneys in divorce cases to provide clients with a statement of client's rights and responsibilities and a retainer agreement containing certain information, and subjects attorneys to certain other procedures in divorce cases. (Killed)
• HB 326: requiring that parties filing for divorce attempt a mutually agreeable divorce settlement through mediation prior to proceeding with the adversarial process. (Killed)
• HB 329: clarifying the applicability of the fireman's rule. (Signed into law)
• HB 330: relative to openness in the civil litigation process. (Killed)
• HB 331: adopting the uniform foreign depositions law. (Signed into law)
• HB 360: prohibiting discrimination in rental housing based on receipt by a tenant of a federal rent subsidy. (Killed)
• HB 361: clarifying the status of tenants who reside in rooming or boarding houses for more than 90 consecutive days. (Killed)
• HB 362: creating a cause of action for civil damages for noncompliance with minimum (Killed)
• HB 363: relative to venue for actions against tenants. (Killed)
• HB 364: relative to interest or penalty charges for failure to pay rent. (Killed)
• HB 365: providing that communications made during family mediation shall be privileged. (Killed)
• HB 369: relative to the admission to practice and bar association membership for attorneys. (Killed)
• HB 375: relative to the statement which must be signed by applicants for notary public or justice of the peace. (Became law unsigned)
• HB 387-LOCAL: extending municipal immunity from liability for injuries from accidents caused by snow and ice in municipal parking lots. (Killed)
• HB 394: restricting the jurisdiction of the probate courts over estates. (Killed)
• HB 395: repealing the exemption for teacher certification records from the right-to-know law. (Killed)
• HB 397: establishing a house study committee to examine the adoption of articles 41, 72-a and 73-a of the second part of the New Hampshire constitution. (Indefinitely postponed)
• HB 421: amending the law against discrimination to prohibit discrimination on account of a person's sexual orientation. (Signed into law)
• HB 431: relative to the appointment of attorneys for delinquent or neglected or abused children. (Signed into law)
• HB 433: relative to discharge from New Hampshire hospital. (Signed into law)
• HB 439-FN: establishing a procedure for reporting on abortions. (Killed)
• HB 444: extending the reporting date for the house committee to study the state investigation of the late John C. Fairbanks. (Killed)
• HB 448: relative to the trust fund for the prevention of child abuse and neglect. (Signed into law)
• HB 456-FN: relative to child custody when a parent has intentionally killed the other parent. (Killed)
• HB 460-FN: relative to authorizing treatment for persons involuntarily admitted to New Hampshire hospital. (Killed)
• HB 512-FN: requiring mediation in domestic cases involving minor children. (Killed)
• HB 515-FN: establishing the New Hampshire commission on the status of fatherhood. (Killed)
• HB 518-FN: requiring administrative agents to obtain warrants based upon probable cause to perform searches or inspections. (Killed)
• HB 523: relative to the appointment of guardians ad litem. (Signed into law)
• HB 530-FN-A: establishing civil action filing fee surcharges to fund civil legal assistance to low-income persons and continually appropriating a special fund. (Killed)
• HB 549: relative to service-connected military or coast guard disability compensation in the determination of alimony or separate maintenance. (Killed)
• HB 550: relative to certain social security disability compensation in the determination of alimony or separate maintenance. (Killed)
• HB 554: relative to damages in suits brought by administrators of an estate. (Signed into law)
• HB 555: exempting an individual's pensions and individual retirement accounts from bankruptcy attachment. (Signed into law)
• HB 568-FN: relative to the oath of office for attorneys and the penalty for failure to fulfill the oath. (Killed)
• HB 570-FN: establishing a procedure for appointment of independent counsel in New Hampshire. (Killed)
• HB 595-FN: protecting consumers from the unlicensed practice of law. (Killed)
• HB 606-FN-LOCAL: relative to procedures regarding children in need of services under RSA 169-D. (Referred for interim study)
• HB 608-FN: providing that a district court shall not require the department of health and human services to certify a particular provider of children's services. (Killed)
• HB 609-FN-LOCAL: enacting the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA) and relative to child support. (Signed into law)
• HB 616-FN: relative to jury selection reforms. (Signed into law)
• HB 623: allowing a landlord or housing owner under the housing finance authority to terminate a tenancy to allow a family member to occupy the premises. (Killed)
• HB 624: subjecting certain payments made to public employees upon resignation, discharge, or retirement to the right-to-know law. (Signed into law)
• HB 635: relative to a limitation on liability for emergency medical care providers. (Killed)
• HB 688-FN-A: establishing a committee to study any actions and all investigations of the late John C. Fairbanks and other members of the legal profession. (Signed into law)
• HB 711: relative to post-termination commissions and reinstating the corporate charter of MultiProcess Computer Corporation, Inc. (Signed into law)
• HB 727-FN: relative to rate-setting for certain services, placements, and programs for children by the department of health and human services. (Killed)
• HB 734-FN: establishing a study committee on district court evening sessions. (Signed into law)
• HB 736-FN: increasing the mileage rate for jurors. (Killed)
• HB 768-FN: relative to certain abortions. (Killed)
• HB 773-FN: relative to intentional interference with child custody and visitation and requiring expedited hearings on certain custody, visitation, and support issues. (Signed into law)
• HB 774-FN: relative to child support, custodial rights, and visitation. (Signed into law)
• HB 787-FN: requiring the executive council to hold public hearings on judicial appointments. (Signed into law)
• HB 793: defining the responsibility of individuals engaged in equine activities. (Signed into law)
• HB 802: relative to judgments on past due rent. (Signed into law)
• HB 805: relative to homestead rights and revocable trusts. (Signed into law)
• HB 1102: barring perpetrators of crimes from recovering civil damages for injuries sustained during criminal conduct. (Killed)
• HB 1105: providing a cause of action for agricultural disparagement. (Killed)
• HB 1116: relative to division of property in no-fault divorces. (Killed)
• HB 1144: relative to protecting personal privacy. (Killed)
• HB 1158: changing the process for designating a part-time district court justice a full-time district court justice. (Signed into law)
• HB 1164: relative to requests for changes in superior court justices assigned to trials. (Killed)
• HB 1173: limiting the liability of the state and its employees for personal injuries and civil damages resulting from fire standards and training instruction and programs. (Killed)
• HB 1190: encouraging alternative dispute resolution as an alternative to litigation in domestic relations cases. (Killed)
• HB 1191: relative to limiting the liability of municipalities and school districts for damages caused by winter weather hazards. (Signed into law)
• HB 1194: prohibiting a minor child from being forced to have visitation with an incarcerated parent. (Killed)
• HB 1202: establishing a study committee on probate court administration and procedures. (Killed)
• HB 1251: concerning the recovery of costs and expenses to a defendant agricultural operation in a nuisance suit. (Killed)
• HB 1261-FN: prohibiting part-time judges from sitting on courts located within 50 miles of their primary places of business. (Killed)
• HB 1266: relative to reporting of alleged criminal conduct by the professional conduct committee and the judicial conduct committee. (Killed)
• HB 1267: relative to membership on the professional conduct committee and the judicial conduct committee of the supreme court. (Killed)
• HB 1268: prohibiting an attorney who is a director of a bank from holding client trust accounts in such bank without the permission of the client and the probate court. (Killed)
• HB 1269: requiring beneficiaries to file statements of receipt with the probate court when money is received from an estate after a final account of the estate has been filed. (Killed)
• HB 1270: requiring verification of assets when an account is filed with the probate court by an administrator or executor. (Killed)
• HB 1302: relative to the liability of the university system of New Hampshire for civil damages arising from snow, ice, or inclement weather. (Killed)
• HB 1317: relative to termination of parental rights upon a finding of either child abuse or the commission of certain criminal offenses. (Referred for interim study)
• HB 1323: requiring probate judges to impose the same accounting requirements on attorney and non-attorney fiduciaries. (Killed)
• HB 1324: requiring parental notification before abortions may be performed on certain minors. (Killed)
• HB 1325: relative to the rooms and meals tax and occupants of rooming houses. (Killed)
• HB 1332: requiring probate court judges to issue a contempt citation when an auditor's request for records is refused. (Killed)
• HB 1338-FN-A: establishing a study committee to examine the adoption of articles 41, 72-a and 73-a of the second part of the New Hampshire constitution. (Signed into law)
• HB 1347: preserving relationships between siblings who are separated as a result of court ordered out-of-home placements. (Signed into law)
• HB 1358: relative to failure to cooperate with proceedings of the supreme court committee on professional conduct or the judicial conduct committee. (Killed)
• HB 1360: revising the formula for determining child support. (Killed)
• HB 1370: abolishing the judicial council. (Killed)
• HB 1371: requiring the collection of certain data on children and parents in the state case registry for use in child support enforcement. (Signed into law)
• HB 1376: relative to co-parenting of children. (Killed)
• HB 1382: requiring a court order or a power of attorney executed by a beneficiary for sale of estate assets by the administrator of the estate. (Killed)
• HB 1390: adopting a drug dealer liability act. (Referred for interim study)
• HB 1406: increasing the maximum amount for a small claim action. (Signed into law)
• HB 1408: requiring a criminal background investigation for certain child care agencies. (Signed into law)
• HB 1419: making victims of juvenile offenses eligible for compensation from the victim's assistance fund. (Killed)
• HB 1433-FN: relative to physician aid-in-dying for certain persons suffering from a terminal condition. (Referred for interim study)
• HB 1445: relative to nonpublic sessions and relative to attorneys in certain proceedings. (Killed)
• HB 1452: relative to expanding the court's authority for debt collection by including license revocation and suspension. (Killed)
• HB 1470: relative to protection of religious freedoms. (Killed)
• HB 1471: allowing loss of familial relationship damages in wrongful death actions. (Signed into law)
• HB 1486: establishing a committee to study joint physical custody and child support guidelines. (Killed)
• HB 1500: relative to powers of appointment. (Referred for interim study)
• HB 1504-FN: repealing the authority of the chief justice of the supreme court to assign superior court judges to hear cases in the district court. (Killed)
• HB 1505-FN: removing judges from the state defense and indemnification provisions. (Killed)
• HB 1510-FN: requiring probate court judges to report attorneys who are fiduciaries and have been cited for delinquencies in accounting by the probate court to the professional conduct committee of the supreme court. (Killed)
• HB 1511-FN: requiring registers of probate to send a notice to each beneficiary when a fiduciary is delinquent in filing an inventory or account. (Killed)
• HB 1516: requiring a criminal background investigation for certain department of health and human services personnel who come into direct contact with children. (Signed into law)
• HB 1519: requiring registers of probate to be consistent and uniform in the enforcement of delinquency notices, citations, and contempt charges. (Killed)
• HB 1534: granting an accused or aggrieved party the right to inform the jury of its right to find the defendant not guilty under certain circumstances when the state or a political subdivision is the opposing party. (Killed)
• HB 1538-FN-A: extending the reporting date for the committee to study judicial pensions, increasing the duties of the committee, and making an appropriation therefor. (Signed into law)
• HB 1549-FN: granting a right to trial by jury in any controversy between a person or persons and a state board, commission, or agency when the amount in controversy is at least $1,500. (Referred for interim study)
• HB 1554-FN: allowing punitive damages in actions for domestic violence and sexual assault. (Referred for interim study)
• HB 1565-FN-A: establishing a joint legislative fiduciary oversight committee and making an appropriation therefor. (Killed)
• HB 1570-FN: relative to establishing the legislative committee on the oversight of the practice of law. (Killed)
• HB 1580-FN: permitting a jury trial in the superior court for violations of the state law against discrimination for a certain time period or with the written assent of the commission for human rights after an action has been filed with the commission. (Referred for interim study)
• HB 1587-FN: creating the woman's right to know law. (Killed)
• HB 1593-FN: codifying and revising the existing cooperative agreement between the department of health and human services and the judiciary. (Killed)
• HB 1594-FN: transferring the authority of the judicial conduct committee to the legislature. (Killed)
• HB 1599-FN: allowing the custodial parent with legal custody of a child to change the child's name. (Killed)
• HB 1603-FN: relative to appointment and payment of guardians ad litem and establishing a complaint process against the guardian ad litem system. (Killed)
• HB 1610: relative to back wages owed by employers. (Referred for interim study)
• HB 1613-FN: limiting the liability of registers of deeds and counties for recording fraudulent documents and establishing a criminal penalty for knowingly filing a fraudulent document with a register of deeds. (Killed)
• HB 1622-FN: relative to remedies and appeals under the whistleblowers' protection act. (Killed)
• HB 1637-FN: repealing the requirement that the commissioner of the department of employment security maintain a state directory of new hires. (Killed)
• HR 12: urging that impeachment proceedings be instituted posthumously against the late John C. Fairbanks. (Killed)
• HR 16: urging that impeachment proceedings be instituted against Strafford county probate court judge Gary R. Cassavechia. (Killed)
• CACR 5: relating to the status of supreme court rules. supreme court rules shall no longer have the force and effect of law. (Killed)
• CACR 11: relating to legislative authority to limit noneconomic damage awards. Providing that the general court shall have the authority to limit the amount of noneconomic damage awards granted in the state of New Hampshire. (Killed)
• CACR 16: relating to the election of judges and judicial pensions. judges be elected for specified terms and that no judge shall receive a pension from public funds. (Killed)
• CACR 17: relating to the appointment of supreme, superior, and probate court judges. appointed for specified terms. (Killed)
• CACR 20: relating to the appointment and terms of probate court judges. that all probate court judges be full-time and subject to term limits. (Killed)
• CACR 31: relating to the rulemaking authority of the supreme court. Providing that supreme court rules are effective only when not inconsistent with statute. (Killed)
• CACR 32: relating to amending the New Hampshire constitution to provide that registers of probate be appointed instead of elected. registers of probate shall be appointed instead of elected. (Killed)
• CACR 35: relating to the nomination and appointment of judicial officers. Providing that all judicial officers shall be nominated and appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. (Killed)
• CACR 36: relating to probate and district court judges. probate and district court judges shall be full-time employees and have no administrative functions. (Killed)
• CACR 37: relating to the administration of the courts. be an independent administrative office of the courts. (Killed)
• CACR 38: relating to the state judiciary. method for selecting state judges and establishing the New Hampshire Bar as a pool from which state judges are chosen by lot. (Killed)
• CACR 41: relating to clerks of court. the superior and district courts shall be elected instead of appointed and an elected clerk shall be removable upon petition by the governor with the advice and consent of the council. (Killed)
• SB 25: establishing employer immunity from civil liability for good faith disclosure of information regarding current and former employees to prospective employers. (Killed)
• SB 26: preventing recovery by a nonsupporting parent in a wrongful death claim or action on behalf of the nonsupported child until child support arrearages are paid in full. (Signed into law)
• SB 34: repealing laws relative to abortion. (Signed into law)
• SB 47-FN: continuing the marital guardian ad litem recovery program in the unit of cost containment, office of the commissioner of administrative services. (Signed into law)
• SB 76-LOCAL: limiting the liability of school districts operating facilities for skateboarding, rollerblading or rollerskiing. (Signed into law)
• SB 81: relative to the administration of estates. (Signed into law)
• SB 84: revising the uniform simultaneous death act. (Signed into law)
• SB 85: making technical changes in laws relative to the probate courts. (Signed into law)
• SB 96-FN: relative to the priority of charges in probate of estates. (Signed into law)
• SB 125: relative to the right of entry upon lands for surveying. (Killed)
• SB 177-FN: relative to the liability of prospective adoptive parents for court ordered services. (Signed into law)
• SB 194-FN-A: allowing school districts to transport school-age children between schools and before-and-after-school programs. (Signed into law)
• SB 197-FN: relative to final dispositional orders in child protection cases. (Signed into law)
• SB 206-FN-A: relative to seminars conducted by the superior court for persons seeking custody or visitation of minor children and relative to fees charged for such seminars. (Killed)
• SB 306-LOCAL: relative to municipal officials and their discretion over the use of traffic devices and the purchase of liability insurance. (Killed)
• SB 311: establishing the Uniform International Wills Act. (Signed into law)
• SB 315: relative to divorce proceedings. (Signed into law)
• SB 348: relative to property left behind by tenants. (Killed)
• SB 350: relative to probate court procedures. (Signed into law)
• SB 367: relative to the public protection fund administered by the New Hampshire Bar Association. (Referred for interim study)
• SB 385: requiring the clerks of the superior courts to notify the appropriate regulatory board when a health care provider is convicted of a felony. (Signed into law)
• SB 392: relative to requirements for law enforcement personnel who conduct interviews of minors. (Signed into law)
• SB 394: providing for revocation of wills by divorce. (Signed into law)
• SB 395: enacting certain provisions of the prudent investor act. (Signed into law)
• SB 419: raising the minimum age for marriage. (Killed)
• SB 420: preventing a child from being required to have visitation with a parent incarcerated for the murder of the other parent. (Killed)
• SB 422-FN: establishing a study committee on the procedures for and affordability of open access to judicial records. (Killed)
• SB 438: exercising the authority of the state of New Hampshire to elect out of the federal Volunteer Protection Act of 1997. (Signed into law)
• SB 446: relative to estate planning by a guardian. (Signed into law)
• SB 464-FN: relative to limitations from civil liability for volunteers and relative to state agency preparedness for the year 2000 computer problem. (Signed into law)
• SB 487: relative to the general powers and duties of a guardian over the estate of the minor. (Signed into law)
• SB 498: clarifying the definition of "right of custody" with respect to the crime of interference with custody. (Signed into law)
• SB 502-FN: allowing federal judges to perform marriages after obtaining a special license. (Signed into law)

And 150 bills in 1 earlier term.

Recent Meetings

• The Committee on Judiciary and Family Law met on September 30, 1998 for a subcommittee work session on SB 367.
• The Committee on Judiciary and Family Law met on September 22, 1998 for a subcommittee work session on HB 1433-FN.
• The Committee on Judiciary and Family Law met on September 16, 1998 for subcommittee work sessions on HB 1317 and HB 1549-FN.
• The Committee on Judiciary and Family Law met on August 19, 1998 for a subcommittee work session on HB 1549-FN.
• The Committee on Judiciary and Family Law met on June 30, 1998 for a subcommittee work session on HB 1549-FN.
• The Committee on Judiciary and Family Law met on June 23, 1998 for subcommittee work sessions on HB 1317, HB 1549-FN, HB 1554-FN, HB 1580-FN and HB 1610.
• The Committee on Judiciary and Family Law met on June 16, 1998 for a subcommittee work session on HB 1549-FN.
• The Committee on Judiciary and Family Law met on June 2, 1998 for subcommittee work sessions on HB 1433-FN and HB 1317.
• The Committee on Judiciary and Family Law met on April 28, 1998 for a hearing on SB 367.
• The Committee on Judiciary and Family Law met on April 14, 1998 for hearings on SB 306-LOCAL, SB 464-FN and SB 502-FN.
• The Committee on Judiciary and Family Law met on April 7, 1998 for hearings on SB 487, SB 422-FN and SB 498.
• The Committee on Judiciary and Family Law met on March 31, 1998 for hearings on SB 446, SB 438 and SB 420.
• The Committee on Judiciary and Family Law met on March 24, 1998 for hearings on SB 385, SB 419, SB 392, SB 395 and SB 394.
• The Committee on Judiciary and Family Law met on March 18, 1998 for hearings on SB 350, SB 311, SB 348 and SB 315.
• The Committee on Judiciary and Family Law met on February 17, 1998 for hearings on HB 1360, HB 1371, HB 1471 and HB 1486.
• The Committee on Judiciary and Family Law met on February 13, 1998 for hearings on HB 1164, HB 1261-FN, HB 1266, HB 1510-FN, HB 1445, HB 1452 and HB 1470.
• The Committee on Judiciary and Family Law met on February 11, 1998 for hearings on HB 1511-FN, HB 1519, HB 1554-FN, HB 1565-FN-A, HB 1610, HB 1622-FN and HB 1419.
• The Committee on Judiciary and Family Law met on February 10, 1998 for hearings on HB 1144, HB 1406, HB 1325, HB 1382, HB 1302, HB 1408 and HB 1390.
• The Committee on Judiciary and Family Law met on February 6, 1998 for a hearing on HB 1376.
• The Committee on Judiciary and Family Law met on February 5, 1998 for a hearing on HB 1194.
• The Committee on Judiciary and Family Law met on February 4, 1998 for hearings on HB 1370, HB 1594-FN, HB 1267, HB 1358 and HB 1500.
• The Committee on Judiciary and Family Law met on February 3, 1998 for hearings on HB 1504-FN, HB 1538-FN-A, HB 1593-FN and HB 1433-FN.
• The Committee on Judiciary and Family Law met on January 28, 1998 for hearings on HB 1549-FN, HB 1580-FN, HB 1534, HB 1637-FN, HB 1613-FN and HB 1599-FN.
• The Committee on Judiciary and Family Law met on January 27, 1998 for hearings on HB 1158, HB 1603-FN, HB 1338-FN-A, HB 1505-FN, HB 1570-FN and HB 1516.
• The Committee on Judiciary and Family Law met on January 21, 1998 for hearings on HB 1116, HB 1190, HB 1376, HB 1194, HB 1317 and HB 1347.
• The Committee on Judiciary and Family Law met on January 20, 1998 for hearings on HB 1102, HB 1105, HB 1173, HB 1191 and HB 1251.
• The Committee on Judiciary and Family Law met on January 14, 1998 for a hearing on HB 1587-FN.
• The Committee on Judiciary and Family Law met on January 13, 1998 for hearings on HB 1202, HB 1268, HB 1269, HB 1270, HB 1323 and HB 1332.
• The Committee on Judiciary and Family Law met on January 8, 1998 for hearings on CACR 31, CACR 35, CACR 36, CACR 37, CACR 38, CACR 41 and CACR 32.
• The Committee on Judiciary and Family Law met on October 31, 1997 for an executive session on HB 606-FN-LOCAL. On HB 606-FN-LOCAL it recommended ought to pass with amendment, 10–3.

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