HB 1073  - AS INTRODUCED

2022 SESSION

22-2122

07/04

HOUSE BILL 1073

AN ACT repealing the right-to-know exemption for attorney-client work product.

SPONSORS: Rep. Wuelper, Straf. 3; Rep. Potucek, Rock. 6; Rep. Stapleton, Sull. 5

COMMITTEE: Judiciary

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ANALYSIS

This bill removes records protected under the attorney-client privilege and the attorney work product doctrine from the list of governmental records exempted under the right-to-know law.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

22-2122

07/04

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Two

AN ACT repealing the right-to-know exemption for attorney-client work product.

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

1  Repeal.  RSA 91-A:5, XII, relative to the exemption for records protected under the attorney-client privilege or the attorney work product doctrine within the right to know law, is repealed.

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