HB 180 - VERSION ADOPTED BY BOTH BODIES
13Feb2025... 0261h
2025 SESSION
25-0162
05/06
HOUSE BILL180
AN ACTrelative to critical incident stress management teams.
SPONSORS:Rep. Proulx, Hills. 15
COMMITTEE:Executive Departments and Administration
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AMENDED ANALYSIS
This bill revises training requirements for critical incident stress management teams and permits the team leader to designate team members. The bill also clarifies that a team need not be affiliated with a municipality and establishes qualifications and responsibilities of the team leader.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
13Feb2025... 0261h25-0162
05/06
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five
AN ACTrelative to critical incident stress management teams.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Critical Incident Stress Management Teams. Amend RSA 153-A:17-a, I(e) to read as follows:
(e) "Critical incident stress management team" or "team" means the group of one or more trained volunteers, including members of peer support groups organized by a unit of state, local, or county government, or members of a union of emergency response/public safety workers, as defined in subparagraph (g), who offer critical incident stress management and crisis intervention services following a critical incident or long term or continued, debilitating stress being experienced by emergency response/public safety workers, including retired emergency response/public safety workers, and affecting them or their families. A team may or may not be affiliated with a municipality.
2 Critical Incident Intervention and Management. Amend RSA 153-A:17-a, II to read as follows:
II.(a) Team members shall undergo [and sustain certification standards] initial training set forth in guidelines established by the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF) approved by the commissioner of the department of safety, or a similar organization for which the commissioner shall not unreasonably withhold approval. The team shall be registered with [ICISF, or a similar organization and] the commissioner of safety[,] and maintain training standards to date as required.
(b) All critical incident stress management team members, sworn, civilian, or retired, shall be designated by the team leader, police chief, sheriff, director of the division of state police, fire chief, commissioner of the department of corrections, superintendent of county corrections, chief of emergency medical services, director of the division of emergency services and communications, or head of a union of emergency response/public safety workers as defined by RSA 281-A:2, V-c.
(c) The team leader shall be a person with strong communication, problem-solving, and delegation skills, who is formally trained in individual and group critical incident stress management processes. The team leader shall be responsible for training team members, setting acceptable strategies, and monitoring team progress.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.