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HB165: relative to the text of constitutional amendment questions.
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- Gregory Sorg House ยท Graf 11
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HB 165 - AS INTRODUCED
2003 SESSION
03-0513
03/09
HOUSE BILL 165
AN ACT relative to the text of constitutional amendment questions.
ANALYSIS
This bill requires that a constitutional question that proposes amending an existing constitutional provision include the text of the existing provision and the text of the provision as it would be amended.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
03-0513
03/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Three
AN ACT relative to the text of constitutional amendment questions.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Constitutional Amendments; Form of Ballot. Amend RSA 663:3 to read as follows:
663:3 Form of Ballot.
I. The following words shall be printed above the constitutional amendment questions on all ballots containing such questions: "Questions Relating to Constitutional Amendments Proposed by the Convention to Revise the Constitution". A constitutional question shall include, in the text of the question, the text of the article of the constitution as it is proposed to be amended, and the results of the vote taken on ordering the proposed amendment to third reading in both the senate and the house of representatives or at the constitutional convention, whichever is appropriate.
II. If the proposed constitutional amendment would change the text of an existing provision of the constitution, the provision in its then-existing form and in the form in which it would appear as amended shall both be shown, with the changes in text clearly highlighted in order that the differences shall be readily apparent.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.