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SB38: relative to placing vote tallies on town and school district ballots.

Bill status: Signed by Governor

Citation
2009 SB38
Official source

Bill details

Version history, amendments, and roll-call votes were not present in the imported local bill data.

House status
Passed/Adopted with Amendment
Senate status
Concurred
Committee
HOUSE Municipal and County Government
Hearing
02/11/2009 at 10:30 AM
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Current official bill text

Sponsors

Topics

Local government Education Elections and voting

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CHAPTER 2

SB 38 – FINAL VERSION

18Feb2009… 0326h

2009 SESSION

09-0972

06/03

SENATE BILL 38

AN ACT relative to placing vote tallies on town and school district ballots.

SPONSORS: Sen. Bragdon, Dist 11; Sen. Barnes, Jr., Dist 17

COMMITTEE: Public and Municipal Affairs

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill clarifies the ability of governing bodies to voluntarily place vote tallies on a ballot without having a vote of the town requiring them to do so.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

18Feb2009… 0326h

09-0972

06/03

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nine

AN ACT relative to placing vote tallies on town and school district ballots.

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

2:1 Budget Preparation. Amend RSA 32:5, V-a to read as follows:

V-a. Any town may vote to require that all votes by an advisory budget committee, a town budget committee, and the governing body or, in towns without a budget committee, all votes of the governing body relative to budget items or any warrant articles shall be recorded votes and the numerical tally of any such vote shall be printed in the town warrant next to the affected warrant article. If a town has not voted to require such tallies to be printed in the town warrant next to the affected warrant article, the governing body may do so on its own initiative.

2:2 Use of Official Ballot. Amend RSA 40:13, V-a to read as follows:

V-a. Any town may vote to require that all votes by an advisory budget committee, a town budget committee, and the governing body or, in towns without a budget committee, all votes of the governing body relative to budget items or any warrant articles shall be recorded votes and the numerical tally of any such vote shall be printed in the town warrant next to the affected warrant article. If a town has not voted to require such tallies to be printed in the town warrant next to the affected warrant article, the governing body may do so on its own initiative.

2:3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved: February 20, 2009

Effective: February 20, 2009