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HB218: relative to activities at polling places.

Citation
2017 HB218
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House status
Passed/Adopted with Amendment
Senate status
Inexpedient to Legislate
Committee
Senate Election Law and Internal Affairs
Hearing
03/21/2017 at 10:20 AM
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Election Law and Internal Affairs

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HB 218 - AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

15Feb2017... 0056h

2017 SESSION

17-0256

03/10

HOUSE BILL 218

AN ACT relative to activities at polling places.

SPONSORS: Rep. T. Smith, Hills. 17; Rep. Theberge, Coos 3; Rep. Martineau, Hills. 42; Rep. Oxenham, Sull. 1; Rep. Josephson, Graf. 11

COMMITTEE: Election Law

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill prohibits distributing campaign materials and electioneering inside the polling place. This bill also expands the applicability of exiting electioneering prohibitions.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

15Feb2017... 0056h 17-0256

03/10

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

AN ACT relative to activities at polling places.

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

1 Electioneering at the Polling Place. Amend RSA 659:43, II to read as follows:

II. No person [who is a candidate for office or who is representing or working for a candidate] shall distribute any campaign materials or perform any electioneering activities or any activity which affects the safety, welfare, and rights of voters within a corridor 10 feet wide and extending a distance from the entrance door of the building as determined by the moderator where the election is being held, or inside the polling place.

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