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HB247: relative to retention of voter registration forms.

Bill status: Signed by Governor

Citation
2017 HB247
Official source

Bill details

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

House status
Conference Report Adopted
Senate status
Conference Report Adopted
Committee
Senate Committee Of Conference
Hearing
06/12/2017 at 10:30 AM
Selected version
Current official bill text

Sponsors

Topics

Committee Of Conference Elections and voting

Official links

CHAPTER 237

HB 247 - FINAL VERSION

04/27/2017 1435s

22Jun2017... 2255CofC

2017 SESSION

17-0491

03/01

HOUSE BILL 247

AN ACT relative to retention of voter registration forms.

SPONSORS: Rep. Hoelzel, Rock. 3; Rep. J. Belanger, Hills. 27; Rep. Dean-Bailey, Rock. 32; Sen. Birdsell, Dist 19; Sen. Reagan, Dist 17; Sen. Gannon, Dist 23

COMMITTEE: Election Law

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill requires that voter registration forms and other records relating to voter registration be retained securely in a municipal office under the direction of the town or city clerk.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

04/27/2017 1435s

22Jun2017... 2255-CofC 17-0491

03/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

AN ACT relative to retention of voter registration forms.

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

237:1 New Section; Retention of Voter Registration Forms. Amend RSA 654 by inserting after section 13 the following new section:

654:13-a Retention of Voter Registration Forms. All voter registration forms and other records relating to voter registration shall be retained securely in a municipal office under the direction of the town or city clerk. Those forms and records shall be readily accessible to the supervisors of the checklist. Any voter registration document submitted at a meeting of the supervisors of the checklist or at the polling place shall be filed at the office of the town or city clerk within 10 days of the meeting or election at which it was submitted.

237:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

Approved: July 18, 2017

Effective Date: September 16, 2017