HB173: relative to maintaining the purpose of a petitioned warrant article.

HB 173 - AS INTRODUCED

2025 SESSION

25-0153

07/08

HOUSE BILL 173

AN ACT relative to maintaining the purpose of a petitioned warrant article.

SPONSORS: Rep. Sellers, Graf. 18; Rep. Seidel, Hills. 29; Rep. Ammon, Hills. 42; Rep. Post, Hills. 42; Rep. Pauer, Hills. 36; Rep. Terry, Belk. 7; Rep. Tierney, Coos 1; Rep. Mazur, Hills. 44; Rep. Creighton, Hills. 30; Rep. Guthrie, Rock. 15

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

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ANALYSIS

This bill prevents warrant articles from being amended to change their purpose.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

25-0153

07/08

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

AN ACT relative to maintaining the purpose of a petitioned warrant article.

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

1 Optional Form of Meeting-Official Ballot Referenda; Use of Official Ballots; Amendments to Warrant Articles. Amend RSA 40:13, IV(c) to read as follows:

(c) No warrant article shall be amended to eliminate the subject matter of the article or to change the purpose of a petitioned warrant article. An amendment that changes the dollar amount of an appropriation in a warrant article shall not be deemed to violate this subparagraph.

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