HB 1225-FN-LOCAL – AS INTRODUCED
2010 SESSION
03/01
HOUSE BILL 1225-FN-LOCAL
AN ACT requiring a security escort for the delivery of ballots to the clerk.
SPONSORS: Rep. Pilotte, Hills 16; Rep. Perry, Straf 3; Rep. Winters, Hills 17; Sen. DeVries, Dist 18
This bill requires a security escort for the delivery of ballots after an election to 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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
10-2327
03/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Ten
AN ACT requiring a security escort for the delivery of ballots to the clerk.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Delivery of Ballots to Town Clerk. Amend RSA 659:98 to read as follows:
659:98 Delivery of Ballots to Town Clerk. The moderator, or his or her designee, and the selectmen, or their designee, after they have sealed and certified the state election ballots as provided in RSA 659:95 and [96] RSA 659:96, shall, accompanied by security escort, deliver the sealed containers to the town or city clerk, or to [his] the clerk’s designee, who shall in their presence enter in the appropriate place on each sealer the time of day and shall sign his or her name in the appropriate blank on the sealer. The clerk or [his] clerk’s designee shall, without breaking the seals or otherwise changing the condition of the containers, deposit the containers in the town or city hall, where the ballots shall be kept for a period of 60 days.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
LBAO
10-2327
10/30/09
HB 1225-FN-LOCAL - FISCAL NOTE
AN ACT requiring a security escort for the delivery of ballots to the clerk.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The New Hampshire Municipal Association and the Department of State this bill may increase local expenditures by an indeterminable amount in FY 2010 and each fiscal year thereafter. There will be no fiscal impact on state or county expenditures and state, county, or local revenue.
METHODOLOGY:
The New Hampshire Municipal Association states this legislation would require a security escort to accompany the moderator or the selectman or their designees when they deliver ballot boxes to the town or city clerk after state and local elections. The Association states, to the extent municipalities would be required to pay someone to perform the service of a security escort, they would experience an increase in costs of an indeterminable amount. The Association maintains that the proposed legislation lacks both a definition for the term ‘security escort’ and an indication of who could serve in that capacity, so it cannot reasonably estimate what the fiscal impact would be.
The Department of State states this proposed bill may increase expenditures by an indeterminable amount at the local level.
This bill does not contain an appropriation.