Revision: Dec. 10, 2009, midnight
HB 1497 – AS INTRODUCED
2010 SESSION
04/03
HOUSE BILL 1497
AN ACT relative to terms of office for Concord school board members.
SPONSORS: Rep. Osborne, Merr 12; Rep. Shurtleff, Merr 10; Rep. Watrous, Merr 12; Rep. Gile, Merr 10
COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government
This bill, subject to adoption by the Concord union school district legislative body:
I. Specifies terms of office for Concord union school district board of education members through the November 2012 elections.
II. Effective January 1, 2013, amends the Concord union school district charter to provide that 5 members of the board of education shall serve 2-year terms of office and 4 members shall serve 4-year terms of office.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
10-2532
04/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Ten
AN ACT relative to terms of office for Concord school board members.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Concord Union School District; School Board Terms of Office Through 2012. Notwithstanding the provisions of 1961, 355:2 as amended by 1983, 123:1, the term of office of any person elected to the Concord school district board of education between the effective date of this section and the date of the November 2012 election shall expire on the date the new board of education is elected at the November 2013 election.
2 Concord Union School District; Elections. 1961, 355:2 as amended by 1983, 123:1 is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:
355:2 Elections. The election officers in each ward whose duty it is to conduct regular state general elections, shall conduct an election, as hereinafter provided, on the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, biennially, to elect members of the board of education of the Concord school district to serve 4-year terms, except that 5 members elected at the first election after the effective date of this section shall serve 2-year terms. For the purposes of this election, the voters shall cast their ballots in their respective wards for the election of members of the board of education. Candidates for election to the board of education shall be listed on ballot page or pages separate from the pages used in any other elections which may be held concurrently with the board election, as provided in section 4 of this chapter.
3 Referendum; Concord School District Charter; Amendments to Charter. Sections 1 and 2 of this act shall not take effect unless adopted by a majority vote of those present and voting at the regular school board election in November 2010 as hereinafter provided. The clerk of the Concord school district shall cause to be printed at the bottom of the ballot prepared for the election of members of the board of education the following question “Shall the provisions of an act entitled ‘An act relative to terms of office for Concord school board members’ passed at the 2010 session of the legislature, be adopted?” Beneath this question shall be printed the word “Yes” and the word “No” with a square immediately opposite each word, in which the voter may indicate his or her choice. If a majority of those voting on this question at said election vote in the affirmative on this question, this act shall be declared to have been adopted and section 1 of this act shall become effective January 1, 2011, and section 2 of this act shall become effective at 12:01 a.m. on the day after the November 2012 elections. The school district clerk shall within 10 days of said election certify to the secretary of state the result of the vote on the above question.
4 Effective Date.
I. Sections 1 and 2 of this act shall take effect as provided in section 3 of this act.
II. The remainder of this act shall take effect upon its passage.