Bill Text - HB1506 (2014)

Relative to student identification cards used to satisfy voter identification requirements.


Revision: March 27, 2014, midnight

HB 1506 – AS INTRODUCED

2014 SESSION

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03/08

HOUSE BILL 1506

AN ACT relative to student identification cards used to satisfy voter identification requirements.

SPONSORS: Rep. Jasper, Hills 37

COMMITTEE: Election Law

ANALYSIS

This bill eliminates student identification cards issued by career schools from the list of satisfactory forms of voter identification.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

14-2340

03/08

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fourteen

AN ACT relative to student identification cards used to satisfy voter identification requirements.

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

1 Voter Identification; Student identification Cards. Amend RSA 659:13, II(a)(5)(A)(i) to read as follows:

(i) A college[,] or university[, or career school] in New Hampshire and approved to operate or licensed to operate in New Hampshire.

2 Voter Identification; Student identification Cards. RSA 659:13, II(a)(5)(A)(i) is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:

(i) A college or university in New Hampshire and approved to operate or licensed to operate in New Hampshire.

3 Effective Date.

I. Section 2 of this act shall take effect September 1, 2015 at 12:03 a.m.

II. The remainder of this act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.