Revision: May 31, 2017, 3:28 p.m.
HB 170 - AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE
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2017 SESSION
17-0261
01/03
HOUSE BILL 170
AN ACT relative to posting notice and minutes of public meetings on the public body's website.
SPONSORS: Rep. Comeau, Carr. 5
COMMITTEE: Judiciary
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This bill clarifies the procedure for posting minutes and meeting notices on the public body's Internet website.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
9Mar2017... 0380h
05/31/2017 2032s 17-0261
01/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen
AN ACT relative to posting notice and minutes of public meetings on the public body's website.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; Right-to-Know; Meetings Open to the Public. Amend RSA 91-A:2 by inserting after paragraph II the following new paragraph:
II-a. If a public body maintains an Internet website or contracts with a third party to maintain an Internet website on its behalf, it shall either post its approved minutes in a consistent and reasonably accessible location on the website or post and maintain a notice on the website stating where the minutes may be reviewed and copies requested.
(b) If a public body chooses to post meeting notices on the body's Internet website, it shall do so in a consistent and reasonably accessible location on the website. If it does not post notices on the website, it shall post and maintain a notice on the website stating where meeting notices are posted.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2018.