Revision: Jan. 30, 2017, 11:26 a.m.
HB 253 - AS INTRODUCED
2017 SESSION
17-0530
03/08
HOUSE BILL 253
AN ACT relative to campaign materials at the polling place.
SPONSORS: Rep. Comeau, Carr. 5
COMMITTEE: Election Law
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This bill eliminates the prohibition on wearing campaign materials intended to influence voters at the polling place.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
17-0530
03/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen
AN ACT relative to campaign materials at the polling place.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Distributing Campaign Materials at Polling Place; Wear. Amend RSA 659:43, I to read as follows:
I. No person shall distribute[, wear,] or post at a polling place any campaign material in the form of a poster, card, handbill, placard, picture, pin, sticker, circular, or article of clothing which is intended to influence the action of the voter within the building where the election is being held.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2018.