Bill Text - HB309 (2017)

Relative to valid student identification cards for voting purposes.


Revision: Jan. 30, 2017, 10:27 a.m.

HB 309 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2017 SESSION

17-0357

03/04

 

HOUSE BILL 309

 

AN ACT relative to valid student identification cards for voting purposes.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Dean-Bailey, Rock. 32

 

COMMITTEE: Election Law

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill eliminates a temporary provision under the voter identification requirement allowing the use of undated student identification cards and requires that student identifications not be expired.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

17-0357

03/04

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

 

AN ACT relative to valid student identification cards for voting purposes.

 

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

 

1  Obtaining a Ballot; Use of Student Identification Cards.  Amend RSA 659:13, II(a)(5)(B) to read as follows:

(B)  The card has either [an expiration date or] an issuance date that has not been exceeded by a period of more than 5 years[, except that, at all elections prior to September 1, 2018, student identification cards without a date of expiration or issuance shall be accepted] or an expiration date that has not been exceeded.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.