Revision: Jan. 30, 2017, 8:02 a.m.
HB 389 - AS INTRODUCED
2017 SESSION
17-0689
03/10
HOUSE BILL 389
AN ACT relative to voters with physical disabilities.
SPONSORS: Rep. Fields, Belk. 4
COMMITTEE: Election Law
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This bill modifies procedures for assisting a disabled voter who is unable to access 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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
17-0689
03/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen
AN ACT relative to voters with physical disabilities.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Assistance in Voting; Disabled Voter. Amend RSA 659:20-a to read as follows:
659:20-a Assistance in Voting; Disabled Voter. Any registered voter who declares to the moderator on election day and affirms in writing on an absentee ballot request form under oath that said voter with a physical disability is unable to access a polling place due to [physical disability] an extenuating circumstance, after appearing at the polling place location to vote in person shall, upon the voter's request, have an absentee ballot delivered to the voter outside the guardrail by the town or ward clerk or one of his or her assistants. The absentee ballot delivered by the town or ward clerk shall be delivered and processed using the same procedures as any other absentee ballot [except that the voter shall be treated on the marked checklist as having voted in person].
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.