Revision: June 6, 2017, 11:36 a.m.
CHAPTER 73
HB 475 - FINAL VERSION
20Apr2017... 1545-EBA
2017 SESSION
17-0120
10/03
HOUSE BILL 475
SPONSORS: Rep. Cushing, Rock. 21; Rep. Alicea, Merr. 8; Rep. Keans, Straf. 23; Rep. Pantelakos, Rock. 25; Rep. DeSimone, Rock. 14; Rep. Rouillard, Hills. 6; Rep. Wallner, Merr. 10; Rep. Wall, Straf. 6; Sen. Fuller Clark, Dist 21; Sen. Soucy, Dist 18; Sen. Hennessey, Dist 5; Sen. Carson, Dist 14
COMMITTEE: Legislative Administration
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This bill directs the joint legislative historical committee to give priority to hanging portraits in the state house of Jessie Doe and Mary L.R. Farnum, the first women elected to the New Hampshire house of representatives.
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Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
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20Apr2017... 1545-EBA 17-0120
10/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
73:1 Joint Legislative Historical Committee; Portraits of Jessie Doe and Mary L.R. Farnum. In anticipation of the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the celebration in 2019 of the bicentennial of the New Hampshire state house, the joint legislative historical committee established under RSA 17-I shall give priority to the acquisition of portraits of Jessie Doe, of Rollinsford, and Dr. Mary L.R. Farnum, of Boscawen, who in 1921 became the first women elected to the New Hampshire house of representatives, and who together founded the Organization of Women Legislators (OWLs). The committee shall direct that the portraits be hung in suitable places of honor in the state house.
73:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: June 02, 2017
Effective Date: August 01, 2017