Bill Text - SB248 (2017)

(Second New Title) establishing a committee to study the rescheduling of elections and relative to absentee voter signatures.


Revision: March 16, 2017, 3:23 p.m.

SB 248  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2017 SESSION

17-1002

10/04

 

SENATE BILL 248

 

AN ACT ratifying elections and meetings postponed due to a weather emergency on March 14, 2017.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Woodburn, Dist 1; Rep. Shurtleff, Merr. 11; Rep. J. Belanger, Hills. 27

 

COMMITTEE: Election Law and Internal Affairs

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill ratifies actions, votes, and proceedings of town and school district meetings and elections postponed due to the weather emergency on March 14, 2017.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

17-1002

10/04

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

 

AN ACT ratifying elections and meetings postponed due to a weather emergency on March 14, 2017.

 

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

 

1  Town and School District Meetings and Elections; Ratification.  All actions, votes, and proceedings, including but not limited to the receipt and issuance of absentee ballots and the time for official recounts, held at any town election, town meeting, school district election, or school district meeting, that were originally scheduled to take place on March 14, 2017, postponed due to a weather emergency, and held at a later date are hereby legalized, ratified, and confirmed.

2  Town and School District Meetings and Elections; Official Ballot Jurisdictions; Ratification.  All actions, votes, and proceedings, including but not limited to the receipt and issuance of absentee ballots and the time for official recounts, held at any session of an annual meeting of a town or school district that has adopted the provisions of RSA 40:13 that were originally scheduled to take place on March 14, 2017, postponed due to a weather emergency, and held at a later date are hereby legalized, ratified, and confirmed.

3  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect upon its passage.