Bill Text - HB122 (2019)

(New Title) allowing for gifts, grants, and donations to legislative employees or officers for expenses associated with state and national legislative association events.


Revision: Feb. 15, 2019, 11:55 a.m.

HB 122 - AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

 

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2019 SESSION

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HOUSE BILL 122

 

AN ACT allowing for gifts, grants, and donations on behalf of state and national legislative association events.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Schuett, Merr. 20; Sen. Carson, Dist 14

 

COMMITTEE: Legislative Administration

 

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AMENDED ANALYSIS

 

This bill excludes from legislative prohibitions and reporting requirements the solicitation and acceptance of gifts, grants, or donations on behalf of certain official state and national legislative association events.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nineteen

 

AN ACT allowing for gifts, grants, and donations on behalf of state and national legislative association events.

 

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

 

1  New Subparagraph; Gifts and Honorariums; Legislature; definition of Gift; Exclusion Added.  Amend RSA 14-C:2, IV(b) by inserting after subparagraph (14) the following new subparagraph:

(15)  Gifts, grants, or donations on behalf of an official meeting, conference, or event of a state or national legislative association to which the general court pays dues and which includes among its membership the New Hampshire general court, officers, or staff.

2  Gifts and Honorariums; Solicitation or Acceptance.  Amend RSA 14-C:3, III to read as follows:

III.  It shall be unlawful for any legislator or legislative employee to solicit or to knowingly accept, directly or indirectly, any gift, as defined in this chapter, or to fail to meet the reporting requirements of this chapter.  This prohibition shall not apply to the solicitation or acceptance of gifts, grants, or donations on behalf of an official meeting, conference, or event of a state or national legislative association to which the general court pays dues and which includes among its membership the New Hampshire general court, officers, or staff.

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