Bill Text - HB651 (2019)

Allowing the use of campaign funds for child care expenses.


Revision: Jan. 16, 2019, 9:28 a.m.

HB 651 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2019 SESSION

19-0786

11/05

 

HOUSE BILL 651

 

AN ACT allowing the use of campaign funds for child care expenses.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Loughman, Rock. 21; Rep. Wazir, Merr. 17; Rep. Griffith, Hills. 18; Rep. Josephson, Graf. 11; Rep. Wilhelm, Hills. 42; Rep. K. Murray, Rock. 24

 

COMMITTEE: Election Law

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill permits candidates to use campaign funds for child care expenses.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

19-0786

11/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nineteen

 

AN ACT allowing the use of campaign funds for child care expenses.

 

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

 

1  Elections; Political Expenditures and Contributions; General Provisions; Definitions.  Amend RSA 664:2, IX(a) to read as follows:

(a)  The candidate's filing fee or his or her expenses for personal travel, [and] subsistence, or childcare;

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