Bill Text - HB1357 (2020)

Relative to the distribution of campaign materials inside a polling place.


Revision: Dec. 2, 2019, 3:06 p.m.

HB 1357 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2020 SESSION

20-2601

11/03

 

HOUSE BILL 1357

 

AN ACT relative to the distribution of campaign materials inside a polling place.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. T. Smith, Hills. 17; Rep. Hamer, Hills. 17

 

COMMITTEE: Election Law

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill clarifies the prohibition on electioneering in 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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

20-2601

11/03

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty

 

AN ACT relative to the distribution of campaign materials inside a polling place.

 

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

 

1  Election Procedure; Prohibited Acts; Distributing Campaign Materials at Polling Place.  Amend RSA 659:43, II to read as follows:

II.  No person who is a candidate for office or who is representing or working for a candidate shall distribute any campaign materials or perform any electioneering activities or any activity which affects the safety, welfare and rights of voters within a corridor 10 feet wide and extending a distance from the entrance door of the building as determined by the moderator where the election is being held, or within a polling place.

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