Bill Text - HB1372 (2020)

Relative to the election of Carroll county commissioners.


Revision: Dec. 2, 2019, 3:25 p.m.

HB 1372 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2020 SESSION

20-2658

10/06

 

HOUSE BILL 1372

 

AN ACT relative to the election of Carroll county commissioners.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Ticehurst, Carr. 3; Rep. Knirk, Carr. 3

 

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill changes the election of the Carroll county commissioners to be elected by the voters in each county commissioner district.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

20-2658

10/06

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty

 

AN ACT relative to the election of Carroll county commissioners.

 

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

 

1  Election; Carroll County Commissioners.  Amend RSA 653:1, VI(b) to read as follows:

(b)  Carroll county-one county commissioner [from each county commissioner district by all the voters of the county] by the voters in each county commissioner district; provided that, at the [1994] 2020 state general election, the commissioner from district [1] 2 shall be elected to a 4-year term, no commissioner from district 1 shall be elected, and the [commissioners from districts 2 and 3 shall each] commissioner from district 3 shall be elected to a 2-year term.  At each subsequent state general election, 2 commissioners whose terms are expiring shall be elected by [all the voters of the county] the voters of the districts in which a commissioner's term is expiring; and, of the commissioners so chosen, one shall serve a 4-year term and one shall serve a 2-year term and both shall hold their offices until their successors are chosen and qualified.  Following the [1994] 2020 state general election, the 4-year term shall be rotated in sequence starting with district [2] 3.

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