Bill Text - HB1010 (2022)

Requiring municipal voter history to be made accessible in the statewide centralized voter registration database.


Revision: Oct. 29, 2021, 12:33 p.m.

HB 1010-FN - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2022 SESSION

22-2212

11/05

 

HOUSE BILL 1010-FN

 

AN ACT requiring municipal voter history to be made accessible in the statewide centralized voter registration database.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Sweeney, Rock. 8

 

COMMITTEE: Election Law

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires municipal voter history to be made accessible in the statewide centralized voter registration database.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

22-2212

11/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Two

 

AN ACT requiring municipal voter history to be made accessible in the statewide centralized voter registration database.

 

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

 

1  Availability of Checklist and Voter Information; Municipal Voter History.  Amend RSA 654:31, III to read as follows:

III. Any person may view the data that would be available on the public checklist, as corrected by the supervisors of the checklist, as well as municipal voter history, on the statewide centralized voter registration database maintained by the secretary of state at the state records and archives center during normal business hours, but the person viewing data at the state records and archives center may not print, duplicate, transmit, or alter the data.

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

 

LBA

22-2212

10/13/21

 

HB 1010-FN- FISCAL NOTE

AS INTRODUCED

 

AN ACT requiring municipal voter history to be made accessible in the statewide centralized voter registration database.

 

FISCAL IMPACT:      [ X ] State              [    ] County               [    ] Local              [    ] None

 

 

 

Estimated Increase / (Decrease)

STATE:

FY 2022

FY 2023

FY 2024

FY 2025

   Appropriation

$0

$0

$0

$0

   Revenue

$0

$0

$0

$0

   Expenditures

$15,000

$0

$0

$0

Funding Source:

  [    ] General            [    ] Education            [    ] Highway           [ X ] Other - Federal-HAVA

 

 

 

 

 

METHODOLOGY:

This bill requires the municipal election history to be included in the data made available for viewing in the statewide centralized voter registration database.  The Department of State indicates the software changes needed to accommodate this bill would have an estimated cost of approximately $15,000 in Help America Vote Again (HAVA) federal funds in FY 2022.

 

AGENCIES CONTACTED:

Department of State