Bill Text - HB1069 (2024)

(New Title)  relative to material subject to disclosure under the right-to-know law.


Revision: Nov. 28, 2023, 8:41 a.m.

HB 1069  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2024 SESSION

24-2322

05/08

 

HOUSE BILL 1069

 

AN ACT relative to material subject to disclosure following a public meeting under the right-to-know law.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Edwards, Rock. 31; Rep. Ammon, Hills. 42

 

COMMITTEE: Judiciary

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill provides that preliminary drafts circulated to a quorum or a majority of the public body shall be available for inspection following a public meeting.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-2322

05/08

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to material subject to disclosure following a public meeting under the right-to-know law.

 

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

 

1  Access to Governmental Records and Meetings; Records Available for Public Inspection; Preliminary Drafts.  Amend RSA 91-A:4, II to read as follows:

II.  After the completion of a meeting of a public body, every citizen, during the regular or business hours of such public body, and on the regular business premises of such public body, has the right to inspect all notes, preliminary drafts circulated to a quorum or a majority of the public body, materials, tapes, or other sources used for compiling the minutes of such meetings, and to make memoranda or abstracts or to copy such notes, materials, tapes, or sources inspected, except as otherwise prohibited by statute or RSA 91-A:5.

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