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2024 SESSION
24-2322.0
05/08
HOUSE BILL [bill number]
AN ACT relative to material subject to disclosure following a public meeting under the right-to-know law.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
24-2322.0
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.