Bill Text - HB194 (2024)

(Third New Title) requiring the director of the division of historical resources to compile and maintain a list of public monuments and requiring legislative approval of the amendment or permanent removal of historical markers.


Revision: Dec. 1, 2022, 10:27 a.m.

 

2023 SESSION

23-0270.0

08/05

 

HOUSE BILL [bill number]

 

AN ACT requiring the director of the division of archives and records management to compile and maintain a list of public monuments.

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires the director of the division of archives and records management to compile and maintain a list of public monuments.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

23-0270.0

08/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three

 

AN ACT requiring the director of the division of archives and records management to compile and maintain a list of public monuments.

 

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

 

1  New Paragraph; Division of Archives and Records Management; Duties of Director.  Amend RSA 5:30 by inserting after paragraph XIV the following new paragraph:

XV.  Once every 10 years, compile a survey of all monuments in the state maintained by local or state authorities, including physical markers of a historical event, individual, group of individuals, or geographical sites of historical or cultural significance, maintain such list, and make such survey available to the public through the division's Internet site or web page, as well as to the department of education to be made available to educational institutions in the state.  

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