HB400 (2025) Detail

Requiring a public body's collective bargaining negotiations to be deemed public meetings and requiring that arguments made and information generated during the meetings be made available to the public under the right-to-know law.


HB 400  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2025 SESSION

25-0844

11/09

 

HOUSE BILL 400

 

AN ACT requiring a public body's collective bargaining negotiations to be deemed public meetings and requiring that arguments made and information generated during the meetings be made available to the public under the right-to-know law.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. P. Brown, Rock. 14

 

COMMITTEE: Judiciary

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill provides that collective bargaining negotiations with a public body are a meeting under the right-to-know law.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

25-0844

11/09

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

 

AN ACT requiring a public body's collective bargaining negotiations to be deemed public meetings and requiring that arguments made and information generated during the meetings be made available to the public under the right-to-know law.

 

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

 

1  Public Meetings; Collective Bargaining Negotiations.  Amend RSA 91-A:2, I(a) to read as follows:

(a) Strategy [or negotiations] with respect to collective bargaining where only one negotiating party is present;

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

Links


Date Body Type
Feb. 5, 2025 House Hearing
March 7, 2025 House Exec Session
March 10, 2025 House Exec Session

Bill Text Revisions

HB400 Revision: 46227 Date: Jan. 9, 2025, 4 p.m.

Docket


March 3, 2025: Executive Session: 03/10/2025 01:00 pm LOB 206-208


Feb. 20, 2025: ==CANCELLED== Executive Session: 03/07/2025 10:00 am LOB 206-208


Jan. 23, 2025: Public Hearing: 02/05/2025 01:45 pm LOB 206-208


Jan. 10, 2025: Introduced (in recess of) 01/09/2025 and referred to Judiciary HJ 3 P. 8