Bill Text: NH HB1543 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to filing for state representative special elections and relative to processing absentee ballots.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-05-22 - Sen. Boutin Refused to Accede to House Request For C of C, Motion Adopted, Voice Vote; Senate Journal 14 [HB1543 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2014-HB1543-Introduced.html

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HB 1543 – AS INTRODUCED

2014 SESSION

14-2504

03/06

HOUSE BILL 1543

AN ACT relative to filing for state representative special elections.

SPONSORS: Rep. Levesque, Hills 26; Rep. J. Belanger, Hills 27; Rep. Fields, Belk 4; Rep. Perry, Straf 3; Sen. Gilmour, Dist 12

COMMITTEE: Election Law

ANALYSIS

This bill clarifies the filing period for state representative special elections.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

14-2504

03/06

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fourteen

AN ACT relative to filing for state representative special elections.

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

1 Vacancy; State Representative. Amend RSA 661:8, III to read as follows:

III. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph II, if a vacancy occurs in the office of state representative in a district comprised of a city ward or wards, a request to hold the primary and special elections on the same dates as the city’s biennial primary and regular elections may be submitted to the governor and council by the governing body of the city. If so requested, the governor and council shall declare the vacancy not less than 56 days prior to the date of the city’s primary election. [The filing period shall be held not more than 50 days nor less than 43 days prior to the primary election.] The filing period shall start on the Monday following the date on which the governor and council declare that there shall be a special election and shall end at 5:00 p.m. on the Friday of that week. The provisions of RSA 655:81, III, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, and XI shall apply to elections held pursuant to this paragraph.

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