Bill Text: NH HB400 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2025-03-26 - Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted DV 211-135 03/26/2025 House Journal 10 P. 72 [HB400 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2025-HB400-Introduced.html

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.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