HB 465 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2017 SESSION

17-0580

03/04

 

HOUSE BILL 465

 

AN ACT relative to domicile for the purposes of voting or holding elective office.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Bates, Rock. 7; Rep. Seidel, Hills. 28

 

COMMITTEE: Election Law

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill identifies certain actions that will deem a person to have abandoned his or her domicile for the purposes of voting or holding elective office.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

17-0580

03/04

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

 

AN ACT relative to domicile for the purposes of voting or holding elective office.

 

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

 

1  New Paragraph; Termination of Domicile.  Amend RSA 654:1 by inserting after paragraph II the following new paragraph:

III.  A person shall be deemed to have abandoned his or her domicile, for the purposes of voting or running for or holding elective office, if he or she claims residency in another state, files taxes as a resident of another state, claims a homestead exemption in another state, or sells and moves out of the residence where he or she was domiciled.

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