Bill Text: NH HB83 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibiting family members from serving on the same town, city, or school district board or committee.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-02 - Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Voice Vote 02/02/2017 House Journal 5 P. 6 [HB83 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2017-HB83-Introduced.html
HB 83 - AS INTRODUCED
2017 SESSION
17-0031
06/10
HOUSE BILL 83
AN ACT prohibiting family members from serving on the same town, city, or school district board or committee.
SPONSORS: Rep. Byron, Hills. 20
COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government
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ANALYSIS
This bill prohibits family members from being elected to or being appointed to the same town, city, or school district board or committee.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
17-0031
06/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen
AN ACT prohibiting family members from serving on the same town, city, or school district board or committee.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; Town Elections; Incompatibility of Offices. Amend RSA 669:7 by inserting after paragraph II the following new paragraph:
III.(a) No family members shall serve at the same time on the same town, city, or school district board or committee.
(b) In this paragraph, "family member" means a spouse, biological, foster, or adoptive parent or child, stepparent, stepchild, grandparent, grandchild, legal ward, sibling, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, son-in-law, or daughter-in-law.
2 New Section; Incompatible Offices. Amend RSA 41 by inserting after section 4 the following new section:
41:4-a Incompatible Offices.
I. In this section, "family member" means a spouse, biological, foster, or adoptive parent or child, stepparent, stepchild, grandparent, grandchild, legal ward, sibling, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, son-in-law, or daughter-in-law.
II. No family members shall serve at the same time on the same town, city, or school district board or committee.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
