Bill Text: NH SB215 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requiring an unorganized town or unincorporated place to elect town officers for the purpose of conducting elections.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-18 - Hearing: 03/04/2025, Room 103, Legislative Office Building, 09:30 am; Senate Calendar 11 [SB215 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2025-SB215-Introduced.html
SB 215 - AS INTRODUCED
2025 SESSION
25-1062
07/08
SENATE BILL 215
SPONSORS: Sen. McConkey, Dist 3; Sen. Lang, Dist 2; Sen. Birdsell, Dist 19; Rep. J. Smith, Carr. 5; Rep. Hill, Merr. 2
COMMITTEE: Election Law and Municipal Affairs
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ANALYSIS
This bill requires an unorganized town or unincorporated place to elect town officers for the purpose of conducting 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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
25-1062
07/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places; Powers. Amend RSA 53:1 by inserting after paragraph II the following new paragraph:
III. An unorganized town or unincorporated place with a voter checklist of 100 or more voters shall elect officers for the purposes of conducting local, county, state and federal elections consistent with the provisions of this chapter.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
