Bill Text: NH HB1169 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to requiring a roll call vote when one member of a public body participates electronically.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-06-16 - Introduced 06/16/2020, and Laid on Table, Motion Adopted, Voice Vote; 06/16/2020; Senate Journal 8 [HB1169 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2020-HB1169-Introduced.html
HB 1169 - AS INTRODUCED
2020 SESSION
20-2216
01/03
HOUSE BILL 1169
AN ACT relative to requiring a roll call vote when one member of a public body participates electronically.
SPONSORS: Rep. J. Schmidt, Hills. 28; Rep. O'Brien, Hills. 36; Rep. Klee, Hills. 30
COMMITTEE: Judiciary
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ANALYSIS
This bill eliminates the requirement that when a member of a public body is participating in a meeting by electronic or other means of communication, all votes must be by roll call vote.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
20-2216
01/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty
AN ACT relative to requiring a roll call vote when one member of a public body participates electronically.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Right-to-Know Law; Meetings Open to the Public. Amend RSA 91-A:2, III(e) to read as follows:
(e) A member participating in a meeting by the means described in this paragraph is deemed to be present at the meeting for purposes of voting. [All votes taken during such a meeting shall be by roll call vote.]
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2021.
