Bill Text: NH HB300 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requiring state employees and state public officials to display identification badges when attending meetings and hearings of the general court.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-08 - Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Voice Vote 03/08/2017 House Journal 9 P. 39 [HB300 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2017-HB300-Introduced.html

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HB 300 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2017 SESSION

17-0280

10/05

 

HOUSE BILL 300

 

AN ACT requiring state employees and state public officials to display identification badges when attending meetings and hearings of the general court.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Brewster, Merr. 21

 

COMMITTEE: Legislative Administration

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires state employees and state public officials attending in their official capacity any legislative meeting or hearing concerning any legislation pending or proposed before the general court to display identification badges.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

17-0280

10/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

 

AN ACT requiring state employees and state public officials to display identification badges when attending meetings and hearings of the general court.

 

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

 

1  Lobbyists; State Employees.  Amend RSA 15:1, V(d) to read as follows:

(d)  Communication made by a public official acting in the public official’s  official capacity, provided that a state employee or state public official complies with RSA 15:2, III.

2  New Paragraph; Lobbyists; State Employees and Public Officials.  Amend RSA 15:2 by inserting after paragraph II the following new paragraph:

III.  State employees and public officials of the state attending in their official capacity any legislative meeting or hearing, in any state building designated for such meetings or hearings, concerning any legislation pending or proposed before the general court, shall display employee identification badges meeting the name tag criteria described in RSA 15:2 when attending such legislative meeting or hearing.

3  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2017.