Bill Text: NH HB308 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requiring the election checklist to have a column to annotate if a non-New Hampshire issued form of identification is provided to vote.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-12 - Public Hearing: 02/18/2025 11:20 am Legislative Office Building 306-308 [HB308 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2025-HB308-Introduced.html

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HB 308-FN - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2025 SESSION

25-0461

08/05

 

HOUSE BILL 308-FN

 

AN ACT requiring the election checklist to have a column to annotate if a non-New Hampshire issued form of identification is provided to vote.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Potenza, Straf. 19

 

COMMITTEE: Election Law

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires the election checklist to have a column to annotate if a non-New Hampshire issued form of identification is provided to 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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

25-0461

08/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

 

AN ACT requiring the election checklist to have a column to annotate if a non-New Hampshire issued form of identification is provided to vote.

 

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

 

1  Preparing Checklist; New Column.  Amend RSA 654:25 to read as follows:

654:25 Preparing Checklist. The secretary of state shall issue and distribute guidelines for the content, composition, and style of checklists and for the maintenance of data related to checklists by which the supervisors of the checklist shall compile and correct the checklist. Such guidelines shall specify the information which will be maintained and updated by the supervisors. The secretary shall establish standard forms and procedures for the use of the supervisors for the maintenance of such information. The information to be maintained and updated shall include the full name, domicile address, mailing address, and party affiliation, if any, of each voter on the checklist and such other information as the secretary requires. Every checklist used at any election shall at a minimum contain the full name, domicile address, mailing address, and party affiliation, if any, of each voter on the checklist. The paper checklists used by ballot clerks on election day need not include mailing addresses. The name and address of a voter shall not appear on the checklist at the request of the voter if the voter presents to the supervisors of the checklist a valid protective order pursuant to RSA 173-B. The name, domicile address, and mailing address, if different, of such a voter shall be maintained on a separate list of voters, which shall be nonpublic and not subject to RSA 91-A. If it is necessary to establish such a nonpublic list, the public checklist shall be marked at the end with a notation of the number of voters whose names are maintained on the nonpublic list. The checklists shall have a column for supervisors to annotate if a voter provides a non-New Hampshire issued form of photo identification and what state or other form of identification was presented.

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

 

LBA

25-0461

12/27/24

 

HB 308-FN- FISCAL NOTE

AS INTRODUCED

 

AN ACT requiring the election checklist to have a column to annotate if a non-New Hampshire issued form of identification is provided to vote.

 

FISCAL IMPACT:   This bill does not provide funding, nor does it authorize new positions.

Estimated State Impact
		FY 2025	FY 2026		FY 2027	FY 2028
Revenue		$0	$0		$0	$0
Revenue Fund(s)		None
Expenditures*		$0	Indeterminable		Indeterminable	Indeterminable
Funding Source(s)		General Fund
Appropriations*		$0	$0		$0	$0
Funding Source(s)		None
*Expenditure = Cost of bill                *Appropriation = Authorized funding to cover cost of bill

 

METHODOLOGY:

This bill requires that voter checklists have a column for supervisors to annotate if a voter provides a non-New Hampshire issued form of photo identification and what state or other form of identification was presented.

 

The Department of State indicates that ballot clerks are the ones who mark the checklist, not supervisors.  Additionally, they will need clarification from the legislature regarding what additional details should be captured in this field and depending on those details, system changes may be required.  Therefore the Department is unable to determine the fiscal impact that this bill will have on state expenditures.

 

AGENCIES CONTACTED:

Department of State