Bill Text: NH HB345 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

New Hampshire House Bill 345

Introduced

Bill Title: Enabling selectmen to add additional polling places and requiring selectmen to give notice to voters 30 days before providing such additional polling places.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-07 - Executive Session: 02/11/2025 10:10 am Legislative Office Building 306-308 [HB345 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2025-HB345-Introduced.html

HB 345 - AS INTRODUCED

2025 SESSION

25-0663

08/05

HOUSE BILL 345

AN ACT enabling selectmen to add additional polling places and requiring selectmen to give notice to voters 30 days before providing such additional polling places.

SPONSORS: Rep. Perez, Rock. 16; Rep. Andrus, Merr. 5; Rep. Belcher, Carr. 4; Rep. Dunn, Rock. 16; Rep. Kuttab, Rock. 17; Rep. Popovici-Muller, Rock. 17

COMMITTEE: Election Law

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ANALYSIS

This bill enables selectmen to add additional polling places and requiring selectmen to give notice to voters 30 days before providing such additional polling places.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

25-0663

08/05

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

AN ACT enabling selectmen to add additional polling places and requiring selectmen to give notice to voters 30 days before providing such additional polling places.

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

1 In Towns; Notice of Polling Places. Amend RSA 658:10 to read as follows:

658:10 In Towns. [If any town shall so vote, the] The selectmen [shall] may provide one or more additional polling places in such town and shall give notice to all affected voters [ ,] at least 30 days before the [next following general] election at which the additional polling places will be in effect[,]. The selectmen shall determine the boundaries of the voting district to be served by each such additional polling place.