Bill Text: NH SB11 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to the allocation of electoral college votes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-12-19 - To Be Introduced 01/08/2025 and Referred to Election Law and Municipal Affairs; Senate Journal 2 [SB11 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2025-SB11-Introduced.html
SB 11 - AS INTRODUCED
2025 SESSION
25-0215
07/08
SENATE BILL 11
AN ACT relative to the allocation of electoral college votes.
SPONSORS: Sen. Gannon, Dist 23; Sen. McGough, Dist 11; Sen. Sullivan, Dist 18; Sen. Avard, Dist 12; Sen. Birdsell, Dist 19; Sen. Lang, Dist 2; Sen. Rochefort, Dist 1; Rep. L. Walsh, Rock. 15
COMMITTEE: Election Law and Municipal Affairs
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ANALYSIS
This bill apportions the state's presidential electors so that 2 at-large presidential electors shall cast their ballots for the presidential and vice-presidential candidates who received the highest number of votes in the state, and congressional district presidential electors shall cast their ballots for the presidential and vice-presidential candidates who received the highest number of votes in their respective congressional districts.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
25-0215
07/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five
AN ACT relative to the allocation of electoral college votes.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Nomination of Presidential Electors; Designation. Amend RSA 655:54 to read as follows:
655:54 Nomination of Presidential Electors. Presidential electors shall be nominated by state party conventions as provided in RSA 667:21. Each party shall nominate 2 at-large presidential electors and one presidential elector for each congressional district.
2 Meetings of Presidential Electors; Conduct; Apportionment. Amend RSA 660:29 to read as follows:
660:29 Conduct. The electors shall give their votes for president and vice-president of the United States in Concord on said day and shall proceed according to law. Each at-large presidential elector shall cast his or her ballot for the presidential and vice-presidential candidates who received the highest number of votes in the state. Each congressional district presidential elector shall cast his or her ballot for the presidential and vice-presidential candidates who received the highest number of votes in his or her congressional district.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
