Bill Text: NH SB272 | 2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to notice of voter registration.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-05-07 - Inexpedient to Legislate Motion Adopted Voice Vote [SB272 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2014-SB272-Introduced.html

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SB 272 – AS INTRODUCED

2014 SESSION

14-2711

03/04

SENATE BILL 272

AN ACT relative to notice of voter registration.

SPONSORS: Sen. Boutin, Dist 16; Rep. Fields, Belk 4

COMMITTEE: Public and Municipal Affairs

ANALYSIS

This bill authorizes the secretary of state to provide notice of a voter registration to supervisors of the checklist in another state.

This bill was requested by the department of state.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

14-2711

03/04

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fourteen

AN ACT relative to notice of voter registration.

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

1 Adding Name to Checklist; Notice. Amend RSA 654:13, I to read as follows:

I. If the supervisors decide to add the name of the applicant to the checklist, then they shall retain the original of the registration form for their own file, which shall be retained in accordance with RSA 33-A:3-a, forward one copy to the supervisors of the checklist of the city or town of the applicant’s last voting address if said address is in the state of Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, or Rhode Island, [and send another copy to the clerk of their town or city] or any state with which the secretary of state has established a mutual agreement for this purpose, and notify the clerk through the statewide centralized voter registration database. Alternatively, if the supervisors decide to add the name of the applicant to the checklist, then they shall retain the original of the registration form for their own file, which shall be retained in accordance with RSA 33-A:3-a, the secretary of state may, on behalf of the supervisors of the checklist, forward data included in the registration form to the state of the applicant’s last voting address if said address is in the state of Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, or Rhode Island, or any state with which the secretary of state has established a mutual agreement for this purpose, and notify the clerks and supervisors of the checklist through the statewide centralized voter registration database. If the state takes this action to notify another state of the voter’s registration, the supervisors of the checklist shall not be required to notify their counterparts in the other state. Upon entry of the voter record in the statewide centralized voter registration database, the supervisors of the checklist in another New Hampshire city or town will receive notice through the statewide centralized voter registration database that the voter has moved.

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