Election Law and Veterans' Affairs

The Senate Committee on Election Law and Veterans' Affairs.

Bills Referred, 2009-2010

• HB 35: eliminating the office of vice-president from the presidential primary ballot. (Signed into law)
• HB 105: relative to voting machines for the counting of ballots. (Signed into law)
• HB 265: relative to proving qualifications to vote. (Signed into law)
• HB 267: relative to the definition of "election." (Signed into law)
• HB 276-FN: relative to challenges of voters. (Vetoed, override failed)
• HB 292: relative to financial disclosures, lobbyist registrations and statements, prohibited gifts, and executive branch volunteers. (Signed into law)
• HB 341: relative to the date selected for the presidential primary election. (Signed into law)
• HB 349: relative to legislator email records. (Killed)
• HB 387: relative to observation of voter registration. (Signed into law)
• HB 432-FN: relative to penalties for telephone harassment involving a number used to facilitate transportation of voters or otherwise to support voting or registering to vote. (Killed)
• HB 513: establishing a citizen-funded election task force. (Signed into law)
• HB 614: relative to domicile of students for voting purposes and relative to absentee ballot application forms. (Signed into law)
• HB 622: amending the hearing dates of the ballot law commission. (Signed into law)
• HB 623: making various changes to the election laws. (Signed into law)
• HB 626-FN: relative to voter identification. (Died: the chambers did not agree on a version)
• HB 667-FN: relative to misrepresenting the origin of a campaign call and relative to penalties for telephone harassment involving a number used to facilitate transportation of voters or otherwise to support voting or registering to vote. (Signed into law)
• HB 1150: removing certain references to nomination for the office of vice-president. (Signed into law)
• HB 1245: relative to declarations of candidacy and intent by presidential candidates. (Signed into law)
• HB 1367-FN: relative to political advertising and campaign expenditures and contributions by business organizations and labor unions. (Died on the table)
• HB 1387: establishing a committee to study the need for supportive housing for homeless veterans. (Signed into law)
• HB 1476: relative to periodic verification of the checklist. (Signed into law)
• HB 1477: relative to checklist information and relative to challenges of voters. (Signed into law)
• HB 1528: relative to observing voter check-in, relative to challenged voter affidavits, and ratifying certain actionsof the Salem school district. (Signed into law)
• HB 1529: relative to absentee voting. (Signed into law)
• HB 1535-FN: relative to absentee voting, special elections, election returns, preservation of ballots, recounts, the ballot law commission, and electronic ballot counting devices. (Signed into law)
• HB 1568-FN-LOCAL: relative to the definition of wars and conflicts for the purpose of determining eligibility for public assistance payments for burial expenses of veterans. (Signed into law)
• HB 1574-FN: relative to retention of election records. (Signed into law)
• HB 1625: relative to eligibility for the New Hampshire veterans’ home and relative to the calculation of partial pay for state employees who are members of a reserve unit or the national guard and are called to full-time active duty (Signed into law)
• HB 1671-FN: relative to election day registrants. (Killed)
• HCR 28: rescinding all requests by the New Hampshire legislature for a federal constitutional convention. (Adopted by both chambers)
• HCR 29: requiring the Congress of the United States of America to reaffirm its adherence to the Constitution of the United States regarding international agreements and treaties. (Died on the table)
• CACR 9: relating to term of office. Providing that beginning with the 2012 general election, there shall be a 4-year term of office for governor. (Killed)
• CACR 10: relating to: electoral districts. Providing that: representative districts be apportioned within senate districts and that senate districts be apportioned within executive council districts and giving county boundaries priority in senate district apportionment. (Killed)
• CACR 31: relating to suspension of laws. Providing that any law that required a greater than simple majority vote to act shall require an equal or greater vote to suspend, amend, or repeal. (Referred for interim study)
• SB 15: relative to the membership of the state veterans' advisory committee. (Signed into law)
• SB 21: enabling certain persons to vote in primaries prior to turning 18 years of age. (Died on the table)
• SB 33: allowing lobbyists and those connected with lobbyists to sit on committees established by the judicial branch. (Died: conferees could not agree)
• SB 35: establishing a commission to study creating a veterans’ legal aid advocacy project in New Hampshire. (Signed into law)
• SB 41: relative to campaign activities at polling places. (Killed)
• SB 57: relative to the commission to study the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury suffered by New Hampshire soldiers and veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. (Signed into law)
• SB 91: relative to the duties of a moderator and a municipality before, during, and after an election. (Killed)
• SB 116: repealing the prohibition on political contributions by insurance companies. (Signed into law)
• SB 118: relative to assistance in voting. (Signed into law)
• SB 148: establishing that the state of New Hampshire recognizes the designations of Prisoner of War (POW) and Missing in Action (MIA) as valid descriptions of casualty status and category classification for military personnel. (Signed into law)
• SB 155: relative to financial disclosure by legislators. (Signed into law)
• SB 157: relative to the procedure for listing candidates on election ballots. (Signed into law)
• SB 183-FN: relative to the number of daily journals printed by the house and senate clerks. (Signed into law)
• SB 196: relative to non-judicial punishment for minor offenses by military officers and personnel. (Signed into law)
• SB 204: relative to postsecondary educational assistance for New Hampshire national guard members and excluding certain entities that license software from the definition of private postsecondary career school. (Signed into law)
• SB 324: relative to financial disclosures. (Signed into law)
• SB 379: proclaiming September 5 as Portsmouth Peace Treaty Day. (Signed into law)
• SB 412: relative to the display of the POW-MIA flag. (Signed into law)
• SB 508: establishing the state office of veterans services. (Signed into law)
• SB 509: establishing the New Hampshire medal of honor fund and repealing the New Hampshire service award. (Signed into law)
• SCR 1: urging Congress to fund the development and implementation of a comprehensive health care delivery system to enhance the level of specialty care for New Hampshire's veterans. (Adopted by both chambers)
• HJR 3: recognizing the historic milestone represented by the New Hampshire senate being the first legislative body in the United States with women as the majority of its members. (Signed into law)

Recent Meetings

• The Committee on Election Law and Veterans' Affairs met on April 20, 2010 for hearings on HB 341, HB 1476, HB 1528 and HB 1529.
• The Committee on Election Law and Veterans' Affairs met on April 13, 2010 for hearings on HB 1625 and HB 1387.
• The Committee on Election Law and Veterans' Affairs met on April 6, 2010 for hearings on HB 626-FN, HCR 29, HCR 28 and HB 1245.
• The Committee on Election Law and Veterans' Affairs met on March 23, 2010 for hearings on HB 1535-FN, HB 1568-FN-LOCAL and HB 1574-FN.
• The Committee on Election Law and Veterans' Affairs met on March 16, 2010 for hearings on HB 1150, HB 1367-FN, HB 1477 and HB 1671-FN.
• The Committee on Election Law and Veterans' Affairs met on March 8, 2010 for hearings on SB 508 and SB 509.
• The Committee on Election Law and Veterans' Affairs met on January 19, 2010 for hearings on SB 324, CACR 31 and SB 412.
• The Committee on Election Law and Veterans' Affairs met on January 12, 2010 for hearings on SCR 1 and SB 379.
• The Committee on Election Law and Veterans' Affairs met on May 5, 2009 for a hearing on HB 614.
• The Committee on Election Law and Veterans' Affairs met on April 28, 2009 for hearings on HB 276-FN, HB 432-FN and HB 349.
• The Committee on Election Law and Veterans' Affairs met on April 22, 2009 for an executive session on SB 116.
• The Committee on Election Law and Veterans' Affairs met on April 21, 2009 for a hearing on HJR 3.
• The Committee on Election Law and Veterans' Affairs met on April 14, 2009 for hearings on HB 387, HB 622 and HB 623.
• The Committee on Election Law and Veterans' Affairs met on April 7, 2009 for hearings on HB 105, HB 265 and HB 292.
• The Committee on Election Law and Veterans' Affairs met on March 31, 2009 for hearings on HB 35, HB 513, HB 667-FN and HB 267.
• The Committee on Election Law and Veterans' Affairs met on March 17, 2009 for a hearing on SB 204.
• The Committee on Election Law and Veterans' Affairs met on March 9, 2009 for a hearing on SB 196.
• The Committee on Election Law and Veterans' Affairs met on March 3, 2009 for hearings on SB 57, SB 157 and SB 21.
• The Committee on Election Law and Veterans' Affairs met on February 17, 2009 for hearings on SB 183-FN, SB 155, SB 148, CACR 9 and CACR 10.
• The Committee on Election Law and Veterans' Affairs met on February 10, 2009 for hearings on SB 116 and SB 118.
• The Committee on Election Law and Veterans' Affairs met on February 3, 2009 for hearings on SB 91, SB 41 and SB 57.
• The Committee on Election Law and Veterans' Affairs met on January 27, 2009 for hearings on SB 15, SB 35 and SB 33.

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