Bill Text: NH HB1378 | 2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Relative to disabled voters requiring assistance.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2016-05-23 - Signed by Governor Hassan 05/19/2016; Chapter 88; Eff. 7/18/2016 [HB1378 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2016-HB1378-Chaptered.html
CHAPTER 88
HB 1378 - FINAL VERSION
9Mar2016... 0496h
2016 SESSION
16-2635
03/01
HOUSE BILL 1378
AN ACT relative to disabled voters requiring assistance.
SPONSORS: Rep. Fields, Belk. 4
COMMITTEE: Election Law
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ANALYSIS
This authorizes a disabled voter who is unable to access a polling place to vote with an absentee ballot.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
9Mar2016... 0496h 16-2635
03/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen
AN ACT relative to disabled voters requiring assistance.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
88:1 New Section; Assistance in Voting; Disabled Voter. Amend RSA 659 by inserting after section 20 the following new section:
659:20-a Assistance in Voting; Disabled Voter. Any voter who declares to the moderator under oath that said voter is unable to access a polling place due to physical disability, after appearing at the polling place location to vote in person shall, upon the voter's request, have an absentee ballot delivered to the voter outside the guardrail by the town or ward clerk or one of his or her assistants. The absentee ballot delivered by the town or ward clerk shall be delivered and processed using the same procedures as any other absentee ballot except that the voter shall be treated on the marked checklist as having voted in person.
88:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: May 19, 2016
Effective Date: July 18, 2016