Bill Text: NH HB1515 | 2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Requiring persons sending absentee ballot applications to comply with identification requirements for political advertising.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2016-05-23 - Signed by Governor Hassan 05/19/2016; Chapter 90; Eff. 1/1/2017 [HB1515 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2016-HB1515-Chaptered.html
CHAPTER 90
HB 1515 - FINAL VERSION
9Mar2016... 0721h
2016 SESSION
16-2659
03/04
HOUSE BILL 1515
AN ACT requiring persons sending absentee ballot applications to comply with identification requirements for political advertising.
SPONSORS: Rep. Schroadter, Rock. 17; Rep. Whitehouse, Straf. 2
COMMITTEE: Election Law
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ANALYSIS
This bill requires persons sending absentee ballot applications to comply with identification requirements for political advertising.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.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... 0721h 16-2659
03/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen
AN ACT requiring persons sending absentee ballot applications to comply with identification requirements for political advertising.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
90:1 Absentee Voting Forms. Amend RSA 657:4, II to read as follows:
II.(a) Any person, other than the city or town clerk or the secretary of state, that publishes, mails, or distributes in any manner any written communication that contains a form or post card which a reasonable person would consider as intended to be used by the recipient of the communication to submit a request for an absentee ballot shall identify who is publishing, mailing, or distributing the communication, and attach a copy of the form prepared by the secretary of state pursuant to paragraph I of this section to the communication or include in the communication a complete facsimile of the form prepared by the secretary of state pursuant to paragraph I of this section.
(b) Any person that publishes, mails, or distributes forms as described in subparagraph (a) as part of any communication that is made for the purpose of promoting the success or defeat of a candidate or candidates or measure or measures, as defined in RSA 664:2, shall be identified in the same manner as political advertising under RSA 664:14.
(c) Any person that violates this paragraph shall be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $1,000, to be imposed in the manner set forth in RSA 659:34, III-V.
90:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2017.
Approved: May 19, 2016
Effective Date: January 1, 2017
