CHAPTER 281
HB 228 - FINAL VERSION
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2000 SESSION
03/01
HOUSE BILL 228
This bill specifies that any expenditures made after January 1 of the election year shall be counted towards expenditure limitations for governor, United States senator, representative to Congress, state senator, state representative, and executive councilors, regardless of when the person actually declares his or her candidacy.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
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99-0289
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand
AN ACT clarifying permissible political expenditures.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
281:1 Elections; Political Expenditures and Contributions; Political Expenditure Limitation Amounts; Total Expenditures Defined. Amend RSA 664:5-b, VI to read as follows:
VI. For the purposes of this section, RSA 664:5-a, and the enforcement provisions of this chapter, "total expenditures" shall mean the sum of all expenditures made to influence either a state primary or a state general election made by a candidate and those made on [his] the candidate's behalf by [his] the candidate's committee or committees, [his] the candidate's party, and [his] the candidate's immediate family. For candidates for governor, United States senator, representative to Congress, state senate, state representative, and executive council, "total expenditures" shall include any such expenditures made after January 1 of the election year, regardless of when the person actually declares his or her candidacy. Each campaign expenditure limitation amount shall apply solely and independently to either the state primary election or the state general election.
281:2 Applicability. The limitation on total expenditures established in section 1 of this act shall not apply to expenditures made prior to the effective date of this act.
281:3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
(Approved: June 21, 2000)
(Effective Date: June 21, 2000)