2000 SESSION

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HOUSE BILL 1216

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

ANALYSIS

This bill requires school boards to insert properly petitioned warrant articles on the warrant for a school district meeting with only such minor textual changes as may be required.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand

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

199:1 School Meetings; Warrant and Articles. Amend RSA 197:6 to read as follows:

197:6 Warrant and Articles. Upon the written application of 25 or more voters or 2 percent of the voters of the school district, whichever is less, although in no event shall fewer than 10 registered voters be sufficient, presented to the school board or one of them not later than 30 days before the date prescribed for the school district meeting or the second Tuesday in March, whichever is earlier, the school board shall insert in the school district warrant for such meeting [any subject matter specified in such application] the petitioned article with only such minor textual changes as may be required. No article may be inserted after posting of said warrant. The right to have an article inserted in the warrant conferred by this section shall not be invalidated by the provisions of RSA 32.

199:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

(Approved: May 30, 2000)

(Effective Date: July 29, 2000)