Plan to Testify on March 31 or Register Support before March 31
All, this only takes a minute to show your SUPPORT for this bill or a few hours if you want to attend the meeting.
See below, this is a good bill to help protect the vote of the voters by allowing more people to vote on the warrant issue at the ballot box.
Thanks,
Representative John Sellers
HB1131, prime sponsored by Rep. Diane Pauer (R-Brookline), restores the adoption of SB2 (official ballot form of meeting) to an election day question on the official ballot, where it previously was for 25 years (1995-2019), instead of a traditional meeting warrant article as it is currently. All proposed changes in local governance are currently official ballot questions, except for adopting SB2 — this is corrected by HB1131.
The SB2 system greatly increases participation in town and school district meetings by having all warrant articles voted on by ballot any time on town election day or by absentee ballot. HB1131 has passed the House and is now being heard in the Senate Election Law and Municipal Affairs Committee Tuesday, Mar. 31 at 1 pm. This is a very popular bill among legislators, as Rep. Pauer has 9 House co-sponsors (max allowed) and 4 Senate co-sponsors (5 is the max).
HB1131 Title: relative to the official ballot referendum form of town meetings. Sponsors: (Prime) Diane Pauer , Kevin Avard, Bill Gannon, Daniel Innis, Juliet Harvey-Bolia, Paul Terry, James Qualey, Jim Kofalt, Jose Cambrils, JD Bernardy, Richard Brown, John Sellers, Deborah Aylward, Tim McGough If possible, please come to the NH State House to testify on Tuesday, March 31, at 1 pm. In person testimony makes a tremendous difference and can sway the Senate Committee to recommending Ought-To-Pass. The previous attempt in 2024 to put SB2 adoption back onto the election day ballot (HB1175) failed to gain support in this Senate committee, and we do not want that happening again. Senate hearing will be in room 122-123. If you can come, please let me know–I will be there to testify–the more supporters the better!
If you cannot make it to the State House, please register on-line support before March 31: https://gc.nh.gov/remotecommittee/senate.aspx
- Select date: March 31
- Select the Committee: Senate Election Law and Municipal Affairs
- Choice the Bill: HB 1131
- Select I am: A Member of the Public (or Elected Official, if one)
- Clickbutton “I Support this Bill”
- Click continue
- Enter name and town, click continue
- Click acknowledgment box, click continue
Please forward this message to other SB2 supporters.Regards,
Eric—
Eric Pauer – President@sdganh.org
President, School District Governance Association of NH (SDGA-NH)
Focused on responsible governance, fiscal prudence, and academic
excellence in our NH public schools and for NH students.
https://sdganh.org/
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