New Hampshire HB 1032: creating an exception to physical attendance and quorum requirements under the right-to-know law for individuals with disabilities and individuals caring for a household member with disabilities.

Bill Text

HB 1032 - AS INTRODUCED

2026 SESSION

 26-2677

 12/09

HOUSE BILL 1032

AN ACT creating an exception to physical attendance and quorum requirements under the right-to-know law for individuals with disabilities and individuals caring for a household member with disabilities.

SPONSORS: Rep. Horrigan, Straf. 10; Rep. Thackston, Ches. 12; Sen. Gannon, Dist 23

COMMITTEE: Judiciary

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ANALYSIS

 This bill creates an exception to physical attendance and quorum requirements under the right-to-know law for individuals with disabilities and individuals caring for household members with disabilities.

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 Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

 26-2677

 12/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

AN ACT creating an exception to physical attendance and quorum requirements under the right-to-know law for individuals with disabilities and individuals caring for a household member with disabilities.

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

 1 Meeting Attendance; Disability Preventing Physical Presence. Amend RSA 91-A:2, III(a) to read as follows:

 (a) A member of the public body may participate in a meeting other than by attendance in person at the location of the meeting only when such attendance is not reasonably practical. Any reason that such attendance is not reasonably practical shall be stated in the minutes of the meeting. Members who are not able to be physically present at a meeting due to a disability as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act or because they are caring for a household member with such a disability shall be counted as attending "in person" for the purpose of the establishment of a quorum.

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