New Hampshire HB 1394: relative to fees for park use.

Bill Text

HB 1394 - AS INTRODUCED

2026 SESSION

 26-3207

 08/05

HOUSE BILL 1394

AN ACT enabling the municipal officers to place a proposed charter amendment on the ballot that changes the form of government of the municipality.

SPONSORS: Rep. Sweeney, Rock. 25

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

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ANALYSIS

 This bill enables the municipal officers to place a proposed charter amendment on the ballot that changes the form of government of the municipality.

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 Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

 26-3207

 08/05

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

AN ACT enabling the municipal officers to place a proposed charter amendment on the ballot that changes the form of government of the municipality.

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

 1 Charter Amendments; Procedure; Change Form of Government. Amend RSA 49-B:5, I(c)-(d) to read as follows: 

 (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the municipal officers may, by a vote of two-thirds of their membership, place directly on the ballot a proposed charter amendment that changes the form of government of the municipality, including but not limited to: adoption of a town council, adoption of a city form, transition between council-manager and mayor-council structures, or any other structural realignment of legislative or executive authority. Any such amendment shall be adopted upon receiving a majority of those voting on the question.

 (d) Each amendment shall be limited to a single subject, but more than one section of the charter may be amended as long as it is germane to that subject. 

 [(d)] (e) Alternative statements of a single amendment are prohibited. 

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