HB 400 - AS INTRODUCED
2025 SESSION
25-0844
11/09
HOUSE BILL400
AN ACTrequiring a public body's collective bargaining negotiations to be deemed public meetings and requiring that arguments made and information generated during the meetings be made available to the public under the right-to-know law.
SPONSORS:Rep. P. Brown, Rock. 14
COMMITTEE:Judiciary
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ANALYSIS
This bill provides that collective bargaining negotiations with a public body are a meeting under the right-to-know law.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
25-0844
11/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five
AN ACTrequiring a public body's collective bargaining negotiations to be deemed public meetings and requiring that arguments made and information generated during the meetings be made available to the public under the right-to-know law.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Public Meetings; Collective Bargaining Negotiations. Amend RSA 91-A:2, I(a) to read as follows:
(a) Strategy [or negotiations] with respect to collective bargaining where only one negotiating party is present;
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.