Catherine Cheney

2016 Bills I am Sponsoring

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HB1293 AN ACT relative to the procedure for charter amendments

RSA 49-B:5 was changed in 2014, in 2015 the law was used for the Petition Process in Dover, some parts of the law will be cleared up and the number of signatures required lowered. In Dover the number of signature required to place a question on the 2015 municipal ballot was 872 or 20 percent of the voters that voted in the 2013 municipal election. The new number required would be 430 .

The Change in the number of signatures is the only substantiative change.

. Updates language to clarify ballot process happens at Municipal Elections

. Number of Signatures changed from 20% to 10% of the ballots cast in the last Municipal Election

. Original Petition Committee Signatures (25) Counted to final required number of signatures

. Removes redundant language of Public Hearing conducted by Municipal Officers

. Clarifies petition language as the language of the ballot

. Further clean-up of language

HB1315 AN ACT adding mixed-use development to the definition of business and industrial facility

RSA 162-G is pretty clear in section 16.IV. The provisions of this chapter shall be liberally construed in order to effect its purposes.

. Adds “mixed-use development” to section 3.IV Definition of Business and Industrial Facility

HB1382 AN ACT relative to the referendum procedure for public water systems

RSA 485:14-a requires the number of signatures to petition for a ballot question to be 10 percent of the registered voters in all the towns served by a water system. 10% of the registered voters in Dover for a 2015 petition would be a count of 1100 signatures.

. Change the number of signatures to 20% of the voters voting in the last municipal election