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HB367

House · 2025 sessionRepublicanSigned into law

Partisan town election adoption process

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Changes the method for adopting partisan town elections to match the method for rescinding partisan town elections.

changing the method for adopting partisan town elections to be the same as rescinding partisan town elections.Official record

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281 submissions
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All 30 written submissions were individually written — no organized campaign detected.

Status

Signed into law · July 22, 2025
  1. ✓Introduced
  2. ✓House
  3. ✓Senate
  4. ✓Governor
  5. ✓Law
Sponsors, hearings & roll-call votes

The record · every submission as filed

281 submissions
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Leane Garland
for Myself
Hanover

This is not a bipartisan bill. Vote Inexpedient to Legislate.

Oppose
Patricia Martin
for Myself
Rindge

This would negatively impact consumers and small businesses. I strongly oppose this bill.

Oppose
Micheline Hagan
for Myself
Barrington

Please vote to support ranked-choice voting.

Oppose
Sally Patton
for Myself
NEW LONDON

School districts MUST remain non-partisan!!!!

Oppose
Claudia Damon
for Myself
Concord

With all due respect, it is a terrible idea to make school district elections partisan. Regardless of which side of the so-called "culture wars" you are on, the tables may turn at some point and you will be faced with a partisan political solution that you do not like. Let's keep the elections non-partisan.

Oppose
Jana Sellarole
for Myself
Walpole

Get rid of gerrymandering! It's un-American, and anti-democratic!

Oppose
Shirley Montgomery
for Myself
Hanover

I don't support changing the current law.

Oppose
Sue Nastasi
for Myself
Dover

HB367 isn't needed. Town elections are and should stay nonpartisan.

Oppose
Julie Levesque
for Myself
Hollis

I do not support this bill.

Oppose
Sharon Racusin
for Myself
Hanover

This bill's language specifically targets TOWN ELECTIONS. What about LOCAL do the supporters of this bill NOT understand?

Oppose
James Argeriou
for Myself
Candia

I oppose this bill.

Oppose
Bob Perry
for Myself
Strafford

Oppose
Julie Laracy
for Myself
Conway

I oppose this bill.

Oppose
Martha Jane Rich
for Myself
Enfield

Adopting partisan school district elections would cause significant and unnecessary harm to the process of recruiting and electing the best school board members. We appreciate and honor the service these people provide apart from their party affiliations. In our district, we often have no idea what party our candidates might favor. This works well. It's a system that "ain't broke," so there's no need to "fix" it.

Oppose
Jamie Carreau
for Myself
Derry

We need to leave party politics out of local town elections.

Oppose
bonnie bruno
for Myself
hollis

I only wish I could be in person in the hearing room to provide the testimony written below: Heck ya! I support cacr2 - full stop. Mic drop. (Though I would not drop the mic used in the hearing room =)

Oppose
Kathleen Bean
for Myself
Durham

Although many have chosen a particular party when voting in statewide and national elections, this should not be part of local elections.

Oppose
Vanessa Gravell
for Myself
Salem

I oppose this bill.

Oppose
Raymond Waterman
for Myself
Merrimack

none

Oppose
Patricia Waterman
for Myself
Merrimack

none

Oppose
Gregory Davis
for Myself
Salem

Partisanship has no place in town elections

Oppose
Alix Olson
for Myself
Canaan

Stop messing with our elections!

Oppose
Gabriele Lieberg
for Myself
Newfields

I strongly oppose this bill.

Oppose
Carol Petrusewicz
for Myself
Rochester

Passing this bill would solve the number one complaint the voters say to poll workers at EVERY local election.

Support
Steven Borne
for Myself
Rye

WE should not be paying for Partisan elections. Not when 40% of the State voters are un-declared

Oppose