UPDATE ON – CALL TO ACTION – HR 25 -Please ask the Legislative Administrative Committee to support this resolution (OTP)

Unfortunately HR 25 was not supported by most of the Republicans in the Legislative Administrative Committee. Please thank Reps. McCarter Nikki.McCarter@leg.state.nh.us and Sellers John.Sellers@leg.state.nh.us for their support of HR 25.

Due to the lack of support by the other committee members, HR 25 was recommended for an interim study.

Please ask the other committee members (emails are listed at the end of this blog) why they didn’t support HR 25. You can site Part 1 Art. 8, letting them know they owe you a response within a reasonable time frame.

[Art.] 8. [Accountability of Magistrates and Officers; Public’s Right to Know.] All power residing originally in, and being derived from, the people, all the magistrates and officers of government are their substitutes and agents, and at all times accountable to them. Government, therefore, should be open, accessible, accountable and responsive. To that end, the public’s right of access to governmental proceedings and records shall not be unreasonably restricted. The public also has a right to an orderly, lawful, and accountable government. Therefore, any individual taxpayer eligible to vote in the State, shall have standing to petition the Superior Court to declare whether the State or political subdivision in which the taxpayer resides has spent, or has approved spending, public funds in violation of a law, ordinance, or constitutional provision. In such a case, the taxpayer shall not have to demonstrate that his or her personal rights were impaired or prejudiced beyond his or her status as a taxpayer. However, this right shall not apply when the challenged governmental action is the subject of a judicial or administrative decision from which there is a right of appeal by statute or otherwise by the parties to that proceeding.
June 2, 1784
Amended 1976 by providing right of access to governmental proceedings and records.
Amended 2018 by providing that taxpayers have standing to bring actions against the government

Previous blog post about HR 25.