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HB1082 • 2026

enabling municipalities to remove political signs from state-owned property located within the municipality after an election.

enabling municipalities to remove political signs from state-owned property located within the municipality after an election.

Elections
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Catherine Rombeau (D), Rosemarie Rung (D), Ted Gorski (R), Charles Foote (R), Daniel Veilleux (D), Donovan Fenton (D), Nancy Murphy (D), Wendy Thomas (D), Denise Ricciardi (R)
Last action
2026-03-05
Official status
HOUSE
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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enabling municipalities to remove political signs from state-owned property located within the municipality after an election.

enabling municipalities to remove political signs from state-owned property located within the municipality after an election.

What This Bill Does

  • enabling municipalities to remove political signs from state-owned property located within the municipality after an election.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-03-05 H

    Inexpedient to Legislate: MA VV 03/05/2026 HJ 6 P. 14

  2. 2026-02-24 H

    Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate 02/10/2026 (Vote 14-0; CC) HC 9 P. 13

  3. 2026-02-11 H

    Executive Session: 02/10/2026 11:00 am GP 158

  4. 2026-01-29 H

    Public Hearing: 02/03/2026 10:20 am GP 158

  5. 2025-12-01 H

    Introduced 01/07/2026 and referred to Election Law HJ 1 P. 5

Official Summary Text

enabling municipalities to remove political signs from state-owned property located within the municipality after an election.

Current Bill Text

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HB 1082 - AS INTRODUCED

2026 SESSION
26-2586
08/09

HOUSE BILL
1082

AN ACT
enabling municipalities to remove political signs from state-owned property located within the municipality after an election.

SPONSORS: Rep. Rombeau, Hills. 2; Rep. Foote, Rock. 13; Rep. N. Murphy, Hills. 12; Rep. Rung, Hills. 12; Rep. Veilleux, Hills. 34; Rep. W. Thomas, Hills. 12; Rep. Gorski, Hills. 2; Sen. Fenton, Dist 10; Sen. Ricciardi, Dist 9

COMMITTEE: Election Law

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ANALYSIS

This bill enables municipalities to remove political signs from state-owned property located within the municipality after an election.

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26-2586
08/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

AN ACT
enabling municipalities to remove political signs from state-owned property located within the municipality after an election.

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

1 Removal of Political Advertising on Public Property. Amend RSA 664:17 to read as follows:
664:17 Placement and Removal of Political Advertising.
No political advertising shall be placed on or affixed to any public property including highway rights-of-way or private property without the owner's consent. All political advertising shall be removed by the candidate no later than the second Friday following the election unless the election is a primary and the advertising concerns a candidate who is a winner in the primary.
Any political advertising remaining on any public property, including highway rights-of-way or state owned property, after the second Friday following the election may be removed by the municipality in which the advertising has been placed or affixed.
Signs shall not be placed on or affixed to utility poles or highway signs. Political advertising may be placed within state-owned rights-of-way as long as the advertising does not obstruct the safe flow of traffic and the advertising is placed with the consent of the owner of the land over which the right-of-way passes. No person shall remove, deface, or knowingly destroy any political advertising which is placed on or affixed to public property or any private property except for removal by the owner of the property, persons authorized by the owner of the property, or a law enforcement officer removing improper advertising. Political advertising placed on or affixed to any public property may be removed by state, city, or town maintenance or law enforcement personnel. Political advertising removed prior to election day by state, city, or town maintenance or law enforcement personnel shall be kept until one week after the election at a place designated by the state, city, or town so that the candidate, or a member of the candidate's campaign or local political committee of the same party may retrieve the items.

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