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SB436 • 2026

relative to zoning board of adjustment membership criteria.

relative to zoning board of adjustment membership criteria.

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Passed Legislature

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Sponsor
Daryl Abbas (R), Victoria Sullivan (R), Keith Murphy (R), Timothy Lang (R), David Watters (D), Regina Birdsell (R), Bill Gannon (R)
Last action
2026-02-05
Official status
SENATE
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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relative to zoning board of adjustment membership criteria.

relative to zoning board of adjustment membership criteria.

What This Bill Does

  • relative to zoning board of adjustment membership criteria.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-02-05 S

    Inexpedient to Legislate, MA, VV === BILL KILLED ===; 02/05/2026; SJ 3

  2. 2026-01-29 S

    Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate; Vote 5-0; CC; 02/05/2026; SC 4

  3. 2025-12-10 S

    Hearing: 01/13/2026, Room 122-123, SH, 09:30 am; SC 46

  4. 2025-11-21 S

    Introduced 01/07/2026 and Referred to Election Law and Municipal Affairs; SJ 1

Official Summary Text

relative to zoning board of adjustment membership criteria.

Current Bill Text

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SB 436 - AS INTRODUCED

2026 SESSION
26-2220
06/09

SENATE BILL
436

AN ACT
relative to zoning board of adjustment membership criteria.

SPONSORS: Sen. Abbas, Dist 22; Sen. Lang, Dist 2; Sen. Gannon, Dist 23; Sen. Sullivan, Dist 18; Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Sen. Murphy, Dist 16; Sen. Birdsell, Dist 19

COMMITTEE: Election Law and Municipal Affairs

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ANALYSIS

This bill replaces the existing recusal provision for zoning board of adjustment members with a conflict of interest standard requiring recusal whenever a member’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned and including prior quasi-judicial involvement on another board.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in
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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
26-2220
06/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

AN ACT
relative to zoning board of adjustment membership criteria.

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

1 Appointment and Terms of Local Land Use Board Members; Zoning Board of Adjustment and Building Code Board of Appeals. RSA 673:3, V is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:
V. Any member of a zoning board of adjustment who has a conflict of interest in a matter before the board shall recuse himself or herself from acting or voting on that matter. A conflict of interest shall include any circumstance in which the member’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned, including prior involvement in the matter in a quasi-judicial capacity as a voting member of another board.

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