SB437 • 2026

making a line on the return that enumerates the number of people who attempted to register to vote but were denied registration due to lack of required documentation.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Rebecca Perkins Kwoka (D), Timothy Lang (R), Laura Telerski (D), Cindy Rosenwald (D), Debra Altschiller (D), Alexis Simpson (D), David Watters (D), Connie Lane (D), Donovan Fenton (D), Pat Long (D)
Last action: 2026-02-12
Official status: SENATE
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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making a line on the return that enumerates the number of people who attempted to register to vote but were denied registration due to lack of required documentation.

What This Bill Does

making a line on the return that enumerates the number of people who attempted to register to vote but were denied registration due to lack of required documentation.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

2026-02-12 S
Inexpedient to Legislate, MA, VV === BILL KILLED ===; 02/19/2026; SJ 4
2026-02-11 S
Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate, 02/19/2026, Vote 4-1, CC; SC 6
2026-01-14 S
Hearing: 01/20/2026, Room 122-123, SH, 09:15 am; SC 2
2025-11-21 S
Introduced 01/07/2026 and Referred to Election Law and Municipal Affairs; SJ 1

Official Summary Text

making a line on the return that enumerates the number of people who attempted to register to vote but were denied registration due to lack of required documentation.

Current Bill Text

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SB 437 - AS INTRODUCED

2026 SESSION
26-2241
08/07

SENATE BILL
437

AN ACT
making a line on the return that enumerates the number of people who attempted to register to vote but were denied registration due to lack of required documentation.

SPONSORS: Sen. Perkins Kwoka, Dist 21; Sen. Fenton, Dist 10; Sen. Rosenwald, Dist 13; Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Sen. Long, Dist 20; Sen. Lang, Dist 2; Sen. Altschiller, Dist 24; Rep. Lane, Merr. 16; Rep. Telerski, Hills. 11; Rep. Simpson, Rock. 33

COMMITTEE: Election Law and Municipal Affairs

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ANALYSIS

This bill makes a line on the return that enumerates the number of people who attempted to register to vote but were denied registration due to lack of required documentation.

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Matter removed from current law appears [
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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
26-2241
08/07

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

AN ACT
making a line on the return that enumerates the number of people who attempted to register to vote but were denied registration due to lack of required documentation.

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

1 New Subparagraph; General Content of Return. Amend RSA 659:73, III by inserting after subparagraph (i) the following new subparagraph:
(j) The number of people who attempted to register but were denied registration due to a lack of required documentation, and, if possible, whether the voter was unable to prove age, citizenship, domicile or identity.

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