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HB 376  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2025 SESSION

25-0434

11/08

 

HOUSE BILL 376

 

AN ACT specifying that library user information exempted from disclosure in the right-to-know law includes information regarding library cards and library membership status.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Mazur, Hills. 44; Rep. Alexander Jr., Hills. 29; Rep. Berry, Hills. 44; Rep. Giasson, Hills. 29; Rep. Reinfurt, Hills. 29; Rep. Seidel, Hills. 29; Sen. Murphy, Dist 16

 

COMMITTEE: Judiciary

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill exempts library card and library membership files and information from disclosure under the right-to-know law.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

25-0434

11/08

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

 

AN ACT specifying that library user information exempted from disclosure in the right-to-know law includes information regarding library cards and library membership status.

 

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

 

1  Right to Know: Library Cards.  Amend RSA 91-A:5, IV to read as follows:

IV. Records pertaining to internal personnel practices; confidential, commercial, or financial information; test questions, scoring keys, and other examination data used to administer a licensing examination, examination for employment, or academic examinations; and personnel, medical, welfare, library user (including, but not limited to, library cards and library membership status), videotape sale or rental, and other files whose disclosure would constitute invasion of privacy. Without otherwise compromising the confidentiality of the files, nothing in this paragraph shall prohibit a public body or agency from releasing information relative to health or safety from investigative files on a limited basis to persons whose health or safety may be affected.

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