Government transparency advocates prevail in slowing NH bill with public records fee
Several NH House members said they didn’t understand the legislation’s unintended consequences when they voted for it last week.
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Several NH House members said they didn’t understand the legislation’s unintended consequences when they voted for it last week.
Under heavy lobbying from government transparency advocates, the House reversed itself Thursday and agreed to rethink a bill it passed last week that would allow communities to charge up to $25 an hour to fulfill requests for public records when doing so took more than 10 hours.
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