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Senate bill to tidy post‑ban language for child marriage gets brief hearing
Summary
Sen. Deborah Altschuler introduced SB 269, a technical cleanup requested by the Secretary of State to replace gendered terms and remove obsolete waiver language after last year’s child‑marriage ban; the registrar of vital records described the specific statutory fixes and no questions were raised at the hearing.
Senate Judiciary Committee members heard brief testimony on Senate Bill 269 on the afternoon of the committee’s hearing day, when Sen. Deborah Altschuler, representing District 24, introduced the measure requested by the Secretary of State’s office.
The bill would update statutory language left over after last year’s change to New Hampshire law that raised the minimum age of marriage to 18. Specifically, SB 269 replaces gendered terms “bride” and “groom” with…
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