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Subcommittee hears constitutional, practical concerns about HB289’s tie between tax dependency and domicile
Summary
Testifiers told a House Election Law subcommittee that House Bill 289’s proposal to treat people claimed as tax dependents by out‑of‑state parents as lacking New Hampshire domicile could raise constitutional problems and be unenforceable in practice.
The House Election Law Subcommittee on Friday heard testimony raising constitutional and practical objections to HB289, a relist on domicile qualifications for voting that would treat people claimed as tax dependents by parents living outside New Hampshire as lacking domicile in the state.
Advocates and witnesses told members the bill would condition an individual’s right to vote on the actions of another person and that tax records are confidential, creating enforcement problems.
Henry Clementowich, deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire, told the subcommittee that the bill’s reliance on a tax‑code definition of “dependent” creates a constitutional problem because it “conditions someone else’s…
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