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House adopts ethics guidelines after debate over timing and statutory language
Summary
After floor debate about procedure and whether members had time to review proposed changes, the New Hampshire House adopted ethics guidelines that members said mirror recently enacted statutory language.
CONCORD, N.H. — The New Hampshire House on Dec. 4 adopted a package of ethics-guideline amendments after a lengthy floor debate over timing, committee authority and how the guidelines relate to recently enacted statute.
Representative Steven Smith and Representative Alexis Simpson offered the amendment to the rules package that included the ethics language. Representative Lynn said the ethics committee had voted unanimously to adopt guidelines "which track the language in the statute,"…
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