identifying certain school district offices as incompatible for purposes of school district elections.
What changed between versions
The incompatibility rule was restructured from 'a school board member cannot also hold offices X, Y, or Z' to 'no person can simultaneously hold more than one of a list of offices.' This means any two of the listed offices are now mutually exclusive, not just combinations involving the school board.
School district clerk was added as an office that is incompatible with all other listed school district offices.
Advisory budget or finance committee member under RSA 32:24 was added as a new incompatible office, expanding the bill beyond traditional elected positions to include advisory roles.
'Elected school budget committee member' was replaced with the more specific 'budget committee member-at-large under RSA 32:15,' narrowing and clarifying which budget committee role is covered.
Salaried employees of a school administrative unit or district are now also barred from serving as budget committee member-at-large (RSA 32:15) or advisory budget/finance committee member (RSA 32:24), not just as school board members.
A new timing condition was added to the candidacy filing restriction: a person can only be blocked from filing if their current term in an incompatible office extends past the upcoming election. This creates an exception for cases where the current term ends before the next election.
The bill changed from amending RSA 671:18 to repealing and reenacting it, which is a legislative drafting choice that can affect how prior amendments or references to the statute are handled.
