New Hampshire Constitutional Amendment (2004)

The New Hampshire Constitutional Amendment, also known as the Court Practices and Procedures Act, was on the November 2, 2004 ballot in New Hampshire as a legislatively-referred constitutional amendment, where it was approved.

Election results

Constitutional Amendment
Result		Votes	Percentage
a Yes		271,091	56.9%
No		205,589	43.1%

Text of measure

The language that appeared on the ballot:

Are you in favor of repealing and reenacting part II, article 73-a of the constitution in order to clarify that both the judiciary and legislature have the authority to regulate court practices and procedures and to resolve potential conflicts that may arise so that it reads as follows:

[Art.] 73-a. [Court Practices and Procedures.] The chief justice of the supreme court shall be the administrative head of all the courts in the state. The chief justice shall have the power, with the concurrence of a majority of the other supreme court justices, to make rules of general application regulating court administration and the practice, procedure, and admissibility of evidence, in all courts in the state. The legislature shall have a concurrent power to regulate the same matters by statutes of general application, except that such legislative enactments may not abridge the judiciary's necessary adjudicatory functions. In the event of a conflict between a rule promulgated by the judiciary and a statute enacted by the legislature, the statute, if not otherwise contrary to this constitution shall prevail over the rule.

See also

Suggest a link

• New Hampshire 2004 ballot measures
• List of New Hampshire ballot measures
• 2004 ballot measures

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