On May 28, the New Hampshire House Election Law Committee passed SB 222. It moves the non-presidential primary from September to June. The bill decouples the petition deadline for independent candidates and the nominees of unqualified parties from the date of the primary. It says the petition deadline would be eleven weeks before the general election, which keeps it in August. Unfortunately, the bill doesn’t decouple the deadline for filing a declaration of candidacy, so if the bill becomes law, independent candidates and the nominees of unqualified parties would need to file the declaration in March, which. In the case of presidential candidates, that would violate Anderson v Celebrezze.