Bill Text: NH HB313 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to the reductions from the default budget for official ballot town meetings.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-04 - Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted DV 188-184 01/04/2024 House Journal 2 P. 34 [HB313 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2024-HB313-Introduced.html
HB 313 - AS INTRODUCED
2023 SESSION
23-0450
02/10
HOUSE BILL 313
AN ACT relative to the reductions from the default budget for official ballot town meetings.
SPONSORS: Rep. Yokela, Rock. 32; Rep. Alexander Jr., Hills. 29; Rep. A. Lekas, Hills. 38
COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government
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ANALYSIS
This bill alters the definition of default budget to include salary and benefit reductions which occur as a result of position turnover.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
23-0450
02/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three
AN ACT relative to the reductions from the default budget for official ballot town meetings.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Use of Official Ballot; Definition of Default Budget. Amend RSA 40:13, IX(b) to read as follows:
(b) "Default budget" as used in this subdivision means the amount of the same appropriations as contained in the operating budget authorized for the previous year, reduced and increased, as the case may be, by debt service, contracts, and other obligations previously incurred or mandated by law, and reduced by one-time expenditures contained in the operating budget, [and] by salaries and benefits of positions that have been eliminated in the proposed budget, and by any salary and benefits reductions as a part of position turnover which occur before the public hearing for the proposed budget. For the purposes of this paragraph, one-time expenditures shall be appropriations not likely to recur in the succeeding budget, and eliminated positions shall not include vacant positions under recruitment or positions redefined in the proposed operating budget, as determined by the governing body, unless the provisions of RSA 40:14-b are adopted, of the local political subdivision. In calculating the default budget amount, the governing body shall follow the statutory formula which may result in a higher or lower amount than the proposed operating budget.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2024.
