Bill Text: NH HB194 | 2024 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Requiring the director of the division of historical resources to compile and maintain a list of public monuments and requiring legislative approval of the amendment or permanent removal of historical markers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-07-18 - Enrolled Adopted, Voice Vote, (In recess 06/13/2024); Senate Journal 18 [HB194 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2024-HB194-Amended.html

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HB 194-FN - AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

 

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2023 SESSION

23-0270

08/05

 

HOUSE BILL 194-FN

 

AN ACT requiring the director of the division of historical resources to compile and maintain a list of public monuments and requiring legislative approval of the amendment or permanent removal of historical markers.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Germana, Ches. 1; Rep. Toll, Ches. 15

 

COMMITTEE: Resources, Recreation and Development

 

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AMENDED ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires the director of the division of historical resources to compile and maintain a list of public monuments.

 

This bill also requires the approval of the legislature in order to amend or permanently remove a historical marker.

 

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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05/22/2024   1822s

05/22/2024   1969s 23-0270

08/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three

 

AN ACT requiring the director of the division of historical resources to compile and maintain a list of public monuments and requiring legislative approval of the amendment or permanent removal of historical markers.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  Division of Historical Resources; Duties of Director.  Amend RSA 12-A:10-l to read as follows:

12-A:10-l  Division of Historical Resources; Director.  

(a)  There is hereby established within the department the division of historical resources, which shall also be known as the state historic preservation office, under the supervision of an unclassified director of historical resources.  The director of historical resources shall be responsible for administering the state historic preservation program in accordance with RSA 227-C.

(b)  Once every 10 years, the director of the division of historical resources shall work with local communities throughout the state to compile a survey of all monuments in the state maintained by local or state authorities, including physical markers of a historical event, individual, group of individuals, or geographical sites of historical or cultural significance, maintain such list, and make such survey available to the public through the division's Internet site or web page, as well as to the department of education to be made available to educational institutions in the state.  

2  Historical Markers; Amendment and Removal.  Amend RSA 236:41 to read as follows:

236:41  Historic Preservation Office.

The state historic preservation office established under RSA 227-C shall consult with the commissioner of transportation on the marker program.  Before placing any marker, the commissioner shall secure the state historic preservation office's approval of the marker, its location and its wording.  The state historic preservation office shall make any investigation needed to obtain information on the event to be commemorated and on the appropriate location for the marker, including consulting historians and holding public hearings.  Before amending or permanently removing any marker, the commissioner of the department of natural and cultural resources shall secure the approval of the general court through legislation passed by both the house of representatives and the senate.

3  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

 

LBA

23-0270

Amended 1/22/24

 

HB 194-FN- FISCAL NOTE

AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE (AMENDMENT #2023-0037h)

 

AN ACT requiring the director of the division of historical resources to compile and maintain a list of public monuments.

 

FISCAL IMPACT: [   ] State [   ] County [   ] Local [ X ] None

 

METHODOLOGY:

The Office of Legislative Budget Assistant states this bill, as amended, has no fiscal impact on state, county and local expenditures or revenue.

 

 

AGENCIES CONTACTED:

Department of Natural and Cultural Resources