Bill Text: NH HB384 | 2023 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relative to building a new legislative parking garage and making an appropriation therefor, renaming the capital project overview committee, and establishing the joint legislative parking garage oversight commission.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2023-08-09 - Signed by Governor Sununu 08/04/2023; Chapter 192; eff: I. Sec 5 eff as prov in Sec 6 II. Remainder eff: 08/04/2023 House Journal 17 [HB384 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2023-HB384-Amended.html
HB 384-FN-A - AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE
22Mar2023... 0421h
06/08/2023 2085s
2023 SESSION
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HOUSE BILL 384-FN-A
SPONSORS: Rep. Emerick, Rock. 29; Rep. Steven Smith, Sull. 3; Rep. Ebel, Merr. 7; Rep. Shurtleff, Merr. 15; Rep. Weyler, Rock. 14
COMMITTEE: Finance
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AMENDED ANALYSIS
This bill makes an appropriation for the design, planning, construction, and site work for a new legislative parking garage and for the costs for razing the department of justice building.
This bill also renames the capital budget overview committee to be the capital project overview committee and creates the joint legislative parking garage oversight commission.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Appropriation; New Legislative Parking Garage; Razing of Department of Justice Building Located at 33 Capitol Street and Storrs Street Legislative Parking Garage. The sum of $25,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023 is hereby appropriated to the department of administrative services for the purpose of designing, planning, and constructing a new legislative parking garage and razing the existing Storrs Street legislative parking garage and the department of justice building located at 33 Capitol Street. This appropriation shall be nonlapsing. $2,500,000 of the amount appropriated shall be a charge against the special legislative account in RSA 6:12, I(b)(344). The governor is authorized to draw a warrant for $22,500,000 out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
2 Capital Project Overview Committee. Amend the chapter title of RSA 17-J to read as follows:
CHAPTER 17-J
CAPITAL [BUDGET] PROJECT OVERVIEW COMMITTEE
3 Capital Budget Project Overview Committee. Amend RSA 17-J to read as follows:
17-J:1 Committee Established. A joint legislative capital [budget] project overview committee is hereby established.
17-J:2 Membership and Organization.
I. The members of the committee shall be:
(a) Chairperson of the house public works and highways committee;
(b) Two other members of the house public works and highways committee, appointed by the speaker of the house;
(c) Three members of the house finance committee, appointed by the speaker of the house;
(d) Chairperson of the senate capital budget committee; and
(e) Three other senators appointed by the president of the senate.
I-a. Of the 6 house members on the committee, not more than 5 shall be members of the same party, and of the 4 senate members on the committee, not more than 3 shall be members of the same party.
II. In voting, the members from each house shall vote as a block, casting a single vote. The committee shall elect its own officers.
17-J:4 Duties. The capital [budget] project overview committee shall review the status of capital budget projects both during and between legislative sessions. Each state agency with capital budget projects shall report to the department of administrative services, in the format the department of administrative services prescribes, for the quarters ending September 30, December 31, March 31, and June 30. The department of administrative services shall combine these reports and present the summarized report to the capital budget overview committee for review quarterly on the first of November, February, May, and August. The department of administrative services, division of public works design and construction shall, within 90 days of the approval of funding for any capital budget project, submit a timeline or schedule for such project to the capital [budget] project overview committee for review.
17-J:5 Joint Legislative Parking Garage Oversight Commission.
I. There is hereby established a joint legislative parking garage oversight commission. Members of the commission shall be as follows:
(a) The president of the senate, or designee.
(b) One member appointed by the president of the senate, who may be a public member.
(c) The speaker of the house of representatives, or designee.
(d) One member appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, who may be a public member.
(e) The commissioner of the department of administrative services, or designee.
(f) The chairperson of the house public works and highways committee, or designee.
(g) The chairperson of the house finance committee, or designee.
(h) A member of the senate finance committee, appointed by the president of the senate.
(i) The chief operating officer of the general court.
(j) One member appointed by the city of Concord.
II. Legislative members appointed to the joint legislative parking garage oversight commission shall be appointed for a term ending when their elected legislative term ends. Legislative members of the commission shall receive mileage at the legislative rate when attending to the duties of the commission. Public members of the commission shall remain until replaced by the appointing authority or upon completion of the legislative parking garage project.
III. The legislative parking garage oversight commission shall review the status of the legislative parking garage project at least once every 6 months after the effective date of this section. No changes shall be made in the plan, location, or design of the legislative parking garage unless approved by the legislative parking garage oversight commission.
IV. The department of administrative services shall include quarterly reports on the status of the legislative parking garage project in the department's summarized report to the capital project overview committee for review quarterly on the first of November, February, May, and August in accordance with RSA 17-J:4.
4 Capital Project Overview Committee; Name Change. Amend the following RSA provisions by replacing the term "capital budget overview committee" with "capital project overview committee": 6-B:2, V; 9:26-a; 10:10; 12-A:29-b, V; 12-G:46, III; 14:31-b, I(a); 21-I:80; 21-J:1-b, II; 110-B:28, IV(a); 195-D:5, XVIII; 228:4, I(d); 228:12-a; 228:21, III; 228:109, I(f)-(g); and 282-A:112, V.
5 Repeal. RSA 17-J:5, relative to joint legislative parking garage oversight commission, is repealed.
6 Prospective Repeal. The joint legislative parking garage oversight commission shall be repealed upon the completion of the legislative parking garage on the date as certified by the commissioner of the department of administrative services to the joint legislative parking garage oversight committee, the director of the office of legislative services, and the secretary of state.
I. Section 5 of this act shall take effect as provided in section 6 of this act.
II. The remainder of this act shall take effect upon its passage.
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Amended 3/24/23
HB 384-FN-A- FISCAL NOTE
AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE (AMENDMENT #2023-0421h)
FISCAL IMPACT: [ X ] State [ ] County [ ] Local [ ] None
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STATE: | FY 2023 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 | FY 2026 |
Appropriation | $25,000,000 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Revenue | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Expenditures | $0 | Indeterminable Increase | Indeterminable Increase | Indeterminable Increase |
Funding Source: | [ X ] General [ ] Education [ ] Highway [ X ] Other - Special Legislative Account | |||
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METHODOLOGY:
This bill establishes a $25,000,000 nonlapsing appropriation for fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, to the Department of Administrative Services for the purpose of designing, planning, and constructing a new legislative parking garage and razing the existing Storrs Street legislative parking garage and the Department of Justice building. The appropriation will be funded with $2,500,000 which shall be a charge against the special legislative account in RSA 6:12, I(b)(344) and the remaining $22,500,00 will be funded from General Funds. State expenditures will increase by $25,000,000, however, it is not known when the nonlapsing appropriation will be expended or how much will be expended in a fiscal year. This bill also amends the Capital Budget Overview Committee by renaming it the Capital Project Overview Committee and adds a new section to have a Joint Legislative Parking Garage Oversight Commission.
AGENCIES CONTACTED:
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