Bill Text: NH HB97 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Making an appropriation to the department of environmental services for wastewater infrastructure projects.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-12-23 - To Be Introduced 01/08/2025 and referred to Finance House Journal 2 [HB97 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2025-HB97-Introduced.html

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HB 97-FN - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2025 SESSION

25-0132

08/11

 

HOUSE BILL 97-FN

 

AN ACT making an appropriation to the department of environmental services for wastewater infrastructure projects.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Buco, Carr. 1; Rep. N. Murphy, Hills. 12; Rep. Preece, Hills. 17; Sen. Ricciardi, Dist 9

 

COMMITTEE: Finance

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill makes an appropriation to the department of environmental services for eligible wastewater projects.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

25-0132

08/11

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

 

AN ACT making an appropriation to the department of environmental services for wastewater infrastructure projects.

 

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

 

1 Department of Environmental Services; Eligible Wastewater Projects; Appropriation.  There is hereby appropriated to the department of environmental services the sum of $15,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026 and $15,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2027, which shall be nonlapsing, for the purpose of funding wastewater projects approved pursuant to RSA 486 on or before June 30, 2026.  The governor is authorized to draw a warrant for said sums out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.

 

LBA

25-0132

11/14/24

 

HB 97-FN- FISCAL NOTE

AS INTRODUCED

 

AN ACT making an appropriation to the department of environmental services for wastewater infrastructure projects.

 

FISCAL IMPACT:   This bill does not authorize new positions.

Estimated State Impact
		FY 2025	FY 2026		FY 2027	FY 2028
Revenue		$0	$0		$0	$0
Revenue Fund(s)		None
Expenditures*		$0	Indeterminable Increase		Indeterminable Increase	Indeterminable Increase
Funding Source(s)		General Fund
Appropriations*		$0	$15,000,000		$15,000,000	$0
Funding Source(s)		General Fund
*Expenditure = Cost of bill                *Appropriation = Authorized funding to cover cost of bill
Estimated Political Subdivision Impact
		FY 2025	FY 2026		FY 2027	FY 2028
County Revenue		$0	$0		$0	$0
County Expenditures		$0	$0		$0	$0
Local Revenue		$0	Indeterminable Increase		Indeterminable Increase	Indeterminable Increase
Local Expenditures		$0	Indeterminable Increase		Indeterminable Increase	Indeterminable Increase

 

METHODOLOGY:

This bill makes nonlapsing appropriations of $15,000,000 in FY 2026 and FY 2027 to the Department of Environmental Services for eligible wastewater projects under the state aid grant program.  The actual payback periods, annual payments, and interest rates will vary with each application.  While the bill appropriates the nonlapsing funds in the coming biennium, the state aid grant payments for the projects will be over twenty years or more.

 

AGENCIES CONTACTED:

Department of Environmental Services