CHAPTER 42
HB 1765-FN-A-LOCAL – FINAL VERSION
22Feb2006… 0758h
2006 SESSION
05/01
HOUSE BILL 1765-FN-A-LOCAL
AN ACT relative to funding for disaster relief efforts in response to the October 2005 floods and making an appropriation therefor.
SPONSORS: Rep. Gibson, Hills 19; Rep. Parkhurst, Ches 4; Rep. Phinizy, Sull 5; Rep. Essex, Hills 1; Rep. D. Eaton, Ches 2; Sen. Eaton, Dist 10; Sen. Burling, Dist 5
This bill appropriates state matching funds to the department of safety, bureau of emergency management, for disaster assistance to the communities that sustained flood damage in October 2005.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
22Feb2006… 0758h
06-3010
05/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Six
AN ACT relative to funding for disaster relief efforts in response to the October 2005 floods and making an appropriation therefor.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
42:1 Appropriation; State Matching Funds for Federal Emergency Management Agency Disaster Assistance Grants. In response to October 2005 flood damage sustained by communities in Cheshire, Sullivan, Grafton, Merrimack, and Belknap counties, a sum not to exceed $2,911,000 is hereby appropriated to the department of safety, bureau of emergency management, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2006, as the required state match for federal disaster assistance funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for flood damage sustained during the period from October 8, 2005 to October 17, 2005. With prior approval of the fiscal committee, the department of safety, bureau of emergency management shall distribute the funds appropriated by this act to any eligible municipality or state agency that completed a request for public assistance within the required 30-day period of the October 26, 2005 declaration date. The funds shall be distributed pursuant to the following funding formula: federal funds shall be used for 75 percent of eligible costs and state funds shall be used for the remaining costs, except that the local municipality first shall pay a portion of such remaining costs, not to exceed 12.5 percent of its total eligible costs or $5,000, whichever is less. The governor is authorized to draw a warrant for said sum out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Any unexpended funds shall lapse to the general fund on June 30, 2008.
42:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved: April 18, 2006
Effective: April 18, 2006