Revision: Jan. 11, 2010, midnight
HB 168 – AS INTRODUCED
2007 SESSION
06/04
HOUSE BILL 168
AN ACT expanding the purposes of the wildflower establishment program.
SPONSORS: Rep. Graham, Hills 18; Rep. Spaulding, Hills 18; Rep. Chandler, Carr 1; Rep. Ferland, Sull 5; Rep. Lerandeau, Ches 6; Sen. Gallus, Dist 1
COMMITTEE: Public Works and Highways
This bill expands the wildflower establishment program to allow maintenance as well as planting of shrubs, trees, and wildflowers and removes the requirement that the wildflowers be native.
This bill is a request of the department of transportation.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
07-0839
06/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seven
AN ACT expanding the purposes of the wildflower establishment program.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Purposes of Program Expanded. Amend RSA 261:97-b, I to read as follows:
I. There is hereby established a conservation number plate trust fund under the administration of the state treasurer. The fund shall be used for the promotion, protection, and investment in the state’s natural, cultural, and historic resources. The fund shall be nonlapsing. The state treasurer shall distribute the funds annually on July 1, except as provided in paragraph I-a, as follows: $5,000 of every $100,000 received, up to a total of $50,000, shall be distributed to the department of transportation for the expanded [wild flower] wildflower establishment program for use in planting and maintaining lilacs [and native wild flowers], wildflowers, shrubs, and trees; $1 for every new, renewal, and transfer of registration, up to a total of $50,000, shall be placed in a nonlapsing account for use by the department of resources and economic development to promote the conservation number plate program; the remainder shall be distributed equally among the department of cultural resources, the department of fish and game, the department of resources and economic development, the state conservation committee, and the New Hampshire land and community heritage investment authority.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.