HB 651-LOCAL – AS INTRODUCED
2007 SESSION
04/05
HOUSE BILL 651-LOCAL
AN ACT extending the school building aid grant program to cover kindergarten construction costs.
SPONSORS: Rep. Gould, Rock 5; Rep. M. Smith, Straf 7
This bill extends the application of the school building aid grant program to kindergarten construction projects.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
07-0048
04/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seven
AN ACT extending the school building aid grant program to cover kindergarten construction costs.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 School Building Aid; Annual Grants. Amend RSA 198:15-a to read as follows:
198:15-a Annual Grant for the Payment of Debt Service for School Construction.
I. To aid local school districts in meeting the costs of the payment of debt for school buildings and educational administration buildings, including office facilities for school administrative units, and to meet the costs of leasing permanent space in a building which is used for the operation of a high school vocational technical education program, the department of education shall, from funds appropriated by the general court to carry out the provisions of this subdivision, pay annually to the school districts of the state, sums in accordance with the provisions of this subdivision or the alternative school building aid provisions under RSA 198:15-u through RSA 198:15-w, depending on which option a school district elects. The annual grant to school districts shall be made in 2 approximately equal payments, one in October and one in April of each fiscal year. No payment shall be made to a school district prior to the district’s first payment on the amount of principal borrowed.
II. This subdivision shall apply to grant requests for kindergarten construction projects, provided that no school district duly organized, city maintaining a school department within its corporate organization, cooperative school district as defined in RSA 195:1, receiving district operating an area school as defined in RSA 195-A:1, or receiving district providing an education to pupils from one or more sending districts under a contract entered into pursuant to RSA 194:21-a or RSA 194:22 which receives funds under RSA 198:15-r for a kindergarten construction project shall receive funds under this subdivision for the same project.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.