Bill Text - SB469 (2008)

Allowing fish and game license agents to collect an additional convenience fee.

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Revision: Jan. 1, 2008, midnight

2008 SESSION

08-2717

10/09

SENATE BILL 469

COMMITTEE: Wildlife, Fish and Game and Agriculture

ANALYSIS

This bill allows license agents for fish and game hunting and fishing licenses to collect a convenience fee.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

08-2717

10/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eight

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

1 Fish and Game; Agent's Accounting; Convenience Fee Added. Amend RSA 214:15, I to read as follows:

I.(a) The agent shall collect from the licensee a fee of $1 for each license type issued on a license form and shall account to the executive director for the full face value of the licenses sold. [He] The agent shall pay to the executive director no later than the fourteenth of each month the full face value of all licenses sold up to the first of the same month and shall report the names and addresses of all persons to whom licenses have been sold and such other information as may be requested on blanks to be furnished by the executive director.

(b) The agent may charge a convenience fee of up to $2 for each license type issued, which shall be retained by the license agent.

(c) All licenses sold at the department headquarters or any subagency thereof shall charge the [same] $1 fee as outlined in [this paragraph] subparagraph I(a). Such fee shall be credited to the fish and game fund.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.