Revision: May 22, 2010, midnight
CHAPTER 62
HB 1592-FN – FINAL VERSION
2010 SESSION
09/03
HOUSE BILL 1592-FN
AN ACT relative to the exemption from the charge for a municipal permit to register a motor vehicle for amputee and other disabled veterans.
SPONSORS: Rep. Emiro, Rock 3; Rep. K. Roberts, Ches 3; Rep. Theberge, Coos 4; Rep. Butynski, Ches 4
COMMITTEE: Local and Regulated Revenues
This bill expands eligibility for the exemption from the charge for a municipal permit to register a motor vehicle for amputee and other disabled veterans to all such disabled veterans who served in a qualifying war or armed conflict as defined in RSA 72:28.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
10-2260
09/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Ten
AN ACT relative to the exemption from the charge for a municipal permit to register a motor vehicle for amputee and other disabled veterans.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
62:1 Exemption of Amputee and Other Disabled Veterans. Amend RSA 261:157 to read as follows:
261:157 Exemption of Amputee and Other Disabled Veterans. No fee shall be charged for a permit to register a motor vehicle owned by a veteran of [World War I or II, the Korean conflict, or the Vietnam conflict] any war or armed conflict, as defined in RSA 72:28, V, who because of being an amputee[,] or paraplegic or having suffered loss or use of a limb from a service-connected cause, as certified by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, has received said vehicle from the United States government or cash settlement in lieu thereof; or because of a disability incurred in, or aggravated by such service, and upon satisfactory proof that the veteran is evaluated by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to be totally and permanently disabled from such service-connected disability.
62:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: May 18, 2010
Effective Date: July 17, 2010
LBAO
10-2260
12/08/09
HB 1592-FN - FISCAL NOTE
AN ACT relative to the exemption from the charge for a municipal permit to register a motor vehicle for amputee and other disabled veterans.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The New Hampshire Municipal Association states this bill will decrease local revenue by an indeterminable amount in FY 2010 and each year thereafter. There is no fiscal impact on state and county revenue or state, county and local expenditures.
METHODOLOGY:
The New Hampshire Municipal Association indicates this bill expands the eligibility for the exemption from the charge for a municipal permit to register a motor vehicle for amputee and other disabled veterans to apply to disabled veterans of any war or armed conflict who have received the vehicle or cash settlement in lieu thereof because of a disability suffered in the war or armed conflict. Currently this exemption applies only to disabled veterans of World War I or II, the Korean War or the Vietnam War.
The Association states that by expanding the permit fee exemption, this bill will likely cause some reduction in municipal revenues. The Association, however, has no information on how many additional veterans would be able to take advantage of the exemption, and therefore cannot estimate the decrease in local revenues.
The Department of Safety states there will be no fiscal impact on the Department.