HB 1640-FN-A-LOCAL – AS INTRODUCED
2010 SESSION
06/09
HOUSE BILL 1640-FN-A-LOCAL
AN ACT repealing certain tax and fee increases in the 2010-2011 budget as of July 1, 2011.
SPONSORS: Rep. Pepino, Hills 11; Rep. Itse, Rock 9; Rep. Rowe, Hills 6
This bill repeals certain tax and fee increases in the 2010-2011 budget as of July 1, 2011.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
10-2700
06/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Ten
AN ACT repealing certain tax and fee increases in the 2010-2011 budget as of July 1, 2011.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Copies of Certificates and Motor Vehicle Records. Amend RSA 260:15, II to read as follows:
II. The department may issue a copy of any motor vehicle record upon the request of an insurance company or any other authorized agent, and [notwithstanding RSA 91-A shall require] payment by the insurance company or authorized agent of a fee of [$12 for email or other computer-generated requests where payment is debited against an account established with the department, or $15 for all other requests] $8, which shall be deposited in the fire standards and training and emergency medical services fund established in RSA 21-P:12-d.
2 Vanity Number Plates. Amend RSA 261:89 to read as follows:
261:89 Vanity Number Plates. The director is hereby authorized to design and to issue, under such rules as the director deems appropriate, vanity number plates to be used on motor vehicles in lieu of other number plates. Such number plates shall be of such design and shall bear such letters or letters and numbers as the director shall prescribe, but there shall be no duplication of identification. Such number plates or a changeable designation of the effective period thereof, as the director shall determine, shall be issued only upon application therefor and upon payment of a special vanity plate service fee of [$40] $25, said special fee to be in addition to the regular motor vehicle registration fee and any other number plate manufacturing fee otherwise required by law for the particular vehicle. [Plates shall be renewed on an annual basis for $40 per set.] All special fees collected under this section shall be paid to the state treasurer and distributed as provided by RSA 263:52.
3 Vanity Number Plates; Fees to be Collected. Amend RSA 261:141, III(d) to read as follows:
(d) For vanity plate service fee—[$40] $25.
4 Fees to be Collected. Amend RSA 261:141, VII(d) to read as follows:
(d) For vanity plate service fee--[$40] $25.
5 Fees Collected from Drivers. Amend RSA 263:42, II to read as follows:
II. For every certified copy of a registration, license, or driving record, [$15] $10, except that the commissioner shall waive the fee for local, state, and federal law enforcement and criminal justice agencies requesting such information for investigative purposes and may, for good cause, waive the fee in cases involving other government agencies or the public defender if the commissioner determines that such a waiver is in the public interest.
6 Driver Training Fund. Amend RSA 263:52, I and II to read as follows:
I. The proceeds from original license fees as provided in RSA 263:42 and [the vanity plate service] $5 from every special fee for vanity number plates collected in accordance with RSA 261:89, plus such additional portion of the $25 special fee for vanity number plates or the renewal of the use of such plates as is needed to fully fund the driver training program for each fiscal year as determined by the general court pursuant to paragraph II, after costs of such plates or designation of effective periods thereof and issuance of same have been appropriated and deducted, shall be expended solely for courses of instruction and training in safe motor vehicle driving conducted in or under the supervision of secondary schools. After all costs of administration of the program each year of the biennium have been reserved, the balance which is appropriated to the driver training program shall be paid to the state treasurer by June 30 of each year. Such balance shall be kept in a separate fund which shall be paid out on or before September 15 of each year to participating schools prorated on a per-pupil basis for those who have completed the driver education program. Subject to final approval by the governor and council, the commissioner of safety jointly with the commissioner of education shall adopt pursuant to RSA 541-A and publish rules governing the courses of instruction and training and determining eligibility of secondary schools to receive moneys from the fund established by this section.
II. Of the [$40 vanity plate service] $25 special fee for [and the fee for renewal of] vanity number plates, $5 shall automatically be credited to the driver training fund. The remaining part of the fee shall be deposited and accumulate in the vanity plate fund until all fees in such fund equal the amount of money estimated by the general court as available for expenditure for the driver training program from that fund for that fiscal year, which shall include $150 for each pupil who has completed the driver education program. Once the legislative estimates have been matched for the current fiscal year, the balance of all such fees shall be transferred to the general fund and shall be available as unrestricted revenue.
7 New Paragraph; Driver Training Fund. Amend RSA 263:52 by inserting after paragraph III the following new paragraph:
IV. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, should the legislative estimate as provided for in paragraph II not fully fund the driver training program at $150 for each pupil who has completed the driver education program, the commissioner of the department of safety shall request, with prior approval of the legislative fiscal committee, that the governor and council authorize the transfer of funds from the vanity plate fund.
8 Inspection Sticker Fees. Amend RSA 266:2 to read as follows:
266:2 Fees. The fee for inspection stickers shall be [$3.25] $2.50 for each sticker furnished an approved inspection station. The division shall transfer $.25 of each fee collected under this section to the motor vehicle air pollution abatement fund established by RSA 125-S:3 and $.25 of each fee collected under this section to the general fund. All unused stickers returned by the approved inspection station to the division shall be refundable at the rate of [$3.25] $2.50 each, except that unused stickers purchased from the division for a fee of $2.50 shall be refundable at the rate of $2.50 each.
9 Department of Environmental Services; Fees; Subsurface Systems Fund; and Septage Management Fund. Amend RSA 485-A:30, I to read as follows:
I. Any person submitting plans and specifications for a subdivision of land shall pay to the department a fee of [$300] $150 per lot. Said fee shall be for reviewing such plans and specifications and making site inspections. Any person submitting plans and specifications for sewage or waste disposal systems shall pay to the department a fee of [$290] $140 for each system. Said fee shall be for reviewing such plans and specifications, making site inspections, the administration of sludge and septage management programs, and for establishing a system for electronic permitting for waste disposal systems, subdivision plans, and for permits and approvals under the department’s land regulation authority. The fees required by this paragraph shall be paid at the time said plans and specifications are submitted and shall be deposited in the subsurface systems fund established in paragraph I-b. For the purposes of this paragraph, the term “lot” shall not include tent sites or travel trailer sites in recreational parks which are operated on a seasonal basis for not more than 9 months per year.
10 Department of Environmental Services; State Revolving Loan Fund; Administrative Fee Increase. Amend RSA 486:14, I(b) to read as follows:
(b) A sum equal to [2] one percent of all loan principal balances outstanding each year, which shall be an administrative charge, shall be set aside to be used by the department of environmental services to pay the costs of administering the state water pollution control and drinking water revolving loan funds. The funds set aside shall be deposited in nonlapsing water pollution control and drinking water loan administration funds and shall be continually appropriated to the department exclusively for the purposes of this section. [If the sum of the administrative charge plus interest charge as established by rules of the department of environmental services based on market rates is less than 2 percent for a loan, then the administrative charge shall be equal to this sum and no interest charge shall be assessed on the loan.]
11 Effective Date. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011.
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12/15/09
HB 1640-FN-A-LOCAL - FISCAL NOTE
AN ACT repealing certain tax and fee increases in the 2010-2011 budget on July 1, 2011.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Departments of Safety and Environmental Services state this bill will decrease state revenue, state expenditures and local revenue by an indeterminable amount in FY 2012 and each fiscal year thereafter. There is no fiscal impact on county and local expenditures or county revenue.
METHODOLOGY:
The Department of Safety states:
• Section 1 reduces the rate charged for motor vehicle records by insurance companies from $12 (electronic) and $15 (non-electronic), to the prior fee of $8 for all beginning in FY 2012. The Department estimates that it receives approximately 600,000 record requests per year and at the $4 fee reduction per request, if all were electronic, revenue to the fire standards and training and emergency medical services fund (Fire and EMS fund) would decrease by $2.4 million. For any non-electronic requests, the reduction in revenue would be greater than $4 per request. The Department is unable to determine the how many of each record type will be requested; therefore the overall decrease in revenue to the Fire and EMS fund is indeterminable.
• Sections 2 through 4, 6 and 7 reduce the vanity plate fee from $40 to $25 beginning in FY 2012 with all revenue deposited in the vanity plate fund, rather than the general fund. During the FY 2010-2011 budget deliberations, the amount estimated to be generated by this fee increase was $2.5 million per year.
• Section 5 reduces the fee for certified driving records from $15 to $10 effective in FY 2012. This fee reduction is expected to reduce revenue deposited in the Fire and EMS fund by approximately $120,000 (24,000 certified copies x $5 fee decrease).
• Section 8 reduces the inspection sticker fee from $3.25 to $2.50 and eliminates the portion earmarked for the highway fund. The estimated highway fund portion from this change is a decrease in state highway revenue of approximately $210,000 per year, with a corresponding 12% decrease in local revenue and state highway fund expenditures for local highway aid in accordance with RSA 235:28 requirements.
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The Department of Environmental Services (DES) states:
• Section 9 decreases the fee for review of plans for land subdivision from $300 to $150 and decreases the fee for review of sewage or waste disposal systems from $290 to $140. DES states the number of subdivision applications received for FY 2010 was estimated to be 1,596 and the number of subsurface systems at 3,963. DES assumes the economy will remain at FY 2010 levels through FY 2012 and then increase by 20% in FY 2013 and FY 2014. Using those assumptions, DES estimates the state restricted revenue will decrease $833,850 in FY 2011, $833,850 in FY 2012, $1,000,620 in FY 2013 and $1,000,620 in FY 2014.
• Section 10 decreases the administrative charge against loan repayments in the Clean Water State Revolving Loan Fund (CWSRF) and Drinking Water State Revolving Loan Fund (DWSRF) from 2% to 1% available to support the costs of administering both the CWSRF and DWSRF programs. The estimated reduced revenue available for administrative costs was derived from expected loan principal and interest repayments for loans made to municipalities and certain private public water systems for planning, design and construction of wastewater and drinking water infrastructure. The estimate is based on the projected outstanding principal for both programs on which land and fee repayment occur. The decrease in state restricted revenue for the CWSRF and DWSRF programs is shown in the table below (in millions).
FY |
CWSRF |
DWSRF |
Total |
2011 |
2.10 |
0.55 |
2.65 |
2012 |
2.10 |
0.59 |
2.69 |
2013 |
2.10 |
0.63 |
2.73 |
2014 |
2.10 |
0.63 |
2.73 |