CHAPTER 199
SB 512-FN – FINAL VERSION
2010 SESSION
04/01
SENATE BILL 512-FN
AN ACT relative to the community college system of New Hampshire.
SPONSORS: Sen. Bragdon, Dist 11; Sen. Merrill, Dist 21; Rep. J. Day, Rock 13
This bill makes numerous changes to the community college system of New Hampshire including amending the law to reflect the closing of the campus in Stratham, as well as budgetary, retirement system, and administrative changes.
This bill is a request of the community college system of New Hampshire.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
10-2949
04/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Ten
AN ACT relative to the community college system of New Hampshire.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
199:1 Community College System of New Hampshire. Amend RSA 188-F:1 to read as follows:
188-F:1 Community College System of New Hampshire Established. The community college system of New Hampshire is hereby established and made a body politic and corporate, the main purpose of which shall be to provide a well-coordinated system of public community college education offering, as a primary mission, technical programs to prepare students for technical careers as well as general, professional, and transfer programs, and certificate and short term training programs which serve the needs of the state and the nation. The colleges of the community college system of New Hampshire are authorized to grant and confer in the name of the colleges all such degrees, literary titles, honors, and distinctions as other community colleges may of right do. The community college system of New Hampshire shall include, but is not limited to, colleges in Berlin, Claremont, Concord, Laconia, Manchester, Nashua, and [Stratham/]Portsmouth.
199:2 Community College System of New Hampshire; Authority of the Board of Trustees. Amend RSA 188-F:6, VI to read as follows:
VI. Prepare and adopt a biennial operating budget for presentation to the governor and the general court. Each college within the community college system of New Hampshire and the chancellor’s office shall be considered a separate division and budgetary unit. The community college system of New Hampshire shall submit its budget [in the same format] in accordance with RSA 9:4-e and at the same time as [other] state agencies. All claims to be presented for the issuance of warrants submitted by the colleges and the system office of the community college system of New Hampshire shall be pre-audited by the community college system of New Hampshire, and such certification shall be sufficient evidence for the director of the division of accounting services to fulfill such responsibilities relative to the debt incurred by the community college system of New Hampshire.
199:3 General Funds Income Accounts for Higher Education. Amend RSA 9:4-e to read as follows:
9:4-e General Fund Income Accounts for Higher Education.
I. Beginning with fiscal year 2000, for the higher education fund (06-06) the state operating budget shall show only the class 90 general fund income accounts. Nothing in this section shall prevent a legislative or executive request for detailed budgets of the institutions included in higher education.
II.(a) Beginning with fiscal year 2012, for the community college system of New Hampshire (06-58), the state operating budget shall show only general fund income accounts. This subparagraph shall not apply to the police standards and training council established in RSA 188-F:24 or the McAuliffe-Shepard discovery center established in RSA 12-L.
(b) Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent a legislative or executive request for detailed budgets of the institutions included in higher education.
199:4 Community College System of New Hampshire; Authority of the Board of Trustees. Amend RSA 188-F:6, VIII to read as follows:
VIII. Receive, expend, allocate, and transfer funds within the community college system of New Hampshire as necessary to fulfill the purposes of the community college system. [The community college system of New Hampshire shall report the amount and purpose of all transfers from one program appropriation unit of the budget to a different program appropriation unit to the fiscal committee of the general court by November 1 of each year. Copies of such reports shall be sent to the house education committee and the senate education committee.] The trustees shall have no authority over funds in the police standards and training council training fund established in RSA 188-F:30, or any other funds appropriated to the police standards and training council or to the McAuliffe-Shepard discovery center, which shall not be commingled with any funds of the community college system of New Hampshire.
199:5 Community College System of New Hampshire; Employment; Benefits. Amend RSA 188-F:7, I to read as follows:
I. Any changes to the conditions of employment, compensation, and benefits of community college system of New Hampshire employees covered by collective bargaining agreements shall be negotiated through the collective bargaining process.
199:6 New Hampshire Retirement System; Definitions. Amend RSA 100-A:1, V to read as follows:
V. “Employee” shall mean any regular classified or unclassified officer or employee of the state or any department, commission, institution or agency of the state government by which an employee is paid through the office of the state treasurer, or employees of the general court who work on a full-time basis and are eligible for other state benefits, but whose salary is calculated on a per diem basis, or any employee of the retirement system, or any full-time employee of the community college system of New Hampshire, or of any of the groups authorized to participate under this chapter but excluding any person who is a teacher, permanent policeman, or permanent fireman as defined in this section, or who is a member or attache of the general court or member of the executive council.
199:7 New Paragraph; Community College System of New Hampshire; Authority of the Board of Trustees. Amend RSA 188-F:6 by inserting after paragraph XX the following new paragraph:
XXI. Enter into program and service relationships with state departments, divisions, and other state entities through memoranda of understanding.
199:8 New Paragraph; Department of Administrative Services; Classified Service and Exemptions. Amend RSA 21-I:49 by inserting after paragraph IX the following new paragraph:
X. Personnel of the community college system of New Hampshire.
199:9 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: June 21, 2010
Effective Date: August 20, 2010