CHAPTER 75
HB 331-FN – FINAL VERSION
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2011 SESSION
05/09
HOUSE BILL 331-FN
AN ACT relative to posting agency expenditures on the state transparency website.
SPONSORS: Rep. Bates, Rock 4; Rep. Manuse, Rock 5; Rep. L. Ober, Hills 27; Rep. Kurk, Hills 7; Rep. Cohn, Merr 6; Rep. Foose, Merr 1; Rep. Lambert, Hills 27; Rep. J. Roberts, Straf 7; Sen. Carson, Dist 14; Sen. Luther, Dist 12; Sen. White, Dist 9
COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration
This bill requires agencies to post expenditure information in a check register format on the state transparency website.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
15Mar2011… 0110h
11-0015
05/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eleven
AN ACT relative to posting agency expenditures on the state transparency website.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
75:1 State Transparency Website; Budget Information. Amend RSA 9-F:1, II(a) to read as follows:
(a) All expenditures by state agencies shall be published monthly, no later than the 15th day of the following month. These expenditures shall be reported:
(1) In a total fund format, showing budgeted/revised budgeted amounts spent for the month, for the year, and for the year to date. Expenditure reports generated by the financial reporting system of the state for agency use shall be used to satisfy this requirement.
(2) In a check register format, including:
(A) The amount of the payment.
(B) The date of payment.
(C) The person or entity to whom the payment was made.
(D) The title and number of the accounting unit and class code.
(E) The title and number of the expense account.
75:2 New Paragraph; State Transparency Website; Exemption from Disclosure. Amend RSA 9-F:1 by inserting after paragraph III the following new paragraph:
IV.(a) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require the public posting or dissemination of information exempt from public disclosure under RSA 91-A or other law.
(b) In submitting information to the state’s financial system, each agency shall be responsible for indentifying information that is confidential or otherwise exempt from public disclosure under RSA 91-A. The department of administrative services shall, in consultation with state agencies, establish the method by which an agency shall identify information in the state’s financial system that the agency has determined is confidential or otherwise exempt from disclosure. The department of administrative services shall not post such information on the transparency website.
75:3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 120 days after its passage.
Approved: May 16, 2011
Effective Date: September 13, 2011