Revision: Feb. 22, 2012, midnight
HB 1224 – AS INTRODUCED
2012 SESSION
09/01
HOUSE BILL 1224
AN ACT allowing municipalities to send tax, water, and sewer bills electronically and establishing a committee to study municipal functions which could be performed electronically to achieve cost savings.
COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government
This bill allows municipalities to send tax, water, and sewer bills electronically and establishes a committee to study municipal functions which could be performed electronically to achieve cost savings.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
12-2192
09/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twelve
AN ACT allowing municipalities to send tax, water, and sewer bills electronically and establishing a committee to study municipal functions which could be performed electronically to achieve cost savings.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Municipal Electronic Billing. Amend RSA 80:52-c to read as follows:
80:52-c Electronic Billing and Payment.
I. The governing body of a municipality may authorize the municipality’s treasurer or other appropriate municipal official to send local tax, water, and sewer bills electronically with the written permission of a property owner. The municipality shall not assess any service charge for such electronic billing.
II. The governing body may authorize the municipality's treasurer or other appropriate municipal official to accept payment of local taxes, charges generated by the sale of utility services, or other fees or charges by use of a credit card, debit card, or such other means of electronic transaction as approved by the governing body. Any municipality may add to the amount due, in addition to any penalties and interest payable, a service charge for the acceptance of the credit card, debit card, or such other means of electronic transaction as approved by the governing body. The municipality, at the time of billing, shall disclose the amount of the service charge.
2 Committee to Study Performance of Municipal Functions by Electronic Means to Achieve Cost Savings.
I. There is established a committee to study municipal functions which could be performed electronically to achieve cost savings.
II.(a) The members of the committee shall be as follows:
(1) Three members of the house of representatives, appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives.
(2) Two members of the senate, appointed by the president of the senate.
(b) Members of the committee shall receive mileage at the legislative rate when attending to the duties of the committee.
III. The committee shall study municipal functions which could be performed electronically to achieve cost savings.
IV. The members of the study committee shall elect a chairperson from among the members. The first meeting of the committee shall be called by the first-named house member. The first meeting of the committee shall be held within 45 days of the effective date of this section. Four members of the committee shall constitute a quorum.
V. The committee shall report its findings and any recommendations for proposed legislation to the speaker of the house of representatives, the president of the senate, the house clerk, the senate clerk, the governor, and the state library on or before November 1, 2012.
3 Effective Date.
I. Section 1 of this act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
II. The remainder of this act shall take effect upon its passage.