SB 210 – AS INTRODUCED
2012 SESSION
04/03
SENATE BILL 210
AN ACT relative to the default budget in school districts which have adopted the official ballot method of voting.
SPONSORS: Sen. Rausch, Dist 19; Sen. Bragdon, Dist 11; Sen. Boutin, Dist 16; Sen. Bradley, Dist 3; Rep. Chandler, Carr 1; Rep. J. O'Connor, Rock 5; Rep. L. Ober, Hills 27; Rep. Weyler, Rock 8
COMMITTEE: Public and Municipal Affairs
This bill provides that the default budget shall not exceed the operating budget in school districts which have adopted the official ballot method of voting.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
12-2808
04/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twelve
AN ACT relative to the default budget in school districts which have adopted the official ballot method of voting.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Use of Official Ballot; Definition of Default Budget. Amend RSA 40:13, IX(b) to read as follows:
(b) “Default budget” as used in this subdivision means the amount of the same appropriations as contained in the operating budget authorized for the previous year, reduced and increased, as the case may be, by debt service, contracts, and other obligations previously incurred or mandated by law, and reduced by one-time expenditures contained in the operating budget, provided that in a school district which has adopted this subdivision, the default budget shall not exceed 100 percent of the operating budget authorized for the previous year. For the purposes of this paragraph, one-time expenditures shall be appropriations not likely to recur in the succeeding budget, as determined by the governing body, unless the provisions of RSA 40:14-b are adopted, of the local political subdivision.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.