SB 269 – AS INTRODUCED
2012 SESSION
06/09
SENATE BILL 269
AN ACT relative to the definition of default budget in towns that use official ballot voting.
SPONSORS: Sen. Bragdon, Dist 11
COMMITTEE: Public and Municipal Affairs
This bill clarifies the definition of a default budget in towns using official ballot 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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
12-3027
06/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twelve
AN ACT relative to the definition of default budget in towns that use official ballot voting.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Use of Official Ballot; 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. For the purposes of this paragraph, one-time expenditures shall be] appropriations contained in the operating budget 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 Default Budget; Non-Recurring Expense. RSA 40:13, XI(a)(3) is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:
(3) Appropriations contained in the previous year’s operating budget that are not likely to recur in the succeeding budget pursuant to subparagraph IX(b).
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.