Bill Text - HB122 (2013)

Relative to limitation of appropriations in official ballot municipalities.


Revision: Dec. 31, 2013, midnight

HB 122 – AS INTRODUCED

2013 SESSION

13-0162

06/05

HOUSE BILL 122

AN ACT relative to limitation of appropriations in official ballot municipalities.

SPONSORS: Rep. Parkhurst, Ches 13

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

ANALYSIS

This bill permits recommendations of the budget committee in an official ballot referendum municipality, that are revised after the deliberative session, to be used for determining the 10?percent limitation on appropriations.

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

13-0162

06/05

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Thirteen

AN ACT relative to limitation of appropriations in official ballot municipalities.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 Municipal Budget Law; Limitation of Appropriations. Amend the introductory paragraph of RSA 32:18 to read as follows:

32:18 Limitation of Appropriations. In any municipality electing this subdivision, or any district wholly within a town electing this subdivision, the total amount appropriated at any annual meeting shall not exceed by more than 10 percent the total amount recommended by the budget committee for such meeting. In official ballot referendum municipalities, the recommendation of the budget committee made for the first session of the meeting shall be used for determining the 10 percent limitation unless the budget committee, following the deliberative session, revises its recommendations, whether or not an article is amended, in which case the revised recommendations shall be used for determining the 10 percent limitation. These totals shall include appropriations contained in special warrant articles. Money may be raised and appropriated for purposes included in the budget or in the warrant and not recommended by the budget committee, but not to an amount which would increase the total appropriations by more than the 10 percent allowed under this paragraph. The 10 percent increase allowable under this paragraph shall be computed on the total amount recommended by the budget committee less that part of any appropriation item which constitutes fixed charges. Fixed charges shall include appropriations for:

2 Budget Preparation. Amend RSA 32:5, V(b) to read as follows:

(b) If the article is amended at the first session of the meeting in an official ballot referendum municipality, the governing body and the budget committee, if one exists, may revise its recommendation on the amended version of the special warrant article and the revised recommendation shall appear on the ballot for the second session of the meeting [provided, however, that] and the 10 percent limitation on expenditures provided for in RSA 32:18 shall be calculated based upon the [initial] revised recommendations of the budget committee;

3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.