SB 139 - AS INTRODUCED
2015 SESSION
15-0720
04/03
SENATE BILL 139
AN ACT relative to the department of safety inventory fund.
SPONSORS: Sen. D'Allesandro, Dist 20; Sen. Soucy, Dist 18; Rep. Welch, Rock 13; Rep.?Pantelakos, Rock 25
This bill requires the commissioners of the department of corrections and safety to enter into a written agreement for reimbursement to the department of corrections for the manufacture of number plates.
This bill is a request of the department of corrections.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
15-0720
04/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fifteen
AN ACT relative to the department of safety inventory fund.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Administration of Transportation Laws; Inventory Fund. Amend RSA 228:25, I to read as follows:
I. There is hereby established an inventory fund in the department of safety consisting of the initial appropriation of $1,000,000 which sum is hereby authorized as a revolving fund comprised of funds in the highway fund that are not otherwise appropriated and into which shall be deposited additional revenues derived from the number plate manufacturing fee established in this paragraph. The fund shall be nonlapsing and continually appropriated to the department. The prison shall purchase such raw materials as may be required and agreed to by the commissioner of safety in order for the commissioner of safety to issue fully reflectorized motor vehicle number plates. This purchase shall be a charge against the inventory fund and the prison shall be responsible for the control and accountability of the raw materials so charged. Said number plates shall be manufactured at the state prison. The prison shall be furnished out of said inventory account the raw materials necessary to manufacture said plates and upon receipt of the finished plates by the department of safety shall be reimbursed for their direct and indirect costs. [The commissioner of safety shall, biennially, request the commissioner of administrative services to review and approve said cost rates.] The commissioner of the department of corrections and the commissioner of the department of safety shall enter into a written agreement which specifies the annual reimbursement to the department of corrections for direct and indirect costs related to the manufacture of number plates. The agreement shall be subject to annual review by the commissioners and shall contain a provision governing the adjustment of reimbursement rates based on the average change in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers, Northeast Region, as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commissioner of safety shall charge, in addition to the regular motor vehicle registration fee, a number plate manufacturing fee of $4.00 per plate at the time of issuing said reflectorized motor vehicle number plates or replacement reflectorized number plates. Said additional charge shall not give the registrant any title or other property interest in said plates. The commissioner of safety or assistant commissioner may request from time to time delivery of the number plates from the prison and shall reimburse the inventory fund by a transfer from revenue. At least 6 months prior to subsequent general issue, a transfer from revenue shall be made for all remaining finished plates in inventory. The commissioner of safety shall report to the governor, the president of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives, no later than 90 days after the close of the second fiscal year of each biennium, the year ending balance in the inventory fund and the department’s recommendation as to when the next general issue of number plates should commence, the estimated cost of such a general issue, and the estimated annual cost to support routine plate issue and replacement without a new general issue.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.