Revision: March 8, 2016, midnight
\t \t\tSB 527-FN-A - AS INTRODUCED
2016 SESSION
\t16-2971
\t06/10
SENATE BILL\t527-FN-A
AN ACT\tmaking an appropriation to the police standards and training council, repealing the police standards and training council training fund, making an appropriation to the department of safety for the purchase of state police cruisers.
SPONSORS:\tSen. D'Allesandro, Dist 20; Sen. Morse, Dist 22; Sen. Bradley, Dist 3; Sen. Forrester, Dist 2; Sen. Woodburn, Dist 1; Sen. Little, Dist 8; Sen. Watters, Dist 4
COMMITTEE:\tFinance
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ANALYSIS
\tThis bill:
\tI. Appropriates funds from the general fund to the police standards and training council to replace police standards and training council training funds.
\tII. Repeals the police standards and training council training fund.
\tIII. Appropriates funds from the highway fund to the department of safety for the purchase of police cruisers.
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Explanation:\tMatter added to current law appears in bold italics.
\t\tMatter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
\t\tMatter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
\t16-2971
\t06/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen
AN ACT\tmaking an appropriation to the police standards and training council, repealing the police standards and training council training fund, making an appropriation to the department of safety for the purchase of state police cruisers.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
\t1 Police Standards and Training Council; Appropriation.\t
\t\tI. The police standards and training council shall reduce police standard and training council training fund appropriations by $3,557,141 in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017.
\t\tII. There is hereby appropriated to the police standards and training council the sum of $3,557,141 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017. The governor is authorized to draw a warrant for said sums out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. The purpose of this appropriation is to offset the reduction required in paragraph I.
\t\tIII. Any balance remaining in the police standards and training council training fund as of June 30, 2016 shall be transferred to the general fund.
\t2 Repeal. The following are repealed:
\t\tI. RSA 188-F:30, relative to police standards and training council training fund.
\t\tII. RSA 6:12, I(b)(6), relative to police standards and training council training fund.
\t3 Community College System of New Hampshire; Authority of the Board of Trustees. Amend RSA 188-F:6, VIII to read as follows:
\t\tVIII. Receive, expend, allocate, and transfer funds within the community college system of New Hampshire as necessary to fulfill the purposes of the community college system. The trustees shall have no authority over [funds in the police standards and training council training fund established in RSA 188-F:30, or] any [other] funds appropriated to the police standards and training council or to the McAuliffe-Shepard discovery center, which shall not be commingled with any funds of the community college system of New Hampshire.
\t4 Police Standards and Training Council Training Fund. Amend RSA 188-F:31, IV to read as follows:
\t\tIV. The clerk of each court shall collect all penalty assessments and shall transmit the amount collected under paragraphs I-III to the state treasurer for deposit in the following funds. The state treasurer shall deposit 66.66 percent of the amount collected in the [police standards and training council training fund] state general fund, 16.67 percent of the amount collected in the victims' assistance fund, and 16.67 percent of the amount collected in the judicial branch information technology fund.
\t5 Police Standards and Training Council. Amend RSA 188-F:32-a, I to read as follows:
\t\tI. The council with approval of the board of trustees of the department may set tuition, selection procedures and fees for acceptance of tuition students at its programs and for the use of its facilities. Such fees shall be [deposited to the credit of the police standards and training council training fund or] credited with the approval of the department of administrative services, [credited] to the operating accounts of the council to offset additional expenditures necessitated by the acceptance of the additional students.
\t6 Motor Vehicles; Penalties. Amend RSA 262:44, I to read as follows:
\t\tI. Such defendant shall receive, in addition to the summons, a uniform fine schedule entitled "Notice of Fine, Division of Motor Vehicles'' which shall contain the normal fines for violations of the provisions of title XXI on vehicles for which a plea may be entered by mail. The defendant shall be given a notice of fine indicating the amount of the fine plus penalty assessment at the time the summons is issued; except if, for cause, the summoning authority wishes the defendant to appear personally. Defendants summoned to appear personally shall do so on the arraignment date specified in the summons, unless otherwise ordered by the court. Defendants who are issued a summons and notice of fine and who wish to plead guilty or nolo contendere shall enter their plea on the summons and return it with payment of the fine plus penalty assessment to the director of the division of motor vehicles within 30 days of the date of the summons. The director of the division of motor vehicles may accept payment of the fine by credit card in lieu of cash payment. Any transaction costs assessed by the issuer of the credit card shall be paid out of the portion of the fine amount which is credited as agency income and not out of the penalty assessment charged by the district court. The director of the division of motor vehicles shall remit the penalty assessments collected to the [police standards and training council for deposit in the police standards and training council training fund and to the] state treasurer to be credited and continually appropriated to the state general fund and to the victims' assistance fund and the judicial branch information technology fund in the percentages and manner prescribed in RSA 188-F:31. Fines shall be paid over to the state treasurer, and shall be credited as agency income by the department of safety within 14 days of their receipt and shall not lapse to the general fund until the second year of each biennium.
\t7 Supervision Fees; Probationers. Amend RSA 504-A:13, II(a) to read as follows:
\t\t\t(a) $5 to the [police standards and training council training fund] state general fund to defray expenses of providing training to employees of the department of corrections.
\t8 Appropriation; Highway Fund; Department of Safety, Division of State Police. The sum of $500,000 for the biennium ending June 30, 2017 is hereby appropriated to the department of safety, division of state police, for the purchase of 27 police cruisers. Said appropriation shall be a charge against the highway fund.
\t\tI. Sections 2 through 7 of this act shall take effect July 1, 2016.
\t\tII. The remainder of this act shall take effect upon its passage.
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SB 527-FN-A- FISCAL NOTE
AN ACT\tmaking an appropriation to the police standards and training council, repealing the police standards and training council training fund, making an appropriation to the department of safety for the purchase of state police cruisers.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Police Standards and Training Council and Department of Safety state this bill, as introduced, will increase state general fund revenue and expenditures and decrease state restricted revenue and expenditures by an indeterminable amount in FY 2017 and each year thereafter and increase state highway fund expenditures by $500,000 in FY 2017. There will be no impact on county and local revenue or expenditures.
This bill appropriates $3,557,141 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017 from the state general fund to the Police Standards and Training Council for the purpose of this act.
This bill appropriates $500,000 for the biennium ending June 30, 2017 from the state highway fund to the Department of Safety, Division of State Police for the purpose of this act.
METHODOLOGY:
The Police Standards and Training Council states this bill repeals the Police Standards Training Council’s training fund (PSTC Fund) effective July 1, 2016 and provides a general fund appropriation in its place for the remainder of the biennium ending June 30, 2017. Currently, traditional revenue of 66.66 percent of penalty assessment revenue and probationary supervision fee revenue is directed to the PSTC Fund and as this bill repeals this fund, this revenue would be deposited to the state general fund beginning July 1, 2016. While this bill provides for a total appropriation in FY 2017 to the Council of $3,557,141, actual expenditures cannot be determined at this time. The Council states assuming revenue remains level, approximately $3,000,000 in revenue beginning in FY 2017 would be deposited to the state general fund rather than to the PSTC Fund.
The Department of Safety states this bill provides a $500,000 highway fund appropriation in the biennium ending June 30, 2017 for the purchase of 27 State Police cruisers. The Department states it would utilize this appropriation in FY 2017 to purchase cruisers, however this appropriation amount would be insufficient to purchase 27 cruisers. The Department states 27 cruisers would cost $1,200,000. Additionally, the Department states it would incur system programming costs in FY 2017, estimated to be not more than $10,000, relative to penalty assessment revenue disposition changes included in this bill.