Revision: March 30, 2017, 3:54 p.m.
CHAPTER 2
HB 368-FN-A - FINAL VERSION
9Feb2017... 0210h
03/16/2017 0899s
23Mar2017... 1097-CofC
2017 SESSION
17-0582
10/09
HOUSE BILL 368-FN-A
SPONSORS: Rep. Chandler, Carr. 1; Rep. Hinch, Hills. 21; Rep. L. Ober, Hills. 37; Rep. Shurtleff, Merr. 11; Sen. Daniels, Dist 11; Sen. Bradley, Dist 3; Sen. D'Allesandro, Dist 20
COMMITTEE: Public Works and Highways
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This bill authorizes the commissioner of administrative services to decommission the Concord Steam Corporation facilities and manage the replacement of systems providing heat to state-owned buildings in Concord. The bill makes an appropriation to the department of administrative services for the purposes of the bill.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
9Feb2017... 0210h
03/16/2017 0899s
23Mar2017... 1097-CofC 17-0582
10/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
2:1 Department of Administrative Services; Authority; Heating of State-Owned Buildings.
I. The sum of $18,000,000 is hereby appropriated to the department of administrative services for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017 for the purpose of the purchase and replacement of all systems providing heat to state facilities located at the Governor Hugh J. Gallen state office park and state-owned buildings in downtown Concord that are currently obtaining steam from Concord Steam corporation, as well as the decommissioning of the steam plant located at 105 Pleasant Street in Concord, including but not limited to system design, construction, hazardous material remediation, and project administration and management, as required. This project shall be managed by the division of public works design and construction and funds may be expended to fund any temporary personnel for the purpose of project administration, management, or clerk of the works. The commissioner of the department of administrative services is also authorized to employ a classified, full-time, permanent project manager in the division of public works design and construction, whose initial salary and benefit cost shall be from funds appropriated pursuant to this act. The governor is authorized to draw a warrant for said sum out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and said funds shall not lapse until June 30, 2019.
II. An additional $7,000,000 in capital appropriations shall be included in the state capital budget (HB 25) of the 2017 legislative session. Said sum shall be used for the purposes described in paragraph I and shall be in addition to the appropriation contained in paragraph I.
2:2 Total Funding Appropriated and Authorized. The combined totals for the funding appropriated and authorized in section 1 of this act shall not exceed $25,000,000.
2:3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved: March 24, 2017
Effective Date: March 24, 2017