Revision: Jan. 27, 2017, 9:16 a.m.
HB 456 - AS INTRODUCED
2017 SESSION
17-0521
04/03
HOUSE BILL 456
AN ACT relative to petition articles in the warrant of a cooperative school district.
SPONSORS: Rep. Comeau, Carr. 5; Rep. Cordelli, Carr. 4; Rep. Avellani, Carr. 5
COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government
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This bill allows a petitioned article to establish a budget committee to be inserted into the warrant of a cooperative school district.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
17-0521
04/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen
AN ACT relative to petition articles in the warrant of a cooperative school district.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Cooperative School Districts; Budget Committee. Amend RSA 195:12-a, I to read as follows:
I.(a) A cooperative school district at an annual meeting, under a proper article in the warrant, may vote to establish a budget committee pursuant to RSA 32:14 and may rescind such action in a like manner. The budget committee shall have the same number of members as the cooperative district school board plus one additional member from the school board as provided in this paragraph. The terms of office and manner of election of members shall be determined in the same manner as for the cooperative school board. Whenever it is voted to establish a budget committee, the moderator in the first instance shall appoint the members of the budget committee, except for the additional member appointed from the school board, within 15 days of the vote establishing the committee. The members appointed by the moderator shall serve until the next annual meeting when the meeting shall elect their successors. No member of the cooperative school board shall be appointed or elected to the budget committee except that the chairperson of the cooperative school board shall appoint a member of the board to serve on the budget committee with all the powers and duties of any other member of the committee. After appointment or election the budget committee shall promptly organize and choose a chairperson, vice-chairperson, and secretary. The secretary shall keep records of the proceedings of the budget committee, which shall be public records open to public inspection.
(b) A cooperative school district may vote to establish a budget committee pursuant to RSA 32:14 and may rescind such action in a like manner upon the written application of at least 25 registered voters in the towns comprising the cooperative school district, presented to the school board of the cooperative school district or one of them, not later than the fifth Tuesday before the day prescribed for an annual meeting, the cooperative school board shall insert in its warrant for such meeting the petitioned article with only such minor textual changes as may be required.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.