Revision: Jan. 27, 2017, 8:48 a.m.
HB 491-LOCAL - AS INTRODUCED
2017 SESSION
17-0373
06/01
HOUSE BILL 491-LOCAL
AN ACT relative to default budgets.
SPONSORS: Rep. Weyler, Rock. 13; Rep. Ladd, Graf. 4; Rep. Cordelli, Carr. 4
COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government
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This bill requires a school board to disclose each major item, and its source, in the default budget at a public hearing.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
17-0373
06/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen
AN ACT relative to default budgets.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 School Districts; Default Budget. Amend RSA 197:5-a to read as follows:
197:5-a Budget.
I. The school board, if the school district is not controlled by the municipal budget act, shall prepare a budget for the annual or any special meeting upon a form prescribed and provided by the commissioner of revenue administration and shall post the same with and at the same time as the warrant for the meeting is posted.
II. In the case of a default budget, regardless of whether the school district is controlled by the municipal budget act or has adopted the official ballot referendum form of meeting, the school board shall disclose, at a school district public hearing, the source of each major item to be included in the default budget. If items were in separate warrant articles in the previous budget, they shall be referenced by the title of the specific warrant article. If an item was a capital item, it shall be identified as such. The board shall allow a motion to remove any item that is nonrecurring.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.