Bill Text - HB1392 (2018)

(New Title) relative to tallies of votes on budget items or warrant articles.


Revision: Nov. 6, 2017, 8:32 a.m.

HB 1392 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2018 SESSION

18-2056

06/03

 

HOUSE BILL 1392

 

AN ACT relative to publishing the tallies of votes of municipal budget committee members on warrant articles.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. F. McCarthy, Carr. 2; Rep. Cordelli, Carr. 4; Rep. Verville, Rock. 2; Rep. Avellani, Carr. 5; Rep. Comeau, Carr. 5; Rep. Gauthier, Sull. 3

 

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill permits the municipal budget committee to require that the numerical tally of all votes be printed on the affected warrant unless the legislative body has voted otherwise.

 

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

18-2056

06/03

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen

 

AN ACT relative to publishing the tallies of votes of municipal budget committee members on warrant articles.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  Municipal Budget Law; Budget Preparation; Numerical Tally.  Amend RSA 32:5, V-a to read as follows:

V-a.  The legislative body of any town, school district, or village district may vote to require that all votes by an advisory budget committee, a town, school district, or village district budget committee, and the governing body or, in towns, school districts, or village districts without a budget committee, all votes of the governing body relative to budget items or any warrant articles shall be recorded votes and the numerical tally of any such vote shall be printed in the town, school district, or village district warrant next to the affected warrant article.  Unless the legislative body has voted otherwise, if a town or school district has not voted to require such tallies to be printed in the town or school district warrant next to the affected warrant article, the governing body or the municipal budget committee may do so on its own initiative.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.