Revision: Dec. 8, 2017, 12:01 p.m.
SB 342 - AS INTRODUCED
2018 SESSION
18-2998
06/10
SENATE BILL 342
AN ACT requiring written disclosure of certain default budget items during the deliberative session.
SPONSORS: Sen. Daniels, Dist 11
COMMITTEE: Public and Municipal Affairs
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ANALYSIS
This bill requires a school board, in a district that has adopted the official ballot referendum form of meeting, to provide written documentation identifying certain specific cost items in the default budget at the deliberative session.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
18-2998
06/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen
AN ACT requiring written disclosure of certain default budget items during the deliberative session.
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, the school board in a district that has adopted the official ballot referendum form of meeting shall provide written documentation at the deliberative session that identifies the specific cost items that constitute an increase or decrease aggregate within each account code in the default budget.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.