Bill Text - HB1211 (2020)

Relative to a capital reserve fund in towns under the control of the budget committee.


Revision: Dec. 2, 2019, 11:41 a.m.

HB 1211 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2020 SESSION

20-2354

06/04

 

HOUSE BILL 1211

 

AN ACT relative to a capital reserve fund in towns under the control of the budget committee.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Abramson, Rock. 20; Rep. Fowler, Rock. 20

 

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill permits a town or school district to establish a capital reserve fund which may only be expended by a 2/3 vote of the budget committee.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

20-2354

06/04

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty

 

AN ACT relative to a capital reserve fund in towns under the control of the budget committee.

 

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

 

1  New Section; Capital Reserve Fund; Towns with Municipal Budget Committee.  Amend RSA 35 by inserting after section 35:1-c the following new section:

35:1-d  Capital Reserve Fund in Towns with a Municipal Budget Committee.  The governing body of a town or school district with an elected municipal budget committee may establish a capital reserve fund with amounts raised by grants or gifts, or allocated by a warrant article, to be expended only by a 2/3 vote of the municipal budget committee.

2  New Paragraph; Municipal Budget Law; Duties and Authority of the Budget Committee.  Amend RSA 32:16 by inserting after paragraph IV the following new paragraph:

V.  In the case of an elected budget committee, to oversee a capital reserve fund established under RSA 35:1-d and, upon request of the town or school district, expend the funds, by a 2/3 vote, and set the conditions under which the funds are expended.

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