Revision: June 4, 2021, 4:05 p.m.
June 4, 2021
2021-1892
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Amendment to HB 2-FN-A-LOCAL
2021-1892
AMENDED ANALYSIS
This bill:
1. Requires the judicial branch to reimburse the sheriff's offices for costs of court security and prisoner custody and control, within available funds appropriated by the legislature, and requires remote technology whenever possible.
2. Makes a transfer of unexpended funds to the state heating system savings account.
3. Eliminates the bureau of planning and management functions and moves such functions to the division of plant and property.
4. Establishes the graphic services fund in the department of administrative services.
5. Consolidates human resources and payroll functions in the department of administrative services.
6. Repeals the memorandum of understanding with the commissioner of the department of health and human services for the purpose of delineating the functions to be assumed by the department of administrative services.
7. Extends the date on which an appropriation to the department of administrative services for scheduling software lapses.
8. Directs the payment of state employee medical benefits payments from the retirement system.
9. Enables the supreme court to transfer funds.
10. Provides for the state to reimburse the sheriff's offices for court security for the biennium.
11. Enables the sale of the lakes region facility in Laconia.
12. Requires the commissioner of the department of health and human services to make quarterly reports on the status of estimated Medicaid payments in relation to actual costs.
13. Suspends congregate housing and services and the foster grandparent program for the biennium ending June 30, 2023.
14. Establishes the emergency services for children, youth, and families fund and eliminates certain parental reimbursements.
15. Prohibits the distribution of state funds awarded by the department of health and human services to a reproductive health care facility for provision of abortion services, and prohibits a health care provider from performing an abortion if the gestational age of the fetus is at least 24 weeks unless there is a medical emergency.
16. Makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services for streamlining agency operations.
17. Requiring the commissioner of the department of health and human services to submit an amendment to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to suspend all catastrophic aid payments to hospitals for the biennium.
18. Enables the department of military affairs and veterans services to provide support for veterans' mental health and preventing social isolation.
19. Transfers the controlled drug prescription health and safety program to the department of health and human services.
20. Suspends revenue sharing with cities and towns for the biennium.
21. Enables the liquor commission to process merchant cards.
22. Enables the department of education to accept gifts, contributions, and bequests for the New Hampshire scholars program.
23. Provides for increased education grants to bring the state into compliance with the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 .
24. Makes transfers to the education trust fund.
25. Makes an appropriation from the education trust fund to the department of education to fund operating costs for a student data collection and reporting system.
26. Authorizes expenditures for energy efficient school buses.
27. Establishes the position of director of intergovernmental affairs in the department of business and economic affairs.
28. Repeals the bureau of film and digital media.
29. Suspends the crediting of meals and rooms tax revenue to the division of travel and tourism.
30. Enables the department of corrections to transfer funds.
31. Changes the approval threshold for contracts set by the governor and council manual of procedures.
32. Prohibits the dispersing of sate aid grants for certain new infrastructure projects in the department of environmental services.
33. Renames the divisions of the office of professional licensure and certification and establishes pharmacy compliance investigator positions within the office.
34. Makes an appropriation to the New Hampshire Internet crimes against children fund.
35. Makes an appropriation to the FRM victims recovery fund and removes the prospective repeal of the fund.
36. Provides for transfer of funds to the revenue stabilization reserve account based on the most recently completed fiscal biennium.
37. Makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services for the purpose of funding one-time maintenance of the Medicaid management information system.
38. Reduces the tax rate of, and in 2027 eliminates, the interest and dividends tax.
39. Reduces the tax rate of the meals and rooms tax.
40. Establishes the meals and rooms municipal revenue fund for the distribution of meals and rooms tax revenues by the state treasurer to towns, cities, and places.
41. Increases the filing threshold for the business enterprise tax and reduces the rate of the tax; and reduces the rate of the business profits tax.
42. Limits the amount of the credit allowed against overpayment of the business profits tax and the business enterprise tax and establishes a commission to study limiting the business tax credit carry over.
43. Excludes under the business profits tax the business income of a taxpayer received by reason of forgiveness of indebtedness issued or created under the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
44. Allows the New Hampshire veterans’ home to transfer funds within accounting units for the biennium ending June 30, 2023.
45. Revises the procedure for compensation for loss of agricultural products or livestock due to bears.
46. Authorizes the department of information technology to fill unfunded positions.
47. Modifies the composition and operation of the adult parole board and permits remote meetings during a pandemic or other declared state of emergency.
48. Requires employer pro rata payments to the workers' compensation administration fund to be based on the preceding calendar year ratios and amends the payment of per diems to workers' compensation appeals board members.
49. Amends the unemployment compensation fund balance necessary to trigger increases or decreases in employer contributions to the fund and repeals the emergency surcharge power of the commissioner of the department of employment security.
50. Imposes liability on any person who renders any highway unsuitable for public travel, including full and current replacement cost.
51. Provides that proceeds from a sale that results from money provided by the highway fund for payback of real property purchased with federal funds shall be credited to the department of transportation for the purpose of meeting federal obligations or reimbursing the highway fund for payment of federal obligations.
52. Adds definitions relating to small unmanned aircraft and small unmanned aircraft systems to the New Hampshire aeronautics act.
53. Amends an appropriation to the department of transportation for the 2018 fiscal year and provides that it lapse to the highway fund and be expended for the purpose of funding state red list bridge projects.
54. Establishes a body-worn and dashboard camera fund and makes appropriations; establishes a classified business administrator I position in the department of safety; and establishes a commission to develop recommendations for legislation to establish a single, neutral, and independent statewide entity to receive complaints alleging misconduct regarding all sworn and elected law enforcement officers.
55. Requires the department of safety, in collaboration with the department of administrative services, to establish standards for radio infrastructure-related hardware, computers, software, related licenses, media, documentation, support and maintenance services.
56. Establishes within the department of justice an unclassified position of director of diversity and community outreach.
57. Authorizes the judicial council to request additional funding expenditures for termination of parental rights services that are greater than amounts appropriated in the operating budget.
58. Moves the governor's scholarship program and fund from the office of strategic initiatives to the college tuition savings plan and authorizes the college tuition savings plan advisory commission to transfer funds between the governor's scholarship fund and the New Hampshire excellence in higher education endowment trust fund.
59. Transfers the regulation of audiologists and hearing aid dealers to the governing board of speech language pathology.
60. Establishes the department of energy, to govern energy and utilities matters, and have oversight on matters under the public utilities commission.
61. Administratively attaches the public utilities commission to the department of energy and makes corresponding changes to existing laws relating to the organization and duties of the public utilities commission to reflect this change.
62. Transfers certain duties from the public utilities commission to the department of energy.
63. Adds the commissioner of the department of energy to the New Hampshire site evaluation committee.
64. Requires that the department of energy advocate for New Hampshire in regional activities concerning competitive electricity suppliers.
65. Requires that the department of energy require electric and gas utilities to operate an online energy data platform and, in conjunction with the public utilities commission, implement a statewide electric utility restructuring plan.
66. Requires the bank commissioner to charge the public deposit investment pool for actual costs incurred by the banking department to operate the pool.
67. Removes the consideration of weighted apportionment factors under the business profits tax from inclusion in the tax expenditure report and includes the regional career and technical education center tax credit.
68. Allowing the department of employment security to participate in a department of labor information hub to combat fraud and waste.
69. Establishes and describes a right to freedom from certain types of discrimination based on age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, creed, color, marital status, familial status, mental or physical disability, religion, or national origin in public workplaces and education.
70. Requires violations of the governor's emergency orders regarding the Covid-19 pandemic to be reversed.
71. Creates a database for animal records; renames animal health certificates as certificates of transfer; authorizes the commissioner of the department of agriculture, markets, and food to transfer money to and from certain funds in order to establish the animal record database and to repay monies transferred from other funds; and establishes a position in the department of information technology for the building and management of the animal records database.
72. Establishes the dual and concurrent enrollment program in the community college system of New Hampshire and amends the administrative responsibilities for the program.
73. Makes an appropriation to the community college system of New Hampshire for the dual and concurrent enrollment program.
74. Increases the limit on the amount of the annual grant for leased space provided to a chartered public school.
75. Requires the department of education to develop and maintain a 10-year plan for school building grant projects.
76. Provides that the amount necessary to fund kindergarten adequate education grants shall be appropriated from the education trust fund; authorizes the governor to draw a warrant to eliminate a deficit if the balance in the education trust fund falls below zero; and makes an appropriation to the department of education for fiscal year 2020 kindergarten funding.
77. Provides that members-at-large are included as representatives of the same town as a deceased member of a school planning committee for the purpose of filling vacancies.
78. Makes an appropriation to the department of transportation for the highway and bridge betterment program and the acquisition of fleet vehicles.
79. Makes an appropriation to the department of education for school building aid payments to school districts and suspends the cap on school building aid grants for the biennium ending June 30, 2023.
80. Reduces the amount of education tax revenue to be raised for the 2023 fiscal year.
81. Requires the department of health and human services to fund employment-related child care services without a wait list and to provide enrollment-based reimbursement to certain child care providers for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022 without using general funds.
82. Makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services to operate the Sununu youth services center and closes the Sununu youth services center in 2023.
83. Establishes a committee to develop a plan for the closure and replacement of the Sununu youth services center.
84. Limits further expansion of the closed loop referral system by the department of health and human services pending review of the system by the legislative oversight committee on health and human services.
85. Allows political subdivisions to treat funds received pursuant to the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 as unanticipated revenue under RSA 31:95-b.
86. Established salaries and salary schedules for certain state officers, and classified and unclassified state employees.
87. Provides that positions in state government which become available as a result of reorganization or downsizing of state government be filled, if possible, by laid off state employees.
88. Establishes the granite state paid family leave plan.
89. Establishes procedures and rulemaking for executive branch employee annual leave, sick leave, transfer credit, and terminal pay.
90. Abolishes classified full-time positions which were vacant prior to July 1, 2018 and remain vacant as of July 1, 2021.
91. Makes an appropriation to the department of agriculture, markets, and food to fund the cost of care fund; establishes a disease data manager position in the department and makes an appropriation for the position.
92. Establishes the unclassified position of assistant attorney general in the department of justice.
93. Creates the National Guard enlistment incentive program and makes an appropriation therefor.
94. Establishes the positions of director of life and health and director of property and casualty within the insurance department.
95. Makes an appropriation to the business finance authority to provide grants to regional economic development corporations.
96. Makes an appropriation to the affordable housing fund.
97. Makes limitations on the grant in aid program administered by the bureau of trails, division of parks and recreation, in the department of natural and cultural affairs for OHRV trails.
98. Makes an appropriation to the Hampton Beach area commission for environmental master plan updates.
99. Appropriates funds to the department of safety for overtime costs at the state forensic laboratory; to the state police for narcotics-related enforcement; and to disburse grants to county and local law enforcement agencies for the purpose of funding overtime costs for county and local law enforcement officers performing law enforcement activities attributable to the substance abuse enforcement program.
100. Appropriates funds to the fire standards and training and emergency medical services fund for the 2022 and 2023 fiscal years, and to the department of safety, division of fire standards and training and emergency medical services, to fund additional part-time instruction or increase the tuition discount for certain emergency service personnel.
101. Transfers funds from the general fund to the highway fund.
102. Appropriates $7,000,000 to the department of transportation for the Conway Bypass right-of-way payback to the federal highway administration.
103. Directs the commissioner of the department of transportation to remove toll booths on exit 10 in Merrimack.
104. Appropriates $3,250,000 to the department of transportation for a project in Tilton.
105. Makes an appropriation to the department of transportation for matching grants.
106. Extends a prior appropriation to the department of health and human services for child welfare behavioral health services.
107. Requires that the New Hampshire 10-year mental health plan include a report on implementation of 2019, 44 (SB 14), relative to child welfare.
108. Establishes positions in the department of health and human services contracts and procurement unit and makes an appropriation for this purpose.
109. Requires the department of health and human services to implement SNAP health incentive programs and makes an appropriation to the department for this purpose.
110. Extends the prospective repeal relative to the waitlist for community mental health services.
111. Adds an exception for rulemaking by the department of health and human services for cost of living adjustments in social security benefits contained within the Social Services Block Grant program.
112. Continues the suspension of RSA 151-E:18, regarding presumptive eligibility for long-term care home and community-based services, from HB 4, Chapter 346:69 Laws of 2019.
113. Establishes a committee to study parity in reimbursement among organizations that provide Social Security Act waiver programs.
114. Makes an appropriation to fund transitional housing beds and to increase rated paid for transitional housing beds, and allows funds appropriated in 2019 to be used to for these purposes.
115. Restricts a portion of rural health & primary care funding for the state loan repayment program.
116. Changes the lapse period for certain funds appropriated to the department of health and human services, division of medicaid services and requires such funds to be treated as restricted revenue.
117. Makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services for the construction of a forensic psychiatric hospital.
118. Provides that certain waiver/nursing facility funds shall be treated as restricted revenue for funding expenditures for waiver/nursing facilities-county participation.
119. Provides that the home visiting program shall be available to all Medicaid eligible pregnant women, infants, and families with children up to age one.
120. Suspends graduate medical education payments for the biennium ending June 30, 2023.
121. Makes a supplemental appropriation to the department of health and human services for juvenile diversion programs and provides that the department of health and human services shall establish procedures for administration of the state-funded programs.
122. Requires the commissioner of the department of health and human services to solicit information and to contract with dental managed care organizations to provide dental care to persons under the Medicaid managed care program and makes an appropriation for the dental benefit for 2023 fiscal year.
123. Limits the home visiting program to available appropriations for the biennium ending June 30, 2023.
124. Suspends certain income eligibility standards for in-and-out medical assistance for the biennium ending June 30, 2023.
125. Allows the department of health and human services to accept and expend additional federal funds with the prior approval of the fiscal committee for the Medicaid to schools program.
126. Makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services to provide grants to senior centers or other organizations serving senior citizens.
127. Makes an appropriation to the lottery commission for the purpose of paying off the commercial mortgage on the building serving as the lottery commission's headquarters.
128. Lowers Keno license fees.
129. Makes an appropriation from the education trust fund to the department of education to fund operating costs for a student data collection and reporting system.
130. Makes an appropriation to the governor's scholarship fund.
131. Establishes the education freedom account program which permits the treasurer to transfer adequate education grants, plus any differentiated aid that would have been provided to a public school, to a scholarship organization for disbursement to parents to be used for certain educational purposes; appropriates the funds authorized under this program from the education trust fund; and authorizes the comptroller to transfer funds from the general fund to eliminate any deficit in the education trust fund created by the payment of grants or transfers of funds under the program.
132. Modifies the law on the operation and funding of the Woodsville fire district and directs that appropriations to the Woodsville fire district shall be as directed by warrant articles duly voted at each annual Haverhill town meeting.
133. Establishes a COVID-19 micro enterprise relief fund.
134. Provides for the support and promotion of New Hampshire's live performance industry by the council on the arts.
135. Appropriates funds to the department of health and human services for community collaboration and parental assistance programs.
136. Makes additional appropriations to the department of health and human services for child protective service workers.
137. Provides that new businesses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic will be eligible for federal relief funds.