HB1449 (2022) Detail

Creating a toll booth exemption for vehicle funeral processions to the veterans cemetery in Boscawen.


HB 1449-FN - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2022 SESSION

22-2082

12/04

 

HOUSE BILL 1449-FN

 

AN ACT creating a toll booth exemption for vehicle funeral processions to the veterans cemetery in Boscawen.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Mooney, Hills. 21; Rep. Healey, Hills. 21; Rep. Baldasaro, Rock. 5; Rep. Notter, Hills. 21; Rep. Rung, Hills. 21; Sen. Avard, Dist 12

 

COMMITTEE: Public Works and Highways

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill grants toll-free use of any section of the New Hampshire turnpike system to a funeral procession traveling from a funeral home located in the state, to the New Hampshire state veterans cemetery, which complies with listed requirements.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

22-2082

12/04

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Two

 

AN ACT creating a toll booth exemption for vehicle funeral processions to the veterans cemetery in Boscawen.

 

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

 

1  New Paragraph; Turnpike System; Exemption From Tolls; Funeral Processions to the State Veterans Cemetery.  Amend RSA 237:12 by inserting after paragraph IV the following new paragraph:

V.  The commissioner of the department of transportation shall grant toll-free use of any section of the turnpike system to a funeral procession traveling from a funeral home located in New Hampshire, to the New Hampshire state veterans cemetery, that complies with the following requirements:

(a)  A funeral director shall notify the department of transportation at least 24 hours in advance of a funeral procession to the New Hampshire state veterans cemetery and provide an estimate of the number of vehicles in the procession.

(b)  The first vehicle in the procession shall be provided by the funeral director.

(c)  All vehicles in the funeral procession shall travel with their headlights on.

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

 

LBA

22-2082

Redraft 11/22/21

 

HB 1449-FN- FISCAL NOTE

AS INTRODUCED

 

AN ACT creating a toll booth exemption for vehicle funeral processions to the veterans cemetery in Boscawen.

 

FISCAL IMPACT:      [ X ] State              [    ] County               [    ] Local              [    ] None

 

 

 

Estimated Increase / (Decrease)

STATE:

FY 2022

FY 2023

FY 2024

FY 2025

   Appropriation

$0

$0

$0

$0

   Revenue

$0

Indeterminable Decrease

Indeterminable Decrease

Indeterminable Decrease

   Expenditures

$0

Indeterminable Increase

Indeterminable Increase

Indeterminable Increase

Funding Source:

  [    ] General            [    ] Education            [    ] Highway           [ X ] Other - Turnpike Fund

 

 

 

 

 

METHODOLOGY:

This bill grants toll-free use of any section of the New Hampshire turnpike system to any funeral procession traveling to the New Hampshire state veterans cemetery which complies with the listed requirements.

 

The Department of Transportation assumes it would need some type of verification from the funeral procession that it is going to NH Veteran’s Cemetery in order for the Toll Attendants to allow the procession to proceed toll free.  The Department would verify with Veteran’s Cemetery at various times and if a procession did not proceed to the Veteran’s Cemetery, the Department will bill the Funeral Home.  The Department indicates the bill would result in a decrease in   revenue to the Turnpike system.  The amount of such decrease is indeterminable as number of processions is unknown and which toll booth(s) that they may travel through is also unknown.  

 

In addition the bill could increase administrative time necessary to monitor funeral processions, coordinate between the toll attendants and review information with the Veteran’s Cemetery.  Funeral processions use of open road tolls (ORT) or all-electronic tolls (AET) would create additional costs within the Cubic back-office system to identify vehicles and ensure invoicing is not sent to those vehicles in the procession.

 

The Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services states the bill would have no fiscal impact to the Department.

 

It is assumed that any fiscal impact would occur after FY 2022.

 

AGENCIES CONTACTED:

Departments of Transportation and Military Affairs and Veterans Services

 

 

Links


Date Body Type
Jan. 12, 2022 House Hearing
Jan. 12, 2022 House Floor Vote
Jan. 12, 2022 House Exec Session
Jan. 12, 2022 House Floor Vote

Bill Text Revisions

HB1449 Revision: 34091 Date: Dec. 1, 2021, 2:56 p.m.

Docket


Feb. 16, 2022: Inexpedient to Legislate: MA VV 02/16/2022 HJ 3


Jan. 20, 2022: Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate (Vote ; 17-1)


Jan. 27, 2022: Executive Session: 01/12/2022 01:00 pm LOB 205-207


Jan. 20, 2022: Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate 01/12/2022 (Vote 17-1; CC)


Jan. 8, 2022: Public Hearing: 01/12/2022 02:15 pm LOB 201-203


Dec. 1, 2021: Introduced 01/05/2022 and referred to Public Works and Highways