Bill Text - SB49 (2023)

(New Title) relative to creating a dedicated, non-lapsing fund, and a biennial report of such fund, for OPLC.


Revision: Jan. 6, 2023, 2:06 p.m.

 

2023 SESSION

23-0815.0

07/08

 

SENATE BILL [bill number]

 

AN ACT relative to creating a dedicated non-lapsing fund for OPLC.

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill makes the office of professional licensure and certification fund a nonlapsing fund, a portion of which shall be used for capital expenditures and to lower fees.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

23-0815.0

07/08

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three

 

AN ACT relative to creating a dedicated non-lapsing fund for OPLC.

 

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

 

1  Office of Professional Licensure and Certification; Fees.  Amend RSA 310-A:1-e, I(b) to read as follows:

(b)  There is hereby established the office of professional licensure and certification fund into which the fees collected under subparagraph (a) shall be deposited.  [After paying] The fund shall be nonlapsing and continually appropriated to the office of professional licensure and certification.  Moneys in the fund shall be used to pay all costs and salaries associated with the office[, moneys in this fund shall lapse to the general fund at the close of each biennium], and any remaining funds shall be used for capital expenditures related to the operation of the office of professional licensure and certification and to reduce licensing and certification fees.  

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