Bill Text - HB1555 (2024)

Relative to special meetings for changes in education funding.


Revision: Oct. 2, 2023, 9:02 a.m.

 

2024 SESSION

24-2803.0

02/10

 

HOUSE BILL [bill number]

 

AN ACT relative to special meetings for changes in education funding.

 

SPONSORS: [sponsors]

 

COMMITTEE: [committee]

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill establishes a maximum warrant reduction or increase for special school district meetings for changes in education funding.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-2803.0

02/10

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to special meetings for changes in education funding.

 

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

 

1  Special Meeting for Change in Education Funding.  Amend the introductory paragraph of RSA 197:3-a to read as follows:

197:3-a Special Meeting for Change in Education Funding.  In response to [statutory] changes resulting in reductions or increases in distribution of state revenues for education pursuant to RSA 198:41 to school districts which would take effect after the adoption of a new school district budget and would apply in the fiscal year covered by the new budget, the governing body of a school district may, after consultation with the budget committee, call a special meeting of the legislative body to consider a reduction, rescission, or increase of appropriations made at an annual meeting, subject to the following:

2  New Paragraph; Special Meeting for Change in Education Funding.  Amend RSA 197:3-a by inserting after paragraph VIII the following new paragraph:

IX. The maximum reduction or increase on the warrant shall be calculated by subtracting the latest estimate produced by the department on or before September 15 by the calculation made in the previous year by the department on November 15 pursuant to RSA 198:41, IV.

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