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2024 SESSION
24-3063.0
02/10
SENATE BILL [bill number]
AN ACT relative to school building aid for eligible projects.
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ANALYSIS
This bill increases the amount to be appropriated by the legislature for school building aid construction and renovation projects of school districts. The bill also allocates a portion of funds to be paid for school building projects approved in prior years but which were not funded.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
24-3063.0
02/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four
AN ACT relative to school building aid for eligible projects.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 School Building Aid; Grants for School Construction. Amend RSA 198:15-a, IV to read as follows:
IV.(a) Beginning July 1, [2013] 2024, and every fiscal year thereafter, school building aid grants for construction or renovation projects approved by the department of education shall not [exceed $50,000,000] total less than $60,000,000 per fiscal year [less any] exclusive of appropriations for debt service payments owed [in the] for previous fiscal [year, unless otherwise provided by an act of the general court] years.
(b) Provided, that at least $5,000,000 per fiscal year of the total in subparagraph (a) shall be awarded to fund one-half of the building aid amount for projects that started construction between July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2019, which would have been eligible for building aid had funding been available for new projects. These projects shall submit a building aid application developed by the department of education and shall be awarded in the ranked order developed pursuant to RSA 198:15-c, II(a) and II(b).
(c) School building aid grants shall be funded from appropriations in the state operating budget and no state bonds shall be authorized or issued for the purpose of funding such school building aid grants.
2 School Building Aid; Alternative School Building Aid Grants. Amend RSA 198:15-w to read as follows:
198:15-w Alternative School Building Aid Grants; Procedures. The provisions of RSA 198:15-c through 198:15-h shall apply to any grant made under this subdivision. Provided that grants under RSA 198:15-a, IV(b) for approved alternative school building aid grant applications shall be calculated at 50 percent of the current applicable building aid grant amount pursuant to RSA 198:15-u through RSA 198:15-w for the school district, city, cooperative school district, joint maintenance agreement, or receiving district.