Bill Text - SB470 (2024)

Relative to allowing toll-free use for vehicles registered with municipal plates.


Revision: Jan. 22, 2024, 1:31 p.m.

SB 470-FN - AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

 

01/18/2024   0068s

2024 SESSION

24-3019

11/08

 

SENATE BILL 470-FN

 

AN ACT relative to allowing toll-free use for vehicles registered with municipal plates.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Sen. Ricciardi, Dist 9

 

COMMITTEE: Transportation

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill allows toll-free use for vehicles registered with municipal plates.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

01/18/2024   0068s 24-3019

11/08

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to allowing toll-free use for vehicles registered with municipal plates.

 

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

 

1  New Subparagraph; Exemption From Tolls.  Amend RSA 237:12, I by inserting after subparagraph (d) the following new subparagraph:

(e)  Motor vehicles bearing plates registered to a New Hampshire municipality.

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

 

LBA

24-3019

Amended 1/22/24

 

SB 470-FN- FISCAL NOTE

AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE (AMENDMENT #2024-0068s)

 

AN ACT relative to allowing toll-free use for vehicles registered with municipal plates.

 

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

 

METHODOLOGY:

The Department of Transportation states this bill will have no fiscal impact, as it simply aligns statute with an existing agreement between the Department and municipalities to not collect tolls from municipal vehicles.

 

AGENCIES CONTACTED:

Department of Transportation and New Hampshire Municipal Association