Revision: June 27, 2025, 9:12 a.m.
Sen. Rosenwald, Dist 13
June 26, 2025
2025-2893s
08/05
Floor Amendment to HB 115-FN
Amend the title of the bill by replacing it with the following:
AN ACT making temporary appropriations for the expenses and encumbrances of the state of New Hampshire.
Amend the bill by replacing all after the enacting clause with the following:
1 Rate of Expenditures; State Agencies.
I.(a) That each state agency or state entity for which the general court appropriated funds for its operating budget for fiscal year 2025 is authorized to obligate additional funds for expenditures during the period this resolution is in effect at a rate not in excess of 8.0 percent of - with the exception of the division of medicaid services, division for behavioral health, developmental disability services, and bureau of homeless services, which are all authorized to obligate additional funds not in excess of a rate 1/12 of – and for the same purposes of, the appropriations for fiscal year 2025 contained in HB 1 of the 2023 regular legislative session (2023, 106) plus any additional appropriation needs associated with payroll during the period of this resolution, unless due to an emergency it shall be otherwise authorized by the governor with the advice and consent of the council with prior approval of the fiscal committee of the general court. For the purposes of this resolution, the provisions of HB 2 of the 2023 regular legislative session (2023,79) which relate to the 2024-2025 biennium shall apply; and
(b) Enactment of this legislation shall constitute acceptance by the state of federal funds in such amounts as under applicable state or federal law shall be necessary to give effect to the provisions of this act and shall further constitute the appropriation of such state funds as under federal law shall be required to be added to such federal funds as a condition of their transfer to the state. The authorization provided in this act shall be deemed to be a budget within the meaning of RSA 9; and
(c) Funds subject to obligation under this act shall be deemed subject to transfer under the provisions of RSA 9:16 through 9:17-d, with prior approval of the fiscal committee of the general court. The governor is authorized by and with the advice and consent of the council to draw warrants for the sums necessary to discharge obligations authorized by this act out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated or, in the case of special funds, out of any such special funds. Expenditures obligated under authority of this act shall be charges upon any appropriations subsequently enacted with respect to identical purposes and periods.
II. The provisions of RSA 9 inconsistent with the provisions of this act and the provisions of any other statutes so inconsistent are hereby suspended to the extent of such inconsistencies during the time this act is in effect. The state of New Hampshire hereby indemnifies any state official, commissioner, trustee, or other person having control of public funds appropriated by the general court for any liability personally incurred because of the provisions of RSA 9:19 and RSA 9:20 for whatever period of time elapses from 12:01 a.m. July 1, 2025, until the time that the provisions of this act making temporary appropriations become law.
2 Applicability. Section 1 of this act shall take effect July 1, 2025 and shall continue in effect until an operating budget is enacted into law but in no event later than August 1, 2025.
I. Section 1 of this act shall take effect as provided in section 2 of this act.
II. The remainder of this act shall take effect July 1, 2025.
2025-2893s
AMENDED ANALYSIS
This bill makes temporary appropriations for the expenses and encumbrances of the state of New Hampshire from July 1, 2025 until an operating budget is enacted but in no event later than August 1, 2026.