HB165 (2025) Detail

Relative to the maximum amount of disaster relief funding provided to municipalities after a natural disaster.


CHAPTER 43

HB 165-FN - FINAL VERSION

 

 

2025 SESSION

25-0138

02/06

 

HOUSE BILL 165-FN

 

AN ACT relative to the maximum amount of disaster relief funding provided to municipalities after a natural disaster.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. J. Aron, Sull. 4; Rep. Buco, Carr. 1; Rep. Cloutier, Sull. 6; Rep. Creighton, Hills. 30; Rep. Spillane, Rock. 2; Rep. Terry, Belk. 7; Rep. C. McGuire, Merr. 27; Sen. Pearl, Dist 17; Sen. Watters, Dist 4

 

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill increases the maximum annual amount of disaster relief funding a municipality may receive from the state disaster relief fund.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

25-0138

02/06

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

 

AN ACT relative to the maximum amount of disaster relief funding provided to municipalities after a natural disaster.

 

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

 

43:1  Homeland Security and Emergency Management; Municipal Road and Bridge Disaster Relief Funding.  Amend RSA 21-P:37-e to read as follows:

21-P:37-e  Disaster Relief Procedures.  A municipality may request infrastructural disaster relief more than once in a calendar year, but shall not receive more than [$25,000] $100,000 in grant money from this program in a calendar year.  Requests shall be filed with the joint legislative fiscal committee within 45 days after the governor's declaration.  Moneys shall be distributed from the New Hampshire disaster relief fund established in RSA 21-P:46-a.  The joint legislative fiscal committee may decide to appropriate a lesser amount to the request based on available funding.

43:2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

 

Approved: May 29, 2025

Effective Date: July 28, 2025

 

 

Links


Date Body Type
Jan. 23, 2025 House Hearing
Jan. 30, 2025 House Exec Session
Jan. 30, 2025 House Floor Vote
March 17, 2025 House Exec Session
March 17, 2025 House Floor Vote
April 8, 2025 Senate Hearing
April 17, 2025 Senate Floor Vote

Bill Text Revisions

HB165 Revision: 48404 Date: May 30, 2025, 11:12 a.m.
HB165 Revision: 47868 Date: April 18, 2025, 12:06 p.m.
HB165 Revision: 45966 Date: Jan. 4, 2025, 10:16 p.m.

Docket


May 30, 2025: Signed by Governor Ayotte 05/29/2025; Chapter 43; eff. 07/28/2025


May 13, 2025: Enrolled (in recess of) 05/08/2025 HJ 14 P. 59


May 12, 2025: Enrolled Adopted, VV, (In recess 05/08/2015); SJ 13


April 17, 2025: Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 04/17/2025; SJ 10


April 9, 2025: Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 04/17/2025; Vote 6-0; CC; SC 17


April 3, 2025: Hearing: 04/08/2025, Room 103, SH, 01:15 pm; SC 16


March 28, 2025: Introduced 03/27/2025 and Referred to Finance; SJ 10


March 26, 2025: Ought to Pass: MA VV 03/26/2025 HJ 10 P. 32


March 17, 2025: Committee Report: Ought to Pass 03/17/2025 (Vote 25-0; CC) HC 17 P. 18


March 14, 2025: Executive Session: 03/17/2025 01:15 pm LOB 210-211


Feb. 14, 2025: Division II Work Session: 02/24/2025 01:00 pm LOB 209


Feb. 13, 2025: Referred to Finance 02/13/2025 HJ 5 P. 13


Feb. 13, 2025: Ought to Pass: MA VV 02/13/2025 HJ 5 P. 13


Feb. 4, 2025: Committee Report: Ought to Pass 01/30/2025 (Vote 18-0; CC) HC 11 P. 7


Jan. 22, 2025: Executive Session: 01/30/2025 02:00 pm LOB 301-303


Jan. 15, 2025: Public Hearing: 01/23/2025 10:20 am LOB 301-303


Jan. 6, 2025: Introduced 01/08/2025 and referred to Municipal and County Government HJ 2 P. 8