HB 475-LOCAL - AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
27Mar2025... 0600h
2025 SESSION
25-0738
02/05
HOUSE BILL 475-LOCAL
AN ACT relative to the reductions from the default budget for official ballot town meetings.
SPONSORS: Rep. Dunn, Rock. 16; Rep. Alexander Jr., Hills. 29; Rep. Ankarberg, Straf. 7; Rep. Aures, Merr. 13; Rep. Perez, Rock. 16; Rep. Colcombe, Hills. 30; Rep. DeRoy, Straf. 3; Rep. Pauer, Hills. 36; Rep. Harvey-Bolia, Belk. 3; Rep. Wood, Merr. 13
COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government
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ANALYSIS
This bill alters the definition of default budget to include salary and benefit reductions which occur as a result of position turnover.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
27Mar2025... 0600h 25-0738
02/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five
AN ACT relative to the reductions from the default budget for official ballot town meetings.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Use of Official Ballot; Definition of Default Budget. RSA 40:13, IX(b) is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:
(b) "Default budget" as used in this subdivision means the amount of the same appropriations as contained in the operating budget authorized for the previous year, reduced and increased, as the case may be, by debt service, contracts, and other obligations previously incurred by law or mandated by law, and reduced by one-time expenditures contained in the operating budget, by salaries and benefits of positions that have been eliminated in the proposed budget, by salaries and benefits of positions that were vacant before the previous year's budget was approved and have remained vacant, and reflecting the actual salary and benefits of filled positions as of the public hearing for the proposed budget excluding any increases subsequent to the authorization of the previous year's operating budget. For the purposes of this paragraph, one-time expenditures shall be appropriations not likely to recur in the succeeding budget, and eliminated positions shall not include vacant positions under recruitment unless vacant before the previous year's approved budget was approved, as determined by the governing body of the local political subdivision, unless the provisions of RSA 40:14-b are adopted. Any budget line item in the operating budget authorized for the previous year from which a transfer was made for any one-time expenditures shall be reduced by the amount of the transfer in the default budget. In calculating the default budget amount, the governing body, or the budget committee if the provisions of RSA 40:14-b are adopted, shall follow the statutory formula which may result in a higher or lower amount than the proposed operating budget.
2 Use of Official Ballot; Default Budget Disclosure; One-Time Expenditures. Amend RSA 40:13, XI(a)(3) to read as follows:
(3) One-time expenditures, including reductions to line items for transfers made for one-time expenditures, as defined under subparagraph IX(b); and
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2026.
| Date | Amendment |
|---|---|
| March 19, 2025 | 2025-0600h |
| Date | Body | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Feb. 27, 2025 | House | Hearing |
| March 10, 2025 | House | Exec Session |
| March 10, 2025 | House | Floor Vote |
March 28, 2025: Introduced 03/27/2025 and Referred to Election Law and Municipal Affairs; SJ 10
March 27, 2025: Ought to Pass with Amendment 2025-0600h: MA RC 195-159 03/27/2025 HJ 11
March 27, 2025: Amendment # 2025-0600h: AA VV 03/27/2025 HJ 11
March 19, 2025: Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate
March 19, 2025: Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0600h 03/10/2025 (Vote 10-8; RC) HC 17 P. 65
March 5, 2025: Executive Session: 03/10/2025 09:30 am LOB 301-303
Feb. 19, 2025: Public Hearing: 02/27/2025 01:45 pm LOB 301-303
Jan. 13, 2025: Introduced (in recess of) 01/09/2025 and referred to Municipal and County Government HJ 3 P. 12