Revision: May 8, 2025, 2:41 p.m.
SB 235 - AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
8May2025... 1603h
2025 SESSION
25-0371
08/05
SENATE BILL 235
SPONSORS: Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Sen. Sullivan, Dist 18; Sen. Fenton, Dist 10; Sen. Altschiller, Dist 24; Sen. Innis, Dist 7; Sen. Rosenwald, Dist 13; Sen. Pearl, Dist 17; Sen. Perkins Kwoka, Dist 21; Rep. Darby, Hills. 11; Rep. Ouellet, Coos 3; Rep. Potucek, Rock. 13
COMMITTEE: Energy and Natural Resources
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AMENDED ANALYSIS
This bill enables funds from the Pitman-Robertson Act to be spent by the fish and game department on threatened and endangered species in New Hampshire.
This bill also allows the executive director of the fish and game department to approve collection points for donations around the state.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
8May2025... 1603h 25-0371
08/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Limitation on Certain Funds; Pitman Robertson Funds. Amend RSA 212-A:15 to read as follows:
212-A:15 Limitation on Certain Funds. On the effective date of this chapter with the exception of the expenditures that are then authorized from the fish and game fund, no funds used to carry out the provisions of this chapter shall be derived from license fees of hunters, fishermen, or trappers [or from taxes on the sale of the equipment to hunters, fishermen or trappers] unless the species for which the funds are expended have been legally hunted, fished or trapped within the previous 5-year period.
2 New Section; Funds Paid from Collected Donations. Amend RSA 206 by inserting after section 33-g the following new section:
206:33-h Funds Paid from Collected Donations. The executive director may approve donation collection points and may accept funds paid from such donation collection points within the state of New Hampshire. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the executive director may accept and receive such funds without the approval of the governor, the governor and council, or the commission. All moneys received under this section shall be deposited into the fish and game fund established under RSA 206:33 and used solely for the purposes set forth in RSA 206:34-a. The executive director may invest in technology necessary to enable the solicitation and collection of donations.
3 Fish and Game Fund. Amend RSA 206:34-a to read as follows:
206:34-a Use of Fish and Game Funds. All revenues accruing from sales of licenses and permits, donations solicited and collected at donation collection points approved by the executive director, and any other revenue received by the department, and any money reimbursed or granted to the department by the state or federal government for fish, game, and wildlife conservation or related programs shall be used solely for conservation, restoration, management, educational benefit, recreational use, and scientific study of the fish, game, and wildlife resources of the state, including acquisition of property and general administration of RSA title XVIII. Such funds shall be used for no other purposes.
4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.