Revision: Dec. 1, 2025, 8:51 a.m.
HB 1137 - AS INTRODUCED
2026 SESSION
26-2291
09/08
HOUSE BILL 1137
AN ACT relative to municipal budget committee membership.
SPONSORS: Rep. Pauer, Hills. 36; Rep. Alexander Jr., Hills. 29; Rep. Aylward, Merr. 5; Rep. Cambrils, Merr. 4; Rep. Girard, Sull. 6; Rep. Granger, Straf. 2; Rep. Rung, Hills. 12; Rep. See, Merr. 26; Rep. Spilsbury, Sull. 3; Rep. Bryer, Rock. 1; Sen. Murphy, Dist 16; Sen. Watters, Dist 4
COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government
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ANALYSIS
This bill changes the municipal budget committee's appointed members from the governing body, school board, and village district to be members serving in an ex-officio, non-voting capacity.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
26-2291
09/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six
AN ACT relative to municipal budget committee membership.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Budget Committee Membership. Amend RSA 32:15, I(b) to read as follows:
(b) One member of the governing body of the municipality and, if the municipality is a town, one member of the school board of each school district wholly within the town and one member of each village district wholly within the town, all of whom shall be appointed by their respective boards to serve for a term of one year and until their successors are qualified, who shall serve on the budget committee in an ex-officio, non-voting capacity. Each such member may be represented by an alternate member designated by the respective board, who shall serve, when sitting, [have] in the same ex-officio, non-voting capacity [authority] as the regular member.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.