Revision: Dec. 1, 2025, 9:56 a.m.
HB 1242 - AS INTRODUCED
2026 SESSION
26-3108
12/09
HOUSE BILL 1242
SPONSORS: Rep. A. Murray, Hills. 20; Rep. M. Murray, Hills. 37; Rep. Prout, Hills. 13; Rep. Scherr, Rock. 26; Rep. Meuse, Rock. 37; Rep. Tom Mannion, Hills. 1
COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government
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ANALYSIS
This bill requires county commissioners to delineate between funding used for county activities and funding used for other state and federal purposes when providing their annual itemized budget recommendations.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
26-3108
12/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Delineation of County Budget Recommendations. Amend RSA 24:21-a, I to read as follows:
I. Except as provided in paragraph II, the county commissioners shall deliver or mail to each member of the county convention who will be in office on the date that appropriations are voted and to the chairperson of the board of selectmen in each town and the mayor of each city within the county and to the secretary of state prior to December 1 annually their itemized recommendations of the sums necessary to be raised for the county in the year next ensuing, stating therein in detail the objects for which the money is required, together with a statement of actual expenditures and income for at least 9 months of the preceding calendar year. These itemized recommendations shall explicitly delineate between county activities and any funding of activities for other state or federal purposes. All moneys to be appropriated by the county must be stipulated in the budget on a "gross" basis, showing revenues from all sources, including grants, gifts, bequests and bond issues, as offsetting revenues to appropriations affected.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.