HB494: allowing the amendment of default budgets by municipal legislative bodies.

HB 494-LOCAL - AS INTRODUCED

2003 SESSION

03-0893

08/10

HOUSE BILL 494-LOCAL

AN ACT allowing the amendment of default budgets by municipal legislative bodies.

SPONSORS: Rep. Kennedy, Merr 34

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

ANALYSIS

This bill allows the amendment of default budgets by municipal legislative bodies.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

03-0893

08/10

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Three

AN ACT allowing the amendment of default budgets by municipal legislative bodies.

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

1 Amending Default Budgets. Amend RSA 40:13, XI to read as follows:

XI. The amount of the previous year's operating budget, as adjusted pursuant to paragraph X, shall be disclosed to the voters at the first session. This amount may be adjusted by the governing body, acting on relevant new information at any time before the first session. This amount [shall not] may also be amended by the legislative body. [However,] [This amount may be adjusted by the governing body, acting on relevant new information at any time before the ballots are printed.] The wording of the second session ballot question concerning the operating budget shall be as follows: "Shall the (local political subdivision) raise and appropriate as an operating budget, not including appropriations by special warrant articles and other appropriations voted separately, the amounts set forth on the budget posted with the warrant or as amended by vote of the first session, for the purposes set forth therein, totaling $? Should this article be defeated, the operating budget shall be $, which is the same as last year, with certain amendments and adjustments required by previous action of the (local political subdivision) or by law; or the governing body may hold one special meeting, in accordance with RSA 40:13, X and XVI, to take up the issue of a revised operating budget only."

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