HB46: (2nd New Title) making an appropriation to fund kindergarten programs in the Merrimack, Hampstead, Goffstown, Fremont, and Timberlane regional school districts.

CHAPTER 272

HB 46-FN-A-LOCAL – FINAL VERSION

27Mar2007… 0965h

05/10/07 1401s

13Jun2007… 2124eba

2007 SESSION

07-0221

04/01

HOUSE BILL 46-FN-A-LOCAL

AN ACT making an appropriation to fund kindergarten programs in the Merrimack, Hampstead, Goffstown, Fremont, and Timberlane regional school districts.

SPONSORS: Rep. C. Christensen, Hills 19; Rep. Batula, Hills 19; Rep. Emerton, Hills 7; Rep. Wells, Rock 8; Rep. Hinkle, Hills 19; Sen. Roberge, Dist 9; Sen. Letourneau, Dist 19

COMMITTEE: Finance

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill makes an appropriation from the education trust fund to the department of education to fund a grant of $1,200 per pupil for resident kindergarten pupils in the Merrimack, Hampstead, Goffstown, Fremont, and Timberlane regional school districts.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

27Mar2007… 0965h

05/10/07 1401s

13Jun2007… 2124eba

07-0221

04/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seven

AN ACT making an appropriation to fund kindergarten programs in the Merrimack, Hampstead, Goffstown, Fremont, and Timberlane regional school districts.

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

272:1 Appropriation. There is hereby appropriated the sum of $2,004,000, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2007, from the education trust fund established in RSA 198:39 to the department of education, to annually provide a grant of $1,200 per pupil for resident kindergarten pupils in the Merrimack, Hampstead, Goffstown, Fremont, and Timberlane regional school districts. Such funds shall lapse on June 30, 2009, and shall be distributed pursuant to 1999, 65:9, I(a), as amended by 2000, 289:2, 2001, 158:37, and 2003, 319:134, and 2005, 177:153.

272:2 School Money; Education Trust Fund. Amend the introductory paragraph in RSA 198:39, I to read as follows:

I. The state treasurer shall establish an education trust fund in the treasury. Moneys in such fund shall not be used for any purpose other than to distribute adequate education grants to municipalities’ school districts and to approved charter schools pursuant to RSA 198:42, [and] to provide low and moderate income homeowners property tax relief under RSA 198:56-198:61, and to fund kindergarten programs as may be determined by the general court. The state treasurer shall deposit into this fund immediately upon receipt:

272:3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved: July 3, 2007

Effective: July 3, 2007