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HB1392: (New Title) relative to tallies of votes on budget items or warrant articles.
Bill details
Version history, amendments, and roll-call votes were not present in the imported local bill data.
Sponsors
- Frank McCarthy House · Carr 2
- Glenn Cordelli House · Carr 4
- Kevin G. Verville House · Rock 2
- Lino M Avellani House · Carr 5
- Ed Comeau House · Carr 5
- Francis Gauthier House · Sull 3
Topics
Public and Municipal Affairs Public finance
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CHAPTER 246
HB 1392 - FINAL VERSION
8Feb2018... 0152h
05/03/2018 1855s
2018 SESSION
18-2056
06/03
HOUSE BILL 1392
AN ACT relative to tallies of votes on budget items or warrant articles.
AMENDED ANALYSIS
This bill permits the budget committee to require that the numerical tally of all votes be printed on the affected warrant unless the legislative body has voted otherwise.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
8Feb2018... 0152h
05/03/2018 1855s 18-2056
06/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen
AN ACT relative to tallies of votes on budget items or warrant articles.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
246:1 Municipal Budget Law; Budget Preparation; Numerical Tally. Amend RSA 32:5, V-a to read as follows:
V-a. The legislative body of any town, school district, or village district may vote to require that all votes by an advisory budget committee, a town, school district, or village district budget committee, and the governing body or, in towns, school districts, or village districts without a budget committee, all votes of the governing body relative to budget items or any warrant articles shall be recorded votes and the numerical tally of any such vote shall be printed in the town, school district, or village district warrant next to the affected warrant article. Unless the legislative body has voted otherwise, if a town or school district has not voted to require such tallies to be printed in the town or school district warrant next to the affected warrant article, the governing body or the budget committee adopted under RSA 32:14 may, [do so] on its own initiative, require that the tallies of its votes be printed next to the affected article.
246:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: June 12, 2018
Effective Date: August 11, 2018