HB1449: creating a toll booth exemption for vehicle funeral processions to the veterans cemetery in Boscawen.

HB 1449-FN - AS INTRODUCED

2022 SESSION

22-2082

12/04

HOUSE BILL 1449-FN

AN ACT creating a toll booth exemption for vehicle funeral processions to the veterans cemetery in Boscawen.

SPONSORS: Rep. Mooney, Hills. 21; Rep. Healey, Hills. 21; Rep. Baldasaro, Rock. 5; Rep. Notter, Hills. 21; Rep. Rung, Hills. 21; Sen. Avard, Dist 12

COMMITTEE: Public Works and Highways

ANALYSIS

This bill grants toll-free use of any section of the New Hampshire turnpike system to a funeral procession traveling from a funeral home located in the state, to the New Hampshire state veterans cemetery, which complies with listed requirements.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

22-2082

12/04

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Two

AN ACT creating a toll booth exemption for vehicle funeral processions to the veterans cemetery in Boscawen.

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

1 New Paragraph; Turnpike System; Exemption From Tolls; Funeral Processions to the State Veterans Cemetery. Amend RSA 237:12 by inserting after paragraph IV the following new paragraph:

V. The commissioner of the department of transportation shall grant toll-free use of any section of the turnpike system to a funeral procession traveling from a funeral home located in New Hampshire, to the New Hampshire state veterans cemetery, that complies with the following requirements:

(a) A funeral director shall notify the department of transportation at least 24 hours in advance of a funeral procession to the New Hampshire state veterans cemetery and provide an estimate of the number of vehicles in the procession.

(b) The first vehicle in the procession shall be provided by the funeral director.

(c) All vehicles in the funeral procession shall travel with their headlights on.

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

LBA

22-2082

Redraft 11/22/21

HB 1449-FN- FISCAL NOTE

AS INTRODUCED

AN ACT creating a toll booth exemption for vehicle funeral processions to the veterans cemetery in Boscawen.

FISCAL IMPACT: [ X ] State [ ] County [ ] Local [ ] None

Estimated Increase / (Decrease)

STATE:

FY 2022

FY 2023

FY 2024

FY 2025

Appropriation

$0

$0

$0

$0

Revenue

$0

Indeterminable Decrease

Indeterminable Decrease

Indeterminable Decrease

Expenditures

$0

Indeterminable Increase

Indeterminable Increase

Indeterminable Increase

Funding Source:

[ ] General [ ] Education [ ] Highway [ X ] Other - Turnpike Fund

METHODOLOGY:

This bill grants toll-free use of any section of the New Hampshire turnpike system to any funeral procession traveling to the New Hampshire state veterans cemetery which complies with the listed requirements.

The Department of Transportation assumes it would need some type of verification from the funeral procession that it is going to NH Veteran’s Cemetery in order for the Toll Attendants to allow the procession to proceed toll free. The Department would verify with Veteran’s Cemetery at various times and if a procession did not proceed to the Veteran’s Cemetery, the Department will bill the Funeral Home. The Department indicates the bill would result in a decrease in revenue to the Turnpike system. The amount of such decrease is indeterminable as number of processions is unknown and which toll booth(s) that they may travel through is also unknown.

In addition the bill could increase administrative time necessary to monitor funeral processions, coordinate between the toll attendants and review information with the Veteran’s Cemetery. Funeral processions use of open road tolls (ORT) or all-electronic tolls (AET) would create additional costs within the Cubic back-office system to identify vehicles and ensure invoicing is not sent to those vehicles in the procession.

The Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services states the bill would have no fiscal impact to the Department.

It is assumed that any fiscal impact would occur after FY 2022.

AGENCIES CONTACTED:

Departments of Transportation and Military Affairs and Veterans Services