HB 94 - AS INTRODUCED
2003 SESSION
08/09
HOUSE BILL 94
AN ACT relative to warrant articles.
SPONSORS: Rep. Dickinson, Carr 4; Rep. C. Brown, Carr 4; Rep. Mock, Carr 4; Sen. Kenney, Dist 3
COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government
This bill disallows amending a petitioned warrant article if the petition was signed by no less than 10 percent of the number of voters at the previous year's first session.
This bill also requires certain changes to a previous year's municipal budget which is adopted when a new budget article is not adopted.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
03-0170
08/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Three
AN ACT relative to warrant articles.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Subparagraph; Use of Official Ballot; Petitioned Warrant Articles. Amend RSA 40:13, IV by inserting after subparagraph (b) the following new subparagraph:
(c) Petitioned warrant articles shall not be amended if the petition is signed by no less than 10 percent of the number of voters in the previous year's first session.
2 Use of Official Ballot. Amend RSA 40:13, X to read as follows:
X. If no operating budget article is adopted, the local political subdivision either shall be deemed to have approved the same appropriations as contained in the operating budget authorized for the previous year, reduced and increased, as the case may be, by debt service, written contracts, and other obligations [previously incurred or] mandated by law, [or] and reduced by one-time expenditures contained in the operating budget, or the governing body may hold a special meeting pursuant to paragraph XVI to take up the issue of a revised operating budget only; provided that RSA 31:5 and RSA 197:3 shall not apply to such a special meeting. If no operating budget article is adopted the estimated revenues shall nevertheless be deemed to have been approved. For the purposes of this paragraph, one-time expenditures shall be appropriations not likely to recur in the succeeding budget, as determined by the governing body of the local political subdivision.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.