Senate Finance Committee
Deb Martone 271-4980
HB 1624-FN, relative to the elimination of certain special funds.
Hearing Date: March 10, 2026
Time Opened: 1:32 p.m. Time Closed: 1:35 p.m.
Members of the Committee Present: Senators Gray, Birdsell, Rosenwald and Watters
Members of the Committee Absent: Senators Innis, Carson, Pearl and Lang
Bill Analysis: This bill repeals the radiation long-term care fund, the mosquito control fund, and the New Hampshire recovery monument special account, and transfers the remaining balance of the recovery monument account to the alcohol abuse prevention and treatment fund.
This bill is a request of the joint committee on dedicated funds pursuant to RSA 6:12-i.
Sponsors:
Rep. D. McGuire | Rep. Almy | Rep. Janigian |
Sen. Gray | Sen. Rosenwald |
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Who supports the bill: Senators Gray and Rosenwald; Representative D. McGuire; Cory Stone; Daniel Richardson; Eric Pauer;
Who opposes the bill: Tami Lanzillo Zeimetz
Summary of testimony presented in support:
Representative D. McGuire, Prime Sponsor:
- This bill is the annual bill from the Joint Committee on Dedicated Funds. The committee examines one-fifth of the dedicated funds every year, and makes recommendations if there need to be changes. This particular bill deals with three funds that are overseen by the Department of Health and Human Services.
- One fund is the Recovery Monument Special Account. This was established to create a monument to alcohol and drug recovery. The fund had one donation in it of $1,000. The underlying statute to create the monument has already been repealed. HB 1624-FN removes the fund and places the money in the Alcohol Abuse Prevention and Treatment Fund.
- The second fund, the Radiation Long-Term Care Fund has to do with the decommissioning of Seabrook. We don't need this fund and there's never been any money in it.
- The third fund is the Mosquito Control Fund. That has gone unused for nine years, and has no money in it.
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Date Hearing Report completed: March 11, 2026