HB 1190-FN - AS INTRODUCED
2000 SESSION
HOUSE BILL 1190-FN
AN ACT requiring that fiscal notes specify the exact amount of the fiscal impact.
SPONSORS: Rep. Putnam, Rock 15
COMMITTEE: Legislative Administration
This bill requires that fiscal notes set forth the exact amount of the estimated fiscal impact of the bill or resolution.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
00-2369
03/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand
AN ACT requiring that fiscal notes specify the exact amount of the fiscal impact.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Legislative Officers and Proceedings; Fiscal Note Required; Exact Amount. Amend RSA 14:44 to read as follows:
14:44 Fiscal Note Required.
I. All bills and resolutions having an effect on the revenues, expenditures, or fiscal liability of the state or a city or town or county which have a total fiscal impact of $10,000 or more in each fiscal year over the period covered by a fiscal note shall be accompanied by a fiscal note which sets forth the exact amount of the estimated fiscal impact thereof.
II. All bills and resolutions having an effect on the revenues, expenditures, or fiscal liability of the state or a city or town or county which have a total fiscal impact of less than $10,000 in each fiscal year over the period covered by a fiscal note shall be accompanied by a fiscal note stating the legislative budget assistant's determination that such bills and resolutions shall have a total fiscal impact of less than $10,000 in each fiscal year over the period covered by the fiscal note and the exact amount of the estimated fiscal impact thereof.
III. No fiscal note shall be required for bills and resolutions which:
(a) Make appropriations for capital improvements and expenditures.
(b) Are budget or supplemental budget bills.
(c) Establish study committees where the only fiscal impact of the bill is due to legislative mileage authorized for legislative members.
(d) Establish or change a civil penalty.
(e) Shift the burden of a tax among local taxpayers, without affecting the total amount of revenue received from the tax.
(f) Regulate the operation of boats or other watercraft on a particular body or bodies of water.
(g) Grant rulemaking authority to or alter the rulemaking authority of a state agency.
IV. All bills and joint resolutions relating to the New Hampshire retirement system shall be accompanied by a fiscal note which sets forth the exact amount of the estimated fiscal impact on any funds of the New Hampshire retirement system or local or state government.
2 Legislative Officers and Proceedings; Preparation of Fiscal Notes; Exact Amount. Amend RSA 14:46, III(a) to read as follows:
(a) An estimate of the exact amount of the anticipated impact of the bill on state or city or town or county fiscal liability or revenues, including any change in taxable valuation;
3 Legislative Officers and Proceedings; Preparation of Fiscal Notes; Corrections System; Exact Amount. Amend RSA 14:46, VI to read as follows:
VI. The fiscal note for any bill with a fiscal impact on the corrections system shall include the exact amount of the estimated impact upon prosecution, incarceration, probation, and parole costs.
4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
LBAO
00-2369
11/22/99
HB 1190-FN - FISCAL NOTE
AN ACT requiring that fiscal notes specify the exact amount of the fiscal impact.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Legislative Budget Assistant determined this bill will cause an indeterminable increase in state expenditures in FY 2000 and each year thereafter. There will be no fiscal impact on county and local expenditures or state, county and local revenue.
METHODOLOGY:
The Legislative Budget Assistant assumed this bill will become effective during the 2000 legislative session. Requiring a fiscal note to include the exact amount of estimated fiscal impact will have a direct impact on all state agencies and branches. Determination of an exact amount will require longer and more time consuming research. The Legislative Budget Assistant is unable to determine the fiscal impact of this bill since costs will vary from agency to agency.