HB 1248 - AS INTRODUCED
2000 SESSION
HOUSE BILL 1248
AN ACT relative to the out-of-state travel budget for house members.
SPONSORS: Rep. Vaillancourt, Hills 44
COMMITTEE: Legislative Administration
This bill restricts the total amount of funds a house member may receive from the general court's out-of-state travel budget to $2,000 per biennium. The bill grants the minority leader of the house control over a portion of the out-of-state travel budget based on the percentage of minority members in the house as a whole.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
00-2533
09/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand
AN ACT relative to the out-of-state travel budget for house members.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Out-of-State Travel Budget for House Members. Amend RSA 14-A by inserting after section 3 the following new section:
14-A:3-a Out-of-State Travel Budget for House of Representatives.
I. No house member shall receive more than $2,000 in any one biennium from funds appropriated in the operating budget to the house of representatives for out-of-state travel.
II. Of funds appropriated in the operating budget to the house for out-of-state travel, the speaker of the house shall control the percentage of the total funds appropriated which represents the percentage of the majority party in the house. The minority leader of the house shall control the percentage of the total funds appropriated which represents the percentage of the minority party in the house.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.