HB 1452 - AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
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2000 SESSION
10/09
HOUSE BILL 1452
AN ACT codifying the powers and duties of the joint committee on legislative facilities.
COMMITTEE: Legislative Administration
This bill codifies the powers and duties of the joint committee on legislative facilities.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
20april00.....4048h
00-2140
10/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand
AN ACT codifying the powers and duties of the joint committee on legislative facilities.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Joint Committee on Legislative Facilities; Powers and Duties. Amend RSA 17-E by inserting after section 5 the following new section:
17-E:6 Powers and Duties. The committee shall have the following powers and duties:
I. To enter into contracts and hire consultants.
II. To review and approve all joint legislative budgets.
III. To hire the personnel of all joint legislative service agencies, except the legislative budget assistant and the employees of the legislative budget assistant governed by RSA 14:30 and RSA 14:34 and the additional employees appointed by the director of legislative services pursuant to RSA 17-A:4.
IV. To establish salary schedules and benefits for all employees of all joint legislative service agencies or departments, except the legislative budget assistant and the employees of the legislative budget assistant governed by RSA 14:30 and RSA 14:34 and the additional employees appointed by the director of legislative services pursuant to RSA 17-A:4. The house subcommittee shall establish salary schedules and benefits for all house employees. The senate subcommittee shall establish salary schedules and benefits for all senate employees.
V. To provide necessary furniture, stationery, and other supplies and equipment for the use of the committees and offices of the general court.
VI. To study ways and means to improve legislative operation, organization, procedures, facilities, and working conditions.
VII. To designate the use of the facilities under control of the legislature in the state house and to designate the use of the legislative office building and the Upham Walker house.
VIII. To establish rules of procedure for the conduct of the business of the committee.
IX. To perform such other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned to the committee from time to time by the house or the senate.
2 Repeal. The following are repealed:
I. 1973, 368, relative to establishing a legislative facilities committee.
II. 1974, 38:23 and 24, relative to the legislative parking facility.
III. 1975, 308, relative to legislative printing.
IV. 1975, 430:2, relative to renovating the Old Post Office in Concord.
V. 1975, 465:1, relative to duties of the legislative facilities committee.
VI. 1975, 479:4, relative to a legislative parking facility.
VII. 1975, 491, 1 and 2, relative to state house renovations.
VIII. 1981, 568:79, relative to legislative branch employee fringe benefits.
IX. 1983, 469:110, relative to the office of legislative accounting.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.