HB 1331 - AS INTRODUCED

2001 SESSION

01-2248

03/01

HOUSE BILL 1331

AN ACT requiring that the effect on revenues, expenditures, and fiscal liability be included in the reports of house standing committees.

SPONSORS: Rep. Sullivan, Carr 2; Rep. Sapareto, Rock 13; Rep. Weyler, Rock 18; Rep. J. Hutchinson, Merr 15; Rep. Rogers Johnson, Rock 25

COMMITTEE: Legislative Administration

ANALYSIS

This bill requires that the effect on revenues, expenditures, and fiscal liability of bills and resolutions be included in the reports of house standing committees.

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

01-2248

03/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One

AN ACT requiring that the effect on revenues, expenditures, and fiscal liability be included in the reports of house standing committees.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 New Section; Legislative Officers and Proceedings; House Standing Committees to Report Fiscal Impact. Amend RSA 14 by inserting after section 6-a the following new section:

14:6-b House Standing Committees to Report Fiscal Impact. Every report by a standing committee of the house of representatives which recommends the passage or passage with amendment of a bill or resolution for which a fiscal note is required, pursuant to RSA 14:44, shall include within the committee report to be published in the house calendar the dollar amount of the effect on revenues, expenditures, and fiscal liability of the state or a city or town or county of the bill as introduced or of the bill as the committee recommends that it be amended, as applicable.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.