2003 SESSION

03-0496

08/10

HOUSE BILL 209

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

ANALYSIS

This bill prohibits members who are neither elected or appointed from voting on a municipal budget.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

03-0496

08/10

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Three

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

1 Budget Committee Membership. Amend RSA 32:15, I (b) to read as follows:

(b) One member of the governing body of the municipality and, if the municipality is a town, one member of the school board of each school district wholly within the town and one member of each village district wholly within the town, all of whom shall be appointed by their respective boards to serve for a term of one year and until their successors are qualified. Each such member may be represented by an alternate member designated by the respective board, who shall, when sitting, have the same authority as the regular member. Each member who serves the committee under this subparagraph, shall serve in an advisory capacity only, and shall not have a vote on budget committee matters.

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