Bill Text: NH HB116 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to reporting requirements for public academies.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-06 - Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Voice Vote 02/06/2025 House Journal 4 [HB116 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2025-HB116-Introduced.html
HB 116 - AS INTRODUCED
2025 SESSION
25-0072
02/06
HOUSE BILL 116
AN ACT relative to reporting requirements for public academies.
SPONSORS: Rep. Edwards, Rock. 31; Rep. Moffett, Merr. 4
COMMITTEE: Education Policy and Administration
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ANALYSIS
This bill requires public academies to submit financial disclosure reports to the department of education.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
25-0072
02/06
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five
AN ACT relative to reporting requirements for public academies.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Reports Required; Cities and School Districts. Amend RSA 198:4-d to read as follows:
198:4-d Reports Required; Cities and School Districts. The governing body of each city, school district, public academy, and chartered public school shall submit to the commissioner of the department of education the following reports pursuant to rules adopted under RSA 541-A by the commissioner of revenue administration which establish the form and content of such reports:
I. A report filed by the governing body of each city, school district, public academy, and chartered public school shall certify the appropriations voted by the meeting of the appropriate legislative body, whether city council, mayor and council, or mayor and board of aldermen, or by each annual or special school district meeting, along with estimated revenues. This report shall be filed within 20 days of the close of the meeting.
II. A report filed by the governing body of each city, school district, public academy, and chartered public school shall revise all the estimated revenues for the year. This report shall be filed by September 1 of each year. The revised estimates by school districts for the adequate education grants calculated under RSA 198:41 shall be considered the most accurate within 5 percent of the amount estimated pursuant to RSA 198:40-a.
III. A financial report for each city, school district, public academy, and chartered public school shall be filed showing the summary of receipts and expenditures, according to uniform classifications, during the preceding fiscal year, and a balance sheet showing assets and liabilities at the close of the year. This report shall be submitted on or before September 1 of each year. Each statistical report submitted under this section shall include a certification signed by the chairperson of the school district's governing body or the chairperson of the board of trustees of approved public academies that states: "I certify, under the pains and penalties of perjury, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that all of the information contained in this document is true, accurate and complete."
III-a. The department of education and the department of revenue administration together shall develop and recommend school accounting standards. The departments shall report to the speaker of the house, the senate president, and the governor concerning such accounting standards on or before December 1, 1999.
IV. The budget committee in school districts operating under the municipal budget law shall file the budget within 20 days of the close of the annual or special meeting.
V. If a city or school district or public academy or chartered public school is audited by an independent public accountant, it shall submit a copy of the audited financial statements in accordance with RSA 21-J:19, III.
VI. If a city or school district is audited under RSA 671:5, the procedures in RSA 41:31-a through 41:31-d shall be followed.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2026.
