Bill Text: NH HB1215 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to town library budgets.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2012-02-22 - House Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Voice Vote; House Journal 20, PG.1212 [HB1215 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2012-HB1215-Introduced.html

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HB 1215-LOCAL – AS INTRODUCED

2012 SESSION

12-2007

06/01

HOUSE BILL 1215-LOCAL

AN ACT relative to town library budgets.

SPONSORS: Rep. Hansen, Hills 6

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

ANALYSIS

This bill requires adoption of a default town library budget when a library budget warrant article is defeated in an official ballot town.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

12-2007

06/01

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twelve

AN ACT relative to town library budgets.

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

1 New Paragraph; Use of Official Ballot; Town Library Budget. Amend RSA 40:13 by inserting after paragraph X the following new paragraph:

X-a. If a warrant article containing the town library budget is not adopted, the town shall be deemed to have approved the default budget for the town library.

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