Bill Text: NH HB124 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enabling a city or town forest committee to offer surplus money to the town for deposit in the city or town general fund.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-06 - Introduced 01/08/2025 and referred to Municipal and County Government House Journal 2 P. 6 [HB124 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2025-HB124-Introduced.html

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HB 124  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2025 SESSION

25-0101

08/02

 

HOUSE BILL 124

 

AN ACT enabling a city or town forest committee to offer surplus money to the town for deposit in the city or town general fund.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. A. Davis, Coos 2; Rep. Cole, Hills. 26; Rep. Ouellet, Coos 3; Rep. Tierney, Coos 1; Rep. Michael. Murphy, Coos 6; Rep. Durkin, Coos 1; Rep. Korzen, Coos 7

 

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill enables a city or town forest committee to determine there is a surplus in the special forest maintenance fund and offer such surplus to the city or town for deposit into the city or town general fund.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

25-0101

08/02

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

 

AN ACT enabling a city or town forest committee to offer surplus money to the town for deposit in the city or town general fund.

 

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

 

1  Forestry Committee; Forest Maintenance Fund; Surplus.  Amend RSA 31:113 to read as follows:

31:113 Appropriations Authorized. For the purposes of establishing or maintaining a city or town forest, a city or town may raise and appropriate such funds as it deems necessary. The proceeds from said forest shall be placed in a special forest maintenance fund and shall be allowed to accumulate from year to year, unless otherwise voted by the legislative body of such city or town. If the forestry committee determines that the special forest maintenance fund has a surplus, the forestry committee may offer the surplus to the city or town for deposit in the general fund.  The governing body of the city or town shall vote to accept the surplus for deposit.  

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