Bill Text: NH SB46 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enabling municipalities to allow land impacted by new construction or reconstruction to be eligible for current use valuation only after a no cut, vegetated buffer is established and maintained.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-16 - Hearing: 01/21/2025, Room 103, Legislative Office Building, 09:45 am; Senate Calendar 7 [SB46 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2025-SB46-Introduced.html

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SB 46  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2025 SESSION

25-1079

07/06

 

SENATE BILL 46

 

AN ACT enabling municipalities to allow land impacted by new construction or reconstruction to be eligible for current use valuation only after a no cut, vegetated buffer is established and maintained.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Ward, Dist 8

 

COMMITTEE: Election Law and Municipal Affairs

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill allows municipalities to permit land affected by new construction or reconstruction to be eligible for current use valuation only after a no-cut, vegetated buffer is established and maintained.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

25-1079

07/06

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

 

AN ACT enabling municipalities to allow land impacted by new construction or reconstruction to be eligible for current use valuation only after a no cut, vegetated buffer is established and maintained.

 

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

 

1  New Paragraph; Taxation; Current Use Taxation; Assessment of Open Space Land.  Amend RSA 79-A:5 by inserting after paragraph VII the following new paragraph:

VIII.  Municipalities may adopt ordinances to enroll land affected by new construction or reconstruction for current use only after a minimum 75-foot no-cut vegetated buffer to the ordinary high water line of any adjacent perennial stream, shoreline of any great pond, or from tidal mean higher high water is established and maintained.

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