Bill Text: NH SB51 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to decal fees and the statewide public boat access program.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-3)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-22 - Hearing: 01/28/2025, Room 101, Legislative Office Building, 02:00 pm; Senate Calendar 7 [SB51 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2025-SB51-Introduced.html

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SB 51  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2025 SESSION

25-0359

06/08

 

SENATE BILL 51

 

AN ACT relative to decal fees and the statewide public boat access program.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Sen. McConkey, Dist 3; Sen. Altschiller, Dist 24; Sen. Rochefort, Dist 1; Rep. Darby, Hills. 11; Rep. Popovici-Muller, Rock. 17; Rep. Spillane, Rock. 2; Rep. Khan, Rock. 30

 

COMMITTEE: Transportation

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill ensures decal fees cannot be diverted from the statewide public boat access program.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

25-0359

06/08

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five

 

AN ACT relative to decal fees and the statewide public boat access program.

 

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

 

1  Public Boat Access Program; Statewide Public Boat Access Fund Established.  Amend RSA 233-A:13 to read as follows:

233-A:13 Statewide Public Boat Access Fund Established.  There is hereby established a nonlapsing statewide public boat access fund. The $5 boat [registration surcharge] decal fee collected pursuant to RSA [270-E:5, II(d)] 270-E:5-a, II(c), and any other public access funds donated to the state shall be placed in this fund. Funds received under this section are continually appropriated to the fish and game department for the sole purposes of the statewide public boat access program established under this chapter, except for sufficient funds which are hereby appropriated to the department of natural and cultural resources for payment of principal and interest on bonds and notes for the Mount Sunapee state park beach boat ramp project.

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