HB 2-FN-A-LOCAL - AS INTRODUCED
2021 SESSION
21-1082
08/10
HOUSE BILL 2-FN-A-LOCAL
AN ACT relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures.
SPONSORS: Rep. Weyler, Rock. 13; Rep. L. Ober, Hills. 37; Rep. Edwards, Rock. 4; Rep.
Umberger, Carr. 2
COMMITTEE: Finance
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ANALYSIS
1. Reimburses sheriff’s offices for expenses that exceed funds appropriated by the legislature.
2. Makes a transfer of unexpended funds to the state heating system savings account.
3. Eliminates the bureau of planning and management functions and moves such functions to
the division of plant and property.
4. Establishes the graphic services fund in the department of administrative services.
5. Consolidates human resources and payroll functions in the department of administrative
services.
6. Repeals the memorandum of understanding with the commissioner of the department of
health and human services for the purpose of delineating the functions to be assumed by the
department of administrative services.
7. Extends the date on which an appropriation to the department of administrative services for
scheduling software lapses.
8. Directs the payment of state employee medical benefits payments from the retirement
system.
9. Limits the number of judicial appointments for the biennium.
10. Enables the supreme court to transfer funds.
11. Enables the sale of the lakes region facility in Laconia.
12. Requires the commissioner of the department of health and human services to make
quarterly reports on the status of estimated Medicaid payments in relation to actual costs.
13. Repeals provisions relative to the senior volunteer grant program.
14. Establishes the emergency services for children, youth, and families fund.
15. Eliminates certain parental reimbursements.
16. Prohibits the distribution of state funds awarded by the department of health and human
services to a reproductive health care facility for provision of abortion services.
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17. Makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services for streamlining
agency operations.
18. Requiring the commissioner of the department of health and human services to submit an
amendment to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to suspend all catastrophic aid
payments to hospitals for the biennium.
19. Makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services to provide grants to
senior centers or other organizations serving senior citizens.
20. Makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services to support
expanded and continued admission, discharge, and transfer event notifications.
21. Makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services for a 60-bed
forensic psychiatric hospital.
22. Makes an appropriation to the department of military affairs and veterans services in order
to provide grants to veterans’ organizations for safety upgrades and other capital improvements to
their facilities.
23. Transfers the controlled drug prescription health and safety program to the department of
health and human services.
24. Suspends revenue sharing with cities and towns for the biennium.
25. Enables the liquor commission to process merchant cards.
26. Enables the department of education to accept gifts, contributions, and bequests for the New
Hampshire scholars program.
27. Changes the calculation for pupils eligible for a free or reduced price meals.
28. Makes transfers to the education trust fund.
29. Authorizes expenditures for energy efficient school buses.
30. Establishes the position of director of intergovernmental affairs in the department of
business and economic affairs.
31. Repeals the bureau of film and digital media.
32. Suspends the crediting of meals and rooms tax revenue to the division of travel and tourism.
33. Enables the department of corrections to transfer funds.
34. Changes the approval threshold for contracts set by the governor and council manual of
procedures.
35. Prohibits the dispersing of state aid grants for certain new infrastructure projects in the
department of environmental services.
36. Renames the divisions of the office of professional licensure and certification and establishes
pharmacy compliance investigator positions within the office.
37. Makes an appropriation to the police standards and training council for crisis intervention
team training programs.
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38. Establishes the granite state paid family leave plan.
39. Establishes a purchasing pool for family and medical leave insurance.
40. Makes an appropriation to the New Hampshire Internet crimes against children fund.
41. Makes an appropriation to the FRM victims’ contribution recovery fund.
42. Provides for transfer of funds from the revenue stabilization reserve account to the general
fund surplus account based the most recent fiscal biennium rather than fiscal year.
43. Reduces the tax rate of, and in 2027 eliminates, the interest and dividends tax.
44. Reduces the tax rate of the meals and rooms tax.
45. Increases the filing threshold for the business enterprise tax and reduces the rate of the tax.
46. Limits the amount of the credit allowed against overpayment of the business profits tax and
the business enterprise tax.
47. Allows the New Hampshire veterans’ home to transfer funds within accounting units for the
biennium ending June 30, 2023.
48. Revises the procedure for compensation for loss of agricultural products or livestock due to
bears.
49. Allows bonds issued by the business finance authority to be used for financing a
redevelopment district and for manufacturing or industrial projects in the biotechnology sector.
50. Unifies the boards of trustees of the university and community college systems of New
Hampshire into one board and establishes a committee to recommend legislation to unify the
systems.
51. Authorizes the department of information technology to fill unfunded positions.
52. Modifies the composition and operation of the adult parole board and permits remote
meetings during a pandemic or other declared state of emergency.
53. Requires employer pro rata payments to the workers' compensation administration fund to
be based on the preceding calendar year ratios and amends the payment of per diems to workers'
compensation appeals board members.
54. Makes various changes to the apprenticeship programs in trade and industry.
55. Amends the unemployment compensation fund balance necessary to trigger increases or
decreases in employer contributions to the fund and repeals the emergency surcharge power of the
commissioner of the department of employment security.
56. Imposes strict liability on any person who renders any highway unsuitable for public travel,
including full and current replacement cost.
57. Provides that proceeds from a sale that results from money provided by the highway fund for
payback of real property purchased with federal funds shall be credited to the department of
transportation for the purpose of meeting federal obligations or reimbursing the highway fund for
payment of federal obligations.
58. Adds definitions relating to small unmanned aircraft and small unmanned aircraft systems
to the New Hampshire aeronautics act.
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59. Amends an appropriation to the department of transportation for the 2018 fiscal year and
provides that it lapse to the highway fund and be expended for the purpose of funding state red list
bridge projects.
60. Appropriates funds to the department of cultural and natural resources for state park and
recreational area projects.
61. Restricts the public utilities commission from expending any funding on the implementation
of an energy efficiency resource standard or changing the system benefits charge without prior
approval of the fiscal committee of the general court.
62. Establishes a body-worn and dashboard camera fund; establishes a commission to develop
recommendations for legislation to establish a single, neutral, and independent statewide entity to
receive complaints alleging misconduct regarding all sworn and elected law enforcement officers; and
makes appropriations for both the fund and the commission.
63. Requires the department of safety, in collaboration with the department of administrative
services, to establish standards for radio infrastructure-related hardware, computers, software,
related licenses, media, documentation, support and maintenance services.
64. Creates the position of associate medical examiner; authorizes the chief medical examiner to
appoint a chief forensic investigator and deputy chief forensic investigators; amends the procedure
for county reimbursement of forensic investigations conducted by the chief medical examiner's office;
and requires the chief medical examiner to investigate the cause and manner of death prior to
cremation.
65. Establishes within the department of justice an unclassified position of director of diversity
and community outreach.
66. Authorizes the judicial council to request additional funding expenditures for termination of
parental rights services that are greater than amounts appropriated in the operating budget.
67. Amends the governor's scholarship program and the New Hampshire excellence in higher
education program to permit funding to be used for direct scholarships to New Hampshire residents,
for allocation to the UNIQUE endowment program, and for the workforce development student debt
relief fund.
68. Amends the regenerative manufacturing program into the workforce development student
debt relief program; makes various changes to the program regarding definitions and eligibility; and
establishes a commission to oversee the program.
69. Renames the college tuition savings plan advisory commission as the college tuition savings
plan scholarship commission.
70. Transfers the regulation of audiologists and hearing aid dealers to the governing board of
speech language pathology.
71. Establishes the department of energy, to govern energy and utilities matters, and have
oversight on matters under the public utilities commission.
72. Transfers the office of planning and development to the department of business and
economic affairs.
73. Administratively attaches the public utilities commission to the department of energy and
makes corresponding changes to existing laws relating to the organization and duties of the public
utilities commission to reflect this change.
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74. Transfers certain duties from the public utilities commission to the department of energy.
75. Adds the commissioner of the department of energy to the New Hampshire site evaluation
committee.
76. Modifies certain contracting authority of the public utilities commission .
77. Requires that the department of energy advocate for New Hampshire in regional activities
concerning competitive electricity suppliers.
78. Requires that the department of energy require electric and gas utilities to operate an online
energy data platform and, in conjunction with the public utilities commission, implement a
statewide electric utility restructuring plan.
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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.
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21-1082
08/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty One
AN ACT relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 1 Reimbursement of Sheriff's Offices. Amend RSA 104:31, X-XI to read as follows:
2 X. The state shall reimburse the sheriff's office for court security, within available funds
3 appropriated by the legislature and the limits established in paragraph XII, $80 for each full
4 day and $40 for each half day, plus traveling expenses to attend any official business, for any person
5 employed as a bailiff by the sheriff's office. For the purpose of this paragraph, a half day shall be
6 defined as a day in which a bailiff works 4 hours or less. The state shall reimburse the counties,
7 within available funds appropriated by the legislature and the limits established in paragraph
8 XII, for all costs associated with employing court bailiffs, if those costs are the result of job
9 requirements imposed by federal and state governments.
10 XI. The state shall reimburse the sheriff's office for prisoner custody and control, within
11 available funds appropriated by the legislature and the limits established in paragraph XII, $65
12 for each full day and $35 for each half day, plus traveling expenses to attend any official business,
13 for any person employed as a sheriff for prisoner custody and control. For the purpose of this
14 paragraph, a half day shall be defined as a day in which a sheriff works 4 hours or less. The state
15 shall reimburse the counties, within available funds appropriated by the legislature and the limits
16 established in paragraph XII, for all costs associated with employing sheriffs, if those costs are
17 the result of job requirements imposed by federal and state governments. Billing for reimbursement
18 of costs associated with video arraignments shall not be allowed under this paragraph. Custody and
19 control of prisoners for the purpose of video arraignments shall be the responsibility of the county in
20 which the video arraignment occurs, and such custody and control may be exercised by county
21 correctional officers.
22 XII. In the event that funds appropriated by the legislature are insufficient to
23 provide full reimbursement of all eligible expenses under this chapter, the amount to be
24 distributed as reimbursement to each sheriff’s office or county shall be determined by
25 multiplying the total amount to be distributed by a fraction, the numerator of which shall
26 be the population of the county and the denominator of which shall be the population of
27 the state. The population figures shall be based on the latest resident population figures
28 furnished by the office of strategic initiatives.
29 2 State Heating System Savings Account. Amend RSA 21-I:19-ff to read as follows:
30 21-I:19-ff State Heating System Savings Account. There is hereby established the state heating
31 system savings account for the transfer of unexpended state heating system appropriations due to
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1 reduced heating system costs resulting from the 26 state buildings served by the Concord Steam
2 project authorized in 2017, 2. Notwithstanding RSA 21-I:19-e, at the end of each state fiscal year,
3 the commissioner of administrative services shall identify the unexpended appropriations in the
4 accounts and class lines for the 26 state buildings served by the replacement of the Concord Steam
5 facility. The commissioner shall deposit such sums into the account established by this section.
6 Funds in the state heating system savings account shall be nonlapsing and appropriated to the
7 department of administrative services for the biennium ending June 30, [2019] 2021, and the fiscal
8 year ending [2020] June 30, 2022 and may be used to pay principal and interest on bonds and notes
9 issued to fund the capital project for the heating of state facilities located at the Governor Hugh J.
10 Gallen state office park and state-owned buildings in downtown Concord.
11 3 Divisions of Procurement and Support Services; Planning and Management Functions.
12 Amend RSA 21-I:11,I(c)(4) to read as follows:
13 (4) Supervising the [activities and functions of the bureau of] planning and
14 management functions of [under] RSA 21-I:12, II(a).
15 4 New Subparagraph; Graphic Services Fund Established; Department of Administrative
16 Services. Amend RSA 21-I:12, I by inserting after subparagraph (e) the following new
17 subparagraph:
18 (f)(1) There is hereby established in the state treasury a graphic services fund, which
19 shall be a revolving fund administered by the department of administrative services. The fund shall
20 be nonlapsing and continually appropriated to the department of administrative services. Revenue
21 received by the bureau of graphic services shall be deposited into this fund.
22 (2) The graphic services fund shall be maintained at such a level as to cover the
23 necessary costs of the administration, management, operations, activities, positions, capital, or other
24 needs of the bureau of graphic services. The department of administrative services may use any
25 excess amounts in the fund to fund the administration, management, operations, positions,
26 activities, capital, or other needs of the department or any of its divisions, bureaus, units, or
27 subunits.
28 5 Division of Plant and Property; Pla