CHAPTER 237

HB 1527-FN-A - FINAL VERSION

05/05/2016 1616s

2016 SESSION

16-2200

08/09

HOUSE BILL 1527-FN-A

AN ACT authorizing additional part-time positions at the department of administrative services and making an appropriation therefor, and relative to the revenue stabilization reserve account.

SPONSORS: Rep. L. Ober, Hills. 37; Rep. Emerick, Rock. 21; Rep. Spanos, Belk. 3; Rep. Weyler, Rock. 13; Rep. M. Smith, Straf. 6; Rep. Leishman, Hills. 24; Rep. Eaton, Ches. 3; Sen. Reagan, Dist 17; Sen. Carson, Dist 14; Sen. D'Allesandro, Dist 20

COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration

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AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill authorizes additional part-time positions at the department of administrative services and makes an appropriation for such positions.

The bill also removes a limitation on transfers to the revenue stabilization reserve account.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

05/05/2016 1616s 16-2200

08/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen

AN ACT authorizing additional part-time positions at the department of administrative services and making an appropriation therefor, and relative to the revenue stabilization reserve account.

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

237:1 New Classified Positions; Department of Administrative Services.

I. The commissioner of the department of administrative services is authorized to hire the following classified permanent part-time positions at no more than 25 hours a week:

(a) A health benefit program specialist/program specialist IV (LG 25).

(b) An accountant I – division of accounting services, statewide payroll unit (LG 16).

II. The governor is authorized to draw a warrant for the amount necessary to pay for the positions authorized in paragraph I out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

237:2 Revenue Stabilization Reserve Account. Amend RSA 9:13-e, II to read as follows:

II. There is hereby established within the general fund general ledger a revenue stabilization reserve account. At the close of the fiscal biennium ending June 30, 2001, and at the close of each fiscal biennium thereafter, any surplus, as determined by the official audit performed pursuant to RSA 21-I:8, II(a) shall be transferred by the comptroller to a special nonlapsing revenue stabilization reserve account[; provided, however, that in any single fiscal year the total of such transfer shall not exceed 1/2 of the total potential maximum balance allowable under paragraph V]. The comptroller is hereby directed to establish the revenue stabilization reserve account in which to deposit any money received from a general fund operating budget surplus. The state treasurer shall invest funds in this account as authorized by RSA 6:8. The interest so earned shall be deposited as unrestricted general fund revenue.

237:3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved: June 10, 2016

Effective Date: June 10, 2016