New Hampshire HB 1278: allowing municipalities, cities, and towns a grace period to adopt a simple-majority tax cap override procedure in perpetuity.

Bill Text

HB 1278 - AS INTRODUCED

2026 SESSION

 26-2851

 07/06

HOUSE BILL 1278

AN ACT allowing municipalities, cities, and towns a grace period to adopt a simple-majority tax cap override procedure in perpetuity.

SPONSORS: Rep. Turer, Rock. 6; Rep. Gruber, Ches. 16

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

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ANALYSIS

 This bill allows municipalities, cities, and towns a grace period to adopt a simple-majority tax cap override procedure in perpetuity.

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 Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

 26-2851

 07/06

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

AN ACT allowing municipalities, cities, and towns a grace period to adopt a simple-majority tax cap override procedure in perpetuity.

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

 1 Municipal Budget Law; Method to Override Local Tax Cap. Amend 2025, 170:2 to read as follows: 

 170:2 Applicability. RSA 32:5-b, as amended by section 1 of this act, shall apply to the local tax caps adopted prior to the effective date of this act and shall not require local amendment or re-adoption by the town or district; however, a municipality that adopted the provisions of RSA 32:5-b prior to September 13, 2025 may vote to re-adopt the provisions of RSA 32:5-b, III that existed before September 13, 2025. The vote shall be taken in accordance with the provisions of RSA 39:3, RSA 31:131, and the usual procedures applicable to annual meetings and deliberative sessions of the legislative body. Such vote shall be required to take place prior to July 1, 2028. 

 2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.