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Bill Text

HB 1319 - AS INTRODUCED

2026 SESSION

 26-2968

 09/08

HOUSE BILL 1319

AN ACT enabling towns, village districts, or school districts to adopt or rescind a local fiscal accountability committee for towns and schools.

SPONSORS: Rep. Pauer, Hills. 36; Rep. Cambrils, Merr. 4; Rep. Janigian, Rock. 25; Rep. Kofalt, Hills. 32; Rep. Osborne, Rock. 2; Rep. S. Smith, Sull. 3; Rep. Weyler, Rock. 14; Rep. Peternel, Carr. 6; Rep. Vose, Rock. 5; Sen. McGough, Dist 11; Sen. Murphy, Dist 16; Sen. Innis, Dist 7

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

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ANALYSIS

 This bill enables a town, village district, or school district to adopt or rescind a local fiscal accountability committee for towns and schools.

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 Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

 26-2968

 09/08

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

AN ACT enabling towns, village districts, or school districts to adopt or rescind a local fiscal accountability committee for towns and schools.

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

 1 New Subdivision; Local Fiscal Accountability Committee for Towns and Schools. Amend RSA 41 by inserting after section 68 the following new subdivision: 

Local Fiscal Accountability Committee for Towns and Schools

? 41:69 Adoption. 

 I. This subdivision may be adopted: 

 (a) By any town with a town meeting form of government, including those with a budgetary town meeting, official ballot town meeting, or representative town meeting pursuant to RSA 49-D:3, II, II-a, and III, or by a town with an official ballot town council form of government under which part or all of the annual town operating budget is voted upon by official ballot; 

 (b) By a cooperative school district, in accordance with RSA 195:12-b; 

 (c) By any village district, or district created under RSA 53-A or 53-B, which adopts its budget at an annual meeting of its voters, and which is located in more than one municipality; or 

 (d) By any school district or village district which adopts its budget at an annual meeting of its voters but that lies wholly within a municipality that lacks authority to adopt this subdivision. 

 II. This subdivision may be adopted by a majority vote of those present and voting, under an article in the warrant for the annual meeting, inserted by the governing body or by petition. 

 III. Voting shall be by official ballot, and the question shall not be amendable by the legislative body. 

 (a) Except for a town or district that uses an official ballot form of meeting under RSA 40:13 or under a charter adopted pursuant to RSA 49-D, the wording of the question shall be as follows: “To annually identify efficiencies in local government spending and operations in order to provide the best value for local taxpayers, shall we adopt the provisions of RSA 41:70 to establish a local fiscal accountability committee for towns and schools (FACTS) consisting of (number) members-at-large who are elected, with the initial members elected to one-year terms by the meeting?” 

 (b) This subparagraph applies to a town or district that uses an official ballot form of meeting under RSA 40:13 or under a charter adopted pursuant to RSA 49-D. 

 (1) If initial local fiscal accountability committees for towns and schools members-at-large are to be appointed for one-year terms by the moderator, the wording of the question shall be:? “To annually identify efficiencies in local government spending and operations in order to provide the best value for local taxpayers, shall we adopt the provisions of RSA 41:70 to establish a local fiscal accountability committee for towns and schools (FACTS) consisting of (number) members-at-large who are elected, with the initial members appointed to one-year terms by the moderator?” 

 (2) If initial local fiscal accountability committee for towns and schools members-at-large are to be elected at the next election, the wording of the question shall be: “To annually identify efficiencies in local government spending and operations in order to provide the best value for local taxpayers, shall we adopt the provisions of RSA 41:70 to establish a local fiscal accountability committee for towns and schools (FACTS) consisting of (number) members-at-large who are elected, with the initial members elected at the next annual meeting?” 

 IV. A town or district which has adopted this subdivision may rescind its adoption in the manner described in paragraphs II and III, except that the wording of the question shall be: &l