HB1137 • 2026

relative to municipal budget committee membership.

Budget

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Diane Pauer (R), Dale Girard (R), Walter Spilsbury (R), Joe Alexander (R), Michael Granger (R), Scott Bryer (R), Deborah Aylward (R), Rosemarie Rung (D), Keith Murphy (R), Jose Cambrils (R), Alvin See (R), David Watters (D)
Last action: 2026-04-03
Official status: SENATE
Effective date: Not listed

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relative to municipal budget committee membership.

What This Bill Does

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Bill History

2026-04-03 S
Inexpedient to Legislate, MA, VV === BILL KILLED ===; 04/09/2026; SJ 8
2026-04-02 S
Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate; Vote 5-0; CC; 04/09/2026; SC 13
2026-03-18 S
Hearing: 03/24/2026, Room 122-123, SH, 09:55 am; SC 11
2026-03-17 S
Introduced 03/12/2026 and Referred to Election Law and Municipal Affairs; SJ 7
2026-03-12 H
Ought to Pass : MA DV 182-156 03/12/2026 HJ 8 P. 29
2026-02-27 H
Majority Committee Report: Ought to Pass 02/17/2026 (Vote 12-5; RC) HC 10 P. 64
2026-02-27 H
Minority Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate
2026-02-11 H
Executive Session: 02/17/2026 09:00 am GP 154
2026-01-21 H
Public Hearing: 01/30/2026 10:10 am GP 154
2025-12-01 H
Introduced 01/07/2026 and referred to Municipal and County Government HJ 1 P. 7

Official Summary Text

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HB 1137 - AS INTRODUCED

2026 SESSION
26-2291
09/08

HOUSE BILL
1137

AN ACT
relative to municipal budget committee membership.

SPONSORS: Rep. Pauer, Hills. 36; Rep. Alexander Jr., Hills. 29; Rep. Aylward, Merr. 5; Rep. Cambrils, Merr. 4; Rep. Girard, Sull. 6; Rep. Granger, Straf. 2; Rep. Rung, Hills. 12; Rep. See, Merr. 26; Rep. Spilsbury, Sull. 3; Rep. Bryer, Rock. 1; Sen. Murphy, Dist 16; Sen. Watters, Dist 4

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

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ANALYSIS

This bill changes the municipal budget committee's appointed members from the governing body, school board, and village district to be members serving in an ex-officio, non-voting capacity.

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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.
26-2291
09/08

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

AN ACT
relative to municipal budget committee membership.

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

1 Budget Committee Membership. Amend RSA 32:15, I(b) to read as follows:
(b) One member of the governing body of the municipality and, if the municipality is a town, one member of the school board of each school district wholly within the town and one member of each village district wholly within the town, all of whom shall be appointed by their respective boards to serve for a term of one year and until their successors are qualified
,
who shall serve on the budget committee in an ex-officio, non-voting capacity
. Each such member may be represented by an alternate member designated by the respective board, who shall
serve
, when sitting, [
have
]
in
the same
ex-officio, non-voting capacity
[
authority
] as the regular member.

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