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HB1242 • 2026

requiring county convention budget estimates to delineate between funding used for operations of county government and funding used for other state or federal government purposes.

requiring county convention budget estimates to delineate between funding used for operations of county government and funding used for other state or federal government purposes.

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Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Alissandra Murray (D), Andrew Prout (R), David Meuse (D), Megan Murray (D), Buzz Scherr (D), Tom Mannion (R)
Last action
2026-02-05
Official status
HOUSE
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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requiring county convention budget estimates to delineate between funding used for operations of county government and funding used for other state or federal government purposes.

requiring county convention budget estimates to delineate between funding used for operations of county government and funding used for other state or federal government purposes.

What This Bill Does

  • requiring county convention budget estimates to delineate between funding used for operations of county government and funding used for other state or federal government purposes.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-02-05 H

    Inexpedient to Legislate: MA VV 02/05/2026 HJ 3 P. 14

  2. 2026-01-29 H

    Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate 01/20/2026 (Vote 18-0; CC) HC 5 P. 11

  3. 2026-01-22 H

    Executive Session: 01/13/2026 11:15 am GP 154

  4. 2026-01-08 H

    Public Hearing: 01/13/2026 11:15 am GP 154

  5. 2025-12-01 H

    Introduced 01/07/2026 and referred to Municipal and County Government HJ 1 P. 12

Official Summary Text

requiring county convention budget estimates to delineate between funding used for operations of county government and funding used for other state or federal government purposes.

Current Bill Text

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HB 1242 - AS INTRODUCED

2026 SESSION
26-3108
12/09

HOUSE BILL
1242

AN ACT
requiring county convention budget estimates to delineate between funding used for operations of county government and funding used for other state or federal government purposes.

SPONSORS: Rep. A. Murray, Hills. 20; Rep. M. Murray, Hills. 37; Rep. Prout, Hills. 13; Rep. Scherr, Rock. 26; Rep. Meuse, Rock. 37; Rep. Tom Mannion, Hills. 1

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

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ANALYSIS

This bill requires county commissioners to delineate between funding used for county activities and funding used for other state and federal purposes when providing their annual itemized budget recommendations.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in
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Matter removed from current law appears [
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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
26-3108
12/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

AN ACT
requiring county convention budget estimates to delineate between funding used for operations of county government and funding used for other state or federal government purposes.

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

1 Delineation of County Budget Recommendations. Amend RSA 24:21-a, I to read as follows:
I. Except as provided in paragraph II, the county commissioners shall deliver or mail to each member of the county convention who will be in office on the date that appropriations are voted and to the chairperson of the board of selectmen in each town and the mayor of each city within the county and to the secretary of state prior to December 1 annually their itemized recommendations of the sums necessary to be raised for the county in the year next ensuing, stating therein in detail the objects for which the money is required, together with a statement of actual expenditures and income for at least 9 months of the preceding calendar year.
These itemized recommendations shall

explicitly delineate between county activities and any funding of activities for other state or federal purposes.
All moneys to be appropriated by the county must be stipulated in the budget on a "gross" basis, showing revenues from all sources, including grants, gifts, bequests and bond issues, as offsetting revenues to appropriations affected.

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