HB1278 • 2026

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

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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: Eric Turer (D), James Gruber (D)
Last action: 2026-02-05
Official status: HOUSE
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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

What This Bill Does

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

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Bill History

2026-02-05 H
Inexpedient to Legislate: MA VV 02/05/2026 HJ 3 P. 14
2026-01-29 H
Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate 01/20/2026 (Vote 16-2; CC) HC 5 P. 11
2026-01-22 H
Executive Session: 01/16/2026 09:15 am GP 154
2026-01-08 H
Public Hearing: 01/16/2026 09:15 am GP 154
2025-12-01 H
Introduced 01/07/2026 and referred to Municipal and County Government HJ 1 P. 13

Official Summary Text

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

Current Bill Text

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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
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
26-2851
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
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2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.