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HB1392 • 2026

removing the ability of the governing body or budget committee to give a written recommendation about a warrant article on the ballot.

removing the ability of the governing body or budget committee to give a written recommendation about a warrant article on the ballot.

Budget Elections
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Kristin Noble (R), Lisa Mazur (R), Kelley Potenza (R), Ross Berry (R), Michael Granger (R), Samuel Farrington (R), Brian Labrie (R), Tom Mannion (R), Keith Murphy (R)
Last action
2026-03-05
Official status
HOUSE
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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removing the ability of the governing body or budget committee to give a written recommendation about a warrant article on the ballot.

removing the ability of the governing body or budget committee to give a written recommendation about a warrant article on the ballot.

What This Bill Does

  • removing the ability of the governing body or budget committee to give a written recommendation about a warrant article on the ballot.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-03-05 H

    Inexpedient to Legislate: MA VV 03/05/2026 HJ 6 P. 29

  2. 2026-02-24 H

    Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate 02/17/2026 (Vote 17-0; CC) HC 9 P. 23

  3. 2026-02-11 H

    Executive Session: 02/17/2026 09:00 am GP 154

  4. 2026-01-21 H

    Public Hearing: 01/27/2026 11:40 am GP 154

  5. 2025-12-04 H

    Introduced 01/07/2026 and referred to Municipal and County Government HJ 1 P. 18

Official Summary Text

removing the ability of the governing body or budget committee to give a written recommendation about a warrant article on the ballot.

Current Bill Text

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HB 1392 - AS INTRODUCED

2026 SESSION
26-3204
08/09

HOUSE BILL
1392

AN ACT
removing the ability of the governing body or budget committee to give a written recommendation about a warrant article on the ballot.

SPONSORS: Rep. Noble, Hills. 2; Rep. Berry, Hills. 44; Rep. Labrie, Hills. 2; Rep. Mazur, Hills. 44; Rep. Granger, Straf. 2; Rep. Tom Mannion, Hills. 1; Rep. Potenza, Straf. 19; Rep. Farrington, Straf. 8; Sen. Murphy, Dist 16

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

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ANALYSIS

This bill removes the ability of the governing body or budget committee to give a written recommendation about a warrant article on the ballot.

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in
bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [
in brackets and struckthrough.
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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
26-3204
08/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

AN ACT
removing the ability of the governing body or budget committee to give a written recommendation about a warrant article on the ballot.

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

1 Budget Preparation; Notation by Governing Body or Budget Committee. Amend RSA 32:5, V to read as follows:
V. When any purpose of appropriation, submitted by a governing body or by petition, appears in the warrant as part of a special warrant article
,
[
:

(a) The article shall contain a notation of whether or not that appropriation is recommended by the governing body, and, if there is a budget committee, a notation of whether or not it is recommended by the budget committee;

(b) If the article is amended at the first session of the meeting in an official ballot referendum municipality, the governing body and the budget committee, if one exists, may revise its recommendation on the amended version of the special warrant article and the revised recommendation shall appear on the ballot for the second session of the meeting provided, however, that the 10 percent limitation on expenditures provided for in RSA 32:18 shall be calculated based upon the initial recommendations of the budget committee;

(c) Defects or deficiencies in these notations shall not affect the legal validity of any appropriation otherwise lawfully made; and

(d) All
]
all
appropriations made under special warrant articles shall be subject to the hearing requirements of paragraphs I and II of this section.

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