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HB1677 • 2026

requiring a recommendation by a local budget committee or governing body when including warrant articles with a tax impact in an estimate for raising taxes under a local tax cap.

requiring a recommendation by a local budget committee or governing body when including warrant articles with a tax impact in an estimate for raising taxes under a local tax cap.

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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
2026-02-19
Official status
HOUSE
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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requiring a recommendation by a local budget committee or governing body when including warrant articles with a tax impact in an estimate for raising taxes under a local tax cap.

requiring a recommendation by a local budget committee or governing body when including warrant articles with a tax impact in an estimate for raising taxes under a local tax cap.

What This Bill Does

  • requiring a recommendation by a local budget committee or governing body when including warrant articles with a tax impact in an estimate for raising taxes under a local tax cap.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-02-19 H

    Inexpedient to Legislate: MA VV 02/19/2026 HJ 5 P. 29

  2. 2026-02-06 H

    Committee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate 02/03/2026 (Vote 18-0; CC) HC 7 P. 18

  3. 2026-02-04 H

    Executive Session: 02/03/2026 11:15 am GP 153

  4. 2026-01-21 H

    Public Hearing: 01/27/2026 09:30 am GP 154

  5. 2025-12-12 H

    Introduced 01/07/2026 and referred to Municipal and County Government HJ 1 P. 31

Official Summary Text

requiring a recommendation by a local budget committee or governing body when including warrant articles with a tax impact in an estimate for raising taxes under a local tax cap.

Current Bill Text

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HB 1677 - AS INTRODUCED

2026 SESSION
26-2847
07/09

HOUSE BILL
1677

AN ACT
requiring a recommendation by a local budget committee or governing body when including warrant articles with a tax impact in an estimate for raising taxes under a local tax cap.

SPONSORS: Rep. Turer, Rock. 6; Rep. Gruber, Ches. 16

COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government

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ANALYSIS

This bill requires a recommendation by a local budget committee or governing body when including warrant articles with a tax impact in an estimate for raising taxes under a local tax cap.

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26-2847
07/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

AN ACT
requiring a recommendation by a local budget committee or governing body when including warrant articles with a tax impact in an estimate for raising taxes under a local tax cap.

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

1 Towns, Cities, Village Districts, and Unincorporated Places; Preparation of Budgets; Local Tax Cap. Amend RSA 32:5-b, I to read as follows:
I. In a town or district that has adopted this section, the estimated amount of local taxes to be raised for the fiscal year shall include the operating budget and all other warrant articles with a tax impact[
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and recommended by the budget committee, or the governing body if the municipality has not established a budget committee pursuant to RSA 32:14, and
certified by the governing body or the budget committee and posted on the warrant for the annual meeting pursuant to RSA 32:5. The estimated amount of local taxes to be raised for the fiscal year shall not exceed the local taxes raised for the prior year, as shown on the same budget and adjusted as provided in paragraph I-a and II, by more than the tax cap authorized when this section was adopted.

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