Bill > HB2

Introduced Session

This bill: 1. Names the divisions of the department of information technology. 2. Authorizes the department of information technology to fill unfunded positions for the biennium ending June 30, 2025. 3. Broadens the community college system of New Hampshire’s dual and concurrent enrollment program and makes an appropriation therefor. 4. Provides for optional retirement system membership for employees of the community college system of New Hampshire hired on or after July 1, 2023. 5. Makes an appropriation to the university system of New Hampshire for the renovation of the Whittemore Center Arena. 6. Authorizes the liquor commission to transfer funds for its employee incentive program. 7. Establishes new, unclassified positions within the department of corrections. 8. Moves positions within the department of corrections from group I to group II status in the New Hampshire retirement system and removes the position of professional standards director from the department of corrections. 9. Authorizes the department of administrative services to conduct a reallocation of certified corrections officers and internal affairs investigators within the department of corrections and makes an appropriation therefor. 10. Makes certain organizational changes to the office of the commissioner of the department of environmental services. 11. Alters the hearing processes for the councils within the department of environmental services and establishes a committee to study such processes to identify areas within which to promote efficiency. 12. Removes the subsurface systems fund established in RSA 485-A:30, I-b and directs the revenues to the water resource fund. 13. Makes certain changes to, and continuously appropriates, the fees collected for excavating and dredging permits being deposited into the water resources fund. 14. Modifies the wastewater plant operator certification fund to be continuously appropriated. 15. Mandates that applications for aid to municipalities for water pollution control under RSA 486:7 be filed within one year of final completion of the eligible project and makes an appropriation to such program. 16. Clarifies the chargeable area for fees associated with terrain alternative disturbances. 17. Removes certain limitations to the Winnipesaukee River basin control program. 18. Establishes a new chapter regulating PCB assistance, a corresponding fund, and makes an appropriation therefor. 19. Establishes the InvestNH Program and makes an appropriation for this purpose. 20. Makes an appropriation for the affordable housing fund. 21. Repeals statutes related to the advanced manufacturing education advisory council, membership and terms, duties, and the advanced manufacturing education fund. 22. Creates the establishment of the bridges house special account. 23. Establishes a fund and appropriations for the New Hampshire state prison administered by the department of corrections. 24. Makes an appropriation for the department of corrections IT infrastructure 25. Makes an appropriation for the department of administrative services to purchase 2 Granite Place, Concord, New Hampshire. 26. Makes an appropriation to the department of administrative services for the acquisition of land, building, and other improvements located at 1 Granite Place, Concord, New Hampshire, conditioned upon the prior successful closing of a sale of the former Laconia state school campus property. 27. Makes an appropriation for the body-worn and dashboard camera fund. 28. Authorizes the Christa McAuliffe memorial and makes an appropriation therefor. 29. Establishes a commission on New Hampshire civics and makes an appropriation to the department of education and commission for the purpose of funding a New Hampshire civics textbook. 30. Establishes a program in the department of education to provide stipends and grants to students to reduce financial barriers to entering the educator workforce. 31. Requires the board of tax and land appeals to have at least one member of the board be an attorney admitted to practice in New Hampshire. 32. Establishes a retirement benefits commission. 33. Makes an appropriation to the office of the child advocate for the purpose of enhancing the case management system.? 34. Makes an appropriation to the department of business and economic affairs for the New Hampshire pulp and paper manufacture industry stabilization grant program.? 35. Extends the repeal date for the division of personnel's program for recruitment and retention.? 36. Makes an appropriation to the university system of New Hampshire for allocation to Keene state college and Plymouth state university.? 37. Establishing the position of computer science administrator, the computer science educator program, and making an appropriation therefor.? 38. Makes an appropriation to the public school infrastructure fund.? 39. Moves the repeal of the interest and dividends tax from 2027 to 2025. 40. Redirects workers’ compensation funds from the general fund to a department of labor restricted fund and makes changes to the employer insurance carrier reimbursement process. 41. Alters the nomination process to the labor commissioner penalty appeal board. 42. Authorizes the commissioner of labor to adopt administrative rules to facilitate administration and enforcement of family and medical leave insurance. 43. Alters the composition of the workers’ compensation appeal board. 44. Changes the term of office, the process to fill vacancies, and scope of authority of the department of transportation appeals board. 45. Creates an over-length, over-width, over-height, and over-weight revolving fund credited to the department of transportation. 46. Authorizes highway surveillance for the security of the Little Bay Bridges in Dover and Newington. 47. Exempts department of transportation impacts associated with maintenance projects within existing rights of way and/or permanent easements to certain hearing, mitigation, and notification requirements under certain wetlands provisions. 48. Authorizes the department of transportation to charge a credit card use convenience fee for aircraft operating fee transactions. 49. Clarifies the requirements for eligibility for the E-Z Pass transponder road toll discount. 50. Alters the process of the development of the statewide transportation improvement program plan. 51. Alters the process to claim assets which have escheated to the state. 52. Suspends revenue sharing with cities and towns for the biennium ending June 30, 2025. 53. Transfers certain responsibilities of the department of environmental services and the public utilities commission to the department of energy. 54. Directs the department of energy to support offshore wind initiatives. 55. Changes the dates required to submit reports to the department of energy. 56. Increases staff and expenditures at the department of energy. 57. Changes the dates of the quarters for quarterly assessments by the public utilities commission. 58. Enables the commissioner of the department of energy to appoint a general counsel. 59. Changes the statutory fee for record requests from the division of motor vehicles. 60. Allows certain emergency medical care providers to administer Naloxone. 61. Reduces the appropriations to the department of education for education freedom accounts. 62. Changes the distribution schedule from the education trust fund. 63. Defines episode of treatment in court-ordered placement of children and addresses department of education payment for placement for an episode of treatment. 64. Makes an appropriation to the department of education for the renovation of the Sugar River Valley Regional Technical Center in Newport and to the Winnisquam Regional CTE project. 65. Revises the formula for calculating adequate education grants and increases the amount of such funding. 66. Increases chartered public school funding. 67. Repeals the grade 3 statewide education improvement and assessment program data. 68. Provides that appropriations to state agencies for bond insurance and property and casualty insurance shall not be transferred or expended for any other purpose. 69. Provides that funds appropriated for state employee medical and surgical benefits shall be nonlapsing. 70. Clarifies administration of the salary adjustment fund and employee benefit adjustment account. 71. Changes the name of the department of administrative services state budget director to the state budget officer. 72. Provides the department of administrative services authority to bill agencies for planning and design costs associated with capital construction projects. 73. Makes an appropriation to the department of administrative services for technology upgrades. 74. Revises the duties and authority of the state commission on aging. 75. Establishes the salary schedule applicable to certain corrections officers. 76. Authorizes the department of administrative services to expend funds appropriated for additional parking for state employees in downtown Concord. 77. Establishes salaries and salary schedules for certain state officers and unclassified employees. 78.? Increases the distribution of business profits and business enterprise tax revenues to the education trust fund.??? 79. Makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services for the Choose Love Program.??? 80.? Allows the department of health and human services to fill unfunded positions.??? 81.? Makes an appropriation to the foster grandparent's program.??? 82.? Makes an appropriation to the congregate housing and services program.??? 83.? Requires the department of health and human services to raise the income eligibility for elderly and adult clients under the social services block grant program.??? 84.? Suspends the provision of direct and indirect graduate medical education payments to hospitals.??? 85.? Suspends catastrophic aid payments to hospitals.??? 86. Allows for additional funding for Medicaid to schools.??? 87.? Requires submission of health facility plans to the division of fire safety.??? 88.? Moves the health care workplace violence protection program from the department of health and human services to the department of labor, and makes an appropriation to the department of labor to hire a program specialist.? 89.? Establishes unclassified positions in the department of health and human services.??? 90.? Limitations on reimbursement of county funds.??? 91.? Makes appropriations to the department of health and human services for programs and systems.??? 92.? Makes appropriations to the department of health and human services for Medicaid provider rate increases.??? 93. Repeals the department of business and economic affairs programs for college graduate retention incentive partnership (NH GRIP), COVID-19 micro enterprise relief fund, and the package plan program.??? 94.? Revises the workforce development program administration.??? 95.? Reclassifies and renames positions in the department of justice to unclassified.? 96.? Establishes a handling charge for the division of charitable trusts.????? 97.? Makes certain changes to the administration of programs within the department of justice.???? 98.? Provides for continued retirement system administration of certain benefit payments to existing beneficiaries.???? 99.? Increases the business finance authority unified contingent credit limit.?? 100. Appropriates from the education trust fund to the department of education for the purpose of providing kindergarten adequate education grants. 101. Revises or removes the regulation by the office of professional licensure and certification (OPLC) of several of the state’s occupational regulatory boards and commissions. 102.? Grants a $500 additional retirement allowance in 2023 to be paid to eligible retired members or beneficiaries.? The cost of the additional allowance is paid from the state general fund.? 103. Requires that the governor publicly post the budget trailer bill on the department of administrative services' website. 104. Requires that the department of administrative services provide reports to the general court on the current estimated general fund appropriation lapse for each fiscal year for the biennium ending June 30, 2025. 105. Modifies the state agency approval process for short term rentals of equipment for certain state trails, roads, bridges, and related maintenance and use of facilities. 106. Authorizes the governor to draw a warrant to supplement the department of revenue administration's revenue information management system's bond principal and interest payments. 107. Directs the department of agriculture, markets, and food to employ an electronic data processing system for all registrations under its purview and makes an appropriation therefor. 108. Prohibits the disposal of food waste into landfills under certain conditions, adds a new position of waste management specialist III to cover the new prohibited food waste disposal, and makes an appropriation for such position. 109. Changes the name of the PFAS loan fund to the PFAS response fund, and adds duties to the department of environmental services relative to investigating, testing, and monitoring for PFAS in soil, groundwater, surface water, wastewater, air, biota, and other media. 110. Makes an appropriation to the solid waste management fund and targets food waste reduction and diversion. 111. Establishes the land use review docket in the superior court and increases the amount of associate justices of the superior court to 22. 112. Modifies the department of military affairs and veterans services administration of certain fines and programs. 113. Directs the department of corrections to establish and administer an employee recruitment and retention program. 114. Allows the department of corrections to pay certain burial expenses of employees. 115. Requires the state police to establish a contact person notification program to assist law enforcement personnel who have contact with a person with mental or physical disabilities and makes an appropriation therefor. 116. Makes an appropriation to the department of education for the National Student Clearinghouse Student Tracker Program. 117. Requires the community college system of New Hampshire to submit a report regarding the math learning communities program and makes an appropriation to support that program. 118. Makes an appropriation to the community college system of New Hampshire for the implementation of the New Hampshire promise program. 119. Makes an appropriation to the community college system of New Hampshire to expand its workforce credential programs. 120. Modifies for the biennium the income eligibility for child care subsidies provided through programs administered by the department of health and human services. 121. Authorizes the commissioner of the department of health and human services to use TANF funds to avoid a wait list for employment-related child care services. 122. Requires the department of health and human services to set all child care services reimbursement rates for the biennium to match the 75th percentile of market rate survey. 123. Alters the duties and authority of the prescription drug affordability board, and mandates the department of insurance issue a report on the elimination of governmental redundancies related to the collection, analysis, and reporting on prescription drug prices between itself and the prescription drug affordability board by October 1, 2024. 124. Reestablishes the commission to evaluate the effectiveness and future of the New Hampshire granite advantage health care program and extends the New Hampshire granite advantage health care program. 125. Expands Medicaid to include certain postpartum health care services and makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services for this purpose. 126. Directs the department of health and human services to submit state plan amendments under Medicaid and CHIP to provide coverage to children and pregnant women lawfully residing in the United States, and makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services for this purpose. 127. Directs the department of health and human services to purchase a full body scanner from existing appropriations to the youth services center and authorizes the department to transfer funds among class lines within the Sununu youth services account. 128. Establishes a data privacy and information technology security governance board within the department of health and human services to oversee data privacy risk calculation and risk mitigation efforts, and makes an appropriation to the department for 2 classified employees to accomplish these objectives. 129. Makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services to fund the Merrimack, New Hampshire Kidney Incidence Phase 3 Feasibility Study. 130. Transfers funds from the general fund to the highway fund for the 2023 fiscal year. 131. Establishes the cyanobacteria mitigation loan and grant program and the cyanobacteria mitigation fund and makes an appropriation for the fund. 132. Requires the use of funds from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to construct the youth detention center. 133. Makes appropriations to the department of health and human services to support family resource 134. Establishes a committee to study the impact of alterations to the eligibility of free and reduced-price school meals. 135. Appropriates money to the department of administrative services for the purpose of moving and fit up costs for state agencies. 136. Authorizes the purchase of land for the construction of a new seventh circuit court facility in Rochester and authorizes the sale of the old seventh circuit property upon the completion of a new facility. 137. Adjusts the source from which the department of health and human services provides reimbursement to the salary adjustment fund for certain salary review. 138. Makes an appropriation to the department of state for certain software updates and high speed scanners enabling additional Accuvote audits. 139. Provides for the application of the reduction of a retiree's annuity at the member's full retirement age under the federal Social Security system. 140. Establishes a New Hampshire housing champion designation program, including a housing production municipal grant program, and a housing infrastructure municipal grant and loan program. 141. Establishes positions within the department of business and economic affairs and makes an appropriation for the program fund. 142. Establishes a commission to study tourism and hospitality in New Hampshire. 143. Directs the deposit of liquor commission revenue into the alcohol abuse prevention and treatment fund. 144. Makes an appropriation to the liquor commission for the purchase of handheld personal computers for use at retail stores. 145. Establishes a surcharge on annual registration for electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. 146. Eliminates the cap on the number of auxiliary state police force members. 147. Creates the northern border alliance program. 148. Modifies the authority and duties of police employees acting within 25 air miles of the border with Canada. 149. Modifies New Hampshire state trooper differential pay. 150. Makes an appropriation to the department of safety for the purpose of purchasing and installing protective glass at division of motor vehicles customer counters. 151. Increases the limit on the DOJ consumer protection escrow account. 152. Expands consumer protection and antitrust bureau duties. 153. Revises criteria and procedures for settlement of claims arising from detention at the youth development center. 154. Establishes the health care consumer protection trust fund and health care consumer protection advisory commission. 155. Makes an appropriation to the department of justice to fund human trafficking prevention efforts. 156. Makes an appropriation to the department of justice for the purpose of funding the New Hampshire child advocacy centers. 157. Makes an appropriation to the internet crimes against children fund to support the work of the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. 158. Makes an appropriation to the police standards and training council for funding a court security officer training program and related part-time positions. 159. Makes appropriations to the judicial council to fund increase contract costs for the public defender program and for contract counsel and requires the judicial council to submit a report to the fiscal committee of the general court detailing its use of these funds. 160. Increases the cap on the cost of drug court or alternative drug offender programs offered by judicial districts based on county size. 161. Directs the fish and game department to enable online payment of OHRV and snowmobile initial and renewal registration fees by September 1, 2025. 162. Makes an appropriation to the fish and game fund. 163. Adds limitations on grants-in-aid for OHRV trails administered by the department of natural and cultural resources, bureau of trails. 164. Makes an appropriation to the department of natural and cultural resources to conduct a feasibility study on improving accessibility for people with disabilities to Hampton Beach State Park. 165. Makes an appropriation to the department of natural and cultural resources to renovate and repair the Northwood Meadows Lake Dam. 166. Makes an appropriation to the department of natural and cultural resources for the maintenance and operation of the tramway at Cannon Mountain. 167. Makes an appropriation to the department of environmental services for wastewater infrastructure projects for the biennium ending June 30, 2027. 168. Makes an appropriation to the department of environmental services for the purpose of funding a new drinking water transmission main between Nashua and Litchfield. 169. Modifies the department of environmental services pollution prevention coordinator position. 170. Makes appropriations to the department of environmental services and the department of energy to support offshore wind energy development. 171. Appropriates $10,000,000 to the department of transportation for municipal bridges, and $10,000,000 to the department of transportation for additional "Apportionment A" local highway distributions. 172. Makes an appropriation to the department of transportation to fund a state operating match that enables rural and urban transit agencies to access additional federal funds. 173. Makes an appropriation for department of transportation for the purpose of vehicle and equipment replacements. 174. Makes an appropriation to the department of transportation to support the Eastern Slopes Regional Airport. 175. Provides for suspension of E-Z pass registration for unpaid tolls in other states. 176. Directs the department of health and human services to develop a public awareness campaign on brain health, Alzheimer's disease, and related dementias and makes an appropriation to the department for this purpose. 177. Makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services and establishes grant guidelines for the purpose of child care agency recruitment and retention. 178. Modifies the child care scholarship program by eliminating parent cost-sharing for families at or below 100 percent of the federal poverty level and establishes a reduced cost share for families between 100 and 138 percent of the federal poverty level. 179. Makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services for an audit of the integrated eligibility system. 180. Extends existing grants to, and makes an appropriation for, juvenile diversion services within the department of health and human services. 181. Funds public health departments to administer vaccinations to persons when such vaccinations are ineligible for funding under certain federal programs.? 182. Directs the department of health and human services to submit a report relative to implementing area health education centers and advanced training programs for rural health and primary care personnel.? 183. Extends the nonlapsing timeframe of the transitional housing beds appropriation made to the department of health and human services in 2021. 184. Extends appropriations for the developmental services pilot program plan through fiscal year 2025. 185. Makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services for the purpose of helping family mutual support providers keep pace with the cost of service provision.? 186. Makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services for the purpose of funding the maternal, infant, and early childhood home visiting program.? 187. Amends an appropriation to the department of health and human services for hospital care coordination, and establishes positions for such purpose.? 188. Makes and appropriation for funding juvenile peer-to-peer grief support programming.? 189. Makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services for the purpose of reimbursing licensed nursing assistants for tuition, training, or other continuing education.? 190. Makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services for the purpose of Granite United Way administering the recovery friendly workplace initiative.? 191. Re-establishes the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Farmers Market Nutrition Program.? 192. Makes appropriations to the department of health and human services to fund homeless and housing shelter programs.? 193. Adds an exception from the moratorium on certain nursing home, skilled nursing facility, intermediate care facility, or rehabilitation facility capacity.? 194. Expands the state's systems of care for healthy aging, increases access to home and community-based services, establishes person-centered counseling programs through aging and disability resource centers, and makes appropriations to the department of health and human services for these purposes.? 195. Directs the department of health and human services, the housing finance authority, New Hampshire employment security, and the department of energy to study the creation, funding, and implementation of graduated public assistance programs to complement existing programs within the state, and appropriates funds to the department of health and human services.? 196. Establishes a commission to study charitable gaming and the impact of historical horse racing on revenues for charities, and appropriates $150,000 to the lottery commission for such purposes and amends the moratorium on historic horse racing.? 197. Modifies eligibility criteria for tuition waivers for children in guardianships after being in state foster care.? 198. Establishes a first responder career development, recruitment, and retention program in the community college system, and makes an appropriation for the program.? 199. Makes an annual appropriation to the business finance authority to provide grants to regional economic development corporations for a 10-year period.? 200. Makes an annual appropriation to the business finance authority to provide grants to regional economic development corporations for a 10-year period. 201. Removes the campaign contribution limit under RSA 664:4 for a candidate or candidate committee. 202. Authorizes the joint legislative historical committee to accept a gift of a portrait of Rogers Johnson and hang this portrait in the state house. 203. Establishes the early childhood mental health consultation pilot program and makes an appropriation therefor. 204. Makes an appropriation to the department of education for grants to adult education programs. 205. Revises the authority of the governor and general court to declare, renew, or terminate a state of emergency. 206. Makes an appropriation to the department of education for the purpose of establishing an incentive grant program to encourage transportation of students in career and technical education programs 207. Requires a law enforcement agency to provide public notice of an immigration checkpoint. 208. Makes an appropriation to the department of education to perform the statutory duties related to the children's system of care system of care under RSA 135-F:5.

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Ken Weyler (R)*, 

Signed by Governor Sununu 06/20/2023; Chapter 79; Eff: 07/01/2023 (on 06/21/2023)

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