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NH Rev Stat § 9:8-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 9 - Budget and Appropriations; Revolving Funds|Section 9:8-b - Adoption of Operating Budget.

    9:8-b Adoption of Operating Budget. –||The general court shall not adopt an operating budget for any fund, or any other legislation which provides for appropriations, which exceed the state's total estimated revenues from existing, increased, or new taxes, fees, operating income and other sources. If the estimated revenues of the state for the ensuing biennium as set forth in the budget on the basis of existing laws, plus the estimated amounts in the treasury at the close of the year in progress available for expenditure in the ensuing biennial period is less than the aggregate recommended for the ensuing biennial period as contained in the budget, the general court shall adopt a budget in which such deficit shall be met, whether by an increase in the state tax or the imposition of new taxes, increased rates on existing taxes, or otherwise; and if the aggregate of such estimated revenues, plus estimated balances in the treasury is greater than such recommended appropriations for the ensuing biennial period, the general court shall adopt a budget applying such surplus to the reduction of debt or otherwise, to the reduction in taxation, or to such other action as is in the interest of the public welfare. Such operating budget shall not use bonded indebtedness to fund operating appropriations. Nothing contained herein shall prohibit the use of projected lapses in determining compliance with this section.|||Source. 1998, 313:3, eff. Aug. 25, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 9:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 9 - Budget and Appropriations; Revolving Funds|Section 9:9 - Supplemental Estimates.

    9:9 Supplemental Estimates. –||The governor shall transmit to the legislature supplemental estimates for such appropriations as in his judgment may be necessary on account of laws enacted after the transmission of the budget, or as he deems otherwise in the public interest. He shall accompany such estimates with a statement of the reasons therefor, including the reasons for their omission from the budget. Whenever such supplemental estimates amount to an aggregate which, if they had been contained in the budget, would have required the governor to make a recommendation for the raising of additional revenue, he shall make such recommendation.|||Source. RL 23:9.|
NH Rev Stat § 9:9-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 9 - Budget and Appropriations; Revolving Funds|Section 9:9-a - Collection of Highway Fund Revenue; Reporting Requirement.

    9:9-a Collection of Highway Fund Revenue;  Reporting Requirement. –||Pursuant to part II, article 6-a of the New Hampshire constitution, any costs associated with the collection and administration of highway funds by the department of safety shall be deducted by the department before such funds are credited to the highway fund. On or before January 1, the department shall provide an annual accounting of such administration and collection costs to the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives. No current fiscal year collection or administration costs shall be expended until the previous year's collection cost report has been received.|||Source. 2003, 263:1. 2005, 177:3, eff. July 1, 2005.|
NH Rev Stat § 9:9-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 9 - Budget and Appropriations; Revolving Funds|Section 9:9-b - Allocation of Highway Fund Appropriations.

    9:9-b Allocation of Highway Fund Appropriations. –||In each biennium, highway fund appropriations, including costs of collections of the department of safety, shall be subject to the following limitations:||I. Department of transportation: Not less than 73 percent of anticipated total gross road toll and motor vehicle fees and fines for the biennium.||II. Department of safety: Not to exceed 26 percent of total anticipated gross road toll and motor vehicle fees and fines for the biennium.||III. All other agencies: Not to exceed 1 percent of total anticipated gross road toll and motor vehicle fees and fines for the biennium.|||Source. 2003, 263:1. 2008, 237:1, eff. July 1, 2009; 237:2, eff. July 1, 2011; 237:3, eff. July 1, 2013. 2015, 276:191, eff. July 1, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 9:9-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 9 - Budget and Appropriations; Revolving Funds|Section 9:9-c - Reporting Requirement for Departments That Receive Highway Funds.

    9:9-c Reporting Requirement for Departments That Receive Highway Funds. –||All departments of the executive branch and the judicial branch that receive highway fund transfers for any purpose shall file a report with the commissioner of administrative services on or before January 1 of each year for the preceding fiscal year. The format of the report shall be determined by the commissioner and shall be in a format similar to reports filed pursuant to RSA 9:4-d.||I. The report shall include:||(a) A description of each of the programs supported by highway funds.||(b) Actual expenditures incurred by programs supported in whole or in part by the highway fund transfers compared to amounts budgeted for those purposes.||II. No highway fund transfers shall be disbursed to a department of the executive branch or the judicial branch if the department or judicial branch has not filed the report required under this section for the preceding fiscal year.|||Source. 2003, 263:1. 2007, 32:1, eff. July 13, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 9:9-d (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 9 - Budget and Appropriations; Revolving Funds|Section 9:9-d - Ten-Year Current Services Cost Projections.

    9:9-d Ten-Year Current Services Cost Projections. –||I. Each of the following state agencies shall provide 10-year cost projections for the identified service or program:||(a) The department of administrative services: state retiree health insurance, and in conjunction with the department of revenue administration, state revenues.||(b) The state treasurer: debt service.||(c) The department of education: adequate education grants.||(d) The New Hampshire retirement system: state employer retirement contributions.||II. The cost projections shall be based on current policy, programs, and tax rates, and shall be adjusted only for demographically-induced changes in demand for public services and projected effects on state government revenues and expenditures.|||Source. 2018, 162:2, eff. July 1, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 9:9-e (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 9 - Budget and Appropriations; Revolving Funds|Section 9:9-e - Department of Health and Human Services; Ten-Year Current Services Cost Projections.

    9:9-e Department of Health and Human Services;  Ten-Year Current Services Cost Projections. –||I. The department of health and human services shall provide 10-year cost projections for the identified service or program:||(a) Uncompensated care.||(b) Medicaid care management.||(c) Medicaid-funded home and community based waiver services: Choices for Independence, Developmental Services, Acquired Brain Disorder, and Children's In Home Services.||(d) Nursing home services.||II. The cost projections required in paragraph I for years one through 5 shall be based on the best available data and information available to the department to ensure accurate and reliable information is provided to the public and the general court.||III. The cost projections required in paragraph I for years 6 through 10 shall be based on current policy, programs, and federal and state law, and shall assume economic and other external factors remain static.||IV. The department shall issue the cost projections by September 30, 2019 and shall issue new projections every 2 years thereafter, or upon notice to the department by the state demographer of demographically-induced changes in demand for public services and projected effects on state government revenues.|||Source. 2018, 162:2, eff. July 1, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 9:9-f (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 9 - Budget and Appropriations; Revolving Funds|Section 9:9-f - Legislative Report of 10-Year Current Services Cost Projections.

    9:9-f Legislative Report of 10-Year Current Services Cost Projections. –||On or before February 1 of each budget year, prior to the transmission of the budget to the legislature under RSA 9:2, the legislative budget assistant, in consultation with the state demographer, shall provide to the house and senate finance committees, a report with the 10-year current services cost projections described in RSA 9:9-d and RSA 9:9-e and any other relevant factors identified by the legislative budget assistant or state demographer. The report also shall be posted on the general court website.|||Source. 2018, 162:2, eff. July 1, 2018.|
NH Rev Stat § 9:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 9 - Budget and Appropriations; Revolving Funds|Section 9:10 - Appropriations.

    9:10 Appropriations. –||The appropriations made shall be available for expenditure on July 1, unless otherwise provided.|||Source. RL 23:10. 1957, 112:1, eff. July 1, 1957.|
NH Rev Stat § 9:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 9 - Budget and Appropriations; Revolving Funds|Section 9:11 - Monthly Statements.

    9:11 Monthly Statements. –||I. Once each month the director, division of accounting services shall make a report to each state agency showing in detail the total amount expended during the previous month and the accumulated amount expended to date from July 1. The report shall also show the total encumbrances outstanding and the balance available for the remainder of the fiscal year. Whenever it appears that a department is spending at a rate which will deplete its appropriation before June 30 the director, division of accounting services shall immediately report the fact to the governor who shall thereupon investigate and may, if necessary, order the department head to reduce expenditures in proportion to the balance available and the remaining time in the fiscal year. When such an order has been made by the governor the director, division of accounting services shall establish a limit of expenditures for the department and shall not allow any expenditure by said department in excess of said limit unless and until said order has been modified by the governor. Provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to appropriations made for land, permanent improvements, and other capital projects.||II. (a) For the funds and entities identified in subparagraph (b), the department of administrative services shall prepare and submit to the fiscal committee of the general court a combined report describing the status of the state's fund expenditures for the current fiscal year. The report shall include a comparison of actual expenditures to projected expenditures, and an explanation for any substantial variance, as provided by each entity. The department shall submit such report for the quarters ending September 30, December 31, and March 31, and any time the governor submits to the fiscal committee, pursuant to RSA 9:16-b, a plan to reduce state expenditures.||(b)(1) For the general fund and education trust fund, the judicial branch and any agency that receives appropriations from the general fund or education trust fund.||(2) For the fish and game fund, the fish and game department.||(3) For the highway fund, including the cost of collections, the department of safety and the department of transportation.||(4) For the turnpike fund, the department of transportation.||(5) For the liquor fund, the liquor commission.||(6) For the sweepstakes fund, the lottery commission.|||Source. RL 23:11. RSA 9:11. 1957, 112:2. 1985, 399:3, III, eff. July 1, 1985. 2015, 245:1, eff. Dec. 31, 2015.|
NH Rev Stat § 9:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 9 - Budget and Appropriations; Revolving Funds|Section 9:12 - Investigatory Powers.

    9:12 Investigatory Powers. –||The governor or the governor and council and the commissioner of administrative services and any officer of the department of administrative services, when so authorized by the governor, or the governor and council, are hereby authorized to make such inquiries regarding the receipt, custody, and application of state funds, existing organization, activities, and methods of business of the departments, assignments of particular activities to particular services, and the regrouping of such services, as in the opinion of the governor will enable him to make recommendations, and, within the scope of the powers possessed by him, to order action to be taken, having for their purpose to bring about increased economy and efficiency in the conduct of the affairs of the state.|||Source. RL 23:12. RSA 9:12. 1985, 399:3, I, eff. July 1, 1985.|
NH Rev Stat § 9:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 9 - Budget and Appropriations; Revolving Funds|Section 9:13 - Fiscal Year.

    9:13 Fiscal Year. –||The fiscal year of the state shall commence on the first day of July and end on the thirtieth day of June. This fiscal year shall be used for purposes of making appropriations and of financial reporting and shall be uniformly adopted by all departments of the state.|||Source. RL 23:16.|
NH Rev Stat § 9:13-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 9 - Budget and Appropriations; Revolving Funds|Section 9:13-a - to 9:13-c Repealed by 1987, 416:1, eff. July 1, 1987.

    9:13-a to 9:13-c Repealed by 1987, 416:1, eff. July 1, 1987. –|
NH Rev Stat § 9:13-d (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 9 - Budget and Appropriations; Revolving Funds|Section 9:13-d - Civil Emergency.

    9:13-d Civil Emergency. –||Should it be determined by the governor that a civil emergency exists, the governor may, with the advice and consent of the fiscal committee, authorize such expenditures, by any department or agency, as may be necessary to effectively deal with said civil emergency and may draw his warrants in payment for the same from any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. In determining whether a civil emergency exists, the governor shall consider whether there is such imminent peril to the public health, safety and welfare of the inhabitants of this state so as to require immediate action to remedy the situation. This section shall not be construed to enlarge any of the powers which the governor may possess under the constitution or other statutes.|||Source. 1978, 52:15. 1987, 416:2, eff. July 1, 1987.|
NH Rev Stat § 9:13-f (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 9 - Budget and Appropriations; Revolving Funds|Section 9:13-f - Debt Redemption; State Treasurer Required to Report.

    9:13-f Debt Redemption;  State Treasurer Required to Report. –||I. The state treasurer shall report annually to the legislature, prior to the beginning of each session, on the state's outstanding bond obligations. The report shall describe in detail the bond issues which, in the state treasurer's judgment, could be redeemed prior to their stated date of maturity; the value of such issues; and the reasons why the state treasurer believes such issues should be redeemed prior to maturity.||II. The state treasurer shall make recommendations for appropriate legislation relative to early redemption of the state's outstanding bond obligations.||III. The legislature, upon receipt of the state treasurer's report, may appropriate funds for the purpose of debt redemption.|||Source. 1986, 18:3, eff. July 1, 1987.|
NH Rev Stat § 9:13-g (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 9 - Budget and Appropriations; Revolving Funds|Section 9:13-g - Repealed by 1999, 17:58, X, eff. July 1, 1999.

    9:13-g Repealed by 1999, 17:58, X, eff. July 1, 1999. –|
NH Rev Stat § 9:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 9 - Budget and Appropriations; Revolving Funds|Section 9:14 - Repealed by 1959, 37:2, eff. July 1, 1959.

    9:14 Repealed by 1959, 37:2, eff. July 1, 1959. –|
NH Rev Stat § 9:14-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 9 - Budget and Appropriations; Revolving Funds|Section 9:14-a - Working Capital.

    9:14-a Working Capital. –||The governor is hereby authorized to draw his warrant with the advice and consent of the council, upon any money in the general fund of the treasury, including special and capital funds, for departments other than transportation or fish and game, for such sums to be set apart from time to time to the credit of the state treasurer as a working capital fund as may appear to the governor and council necessary and proper upon recommendation of the commissioner of administrative services for payment of all proper charges against said departments other than transportation and fish and game. The governor is likewise (for working capital) hereby authorized to draw his warrant, with the advice and consent of the council, upon any money in the highway fund for expenditures for the department of transportation, or upon any money in the fish and game fund for expenditures for the fish and game department. The provisions of this section shall not authorize the manifesting, approval or payment of any claim in excess of appropriations or for the purposes for which appropriations do not exist. A warrant duly executed under the provisions hereof shall be a sufficient warrant under RSA 6:10.|||Source. 1959, 37:1. 1985, 399:3, I, eff. July 1, 1985.|
NH Rev Stat § 9:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 9 - Budget and Appropriations; Revolving Funds|Section 9:15 - Creation.

    9:15 Creation. –||The governor is hereby authorized to draw his warrant, with the advice and consent of the council, upon any money in the general fund of the treasury for sums to be delivered into the custody of the responsible heads of departments and institutions for their use as petty cash revolving funds within their departments or institutions. The authorized balances and number of revolving funds shall be kept at minimum levels consistent with efficiency, and shall be carried as a charge against the departments or institutions concerned. No revolving fund shall be authorized by the governor and council except upon written application establishing the necessity for such fund consistent with the efficient operation of the applicant department. Any revolving fund authorized hereunder for the department of transportation or for the fish and game department shall be established from the highway fund or the fish and game fund, respectively. The heads of such departments and institutions shall be personally responsible for such moneys while in revolving funds, and shall be authorized to use the same as a petty cash fund only for such departmental purposes as are authorized by law. No payment from a revolving fund shall bind the state unless and until the specific payment has been pre-audited by the director, division of accounting services and warranted by the governor with the advice and consent of the council. After such audit and warrant, the treasurer shall be authorized to issue out public funds to restore the authorized balance of the revolving fund concerned. Department heads responsible for revolving funds shall be bonded in sums sufficient to protect the state against loss of any revolving funds the authorized balances of which exceed $1,000. All existing revolving funds shall lapse upon the date of the first meeting of the governor and council in 1953, unless renewed at that meeting and revolving funds thereafter authorized hereunder shall similarly lapse on the date of the first meeting of the governor and council in each biennium thereafter, unless then renewed and unless sooner reduced or lapsed by resolution of the governor and council. Upon such reduction or lapse, the responsible head of the department or institution concerned shall pay the revolving fund moneys into the treasury and the treasurer shall credit the same against the amount standing as a charge to the department or institution concerned.|||Source. 1951, 252:3. RSA 9:15. 1985, 399:3, III, eff. July 1, 1985.|
NH Rev Stat § 9:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 9 - Budget and Appropriations; Revolving Funds|Section 9:16 - Repealed by 2008, 177:16, II, eff. June 11, 2008.

    9:16 Repealed by 2008, 177:16, II, eff. June 11, 2008. –|
NH Rev Stat § 9:16-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 9 - Budget and Appropriations; Revolving Funds|Section 9:16-b - Reductions Authorized.

    9:16-b Reductions Authorized. –||I. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the governor may, with the prior approval of the fiscal committee, order reductions in any or all expenditure classes within any or all departments, as defined in RSA 9:1, if he determines at any time during the fiscal year that:||(a) Projected state revenues will be insufficient to maintain a balanced budget and that the likelihood of a serious deficit exists; or||(b) The actual lapse for each fiscal year is not going to equal the level estimated in the forecast of funds, unappropriated surplus, as issued by the legislative budget assistant.||II. The governor shall make available a summary report every 60 days to the presiding officers and to the chairman of the fiscal committee about any actions under this section.|||Source. 1990, 3:36, eff. Feb. 20, 1990.|
NH Rev Stat § 9:16-c (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title I - The State and Its Government|Title 9 - Budget and Appropriations; Revolving Funds|Section 9:16-c - Transfer of Federal Grant Funds.

    9:16-c Transfer of Federal Grant Funds. –||I. In order to maximize the use of federal grant funds and to avoid lapsing such funds where changes in the state or federal accounting systems, changes in federal grant guidelines, or overestimation or underestimation of funds required in various class codes due to program needs or requirements have occurred subsequent to the passage of the budget, every department as defined in RSA 9:1 may, subject to the prior approval of the fiscal committee of the general court and the approval of governor and council, transfer funds in or out of any class code and to create new class codes within federally funded areas of the department's operating budget if such transfers do not result in an over-expenditure of any grant.||II. In order to maximize the use of federal grant funds and not lapse such funds, every department as defined in RSA 9:1 may, subject to the approval of the commissioner of the department of administrative services, carry forward into future state fiscal years any budgeted appropriation balances in class from federal grants for the duration of the federal grant award.|||Source. 2012, 192:7, eff. July 1, 2012.|