{"id": "HB108", "year": 1999, "term": "1999-2000", "title": "establishing a statewide education property tax to provide equal per student funding for state-mandated education and funding for kindergarten and making an appropriation therefor.", "narrative": "It was introduced on January 7, 1999 and referred to the House Finance committee. The committee held a public hearing on January 21, 1999. The majority recommended that the House kill it, and the minority recommended that the House pass it, by a vote of 22\u20135. The report was placed on the regular calendar. On February 16, 1999 the House voted to send it back to committee on a roll call 241\u2013132. The majority recommended that the House kill it, and the minority recommended that the House pass it with changes, by a vote of 25\u20131. On March 4, 1999 the House voted to kill it on a roll call 247\u2013131.", "stages": [{"label": "House Committee (Finance)", "hand": "H:committee", "text": "It was introduced on January 7, 1999 and referred to the House Finance committee. The committee held a public hearing on January 21, 1999. The majority recommended that the House kill it, and the minority recommended that the House pass it, by a vote of 22\u20135. The report was placed on the regular calendar.", "notes": []}, {"label": "On the House Floor", "hand": "H:floor", "text": "On February 16, 1999 the House voted to send it back to committee on a roll call 241\u2013132.", "notes": []}, {"label": "House Committee (Finance)", "hand": "H:committee", "text": "The majority recommended that the House kill it, and the minority recommended that the House pass it with changes, by a vote of 25\u20131.", "notes": []}, {"label": "On the House Floor", "hand": "H:floor", "text": "On March 4, 1999 the House voted to kill it on a roll call 247\u2013131.", "notes": []}], "notes": [], "vote_note": "", "events": [{"date": "1999-01-07", "text": "Introduced and ref to Finance; HJ12, p154", "routine": false, "cite": "HJ 12"}, {"date": "1999-01-21", "text": "Hearing Jan 21 10:00 Rms210-211,LOB", "routine": false}, {"date": "1999-02-11", "text": "Maj Report ITL for Feb 16 (vote 22-5;RC)", "routine": false}, {"date": "1999-02-11", "text": "Min Report OTP", "routine": false}, {"date": "1999-02-16", "text": "Recommitted to committee, Rep Sapareto MA RC(241-132); HJ20, p309-311", "routine": false, "cite": "HJ 20"}, {"date": "1999-02-25", "text": "Maj Report ITL for Mar 4 (vote 25-1;Reg)", "routine": false}, {"date": "1999-02-25", "text": "Min Report OTP/AM", "routine": false}, {"date": "1999-02-25", "text": "Prop Min Am {0232}; HC22, p378-379", "routine": false, "cite": "HC 22", "cite_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/house/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=calendars%5C1999%5CNo%2022%20February%2026%201999.pdf"}, {"date": "1999-03-03", "text": "Reps Alger, Sapareto & Whittemore Prop Fl Am{0242}(New Title); HC23,p410-428", "routine": false, "cite": "HC 23", "cite_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/house/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=calendars%5C1999%5CNo%2023%20March%204%201999.pdf"}, {"date": "1999-03-03", "text": "Rep Mirski Prop Fl Am{0276}(New Title); HC23,p428-430", "routine": false, "cite": "HC 23", "cite_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/house/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=calendars%5C1999%5CNo%2023%20March%204%201999.pdf"}, {"date": "1999-03-03", "text": "Rep Corbin Prop Fl Am{0285}(New Title); HC23,p430-431", "routine": false, "cite": "HC 23", "cite_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/house/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=calendars%5C1999%5CNo%2023%20March%204%201999.pdf"}, {"date": "1999-03-04", "text": "Rep Rubin moved Lay On the Table, ML VV; ITL Report Adopted RC(247-131); HJ25, p480-482", "routine": false, "cite": "HJ 25"}, {"date": "1999-03-04", "text": "{Notice of Reconsideration, Rep Whittier}", "routine": false}, {"date": "1999-03-18", "text": "Rep Corbin Prop Fl Am{0432}(New Title); HC27, p568-569", "routine": false, "cite": "HC 27", "cite_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/house/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=calendars%5C1999%5CNo%2027%20March%2018%201999.pdf"}, {"date": "1999-03-18", "text": "Rep Boyce Prop Fl Am{0441}(New Title); HC27, p569-571", "routine": false, "cite": "HC 27", "cite_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/house/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=calendars%5C1999%5CNo%2027%20March%2018%201999.pdf"}, {"date": "1999-03-18", "text": "Rep Whittier moved to reconsider, ML DIV(55-291); HJ29, p632", "routine": false, "cite": "HJ 29"}], "next_step": "House: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE", "archived": {"docket": true, "sponsors": true, "reports": true, "votes": true, "video": false, "hearings": true, "committee": true}, "status_source": "General Court bill status page", "chapter": "", "journey": {"steps": [{"date": "1999-02-16", "body": "H", "act": "recommitted", "mark": "h", "text": "Sent back to committee, 241\u2013132"}, {"date": "1999-03-04", "body": "H", "act": "killed", "mark": "x", "text": "Killed, 247\u2013131"}], "rail": [{"stop": "Introduced", "mark": "p", "date": "1999-01-07", "say": "Introduced"}, {"stop": "House", "mark": "x", "date": "1999-03-04", "say": "Killed, 247\u2013131"}, {"stop": "Senate", "mark": "-", "date": "", "say": "Never reached"}, {"stop": "Governor", "mark": "-", "date": "", "say": "Never reached"}, {"stop": "Law", "mark": "x", "date": "1999-03-04", "say": "Did not become law"}]}, "text_url": "", "facts": {"gen_status": "HOUSE", "house_status": "INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE"}, "sponsors": [{"member_id": "455", "name": "Frank Sapareto", "party": "R", "chamber": "H", "county": "Rockingham", "district": "13", "label": "Rep. 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William Zolla (R)", "s": "zolla, william", "p": "R", "v": "Yea"}], "mk": "itl", "mf": {}, "mrec": "COMMITTEE MAJORITY REPORT:  ITL"}], "stations": [{"when": "1999-01-21", "time": "10:00", "what": "hearing", "committee": "Finance", "body": "H", "venue": "Rms210-211,LOB", "video_id": "", "watch": null, "predicted": "", "start": null, "state": "prestream", "tolerance": null, "short": false, "end": null, "end_stated": false, "end_from": null, "candidate": null, "start_stated": false, "said_how": null, "end_stated_cluster": false}], "reports": [{"bill": "HB108", "title": "establishing a statewide education property tax to provide equal per student funding for state-mandated education and funding for kindergarten and making an appropriation therefor", "majority_recommendation": "INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE", "minority_recommendation": "OUGHT TO PASS", "reports": [{"side": "Majority", "author": "Rep. Jeffrey C. MacGillivray", "committee": "Finance", "vote_yeas": 22, "vote_nays": 5, "text": "This is a statewide property tax bill; it has neither a statewide sales or income tax. HB 108 raises $864 million based on an adequacy number of $4000 elementary, $4500 high school, and increases the state kindergarten aid program from the existing $750 per student to full inclusion in an adequate education. As a result, HB 108 has a statewide property tax rate of $12.03. The sponsor has proposed an amendment which would incorporate additional state revenues; this would still only reduce the property tax rate to $10.19. We thank the sponsors for their years of work and their ideas. The committee has decided to recommend HB 117 as amended instead, with its additional state revenues, no increase in the kindergarten program, and superior targeting of the last few hundred dollars of state aid. Therefore this bill is no longer necessary."}, {"side": "Minority", "author": "Rep. Steve Vallincourt", "committee": "Finance", "text": "The minority believes that this is the most comprehensive and fully developed property tax bill presented. It is the product of more than five years of evolution. Unlike some other property tax bills presented, it allows for kindergarten, has a well-targeted distribution system based on need, and provides the greatest amount of property tax relief. It accomplishes all this without a sales or income tax. Most importantly, it has what we believe to be a compromise figure on the cost for adequacy set at $4,000-$4,500 per student. This raises approximately $864 million in education aid to various communities. With supplemental, non broad-based funding sources, the uniform rate in this bill could be brought under $10 per $1,000 of assessed property value. Those who say that this would be \"devastating\" to poor people in property rich towns should note that the bill contains an \"ability to pay circuit breaker\" to assure that no one would pay more than 10 per cent of his or her adjusted gross income on the first $100,000 of her or her property value."}], "source": "House Calendar 17, 1999", "date": "1999-02-12", "dated": "printed", "cite": "HC 17", "cite_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/house/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=calendars%5C1999%5CNo%2017%20February%2012%201999.pdf"}, {"bill": "HB108", "title": "establishing a statewide education property tax to provide equal per student funding for state-mandated education and funding for kindergarten and making an appropriation therefor", "majority_recommendation": "INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE", "minority_recommendation": "OUGHT TO PASS WITH AMENDMENT", "reports": [{"side": "Majority", "author": "Rep. Jeffrey C. MacGillivray", "committee": "Finance", "vote_yeas": 25, "vote_nays": 1, "text": "After this statewide property tax bill was recommitted, the sponsor proposed an amendment which incorporated most of the additional revenues used in HB 117 as amended. This reduced the property tax rate to $9.99 and significantly decreased the impact on \"donor towns\", and made HB 108 more like HB 117. We again thank the sponsors for their years of work and their ideas, and for their incorporation of the same additional revenues as in HB 117. However, HB 108 still has a larger adequacy number than HB 117, no homestead exemption, no donor town transition grants, and expands the state kindergarten aid program. These differences explain HB 108's higher statewide property tax rate. The committee has decided to recommend HB 117 as amended instead, with its homestead exemption, its donor town transition grants, continuation of the existing kindergarten program, and targeting of the last few hundred dollars of state aid to property-poor communities."}, {"side": "Minority", "author": "Rep. Steve Vaillancourt", "committee": "Finance", "text": "The amendment reduces the statewide property tax rate from $12 to $9.99 per thousand. This is accomplished by using, as is done in the SMART plan, $125 million in cigarette tax money. The amendment goes a long way in reducing the \"pain\" on so-called donor towns. The amount to be transferred from donor to receiver towns has been reduced from $133 million to $63 million, as opposed to the $52 million (prior to any constitutionally questionable give-back grants) in the SMART plan. The advantage to this bill is in the adequacy amount. Unlike the SMART plan which still contains an unrealistic level of $708 million, this bill sets adequacy at a rate of $864 million, $4000 for elementary students and $4500 for high school students. That's a compromise from the $966 million we hear on the Senate side. This bill also targets funding to the communities which need help the most. A special weighting of .4 is allowed for students on free or reduced lunches. SMART proponents realized the wisdom of this approach but limited the weighting to .1. Also, unlike SMART, this bill will pass constitutional muster and not cause us to be back here \"fixing\" things in a few months. Fair and constitutional, this bill solves the Claremont dilemma with an adequate number and without the disruptive influence of an income or sales tax. And it will provide significant property tax relief to three out of four homeowners in the state."}], "source": "House Calendar 22, 1999", "date": "1999-02-26", "dated": "printed", "cite": "HC 22", "cite_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/house/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=calendars%5C1999%5CNo%2022%20February%2026%201999.pdf"}], "docket_reports": [], "report_actions": [{"before": "1999-02-26", "date": "1999-02-16", "text": "Recommitted to committee, Rep Sapareto MA RC(241-132); HJ20, p309-311"}], "veto_message": null, "bill_note": null, "subject": "Education - General", "subject_source": "granite record", "house_committee": "Finance", "senate_committee": "", "lsr": "1999-29", "docket_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=29&sy=1999&txtsessionyear=1999&txtbillnumber=hb108&sortoption=billnumber", "documents": [{"label": "Bill status page", "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/Bill_status.aspx?lsr=29&sy=1999&txtsessionyear=1999&txtbillnumber=hb108&sortoption=billnumber", "kind": "status"}, {"label": "Docket", "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=29&sy=1999&txtsessionyear=1999&txtbillnumber=hb108&sortoption=billnumber", "kind": "docket"}, {"label": "HC 22", "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/house/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=calendars%5C1999%5CNo%2022%20February%2026%201999.pdf", "kind": "record"}, {"label": "HC 23", "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/house/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=calendars%5C1999%5CNo%2023%20March%204%201999.pdf", "kind": "record"}, {"label": "HC 27", "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/house/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=calendars%5C1999%5CNo%2027%20March%2018%201999.pdf", "kind": "record"}, {"label": "House Calendar 17, 1999, committee report", "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/house/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=calendars%5C1999%5CNo%2017%20February%2012%201999.pdf", "kind": "report"}], "amendments": [], "billtext": {"version": "As introduced", "title": "", "analysis": "This bill establishes a statewide education property tax to fund an education trust fund to pay for state-mandated education and funding for kindergarten. The distribution to the municipalities shall be made on an equal per pupil basis, based on the average daily membership of the municipalities by grade. Municipalities may supplement education spending as they deem appropriate.\n\nThe bill permits a property taxpayer whose total statewide property taxes on up to $100,000 of equalized value of the homestead are in excess of 10 percent of the taxpayer's household income to apply to the municipality for property tax relief of the difference not in excess of $2,250.\n\nThe bill also provides for a 3-year transitional period to phase-in the new tax rate.", "fiscal": {"lead": "", "tables": [{"caption": "", "raw": ["The Office of Legislative Budget Assistant is unable to complete a fiscal note for this bill as it is awaiting information from an agency."]}]}, "body": "Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:\n\n1 Intent.\n\nI. The purpose of this act is to provide a stable source of state financial support to municipalities to enable them to deliver an adequate public education to all New Hampshire's pupils as required by the state constitution and statutes, and further, to ensure that every such municipality, regardless of the amount of taxable property it has per pupil, will not pay unreasonable education property tax rates in fulfilling its responsibilities for education on behalf of the state. This purpose is accomplished by the establishment of annual per pupil block grants to municipalities to reimburse them for providing an adequate education, and by the establishment of a statewide education property tax to provide stable funding for such block grants.\n\nII. The legislature intends that the statewide education property tax be one of several sources of funding of an adequate public education. The legislature recommends that any taxes established or increases in existing taxes adopted in 1999 or in the following years shall be deposited in the education trust fund created under this act and used to pay the costs of an adequate public education.\n\n2 New Chapter; Statewide Education Property Tax. Amend RSA by inserting after chapter 76 the following new chapter:\n\nCHAPTER 76-A\n\nSTATEWIDE EDUCATION PROPERTY TAX\n\n76-A:1 Definitions. In this chapter:\n\nI. \"Assessing official\" means the assessing authority of any town, city, or place.\n\nII. \"Claimant\" means a person who:\n\n(a) Has filed a claim with a municipality for reduction in such claimant's property taxes under this chapter; and\n\n(b) During the 3 fiscal years preceding the year in which the person files a claim for relief under this chapter:\n\n(1) Has had an ownership interest in a homestead and was domiciled in the homestead upon which education property taxes have accrued and for which the person is making a claim for tax relief from the statewide education property tax in this state; and\n\n(2) Was not a full-time student claimed as a dependent by any taxpayer under the United States Internal Revenue Code.\n\nIII. \"Commissioner\" means the commissioner of the department of revenue administration.\n\nIV. \"Consumer price index\" means the most recent available consumer price index for the Boston metropolitan area published by the United States Department of Labor.\n\nV. \"Department\" means the department of revenue administration.\n\nVI. \"Education property taxes\" means the sum of the statewide education property tax under this chapter and the education portion of property taxes assessed by a municipality.\n\nVII. \"Equalized assessed value\" or \"equalized assessed valuation\" means the modified assessed valuation of property equalized by the commissioner pursuant to RSA 21-J:3, XIII. In this paragraph, \"modified assessed valuation\" means the sum of the assessments of taxable property in a municipality less the statutory exemptions provided in RSA 72:12-a, 72:12-b, 72:37, 72:39-a, and 72:39-b. \"Modified assessed valuation\" shall not include optional exemptions provided in RSA 72:37-b, 72:62, 72:66, and 72:70.\n\nVIII.(a) \"Excess education property taxes\" means the sum of:\n\n(1) The product of the state education rate determined by the commissioner pursuant to RSA 76-A:2 multiplied by the equalized value of qualifying homesteads not exceeding $100,000 and exclusive of special assessments not including current use, delinquent interest and charges for service, levied as of April 1 on a claimant's homestead in this state; and\n\n(2) The amount of the education portion of property taxes assessed by the claimant's municipality levied as of April 1 on a claimant's homestead in this state;\n\nwhich is in excess of 10 percent of a claimant's household income for the calendar year preceding the tax year of the excess education property tax claim.\n\n(b) In this paragraph, \"equalized assessed value of qualifying homesteads\" means the local assessed value of the homestead equalized by applying the equalization ratio for the municipality, as determined by the commissioner pursuant to RSA 21-J:3, XIII, for the year of the claim.\n\n(c) A qualifying homestead is the first $100,000 of equalized value of a homestead. If a homestead is owned by 2 or more persons or entities as joint tenants or tenants in common, and one or more persons or entities are not members of the claimant's household, \"excess education property taxes\" applies to that part of statewide education property taxes levied on the homestead which reflects the ownership percentage of the claimant and the claimant's household. If a homestead is an integral part of a larger unit such as a multi-dwelling building, the statewide education property taxes shall be that percentage of the total education property taxes accrued as the total inhabitable area of the claimant's dwelling is of the total inhabitable area of the building. For purposes of this paragraph \"unit\" refers to the parcel of property covered by a single tax statement of which the homestead is a part.\n\nIX.(a) \"Homestead\" means the dwelling owned by a claimant which is used as the claimant's principal place of residence for not less than 240 days in a calendar year and includes the following:\n\n(1) The land upon which the dwelling stands;\n\n(2) Visual and ordinary appurtenant structures such as but not limited to garages, wood sheds, barns, and other out buildings;\n\n(3) The land upon which such appurtenant structures stand;\n\n(4) Land contiguous to such dwelling and appurtenant structures that is groomed and maintained around them; and\n\n(5) Land necessary to the support and service of the dwelling such as but not limited to driveways and maintained rights-of-way for purposes of ingress and egress to the dwelling.\n\n(b) A homestead may consist of a part of a multi-unit dwelling and its proportionate share of the land upon which it stands and other ordinary appurtenant common facilities.\n\n(c) In this paragraph the term \"owned\" includes a vendee in possession under a land contract and one or more joint tenants or tenants in common.\n\n(d) \"Homestead\" shall not include personal property such as furniture, furnishings or appliances or structures.\n\n(e) Manufactured housing may be a homestead.\n\nX. \"Household income\" means federal adjusted gross income as defined in the United States Internal Revenue Code.\n\nXI. \"Municipality\" means a city, town, or place.\n\nXII. \"Statewide education property tax\" means a tax levied at an equal and uniform rate on the equalized assessed valuation of property.\n\nXIII. \"Tax collector\" means the appointed or elected collector of taxes for a municipality.\n\nXIV. \"United States Internal Revenue Code\" means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, without the rules, regulations, forms, and procedures of the United States Internal Revenue Service. The rules, regulations, forms and procedures of the United States Internal Revenue Service may, however, be used by the commissioner of revenue administration in formulating rules for adoption under RSA 541-A. This definition shall be operative unless and until a specific statutory exception to its adoption is provided in this chapter, or until the application of one of its provisions is held to violate the New Hampshire constitution.\n\n76-A:2 Statewide Education Property Tax Established.\n\nI. A statewide education property tax is levied annually on all taxable real estate in the state to compensate each municipality, on an equal per pupil basis by grade, for its costs in the preceding school year to:\n\n(a) Provide a constitutionally adequate education pursuant to part 2, article 83 of the New Hampshire constitution and as defined in RSA 193-C:10.\n\n(b) Compensate each municipality on an equal per pupil basis for kindergarten where provided in the last completed school year or where provided in the current school year and not in the last completed school year.\n\n(c) Provide additional grants to certain qualifying municipalities whose tax effort per pupil exceeds an equalized rate of $5.\n\nII. Valuation of the property for the purpose of apportionment and setting the equalized state education rate shall be determined by equalized assessed valuation as prepared annually by the department.\n\nIII. The total amount to be raised, each year, shall be the sum the department of revenue administration calculates as provided in RSA 198:44.\n\nIV. The rate shall be established by the commissioner of revenue administration each year based on the equalized state education rate required to raise the total amount in RSA 76-A:2, III, following the methods in RSA 198:38-50, as determined by the commissioner. The commissioner shall report to the legislature on or before December 1 of each year.\n\n76-A:3 Apportionment. The commissioner, before December 15 of every year, shall apportion the amount to be raised by each municipality according to its proportion of the equalized assessed valuation of the state from the most recently available equalization survey. The commissioner shall report the amounts assessed against each municipality to the state treasurer and to each municipality.\n\n76-A:4 Time of Assessment and Payment. The statewide education property tax shall be deemed assessed on April 1 in each year and is payable on demand to the education trust fund on or after said date.\n\n76-A:5 Collection. The assessing officials for each municipality shall make a list of all statewide education property taxes by them assessed against property under their hands and seals to the tax collector, directing the tax collector to collect the statewide education property taxes along with other property taxes. It shall be listed as a separate line on the single municipal property tax bill. Upon application by the assessing officials, the commissioner for good cause may extend the time for delivery of the statewide education property tax warrant.\n\n76-A:6 Remedies for Collection. The statewide education property tax may be collected by all of the means and methods provided for the collection of property taxes under RSA 80.\n\n76-A:7 Interest and Charges for Nonpayment. Nonpayment of the statewide education property tax shall incur the same charges and interest accruing to municipalities as are imposed by law for nonpayment of property taxes.\n\n76-A:8 Liability of Cities and Towns. Each municipality shall be liable to the state for all statewide education property taxes lawfully assessed in such municipality.\n\n76-A:9 Payment to State. Each municipality shall cause its tax collector to certify such information as the state treasurer shall require, and shall cause its treasurer to pay over to the state treasurer, less any payments due from the state treasurer or which would be due to the state treasurer under RSA 198:45 attributable to this chapter, 25 percent, of the assessed statewide property taxes on each of the following dates: July 1, October 1, January 1, and April 1.\n\n76-A:10 Failure to Make Payment. If any municipality fails to make payments as provided in this chapter:\n\nI. The state treasurer shall withhold an amount equal to any unremitted statewide education property taxes for which the municipality is liable, from any amounts payable by the state to such municipality. The state treasurer shall not pay to any municipality any amounts that may be due it from the state until all payments of statewide education property tax as due have been paid; and\n\nII. The commissioner shall penalize the municipality for an amount which is twice the amount owed by the municipality under this chapter.\n\n76-A:11 Extents. The state treasurer may also issue an extent for the amounts of all statewide education property taxes not remitted by any municipality as provided in this chapter.\n\n76-A:12 Supplementary Bond of Collector. Whenever the commissioner considers it necessary, a tax collector may be required to furnish a further and additional bond beyond that required by other provisions of law, with sureties, in such form and amount as the commissioner approves. The additional premium costs shall be paid by the state from the education trust fund established by RSA 198:39.\n\n76-A:13 Disposition of Taxes. All funds received by the state treasurer under the provisions of this chapter shall be deposited in the education trust fund established by RSA 198:39.\n\nStatewide Education Property Tax Relief\n\n76-A:14 Claims for Statewide Education Property Tax Relief.\n\nI.(a) A claimant shall be entitled to make claim to the taxing municipality for statewide education property tax relief equal to the excess education property taxes as levied under this chapter on the first $100,000 of equalized valuation of the claimants homestead. Such claims shall not exceed $2,250 per claimant during any calendar year. A claimant shall not be entitled to any statewide education property tax relief if there are no excess education property taxes or for any excess education property taxes which accrued prior to January 1 of the preceding calendar year.\n\n(b) No claim with respect to relief by a claimant under this subdivision shall be allowed unless the claim is filed with the municipality by March 1 following the date of notice of tax as defined in RSA 72:1-d. The municipality shall include all necessary forms for filing as provided by the department in the first bill.\n\nII. No interest shall be allowed on any relief to which a claimant may be entitled under this subdivision.\n\n76-A:15 Rebate to Claimant. Within 30 days of receipt of a claim, the municipality shall reduce the claimant's tax bill by the qualifying excess education property taxes. Where more than one tax bill is issued by the municipality, the excess education property taxes shall be divided proportionally between the bills. Timely payment to the municipality of net taxes by the claimant is not required to receive the tax reduction under this chapter.\n\n76-A:16 Reports of Claims. Municipalities shall report to the department by April 1 of each year on the total amount of rebates made under RSA 76-A:15. By April 15 of each year, the department shall report to the state treasurer the total amount of rebates made by each municipality under RSA 76-A:15.\n\n76-A:17 Reimbursement to Municipalities for Claims. Within 30 days of receipt of the report by the department required under RSA 76-A:16, the state treasurer shall reimburse municipalities for the total of qualified claims received under RSA 76-A:15. Such payments shall be charged against the education trust fund established in RSA 198:39.\n\n76-A:18 One Claimant Per Household. Only one claimant per household per year shall be entitled to relief under this subdivision.\n\n76-A:19 Claim is Personal. The right to file a claim under this subdivision shall be personal to the claimant. The right to file a claim under this subdivision shall survive the claimant's death to the extent that this right may be exercised on behalf of a claimant by a legal guardian, attorney, spouse, or another person who could have qualified as the claimant had the decedent not filed.\n\n76-A:20 Administration; Rulemaking.\n\nI. This subdivision shall be administered and enforced by the department.\n\nII. The department shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, necessary to administer and enforce this subdivision.\n\n76-A:21 Forms for Claim.\n\nI. The commissioner of revenue administration shall make available to municipalities suitable forms with instructions for claimants. Such forms may require claimants to provide all information reasonably necessary to determining the accuracy of claims, including, but not limited to, property taxes accrued, changes of homestead, household membership, household income, size and nature of property claimed as the homestead, and a statement that the property taxes have been or will be paid by the claimant.\n\nII. Municipalities shall make such forms available to claimants.\n\n76-A:22 Verification of Claim; Redetermination.\n\nI. If a municipality has reason to suspect the accuracy of a claim, the municipality may request that the department verify the household income of the claimant.\n\nII. Upon receipt of such income verification from the department, the municipality may redetermine the claim and assess and collect, in the same manner as provided for property taxes under RSA 80, any amount of such claim in excess of the redetermined amount.\n\n76-A:23 Fraudulent Claims; Penalty. A person shall be guilty of a class A misdemeanor who:\n\nI. Files a fraudulent claim.\n\nII. With fraudulent intent, assisted in the preparation or filing of the fraudulent claim or supplied information upon which the fraudulent claim was prepared.\n\n76-A:24 Appeals. Any person aggrieved by the denial in whole or in part of a claim under this subdivision, except when the denial is based upon late filing of claim, may appeal the denial to the board of tax and land appeals or to the superior court in the county in which the person resides by filing a petition within 30 days after such denial. Procedures for an appeal of a denial of a claim shall be the same as the procedures for an appeal of a denial of an abatement of property tax under RSA 76:16-a-76:17.\n\n76-A:25 Claim Applied Against Outstanding Liabilities. The amount of any claim otherwise payable under this subdivision may be applied by the municipality against any liability outstanding against the claimant or against anyone who was a member of the household in the taxable year to which the claim relates.\n\n3 New Subdivision; Education Trust Fund. Amend RSA 198 by inserting after section 37 the following subdivision:\n\nEducation Trust Fund\n\n198:38 Definitions. In this subdivision:\n\nI. \"Average daily membership in residence\" means \"average daily membership in residence\" as defined in RSA 189:1-d, IV, except that pupils who are in a home education program under RSA 193-A shall be counted as \u00bc of a pupil attending public school.\n\nII. \"Adequate education block grant\" means the total amount of the annual grant made to a municipality by the state from the education trust fund consisting of the sum of:\n\n(a) The elementary pupil adequacy grant multiplied by the average daily membership in residence in the municipality for grades K-8 in the last completed school year.\n\n(b) The elementary pupil adequacy grant multiplied by:\n\n(1) The low income pupil adequacy grant supplement;\n\n(2) The low income pupil percentage; and\n\n(3) The average daily membership in residence in the municipality for grades K-8 in the last completed school year.\n\n(c) The high school pupil adequacy grant multiplied by the average daily membership in residence in the municipality for grades 9-12 in the last completed school year.\n\n(d) The high school pupil adequacy grant multiplied by:\n\n(1) The low income pupil adequacy grant supplement;\n\n(2) The low income pupil percentage; and\n\n(3) The average daily membership in residence in the municipality for grades 9-12 in the last completed school year.\n\n(e) The amount needed, if any, to reduce the municipality's tax effort per pupil to an equalized tax rate of $5 based on the latest available equalization survey for education spending greater than provided by the educational trust fund and all other non-municipal sources for the last completed school year.\n\nIII. \"Consumer price index\" means the most recent available consumer price index for the Boston metropolitan area published by the United States Department of Labor.\n\nIV. \"Elementary pupil adequacy grant\" means the uniform per pupil grant amount set annually under this subdivision and made to municipalities annually from the education trust fund to reimburse them for providing adequate education for their average daily membership in residence in grades K-8 for the last completed school year. This amount is $4,500 per pupil for the 1998-1999 school year.\n\nV. \"Equalized assessed value\" means equalized assessed value as defined in RSA 76-A:1, VII.\n\nVI. \"High school pupil adequacy grant\" means the uniform per pupil grant amount set annually under this subdivision and made to municipalities annually from the education trust fund to reimburse them for providing adequate education for their average daily membership in residence in grades 9-12 for the last completed school year. This amount is $4,500 per pupil for the 1998-1999 school year.\n\nVII. \"Low income pupil adequacy grant supplement\" means the percent increase set annually under this subdivision added to the elementary pupil adequacy grant and the high school pupil adequacy grant for a municipality's resident low income pupils as measured by a municipality's low income pupil percentage. This percentage is expressed as a percent of the elementary pupil adequacy grant and the high school pupil adequacy grant set annually under this subdivision. Beginning with the 1999-2000 school year, this percentage is 40 percent.\n\nVIII. \"Low income pupil percentage\" means the percentage of resident pupils in grades K-4 in a municipality that are determined by the department of education in the last completed school year to be eligible for free or reduced cost school lunches following the federal school lunch eligibility guidelines in place for that year.\n\nIX. \"Low income pupil plan\" means a plan from school districts with more than one school for elementary or high school showing how the low income pupil adequacy grant supplement is spent in each school to increase opportunities for low income pupils to obtain a constitutionally adequate education and the proportion of the spending in each school for the low income pupil adequacy grant supplement compared to the proportion of low income pupils in each school in the district.\n\nX. \"Municipality\" means any town, city, or place.\n\nXI. \"Tax effort per pupil\" means the equalized education tax rate for a municipality based on equalized assessed valuation that is required to raise $1,000 per pupil above that provided by the adequate education block grant in this subdivision and other non-municipal sources. Pupil counts are based on the average daily membership in residences, as defined in paragraph II.\n\n198:39 Education Trust Fund Created. The treasurer shall establish an education trust fund in the treasury. Moneys in such fund shall not be used for any purpose other than to distribute adequate education block grants to municipalities, make payments to municipalities to cap their tax effort per pupil under this subdivision, make supplemental adequacy grants under RSA 198:51, and to reimburse the state for any borrowing necessary to implement this subdivision. The state treasurer shall deposit into this fund:\n\nI. The full amount of the statewide education property tax under RSA 76-A.\n\nII. All moneys due the fund in accordance with RSA 284:21-j.\n\nIII. Any other moneys appropriated to the education trust fund from the general fund.\n\nIV. Any other moneys due the fund in accordance with law.\n\n198:40 Investment of Fund. The fund shall be nonlapsing. The treasurer shall invest that part of the fund which is not needed for immediate distribution in short-term interest-bearing investments. The income from these investments shall be returned to the fund.\n\n198:41 Determination of Annual Grant Amounts for the Elementary Pupil Adequacy Grant and the High School Pupil Adequacy Grant.\n\nI. For the 2000 tax year based on attendance in the 1998-1999 school year, the elementary pupil adequacy grant shall be $4,500 per pupil as measured by average daily membership in residence and the high school pupil adequacy grant shall be $4,500 per pupil as measured by average daily membership in residence.\n\nII. For all tax years following 2000, the grant amount for both the elementary pupil adequacy grant and the high school pupil adequacy grant shall be determined by adjusting both grant amounts, for the year immediately preceding, by the consumer price index using the latest 12-month consumer price index available to increase or decrease the grant amount as required. The department of education shall determine the new grant amounts by October 1 of each year.\n\n198:42 Determination of the Maximum Tax Effort per Pupil. The maximum tax effort per pupil is set at the equalized rate of $5 using the latest available equalization survey for equalized value.\n\n198:43 Supplemental Distributions to Cap Tax Effort per Pupil. Any municipality for which there is a dollar amount needed under RSA 198:44, I(c) for any fiscal year shall be entitled to a quarterly supplemental distribution over the next school year equal to that amount which would have reduced the municipality's tax effort per pupil, in the immediately preceding tax year, as defined in RSA 76-A:1, IX, to a rate of $5 based on equalized assessed valuation.\n\n198:44 Determination of the Annual Adequate Education Block Grant for Each Municipality for Each Tax Year.\n\nI. The adequate education block grant to be distributed annually by the state to each municipality with resident pupils is determined by the sum of the following 3 dollar amounts:\n\n(a) The dollar amount obtained by multiplying the elementary pupil adequacy grant amount set by the department of education for the tax year times the average daily membership in residence in grades K-8 for the last completed school year, plus the elementary pupil adequacy grant times projected average daily membership for kindergartens newly established in the current year.\n\n(b) The dollar amount obtained by multiplying the high school pupil adequacy grant amount set by the department of education for the tax year times the average daily membership in residence in grades 9-12 for the last completed school year.\n\n(c) The dollar amount needed to reduce the municipality's tax effort per pupil to an equalized rate of $5 for education spending greater than provided by the educational trust fund and all other non-municipal sources for the last completed school year.\n\nII. The department of revenue administration shall determine the adequate education block grant for each municipality by November 1 of each year for the tax year for the year following.\n\n198:45 Distribution Schedule of Adequate Education Block Grant. The adequate education block grant determined in RSA 198:44 shall be distributed to each municipality from the education trust fund in 4 equal payments on July 1, October 1, January 1, and April 1 of each school year.\n\n198:46 Use of Funds.\n\nI. Municipalities shall apply the entire amount of aid received under RSA 198:45 to education. Nothing in this subdivision shall prevent school districts from adopting budgets which authorize expenditures in excess of those supported with funds from the education trust fund, subject to the provisions of RSA 198:43.\n\nII. On or before June 30 of each year, the individual with fiscal responsibility in each municipality shall submit a statement to the commissioner of education that the adequate education block grant received under RSA 198:45 was applied entirely to education. The statement shall include the following: \"I certify, under the pains and penalties of perjury, that all of the information contained in this document is true, accurate, and complete.\"\n\n198:47 Maintenance of Local Control. Distributions under RSA 198:45 depend only on average daily membership in residence and the pupil adequacy grant amounts as determined in this subdivision and are independent of how the municipalities decide to spend the distributions or other funds they may raise for education. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, nothing in this subdivision is intended in any way to limit or control how school districts operate or spend their budgets.\n\n198:48 Determination of Total Funds to be Raised Annually by the Statewide Education Property Tax and to be Deposited in the Education Trust Fund. The total amount of funds to be raised by the statewide education property tax and to be deposited in the education trust fund is the annual sum of all the adequate education block grants for all municipalities determined by the department of revenue administration in RSA 198:45.\n\n198:49 Duties of the Department of Education and the Board of Education.\n\nI. The department of education shall:\n\n(a) On or before September 30 of each year, collect from the school districts final data concerning all aspects of student attendance for the school year ending June 30 of that year, necessary to establish the average daily membership and average daily membership in residence for that year.\n\n(b) Submit to the department of revenue administration all data necessary to establish the tax rate for the statewide education property tax under RSA 76-A:2.\n\n(c) On or before September 30 of each year, collect from school districts final data concerning all aspects of federal school lunch eligibility in grades K-4 for the school year ending June 30 of that year necessary to establish the number and percent of resident students in each municipality eligible for free and reduced cost school lunches under the federal school lunch guidelines for the school year ending June 30. School districts shall provide this eligibility data by surveying all resident pupils in grades K-4 regardless of their participation in the school lunch program.\n\nII. The board of education shall adopt rules necessary to the proper administration of this subdivision.\n\n198:50 Submission of Data by School Districts.\n\nI. Every school district shall submit all attendance and school lunch eligibility information required by the department of education under this subdivision on or before September 30 of each year. The department shall withhold distribution of state funds to any municipality in noncompliance with this section.\n\nII. Each report submitted under paragraph I shall include a certification, signed by the chairperson of the school district's governing body or the chairperson of the board of trustees of approved public academies, that states: \"I certify, under the pains and penalties of perjury, that all of the information contained in this document is true, accurate and complete.\"\n\n198:51 Low Income Pupil Plan Required From Multi-school School Districts; Approval Required to Obtain Low Income Pupil Adequacy Grant Supplement.\n\nI. Each school district with one or more schools covering grades K-8 and grades 9-12 shall submit a low income pupil plan to the department of education by July 15 of each year beginning in 2000.\n\nII. The department of education shall approve or disapprove of low income pupil plans by September 30 of each year. Low income pupil plans which are not approved may be resubmitted for approval. The department of education and the state board of education shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, on the criteria for approval of low income pupil plans.\n\nIII. Any district which fails to receive approval for its low income pupil plan by April 1 of each year shall be ineligible for a low income pupil adequacy grant supplement beginning July 1 of such year.\n\n198:52 Supplementary Adequacy Grants to Ensure an Adequate Education under Special Circumstances.\n\nI. In recognition that the adequate education block grant cannot ensure a constitutionally adequate education under special limited circumstances where districts face unavoidable emergencies, special pupil needs, and high costs, districts may make special application to the department of education for annual supplementary grants from the education trust fund to pay for:\n\n(a) Meeting the needs of special needs pupils where the percent of resident special needs pupils is 20 percent or more higher than the state average and where the additional costs are not met by any other program.\n\n(b) Costs for any programs required by the state minimum standards and transportation where the per pupil costs are unavoidably 20 percent or more higher than the state average and cannot be offset with per pupil costs which are lower than the state average in other program areas.\n\n(c) Demonstrated deferred maintenance and purchase of buildings and equipment before the inception of this chapter that prevent adequacy in the current school year for districts for which the modified equalized assessed value per resident pupil as determined by the department is less than the state average.\n\n(d) Accidental damage to buildings and equipment.\n\nII. Grant applications must be received by the department of education by August 1 of each year to be included in the adequate education block grant distributed beginning the following July 1. The department of education shall act on the grants and inform the department of revenue administration and the state treasurer of the amounts approved to be raised for the education trust fund and paid to each municipality by September 30.\n\nIII. The department of education shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to:\n\n(a) Grant application forms.\n\n(b) Methods for determining whether a district meets the criteria required in paragraph I.\n\n(c) Any other procedures necessary for administration of the supplementary adequacy grant program under this section.\n\n4 New Subparagraph; Education Trust Fund. Amend RSA 6:12, I by inserting after subparagraph (vvv) the following new subparagraph:\n\n(www) Money received under RSA 76-A and from the sweepstakes fund, which shall be credited to the education trust fund under RSA 198:39.\n\n5 Gender Reference Change. Amend the introductory paragraph of RSA 21-J:3 to read as follows:\n\nIn addition to the powers, duties, and functions otherwise vested by law, including RSA 21-G, in the commissioner of the department of revenue administration, [ he] the commissioner shall:\n\n6 Duties of Commissioner. Amend RSA 21-J:3, V to read as follows:\n\nV. Exercise general supervision over the administration of the assessment and taxation laws of the state, the appraisal for ad valorem taxation purposes of property within the state, and over all assessing officers in the performance of their duties, except the board of tax and land appeals, to the end that all assessments of property be made in compliance with the laws of the state.\n\n7 Duties of Commissioner. Amend RSA 21-J:3, XIII to read as follows:\n\nXIII. Equalize annually the valuation of the property in the several towns, cities, and unincorporated places in the state by adding to or deducting from the aggregate valuation of the property [ as assessed] in towns, cities, and unincorporated places such sums as will bring such valuations to the true and market value of the property, including the equalized value of property formerly taxed pursuant to the provisions of RSA 72:7; 72:15, I, V, VII, VIII, IX, X, and XI; 72:16; 72:17; 73:26; 73:27; and 73:11 through 16 inclusive, which were relieved from taxation by the laws of 1970, 5:3; 5:8; 57:12; and 57:15, the equalized valuation of which is to be determined by the amount of revenue returned in such year in accordance with RSA 31-A, and by making such adjustments in the value of other property from which the towns, cities, and unincorporated places receive taxes or payments in lieu of taxes as may be equitable and just, so that any public taxes that may be apportioned among them shall be equal and just. In carrying out the duty to equalize the valuation of property, the commissioner shall follow the procedures set forth in RSA 21-J:9-a.\n\n8 New Paragraph; Duties of Commissioner. Amend RSA 21-J:3 by inserting after paragraph XXIV the following new paragraph:\n\nXXV. Petition the board of tax and land appeals to issue an order for reassessment of property pursuant to the board's powers under RSA 71-B:16 - 19 whenever, in the commissioner's belief, the valuation of property for equalization purposes in a particular city, town, or unincorporated place is disproportional to the valuation for equalization purposes in other cities, towns, or unincorporated places in the state.\n\n9 Division of Property Appraisal; Department of Revenue Administration. RSA 21-J:9 is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:\n\n21-J:9 Division of Property Appraisal. There is established within the department the division of property appraisal, under the supervision of a classified director of property appraisal who shall be responsible for the following functions, in accordance with applicable laws:\n\nI. Assisting and supervising municipalities and appraisers in appraisals and valuations as provided in RSA 21-J:10 and RSA 21-J:11.\n\nII. Appraising state-owned forest and recreation land under RSA 227-H and RSA 216-A.\n\nIII. Annually determining the total equalized valuation of properties in the cities and towns and unincorporated places according to the requirements of RSA 21-J:9-a.\n\nIV. Preparing a standard appraisal manual which may be used by assessing officials, and holding meetings throughout the state with such officials to instruct them in appraising property.\n\n10 New Section; Equalization Procedure. Amend RSA 21-J by inserting after section 9 the following new section:\n\n21-J:9-a Equalization Procedure. The following procedures shall apply in determining the equalization of property within the cities, towns, and unincorporated places as required by RSA 21-J:3, XIII:\n\nI. The commissioner shall annually conduct a sales-assessment ratio study which shall include arm's length sales or transfers of property that occurred 6 months prior to and 6 months following April 1 of the tax year for which such equalization is made.\n\nII. In determining the arm's length sales or transfers that are included in the sales-assessment ratio study, the commissioner may use a randomly selected sample of such sales and transfers the size of which shall be determined by the total taxable parcels in the city, town, or unincorporated place.\n\nIII. If less than 2 percent of the total taxable parcels in a city, town, or unincorporated place has been transferred by an arm's length sale or transfer during the 6 months prior to and 6 months following April 1 of the tax year for which such equalization is made, the commissioner may choose one or more of the following options:\n\n(a) Include appraisals of any of the taxable property of such city, town, or unincorporated place in the sales-assessment ratio study. Such appraisals shall be based on full and true market value pursuant to RSA 75:1 and shall be performed by department appraisers. The property to be appraised shall be selected by the commissioner.\n\n(b) Consider recent equalization ratio activity in adjoining cities, towns, or unincorporated places.\n\n(c) Include arm's length sales or transfers in the city, town, or unincorporated place, within 2-1/2 years preceding April 1 of the year preceding the tax year for which such equalization is made.\n\nIV. The commissioner shall use the inventory of property transfers authorized by RSA 74:18 in determining the equalized value of property and may consider such other evidence as may be available to the commissioner on or before the time the final equalized value is determined.\n\n11 Appraisals of Property for Ad Valorem Tax Purposes. RSA 21-J:11 is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:\n\n21-J:11 Appraisals of Property For Ad Valorem Tax Purposes.\n\nI. Every person, firm, or corporation intending to engage in the business of making appraisals on behalf of a municipality for tax assessment purposes in this state shall notify the commissioner of that intent in writing. No person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of making appraisals of taxable property for municipalities and taxing districts shall enter into any contract or agreement with any town, city, or other governmental division without first submitting the proposed contract or agreement to the commissioner for examination and approval and submitting to the commissioner evidence of financial responsibility and professional capability of personnel to be employed under the contract.\n\nII. The commissioner, at no expense to the municipality, shall monitor appraisals of property and supervise appraisers as follows:\n\n(a) Assure that appraisals comply with all applicable statutes and rules;\n\n(b) Assure that appraisers are complying with the terms of any appraisal contract;\n\n(c) Review the accuracy of appraisals by inspection, evaluation, and testing, in whole or in part, of data collected by the appraisers; and\n\n(d) Report to the governing body on the progress and quality of the municipality's appraisal process.\n\nIII. The commissioner shall adopt rules under RSA 541-A relative to the provisions required of all contracts for appraisal services and the methodology for inspection, evaluation, and testing of data for the purposes of appraisal monitoring.\n\n12 Reports Required. Amend the introductory paragraph of RSA 21-J:34 to read as follows:\n\nThe governing body of each city, town, unincorporated town, unorganized place, school district, and village district, and the clerk of each county convention shall submit to the commissioner of revenue administration the following reports necessary to compute and establish the state education tax rate and the tax rate for each city, town, unincorporated town, unorganized place, school district, village district, and county. The commissioner shall adopt rules under RSA 541-A establishing the form and content of these reports:\n\n13 New Paragraph; Reports Required. Amend RSA 21-J:34 by inserting after paragraph XIV the following new paragraph:\n\nXV. A report filed by the assessing officials of each city, town, and unincorporated place shall certify sales-assessment information necessary for the department to conduct the annual sales-assessment ratio study required by RSA 21-J:9-a. This report shall be filed within 45 days after receipt from the department.\n\n14 Board of Tax and Land Appeals; Authority. Amend RSA 71-B:5, II to read as follows:\n\nII. To hear and determine [ any] appeals by towns relating to the [ equalization of valuation performed] equalized valuation of property determined by the commissioner of revenue administration pursuant to RSA 21-J:3, XIII. Any town aggrieved by [ an] its equalized valuation as determined by the commissioner of revenue administration must appeal to the board in writing within 30 days of [ the town's notification] notice of [ the] its final equalized valuation by the commissioner. The board shall hear and make a final ruling on such appeal within 45 days of its receipt by the board. The board's decision on such appeal shall be final and not appealable.\n\n15 New Paragraph; Order for Reassessment. Amend RSA 71-B:16, IV to read as follows:\n\nIV. When a complaint is filed with the board alleging that all of the taxable real estate or taxable property in a taxing district should be reassessed or newly assessed for any reason, provided that such complaint must be signed by at least 50 property taxpayers or 1/3 of the property taxpayers in the taxing district, whichever is less[.]; or\n\nV. When the commissioner of revenue administration files a petition with it pursuant to RSA 21-J:3, XXV.\n\n16 New Section; Inventory of Property Transfers. Amend RSA 74 by inserting after section 17 to following new section:\n\n74:18 Inventory of Property Transfers.\n\nI. In order to properly equalize the value of property under RSA 21-J:3, XIII, an inventory of property transfers shall be filed with the department of revenue administration and with the municipality where the property is located for each transfer of real estate or interest in real estate. Each form may include the following information:\n\n(a) The buyer and seller's names and post transaction addresses and the name and address of a contact person if the buyer or seller is a trust or corporation.\n\n(b) A description of the exact location of the property by town, street, and the assessor's map, lot, and block number.\n\n(c) The acreage included in the sale.\n\n(d) An accurate description of the property included in the sale, the neighborhood where the property is located, and the type and style of the property sold.\n\n(e) The buyer's ownership interest in the property.\n\n(f) The sale price, date of transfer, and the amount mortgaged.\n\n(g) The description of the type of transfer that has taken place.\n\n(h) The amount of personal property included in the sale price.\n\n(i) Whether the property was previously occupied and whether the property will serve as the buyer's primary residence.\n\n(j) The financing arrangements made to purchase the property to be answered at the option of the buyer.\n\n(k) Whether any concessions were made in the sale.\n\n(l) Whether the property was in current use.\n\n(m) Whether land use taxes were considered in the sale.\n\n(n) The buyer's dated signature certifying that the information indicated on the form is true.\n\nII. The inventory of property transfers required by this section shall be filed with the department of revenue administration and with the municipality where the property is located by the purchaser, grantee, assignee, or transferee, no later than 30 days from the recording of the deed at the register of deeds or transfer of real estate, whichever is later. Persons required to file the inventory of property transfers who willfully fail to file or willfully make false statements on the forms shall be guilty of a violation.\n\nIII. No deed, recording a transfer of real estate or any interest in real estate, executed before October 1, 1995, shall be required to comply with this section.\n\nIV. Failure to comply with this section shall not be construed to cloud title.\n\nV. Any information provided to the department pursuant to this section shall be exempt from the right-to-know law, RSA 91-A.\n\n17 Reference Change. Amend RSA 193:1, I(c) to read as follows:\n\n(c) The relevant school district superintendent has excused a child from attendance because the child is physically or mentally unable to attend school, or has been temporarily excused upon the request of the parent for purposes agreed upon by the school authorities and the parent. Such excused absences shall not be permitted if they cause a serious adverse effect upon the student's educational progress. Students excused for such temporary absences may be claimed as full-time pupils for purposes of calculating state aid under RSA 186-C:18 and [ RSA 198:27-37] adequate education block grants under RSA 198:44.\n\n18 Reimbursement Anticipation Notes. Amend RSA 198:20-d to read as follows:\n\n198:20-d Reimbursement Anticipation Notes. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a school district may incur debt in anticipation of reimbursement under RSA 186-C:18 and a municipality may incur debt in anticipation of reimbursement under RSA 198:45. The governing body, after notice and public hearing, may elect to borrow such funds and to recognize the proceeds of the borrowing as revenue for property tax rate setting purposes by providing written notification to the commissioner of the department of revenue administration stating the specific amount of borrowing to be recognized as revenue. Any borrowing under this section shall be exempt from the provisions of RSA 33, relative to debt limits.\n\n19 Sweepstakes. RSA 284:21-j is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:\n\n284:21-j Establishment. The state treasurer shall credit all moneys received from the sweepstakes commission, and interest received on such moneys, to a special fund from which the treasurer shall pay all expenses of the commission incident to the administration of this subdivision and RSA 287-E. Any balance left in such fund after such expenses are paid shall be deposited in the education trust fund established under RSA 198:39.\n\n20 Transition. As of July 1, 1999, all funds, from any source derived, which would be distributed as foundation aid shall be deposited in the education trust fund under RSA 198:39.\n\n21 Transitional Tax Rates.\n\nI. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for the property tax years ending March 30, 2000, and March 30, 2001 only, for each municipality in the state the department of revenue administration shall determine the property tax rate which would be applicable in the municipality as the law existed on June 30, 1999. For the purposes of this section such rate shall be termed \"old rate.\" For the same tax years the department of revenue administration shall determine the property tax rate which would be applicable statewide due to the provisions of this act. For the purposes of this section, such rate shall be termed \"new rate.\"\n\nII. For the property tax year ending March 30, 2000:\n\n(a) In those municipalities in which the old rate is less than the new rate, the property tax rate shall be set at the old rate increased by 1/3 of the difference between the old rate and the new rate.\n\n(b) In those municipalities in which the old rate is greater than the new rate, the property tax rate shall be set at the old rate decreased by 1/3 of the difference between the old rate and the new rate.\n\n(c) If required, the adequate education block grant shall be prorated according to the percentage of revenue raised by the 1/3 difference in rates.\n\nIII. For the property tax year ending March 30, 2001:\n\n(a) In those municipalities in which the old rate is less than the new rate, the property tax rate shall be set at the old rate increased by 2/3 of the difference between the old rate and the new rate.\n\n(b) In those municipalities in which the old rate is greater than the new rate, the property tax rate shall be set at the old rate decreased by 2/3 of the difference between the old rate and the new rate.\n\nIV. For the property tax year ending March 30, 2002, the property tax rates throughout the state of New Hampshire shall be uniform and proportional in accordance with this act.\n\n22 Appropriation; Education Trust Fund. The sum of $1 is appropriated to the education trust fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000.\n\n23 Bonds Authorized. To provide funds for the appropriation made in section 22 of this act, the state treasurer is hereby authorized to borrow upon the credit of the state not exceeding the sum of $1 and for said purpose may issue bonds and notes in the name of and on behalf of the state of New Hampshire in accordance with RSA 6-A. Payments of principal and interest of the bonds and notes shall be made from the education trust fund established in RSA 198:39. The bonds shall be 5-year bonds.\n\n24 Repeal. The following are repealed:\n\nI. RSA 78:20, relative to the applicability of the tobacco tax.\n\nII. RSA 194-B:11, VIII, relative to foundation aid in relation to charter and open enrollment schools.\n\nIII. RSA 198:1-3, relative to required annual district property taxes.\n\nIV. RSA 198:15-i - 15-t, relative to the kindergarten incentive program, kindergarten aid and alternative kindergarten programs, and the kindergarten construction program.\n\nV. RSA 198:21, V, relative to the applicability of foundation aid and child benefit service grant recipients in the calculation of average daily membership.\n\nVI. RSA 198:22, V, relative to the applicability of foundation aid and dual enrollment grant recipients in the calculation of average daily membership.\n\nVII. RSA 198:27-37, relative to foundation aid and alternative foundation aid.\n\n25 Effective Date.\n\nI. Section 2 of this act shall take effect April 1, 1999.\n\nII. Section 18 of this act shall take effect July 1, 1999 at 12:01 a.m.\n\nIII. The remainder of this act shall take effect July 1, 1999.\n\nLBAO\n\n99-0029\n\n1/14/99\n\nHB 108-FN-A-LOCAL - FISCAL NOTE\n\nAN ACT establishing a statewide education property tax to provide equal per student funding for state-mandated education and funding for kindergarten and making an appropriation therefor.", "in_text": [], "chars": 53247}, "nver": 0, "namd": 0, "rsa": {"RSA 21-J:3": "/laws/21-j#s3", "RSA 72:12-a": "/laws/72#s12-a", "RSA 72:37-b": "/laws/72#s37-b", "RSA 541-A": "/laws/541-a", "RSA 193-C:10": "/laws/193-c#s10", "RSA 198:44": "/laws/198#s44", "RSA 198:38-50": "/laws/198", "RSA 80": "/laws/80", "RSA 198:45": "/laws/198#s45", "RSA 198:39": "/laws/198#s39", "RSA 72:1-d": "/laws/72#s1-d", "RSA 76:16-a": "/laws/76#s16-a", "RSA 198": "/laws/198", "RSA 189:1-d": "/laws/189#s1-d", "RSA 193-A": "/laws/193-a", "RSA 198:51": "/laws/198#s50", "RSA 284:21-j": "/laws/284#s21-j", "RSA 198:43": "/laws/198#s43", "RSA 6:12": "/laws/6#s12", "RSA 21-G": "/laws/21-g", "RSA 72:7": "/laws/72#s7", "RSA 31-A": "/laws/31-a", "RSA 21-J:9-a": "/laws/21-j#s9-a", "RSA 71-B:16": "/laws/71-b#s16", "RSA 21-J:9": "/laws/21-j#s9", "RSA 21-J:10": "/laws/21-j#s10", "RSA 21-J:11": "/laws/21-j#s11", "RSA 227-H": "/laws/227-h", "RSA 216-A": "/laws/216-a", "RSA 21-J": "/laws/21-j", "RSA 75:1": "/laws/75#s1", "RSA 74:18": "/laws/74#s18", "RSA 21-J:34": "/laws/21-j#s34", "RSA 71-B:5": "/laws/71-b#s5", "RSA 74": "/laws/74", "RSA 91-A": "/laws/91-a", "RSA 193:1": "/laws/193#s1", "RSA 186-C:18": "/laws/186-c#s18", "RSA 198:27-37": "/laws/198", "RSA 198:20-d": "/laws/198#s20-d", "RSA 33": "/laws/33", "RSA 287-E": "/laws/287-e", "RSA 6-A": "/laws/6-a", "RSA 78:20": "/laws/78#s20", "RSA 194-B:11": "/laws/194-b#s11", "RSA 198:1-3": "/laws/198", "RSA 198:15-i": "/laws/198#s15-i", "RSA 198:21": "/laws/198#s21", "RSA 198:22": "/laws/198#s22"}, "amends": {"RSA 198": "/laws/198", "RSA 6:12": "/laws/6#s12", "RSA 21-J:3": "/laws/21-j#s3", "RSA 21-J": "/laws/21-j", "RSA 21-J:34": "/laws/21-j#s34", "RSA 71-B:5": "/laws/71-b#s5", "RSA 71-B:16": "/laws/71-b#s16", "RSA 74": "/laws/74", "RSA 193:1": "/laws/193#s1", "RSA 198:20-d": "/laws/198#s20-d", "RSA 78:20": "/laws/78#s20", "RSA 194-B:11": "/laws/194-b#s11", "RSA 198:1-3": "/laws/198", "RSA 198:15-i": "/laws/198#s15-i", "RSA 198:21": "/laws/198#s21", "RSA 198:22": "/laws/198#s22", "RSA 198:27-37": "/laws/198", "RSA 21-J:9": "/laws/21-j#s9", "RSA 21-J:11": "/laws/21-j#s11", "RSA 284:21-j": "/laws/284#s21-j"}, "related": [{"g": 2, "o": "1999-2000/HB747", "n": "HB 747-FN-A-LOCAL", "t": "relative to the education property tax and adequate education grants.", "y": 2000, "c": "Died", "s": "It contains the text of {b}, a shorter bill."}]}