Local and Regulated Revenues

The House Committee on Local and Regulated Revenues.

Bills Referred, 1997-1998

• HB 122: relative to the operation of games of chance conducted by charitable organizations. (Killed)
• HB 144-FN: relative to cash incentives paid to servants and agents, excluding commission employees, authorized to sell tickets. (Signed into law)
• HB 170-LOCAL: exempting temporary, demountable, plastic-covered greenhouses from property taxation. (Signed into law)
• HB 173-LOCAL: prohibiting further establishment or expansion of casino or video gambling in New Hampshire for 2 years. (Killed)
• HB 178-LOCAL: limiting property taxes to 3 percent of the fair valuation of property in the city or town. (Killed)
• HB 198-LOCAL: allowing municipalities to offer tax incentives to foster growth in new and existing industrial construction. (Killed)
• HB 201-LOCAL: allowing municipalities to apply the amount of a property abatement refund to outstanding taxes owed by the taxpayer and relative to the procedure for adoption and modification of elderly exemptions. (Signed into law)
• HB 206-FN-LOCAL: requiring trailers and recreational vehicles used for storage or habitation to be either registered under the motor vehicle laws or subject to local property tax. (Killed)
• HB 227-LOCAL: relative to North Hampton property taxes. (Signed into law)
• HB 228: relative to the definition of "club-veterans" under the liquor laws. (Signed into law)
• HB 279: relative to elderly exemptions from the property tax. (Killed)
• HB 337-LOCAL: allowing a municipality to reduce the property tax on improvements. (Killed)
• HB 341: relative to filing lucky 7 applications with the sweepstakes commission. (Signed into law)
• HB 349: repealing certain pari-mutuel laws relative to racing funds, disbursements of the funds and records of receipts. (Signed into law)
• HB 351-LOCAL: limiting the total of tax deferrals for the elderly and disabled on a particular property to a percentage of its equity value. (Signed into law)
• HB 373: establishing a committee to study the feasibility of implementing alternative local taxes for funding of education. (Killed)
• HB 399-LOCAL: changing the name of the optional property tax exemption for the totally and permanently disabled. (Signed into law)
• HB 423-LOCAL: relative to the elderly exemption from the property tax. (Killed)
• HB 427-LOCAL: allowing a municipality to adopt a local meals and rooms tax. (Killed)
• HB 432: increasing the wager limit on games of chance from (Killed)
• HB 489-LOCAL: requiring an annual cost of living adjustment for elderly exemptions to the property tax. (Killed)
• HB 504-LOCAL: relative to the property tax obligation for real estate used as rental housing by qualified nonprofit charitable organizations. (Killed)
• HB 510: relative to delivery of beverages by wholesale distributors. (Killed)
• HB 533-FN: making technical corrections in the liquor laws. (Signed into law)
• HB 539-LOCAL: relative to the tax lien process for quarterly tax bills in the city of Concord. (Signed into law)
• HB 551-LOCAL: allowing municipalities to grant retired persons over 65 years of age a property tax credit and a property tax cap. (Killed)
• HB 556-LOCAL: authorizing municipalities to refund a portion of fees for municipal registration permits. (Killed)
• HB 566-FN-A-LOCAL: relative to the applicability of the property tax to electric plants and pipelines. (Signed into law)
• HB 590-FN-LOCAL: allowing property taxpayers to choose whether to participate in the funding of nonprofit organizations through their property taxes. (Killed)
• HB 591-FN: relative to eliminating the authority of the sweepstakes commission to hold sweepstakes races at horse and dog tracks. (Killed)
• HB 620: allowing a municipality to adopt plans to delay reassessments on businesses which expand in central business districts and on historic buildings listed with the National Register of Historic Places. (Killed)
• HB 636-LOCAL: relative to facilitating the transfer of contaminated property acquired by a municipality to a buyer eligible to participate in the brownfields program. (Signed into law)
• HB 648-LOCAL: establishing a local option fee for local or regional transportation improvements. (Signed into law)
• HB 663-FN-LOCAL: imposing a $100 per year surtax on occupiers of rental property and condominium units to fund state aid to education and prohibiting future increases in individual residential property taxes to meet educational costs. (Killed)
• HB 668-FN-LOCAL: licensing, regulating, and taxing video gambling machine use. (Killed)
• HB 707-LOCAL: providing that telecommunications poles and lines be subject to the property tax. (Signed into law)
• HB 709: establishing a committee to study the possibility of imposing property taxes on property used by nonprofit academic institutions primarily for housing. (Killed)
• HB 776-FN: prohibiting any person under 18 years of age from sitting in a cocktail lounge. (Killed)
• HB 781-FN: relative to lucky 7 tickets and bingo games and requiring manufacturers and distributors of bingo supplies to be licensed. (Signed into law)
• HB 801-FN-LOCAL: changing the interest rate on delinquent property taxes and subsequent taxes. (Killed)
• HB 1107-LOCAL: relative to the rate setting duties of the department of revenue administration. (Killed)
• HB 1109: allowing prepayment of property taxes before April 1 and allowing abatement procedures to be applicable to certain payments in lieu of taxes for properties within the airport district on the former Pease Air Force Base. (Signed into law)
• HB 1122: relative to the licensure of charitable organizations to conduct bingo games or sell lucky 7 tickets in towns and cities in which the organizations have been conducting charitable activities. (Signed into law)
• HB 1130-FN: relative to the distribution of beverages. (Signed into law)
• HB 1131: relative to the sale of liquor and beverages and relative to enforcement of the liquor laws. (Signed into law)
• HB 1136: changing the appointing authority for board of tax and land appeals members from the supreme court to the governor and council. (Killed)
• HB 1163: establishing a house study committee on methods used to compute tax rates related to funding for education and property tax assessments. (Killed)
• HB 1188: requiring a 24-hour rest for beer at the warehouse after delivery to the wholesale distributor by the brewer or manufacturer. (Killed)
• HB 1189-FN: increasing the limits of direct off-premises sales from breweries. (Signed into law)
• HB 1210-FN: relative to the licensing rate for beverage manufacturers. (Signed into law)
• HB 1242-FN: prohibiting discounts and rebates of any wagers at racetracks. (Killed)
• HB 1264: requiring legislative approval before lotteries and horse or dog race sweepstakes may be authorized by the sweepstakes commission. (Killed)
• HB 1276: relative to charitable organizations conducting bingo. (Killed)
• HB 1277: prohibiting beverage, wine, and liquor tasting in grocery and convenience stores. (Killed)
• HB 1278: prohibiting the use of instant redeemable coupons for the purchase of beverage. (Killed)
• HB 1296-FN: allowing race track licensees to offer telephone and account wagering. (Killed)
• HB 1313: requiring brew pub licensees to report delinquencies by wholesale distributors. (Signed into law)
• HB 1339-FN: regulating the sale by mail of liquor, wine, and beer and making an appropriation therefor. (Signed into law)
• HB 1352-FN-A: authorizing electronic games of chance at pari-mutuel licensee locations. (Referred for interim study)
• HB 1381: relative to charitable organizations eligible to sell Lucky 7 tickets. (Killed)
• HB 1395-LOCAL: relative to property tax exemptions for water and pollution control facilities. (Signed into law)
• HB 1418-FN-LOCAL: prohibiting gambling activities within one mile of a school. (Killed)
• HB 1467: establishing a study committee to determine the means and criteria for generating an analysis of New Hampshire's long-term strategic options regarding the sale and distribution of distilled spirits, beer, and wine. (Referred for interim study)
• HB 1468: clarifying the legal status of home brewers of beer. (Signed into law)
• HB 1469-LOCAL: establishing a committee to examine the valuation of public utility property. (Killed)
• HB 1480-LOCAL: allowing a city or town to petition the liquor commission to revoke the liquor license of a licensee located within the city or town. (Signed into law)
• HB 1492-LOCAL: relative to limiting increases in the assessed valuation of property. (Killed)
• HB 1558-FN-LOCAL: relative to games of chance. (Signed into law)
• HB 1566-FN-LOCAL: providing that state-owned lands leased to or under an operating agreement with a private business entity are subject to the local property tax. (Referred for interim study)
• HB 1579-FN-LOCAL: relative to exemptions to property taxes when the property is sold. (Killed)
• HB 1601-FN: authorizing simulcast off-track betting races at the town of Salem bingo hall. (Killed)
• HB 1602-FN: allowing electronic games of chance at bingo halls. (Killed)
• HB 1641-FN: requiring the sweepstakes commission to receive prior approval from the legislative fiscal committee and governor and council before advertising for lottery ticket and other sweepstakes ticket sales and reducing advertising expenditures. (Killed)
• HB 1677-FN-A-LOCAL: authorizing towns and cities to determine the method of local taxation used to support public education. (Killed)
• HCR 9: urging the governor and general court to take action to bring about property tax relief. (Killed)
• CACR 3: relating to authorizing counties to implement an income tax. Providing that a county may implement an income tax, provided that there is a binding referendum of the voters of the county and approval by the legislature. (Killed)
• SB 27: allowing municipalities to take inventories of property as often as state law allows property tax bills to be issued. (Killed)
• SB 44: establishing a committee to study the building of a state-owned liquor store in the city of Keene. (Signed into law)
• SB 73-FN: providing that telecommunications poles and lines be subject to the property tax. (Indefinitely postponed)
• SB 74-FN: allowing holders of retail wine and combination wine and beverage licenses to sell fortified wines. (Killed)
• SB 75-FN: regulating beer festivals and requiring beer festival promoters to obtain a single event license for a fee from the liquor commission to hold a beer festival. (Signed into law)
• SB 87: relative to permissible agreements between beverage manufacturers and vendors and beverage wholesale distributors. (Signed into law)
• SB 143: authorizing a municipality to change the date for filing for an elderly exemption. (Signed into law)
• SB 183-FN: relative to liquor licenses for a sports/entertainment complex. (Signed into law)
• SB 196-FN-LOCAL: allowing the transmission of simulcast races at grand hotels. (Indefinitely postponed)
• SB 216: relative to pari-mutuel racing and taxes on pari-mutuel pools. (Died: conferees could not agree)
• SB 309: relative to distributors and suppliers of bingo equipment. (Signed into law)
• SB 324-FN: relative to entertainers on premises of an on-sale liquor licensee and relative to penalties for manufacture, sale and possession of false identification. (Signed into law)
• SB 328: allowing liquor and beverage licensees and other liquor and beverage industry members not licensed in New Hampshire to furnish draft beer equipment and representatives to dispense and promote their beverages at licensed beer festivals. (Signed into law)
• SB 332: requiring that the real estate transfer questionnaire be provided to the municipality in which the property is located. (Signed into law)
• SB 356-LOCAL: relative to the bond required as a condition for filing an intent to cut or receiving a permit to cut. (Signed into law)

And 150 bills in 4 earlier terms.

Recent Meetings

• The Committee on Local and Regulated Revenues met on October 21, 1998 for executive sessions on HB 1467 and HB 1566-FN-LOCAL. On HB 1467 it recommended refer for interim study, 12–3. On HB 1566-FN-LOCAL it recommended refer for interim study, 15–0.
• The Committee on Local and Regulated Revenues met on September 23, 1998 for a public hearing on HB 1352-FN-A. It also held executive sessions on HB 1467 and HB 1566-FN-LOCAL. On HB 1467 it recommended refer for interim study, 12–3. On HB 1566-FN-LOCAL it recommended refer for interim study, 15–0.
• The Committee on Local and Regulated Revenues met on June 24, 1998 for a full committee work session on HB 1566-FN-LOCAL.
• The Committee on Local and Regulated Revenues met on June 17, 1998 for a full committee work session on HB 1467.
• The Committee on Local and Regulated Revenues met on June 9, 1998 for a full committee work session on HB 1467.
• The Committee on Local and Regulated Revenues met on June 3, 1998 for a subcommittee work session on HB 1566-FN-LOCAL.
• The Committee on Local and Regulated Revenues met on May 5, 1998 for a hearing on SB 356-LOCAL.
• The Committee on Local and Regulated Revenues met on April 7, 1998 for hearings on HB 1677-FN-A-LOCAL and SB 332. It also held a subcommittee work session on SB 324-FN.
• The Committee on Local and Regulated Revenues met on March 26, 1998 for hearings on HB 1677-FN-A-LOCAL, SB 309 and SB 73-FN. It also held a subcommittee work session on SB 324-FN.
• The Committee on Local and Regulated Revenues met on March 11, 1998 for hearings on SB 324-FN, SB 328 and SB 309.
• The Committee on Local and Regulated Revenues met on February 17, 1998 for a hearing on HB 1131.
• The Committee on Local and Regulated Revenues met on January 27, 1998 for hearings on HB 1136, HB 1566-FN-LOCAL, HB 1579-FN-LOCAL, HB 1469-LOCAL, HB 1492-LOCAL, HB 1107-LOCAL and HB 1163.
• The Committee on Local and Regulated Revenues met on January 22, 1998 for hearings on HB 1277, HB 1480-LOCAL, HB 1467, HB 1109 and HB 1395-LOCAL.
• The Committee on Local and Regulated Revenues met on January 21, 1998 for hearings on HB 1130-FN, HB 1131, HB 1188, HB 1189-FN, HB 1468, HB 1313 and HB 1278.
• The Committee on Local and Regulated Revenues met on January 20, 1998 for hearings on HB 1558-FN-LOCAL, HB 1122, HB 1381, HB 1276 and HB 1418-FN-LOCAL.
• The Committee on Local and Regulated Revenues met on January 14, 1998 for hearings on HB 1352-FN-A, HB 1602-FN, HB 1339-FN and HB 1210-FN.
• The Committee on Local and Regulated Revenues met on January 13, 1998 for hearings on HB 1242-FN, HB 1264, HB 1296-FN, HB 1641-FN and HB 1601-FN.
• The Committee on Local and Regulated Revenues met on October 7, 1997 for hearings on HB 707-LOCAL and HB 432.
• The Committee on Local and Regulated Revenues met on September 17, 1997 for a public hearing on HB 707-LOCAL. It also held a subcommittee work session on HB 432.
• The Committee on Local and Regulated Revenues met on May 6, 1997 for hearings on SB 196-FN-LOCAL and SB 216.
• The Committee on Local and Regulated Revenues met on April 9, 1997 for hearings on SB 74-FN and SB 87.
• The Committee on Local and Regulated Revenues met on April 2, 1997 for hearings on SB 143 and SB 27.
• The Committee on Local and Regulated Revenues met on March 26, 1997 for hearings on SB 183-FN, SB 75-FN, SB 87 and SB 44.
• The Committee on Local and Regulated Revenues met on February 26, 1997 for a hearing on HB 801-FN-LOCAL.
• The Committee on Local and Regulated Revenues met on February 13, 1997 for hearings on HB 648-LOCAL and HCR 9. It also held a subcommittee work session on HB 170-LOCAL.
• The Committee on Local and Regulated Revenues met on February 12, 1997 for hearings on HB 566-FN-A-LOCAL and HB 636-LOCAL.
• The Committee on Local and Regulated Revenues met on February 11, 1997 for hearings on HB 510, HB 533-FN, HB 591-FN, HB 539-LOCAL, HB 337-LOCAL, HB 551-LOCAL and HB 556-LOCAL.
• The Committee on Local and Regulated Revenues met on February 5, 1997 for hearings on HB 351-LOCAL and HB 423-LOCAL.
• The Committee on Local and Regulated Revenues met on February 4, 1997 for hearings on HB 349, HB 432, HB 279, HB 489-LOCAL, HB 373, HB 427-LOCAL and HB 341.
• The Committee on Local and Regulated Revenues met on January 29, 1997 for a hearing on HB 228.

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