{"id":9972,"date":"2025-04-13T23:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T04:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=9972"},"modified":"2025-04-13T23:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T04:10:15","slug":"hb2-budget-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2025\/04\/13\/hb2-budget-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"HB2 Budget Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

HB2<\/a> is the BUDGET BILL. It is currently before the Senate Finance Committee.<\/p>\n

Senate Finance Emails:<\/strong>
\nJames.Gray@gc.nh.gov; Daniel.Innis@gc.nh.gov; Regina.Birdsell@gc.nh.gov; Howard.Pearl@gc.nh.gov; Sharon.Carson@gc.nh.gov; Timothy.Lang@gc.nh.gov; David.Watters@gc.nh.gov; Cindy.Rosenwald@gc.nh.gov; debra.martone@gc.nh.gov<\/p>\n

See what provisions are of concern here:<\/strong><\/p>\n

21. Allows municipalities to authorize gaming facilities to operate continuously for 24 hours per day; and prevents a maximum wager limit for certain games of chance. (Oppose Keno Gambling)<\/strong><\/p>\n

25. Establishes the division of planning and community development in the department of business and economic affairs. (Oppose – We don’t need another planning bureaucracy at the state level)<\/strong><\/p>\n

71. Repeals revenue sharing with cities and towns under RSA 31-A. (Oppose – The Meals and Rooms tax was intended to help towns with property taxes)<\/strong><\/p>\n

126. Abolishes the board of land and tax appeals and assigns cases formerly under their jurisdiction to the commercial court docket. (Support)<\/strong><\/p>\n

127. Abolishes the housing appeals board. (Support – These people are biased individuals who are paid to favor contractors.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

132. Creates the “partners in housing” program, an initiative under the housing champions fund to assist municipalities, counties, and developers in building modestly priced housing on municipally or county-owned land that is suitable for development. 330 New Section; Partners in Housing Program. Amend RSA 12-O by inserting after section 72 the following new section: 12-O:72-a Partners in Housing Program. The department shall establish a program, known as the partners in housing program, for the purpose of building workforce housing (Oppose – More of your tax dollars would be going to contractors to pay for workforce housing)<\/strong><\/p>\n

146. Repeals the local option allowing cities and towns to vote to allow the operation of keno games in their communities. (Support – We shouldn’t want gambling in family establishments)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HB2 is the BUDGET BILL. It is currently before the Senate Finance Committee. Senate Finance Emails: James.Gray@gc.nh.gov; Daniel.Innis@gc.nh.gov; Regina.Birdsell@gc.nh.gov; Howard.Pearl@gc.nh.gov; Sharon.Carson@gc.nh.gov; Timothy.Lang@gc.nh.gov; David.Watters@gc.nh.gov; Cindy.Rosenwald@gc.nh.gov; debra.martone@gc.nh.gov See what provisions are of concern here: 21. Allows municipalities to authorize gaming facilities to operate continuously for 24 hours per day; and prevents a maximum wager limit for certain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,112,11,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gambling","category-housing","category-legislation","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9973,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/revisions\/9973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}