Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that appropriates funds as part of a budget trailer.

Highlights:

• Authorizes agencies to use funds in existing class 60 budgets to pay any penalties imposed under the employer shared responsibility for health coverage (Sec. 9).

• Requires the Department of Health and Human Services to raise the income eligibility for elderly and adult clients under the social services block grant program each January, by the percentage amount of the cost of living increase in social security benefits every year provided such amount is consistent with federal law and regulations relative to the social services block grant income eligibility (Sec. 23).

• Appropriates the following funds for the fiscal years 2022-2023 (Sec. 24.II.a):

• State fiscal year 2022, $129,360,000; and

• State fiscal year 2023, $131,849,659.

• Prohibits state funds from being awarded by the Department of Health and Human Services to a reproductive health care facility, except the funding available from the state according to Title XIX of the Social Security Act to the minimum extent necessary to comply with federal conditions for the state's participation in the Medicaid program (Sec. 34).

• Establishes the New Hampshire economic development fund which will be administered by the commissioner of the Department of Business and Economic Affairs. The fund will be to provide funds for grants, loans, and other economic development initiatives which are generally considered to be beneficial to the state's overall economy (Sec. 51.I).

• Requires recommendation to the OA the registration of apprenticeship programs and agreements which provide equal opportunity for training and employment without regard to race, color, creed, or national origin and which incorporate standards consistent with those already established and approved by the council and the OA, or terminate or cancel the registration of apprenticeship programs and agreements when said programs or agreements fail to meet or maintain said registration qualifications (Sec. 128-278:3.III).

• Requires the proceeds from a sale, conveyance, transfer, or lease to be credited to either the highway fund, restricted federal fund, or the turnpike fund, whichever fund provided money for the original purchase (Sec. 135.III).

• Appropriates $20,000,000 to the Department of Transportation for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, which will be expended for funding state red list bridge projects and will lapse to the highway fund on June 30, 2021. The governor is authorized to draw a warrant for said sum out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated (Sec. 139.I).

• Appropriates $1,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, is hereby appropriated to the body-worn and dashboard camera fund established in RSA 105-D:3. The governor is authorized to draw a warrant for said sum out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated (Sec. 144).

• Requires all scholarship funds to be distributed to the eligible student by the eligible institution. The institution shall include the scholarship in the student's financial aid package and may seek subsequent reimbursement. The state shall provide the reimbursements twice per year to each eligible institution for the number of eligible students enrolled in the current semester or term who are receiving a scholarship (Sec. 195-H:14.I).

• Authorizes the Department of Energy to work with the department of business and economic affairs and the department of administrative services to coordinate the implementation of the establishment of the department, and to transfer appropriations and create the proper expenditure lines, if needed, for the establishment of their respective operations, including but not limited to the relocation of personnel, work stations, books, papers, personnel record files, and equipment, with the approval of the governor and council and the director of personnel (Sec. 12-P:3.II).

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