Title I, The State and Its Government

Any senator or representative, while acting as a member of a committee of the legislature, may administer an oath to any person who may be examined before such committee.

I. House. No person shall use the house chamber, anterooms, or cloakrooms at any time for any purpose other than a meeting of the house, of a committee thereof, or of a joint committee of the house and senate, without prior permission of the speaker of the house or his designee. …

Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary the following shall be assigned for use by the speaker of the house and the president of the senate: I. Any legislative parking facilities, including but not limited to the legislative parking garage on Storrs Street, the…

I. There is hereby established a joint committee on employee classification. II. The committee shall consist of 3 members of the senate, appointed by the senate president, one of whom shall be a member of the senate finance committee, and 3 members of the house of representatives…

A member of the general court shall be allowed mileage by choosing the method in either paragraph I or II prior to the first mileage reimbursement payment in the term: I. (a) In the computation of mileage under the provisions of this paragraph, the word "day" shall be deemed to b…

I. Each member of the general court shall at the organizational session of the legislature furnish to the committee on mileage a statement of the distance from his home to the state house in Concord. The committee on mileage shall then compute the mileage allowance to be allowed …

Any officer or employee of the senate or house of representatives shall be allowed mileage at the same rate as other state employees for each day of attendance up to a maximum of 100 miles for the round trip. Any fractional part of a mile shall be deemed to be one mile for the pu…

The compensation of the clerk of the senate shall be set at a rate to be determined by the senate subcommittee of the legislative facilities committee as established by RSA 17-E:5. The clerk of the senate shall be deemed to be a full-time legislative employee under the direction …

If any officer of the legislature removes from the state, the office shall thereupon become vacant.

Within 30 days after a vacancy occurs in the office of president of the senate or speaker of the house of representatives, the senate or house of representatives, as the case may be, shall select a successor from among its members. If the senate or house is not in session when su…

Pursuant to the constitution, the general court shall assemble biennially on the first Wednesday of December following the biennial election for organizational purposes. At such assembly, the senate and the house shall take the oath of office, elect the secretary of state, the st…

The compensation of the clerk of the house shall be set at a rate to be determined by the house subcommittee of the legislative facilities committee as established by RSA 17-E:5. The clerk of the house shall be deemed to be a full-time legislative employee under the direction of …

The compensation of the assistant clerks of the senate and of the house shall be set at a rate to be determined by the appropriate house or senate subcommittees of the legislative facilities committee as established by RSA 17-E:5. The president of the senate or the speaker of the…

If there is a special session of the legislature the clerks and assistant clerks shall be paid such compensation for services thereat as shall be voted them by the legislature.

In case any one of the clerks, assistant clerks, stenographers, mileage clerks, attaches or other employees of the senate or house of representatives shall be absent from his or her duties, his or her compensation shall be suspended during said absence from duty, unless the presi…

In the event a member of the general court shall die after being sworn and while the general court is in regular session, the treasurer is directed and authorized to pay, upon demand and filing of a record of death with the secretary of state, to the surviving spouse, and if ther…

During the period when the legislature is not in session, no expenditure shall be charged against the legislative appropriation for the expenses of the legislature, exclusive of appropriations included therein for the office of the legislative budget assistant to the house and se…

I. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the full-time sergeant at arms, clerk, or assistant clerk of the house of representatives or the senate who is in office on the effective date of this section and the full-time secretary of state, deputy secretary of …

Any person attending at any session, as a member from a town or ward that is not authorized by law to elect a representative, shall not be entitled to receive any compensation for his travel or attendance.

If a person shall attend a session of the legislature and vote therein as a representative from any town or city, knowing that, by reason of want of the requisite number of inhabitants in said town or in the ward of the city which he represents, he is not lawfully entitled to a s…

The clerks of the senate and house of representatives shall keep a true and fair record of all proceedings of their respective branches. The proceedings in convention shall be recorded only in the journal of the house.

Prior to the prorogation of any regular session of the legislature, the fiscal committee shall appoint a legislative budget assistant whose name shall be filed with the secretary of state. Said officer shall receive such salary as may be determined by the legislature and shall be…

I. There is hereby established a fiscal committee of the general court. Said committee shall consist of 10 members. Five shall be members of the house as follows: the chairperson of the finance committee and 2 other members of the committee, appointed by the chairperson; and 2 ot…

I. The office of the legislative budget assistant shall consist of 2 divisions, the audit division and the budget division. II. The legislative budget assistant shall be responsible for the proper execution by the audit division and the budget division of their respective functio…

I. The audit division shall: (a) Conduct post-audits of the accounts and records of any state department, board, institution, commission, agency, or political subdivision, or other entity authorized to expend state funds. The authority of the legislative budget assistant to condu…

I. The budget division shall: (a) Provide technical staff assistance in the areas of finance, accounting and budgeting to the appropriations, finance, ways and means, and capital project overview committees and such other committees, including joint committees, of the general cou…

The cost of any financial audit done by the legislative budget assistant or by any other auditor under his or her direction or authority of any department, division, or agency funded by highway, fish and game, any self-sustaining, or special fund shall be a charge against the app…

Suitable office space in the state house devoted to the use of the legislature shall be assigned to the legislative budget assistant for use during the legislative sessions and also during the interim between sessions.

The legislative budget assistant may be dismissed at any time by vote of the fiscal committee for good cause shown in a complaint brought by the said committee. The legislative budget assistant shall be afforded due notice of any such complaint and a fair hearing before said comm…

The legislative budget assistant with the approval of the fiscal committee may appoint a deputy legislative budget assistant and such other assistants as he may require within the limits of the appropriation made for his department on recommendation of the fiscal committee. The d…

When the position of the legislative budget assistant becomes vacant the fiscal committee shall meet not less than one month after the vacancy occurs for the purpose of filling said vacancy. The deputy legislative budget assistant shall perform the duties of the legislative budge…

Every state agency, commission, institution and department receiving a federal audit of its operation or any part thereof is hereby directed to forward a copy of said audit to the legislative budget assistant within 15 days after the receipt of said audit.

I. Any settlement of a claim against the state in which the state through its attorneys agrees to a commitment with financial consequences in excess of 1/4 of one percent or more of total reported general fund unrestricted revenues for the previous fiscal year as reported by the …

Any senator-elect or representative-elect, after the day of his election, may file with the director of legislative services any proposed bill he desires to introduce. The director shall notify, immediately after the biennial election, each senator-elect and representative-elect …

Any member of the house of representatives or senate proposing legislation which includes provisions granting rulemaking authority to any agency as defined in RSA 541-A:1, II, shall include an explanation of the intent for the proposal relative to the parameters under which rulem…

In case of vacancy in the office of clerk of the senate or house of representatives, or of his absence or disability, the assistant clerk shall perform all the duties of the office, including the duties imposed upon the clerk by the provisions of this chapter. While an assistant …

I. All bills and resolutions having an effect on the revenues, expenditures, or fiscal liability of the state or a city or town or county which have a total fiscal impact of $10,000 or more in each fiscal year over the period covered by a fiscal note shall be accompanied by a fis…

In this subdivision, "bill with a fiscal impact" means any bill or joint resolution introduced into either house of the general court: I. Which would require the state or a city or town or county to appropriate or expend funds or both; or II. Which would have the effect of changi…

I. Fiscal impact notes shall be prepared by the legislative budget assistant with such assistance and data as he may require from any state agency, political subdivision, or any other source of data which he deems reliable, including but not limited to private individuals, corpor…

The fiscal note shall accompany the bill throughout its course of passage through the general court and to the governor for action and shall be amended as necessary to correct errors or to agree with substantive amendments to the bill.

The word "LOCAL" shall be placed after each house and senate bill number of all legislation and all proposed amendments which may impact local expenditures or which require the state to forward all or part of any designated revenues to the cities or towns. The office of legislati…

I. (a) For the purpose of this paragraph, "study committee" shall mean a committee, commission, task force, council, or any other similar entity established by the general court in chapter law to study or otherwise address a specified issue, and shall not include any similar enti…

The clerks of the senate and house shall act as clerks of the next succeeding senate and house respectively until clerks thereof are chosen and sworn.

The president of the senate may appoint a legal counsel who shall be an attorney. The compensation of the legal counsel shall be set at a rate to be determined by the senate subcommittee of the legislative facilities committee established under RSA 17-E:5. The legal counsel shall…

I. The sworn members of the legislative security staff while on official duty shall have the authority of an ex officio constable including the power to detain persons who are creating a disturbance or who they have reasonable grounds to believe have committed any offense under t…

I. The legislature may enter into a memorandum of understanding with a private entity to implement a program that will allow the state house to be open to the public. The memorandum of understanding shall consider: (a) Guided tours of the state house provided by volunteer tour gu…