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On the core of House Bill 71, which would prohibit using public school facilities to shelter non‑admitted aliens, committee participants clarified an amendment added by the House requiring that Department of Health and Human Services contracts include compliance with a patient bill of rights and flagged an apparent drafting error that would immediately repeal that same contract provision. Representative Noble noted the anomaly and urged removal of the erroneous repeal. The committee agreed to remove section 4 (the repeal language) and revise effective dates so the patient‑rights contract provision remains in place.

The conference also considered a senate amendment that would require 45‑day notice of property value reassessments. Senators and representatives agreed to strike language that had required \"individual notice to the property owner,\" replacing it with standard public‑notice methods such as publication in a local paper or posting on the municipality's website and to change phrasing in two places from \"and\" to \"or\" when listing acceptable notice methods. Senators said the individual‑mailing requirement would be an unfunded mandate for municipalities and that standard public‑notice practices would be less costly.

A separate senate addition proposing a Hampton Beach pier fund — established with a $1 appropriation and intended to accept private donations for construction and maintenance — drew the most extended debate. Sponsors outlined the concept: a donations account under the Division of Natural and Cultural Resources to allow fundraising for an accessible pier, with a stated construction cost estimate of $12 million to $18 million and an option that, after 10 years, unused funds would transfer to the state's park gifts account for disability access projects. The sponsor said the fund would be \"used for the purpose of obtaining engineering studies and ongoing\" maintenance and referenced an existing local feasibility study.

But multiple members raised maintenance and fiscal‑responsibility concerns. One senator cited the department's fiscal note showing potential ongoing oversight and maintenance costs ranging from $10,000 to $100,000. Lawmakers worried private fundraising alone could leave maintenance obligations unmet or shift costs to the state later. After discussion, the house members requested striking the Hampton Beach pier fund (section 7) from the bill; the committee agreed to that deletion.

Chair remarks underscored the discussion's breadth: the opening speaker said they had reviewed Massachusetts shelter incident reports and found increasing numbers of serious incidents in recent years, a point offered to underline safety and operational concerns raised in testimony. \"The file that I got for 2022 was 216 pages... in 2024, there was over 2,200 pages,\" the Chair said, describing the incident reports the speaker had reviewed.

The committee instructed staff to draft the conference report that removes the repeal in HB71, incorporates the revised property notice language (striking \"individual notice\" and changing \"and\" to \"or\" where noted), and omits the Hampton Beach pier fund; members indicated they will return to review the drafted language before final signatures.

Next steps: Office of Legislative Services will prepare the conference-report language for review and signature.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Committee of Conference on HB 557, HB 71 (06/16/2025)","oneSentenceSummary","Conference members agreed to remove a repeal, change property reassessment notice rules to avoid individual mailings, and eliminate a provision creating a Hampton Beach pier donation fund after questions about maintenance and funding.","taxTitle","Committee of Conference, House of Representatives, Committees\t, Legislative, New Hampshire","taxId",29546,"location","New Hampshire","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":77,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":78,"_41":79,"_43":80,"_45":44,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":72,"_73":74,"_75":74},6525976,"Committee of Conference backs Senate method for ‘average cost per pupil,’ adds ‘preceding year’ clarification",1589,68000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=3847167-ce3673eb1fcdc9053ad49fab9a5fb94f&start=68&end=1657","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/3847167-ce3673eb1fcdc9053ad49fab9a5fb94f/thumbnail_68000.jpg","/articles/6525976/New-Hampshire/Committee-of-Conference-backs-Senate-method-for-average-cost-per-pupil-adds-preceding-year-clarification","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6525976-a9076930cd138df3ad7e978d209c5ee5/orig.mp4?Expires=1771181757&Signature=h~ACQLJS3DWdOzlVo9rCf1zMw00lAuHHzI56WvLPYHfmAg06tc5sesE4mX5yG6tB3bZQU1f0pdMUg6y3rBhVkX7aoz2hj~p8hzJoGrDwgAx1Zs5myGEXMWnE7g9voJ1EIzmzWq88UGILBNZwbyATLkXrDMs31p0y3FQvnIqHCOH-W1DwWeliDNn-MTRfUHQI1VOHcxRG7Ob5bDYaAS6AU2C6ey2HbEOJsbB-tYTarva-6etUSNcepl1rBnPQyOlrmv2CMJ8LP7-2VeBv48cWrcMfVHkQc4WjJ~Ah6l2TxUx0669C1jGY3YmP0gfSWIor3243bim-gzTsMKuxmEqNXw__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","The Committee of Conference on House Bill 557 agreed to keep the Senate’s method for calculating the average cost per pupil to appear on school budget ballots and to add a clarification that the figure will reflect the preceding year.

Members said the change keeps a single, uniform definition across RSA citations and avoids creating two competing calculations for the same ballot item. \"This amendment came about as a result of testimony the senate received at its hearing,\" Senator Murphy said. \"Essentially, the senate position is that it makes sense to calculate this number across the RSAs in a similar method as opposed to having different methods.\"

The core disagreement was procedural and technical: the House favored a simple, easily explained arithmetic — total budget divided by enrollment — while the Senate relied on the definition in RSA 189.75, which excludes some expenditures such as tuition, transportation and food operations from the measure. Representative Cordelli said the House’s position was that the simple division is easier for voters to calculate in their heads. \"The general public is looking at the bottom line and dividing it by the number of students,\" Cordelli said. \"They're not taking away transportation, they're not taking tuition, they're not taking food because they don't know how to find those numbers.\"

House members argued the RSA-based definition could undercount costs presented to voters and create confusion between the ten‑year historical posters districts must show and the forward‑looking ballot figure. Senator Murphy and other senators said they did not want two different statutory definitions for the same term and that the RSA definition was about to take effect; they were open, however, to a limited drafting clarification. The conference reached agreement to adopt the Senate position with an amendment specifying the average cost per pupil will be \"for the preceding year as calculated in accordance with 189.751(a).\"

Participants said the conference report will be drafted to incorporate that amendment and returned for signatures. The committee recorded general assent to proceed with the senate text as amended, though one member indicated they could not support the final signoff at that moment and the chairs said they would prepare the finalized language for signature.

Next steps: staff will draft the conference report reflecting the Senate position plus the added phrase clarifying the figure refers to the preceding year; members anticipate further review next year if a broader change to RSA 189.75 is desired.","Lawmakers at a Committee of Conference meeting on House Bill 557 agreed to use the Senate’s method for reporting average cost per pupil on school budget ballots, and added language specifying the figure refer to the preceding year.","actionData","errors"]

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Committee of Conference trims House Bill 71: removes repeal language, narrows property-notice requirement and strikes Hampton Beach pier fund

Committee of Conference backs Senate method for ‘average cost per pupil,’ adds ‘preceding year’ clarification