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House division 2 backs fee increases, reduces university state aid and trims tourism advertising
Summary
Division 2’s package relies on fee increases (vehicle registrations, licensing and regulatory fees) to shore up the highway and other special funds, reduces state aid to the University System of New Hampshire by $25 million per year, and suspends a rooms and meals advertising allocation that funds tourism marketing.
Representative Hirsch, who led the Division 2 presentation, said the division focused on self‑supporting funds (highway, fish and game, turnpike) and on aligning fees with usage after finding most user fees had not been adjusted in decades. The package raises registration and licensing fees, including increases to vanity plate fees, to boost the highway fund and to support winter road maintenance and incentives for plow drivers.
The division also reallocated some restricted lottery revenue to ensure that lottery proceeds are used for state adequacy grants to…
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