2003 Planning Legislation

This page contains a listing of legislation of interest to planners, local officials and the general public that was tracked by OSP staff during the 2003 legislative session (the second year of the 157th Session of the New Hampshire General Court. For additional information, contact:

• The Office of Legislative Services, Room 103, State House, Concord, NH 03301 (271-3435)
• The New Hampshire State Library, Government Information Services, 20 Park St, Concord, NH 03301(271-2239) Web site
• The NH General Court (Legislature) Web site

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HB 060 - Changing the name of the advisory committee on shore fisheries.
VETOED BY THE GOVERNOR

HB 070 - Establishing a committee to study government actions that contribute to involuntary homelessness.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 074 - Establishing a task force on the siting of new district courts.
RETAINED IN COMMITTEE

HB 075 - Relative to Timber Harvesting.
SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR Chapter Law 0138

HB 078 - Relative to a landowner’s liability for personal injury or property damage on sidewalks.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 110 - Making a capital appropriation for the reconstruction and repair of the Monadnock Mill State Office Building in Claremont.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 138 - Relative to interpreters for the deaf in certain governmental or public proceedings.
RETAINED IN COMMITTEE

HB 152 - Relative to regulation by political subdivisions of OHRV trails and exempting certain rail trails use from the state trail evaluation process.
RETAINED IN COMMITTEE

HB 171 - Establishing a commission to assess the operating efficiency of state government.
SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR Chapter Law 0001

HB 181 - Relative to horseback riding as a recreational use of land in current use taxation.
SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR Chapter Law 0029

HB 197 - Making an appropriation to the harbor dredging and pier maintenance fund.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 220 - Creating a committee to study amending the constitution to require that government decisions affecting the environment reflect consideration of the welfare of future generations.
RETAINED IN COMMITTEE

HB 238 - Relative to the constitutionality of the presumption of procedural validity of municipal legislation.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 244 - (New Title) Establishing a committee to study landowner liability for owners providing public access to snowmobile trails.
LAW WITHOUT SIGNATURE Chapter Law 0077

HB 274 - Making an appropriation for the restoration of the White Island Light Station.
RETAINED IN COMMITTEE

HB 282 - Relative to granting solid waste management facility permits.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 294 - Relative to notification of abutting communities of ridge-line or above developments.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 295 - Relative to information filed with the regional planning commissions.
LAW WITHOUT SIGNATURE Chapter Law 0220

HB 304 - Relative to state acquisition of certain acreage in the Connecticut Lakes headwaters tract and making an appropriation therefor.
REREFERRED

HB 307 - Relative to municipal regulation of public highways.
RETAINED IN COMMITTEE

HB 315 - Establishing a committee to study methods for accelerating appeals of denials of residential development permits.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 326 - Relative to establishing a 6-year capital budget.
REREFERRED

HB 334 - Establishing an international trade commission to investigate and report on the effects of international trade agreements on New Hampshire self-governance.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 335 - Relative to the regulation of the operation of OHRVs.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 339 - Establishing a committee to study the use of certain state-owned property along the Baker River.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 343 - Establishing a boundary commission to determine the boundary between New Hampshire and Maine.
SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR Chapter Law 010

HB 352 - Establishing a committee to study the feasibility of a desalinization plant in the New Hampshire seacoast region.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 353 - Making an appropriation for the pilot program to study and establish protected instream flows and water management plans on the Lamprey River and the Souhegan River.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 361 - Permitting municipalities to form regional water districts.
SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR Chapter Law 0281

HB 365 - Relative to governmental land uses.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 385 - Requiring compliance with local ordinances in the establishment of public ATV and trail bike trails on private lands.
RETAINED IN COMMITTEE

HB 388 - Permitting the reduction of the speed limit within a business or urban residence district or within the compact part of cities or towns to 15 miles per hour.
RETAINED IN COMMITTEE

HB 392 - Requiring a study by the office of state planning of ways to improve the delivery of information and training to planning board and zoning board members.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 397 - Permitting towns and cities to deny a planning board application by a vote of the legislative body.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 399 - Establishing the town of East Derry.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 401 - Relative to approvals under the groundwater protection act.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 406 - Establishing a speed limit for powerboats on Lake Winnipesaukee.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 434 - Relative to junkyards and motor vehicle recycling yards.
LAW WITHOUT SIGNATURE Chapter Law 0118

HB 446 - Relative to building permits.
LAW WITHOUT SIGNATURE Chapter Law 0134

HB 454 - Relative to property rights and large groundwater withdrawals.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 462 - Relative to the operation of ski craft within navigation channels.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 474 - Relative to the appointment of alternates to sit at meetings of the planning and zoning boards and the rules of order used by local land use boards.
RETAINED IN COMMITTEE

HB 476 - Relative to incompatibility of municipal offices.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 489 - Relative to innovative land use controls.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 503 - Relative to septic system construction permits.
RETAINED IN COMMITTEE

HB 514 - Relative to business and industrial development authorities.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 526 - Requiring the governor to provide the legislature with a biennial strategic economic development plan.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 531 - Relative to off-site improvements imposed on applicants to a planning board.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 538 - Relative to the establishment of municipal economic development and revitalization districts by certain municipalities.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 539 - Relative to dredging and filling in wetlands.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 540 - Establishing a committee to study a fee on withdrawals of water for commercial purposes.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 555 - Requiring condominiums to comply with the Fair Housing Amendments Act and to provide accessible parking.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 556 - Establishing a committee to study highway safety issues on New Hampshire Route 101 from Bedford to Keene.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 565 - Establishing a commission to implement the Hampton Beach Master Plan.
SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR Chapter Law 0176

HB 584 - Establishing the position of citizens’ advocate in the department of environmental services and making an appropriation therefor.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 588 - Relative to nonconforming residential uses.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 606 - Establishing a right-to-know study commission and relative to meetings open to the public.
SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR Chapter Law 0287

HB 607 - Relative to the determination of just compensation in eminent domain proceedings.
RETAINED IN COMMITTEE

HB 639 - (New Title) Relative to receiving legislative body approval through warrant articles before a municipality may continue a program initiated under a grant.
SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR Chapter Law 0109

HB 649 - Creating certain positions within the office of state planning and the university system of New Hampshire and making an appropriation therefor.
RETAINED IN COMMITTEE

HB 668 - Permitting municipalities to adopt a local addition to the real estate transfer tax dedicated to conservation purposes.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 670 - (New Title) Establishing a procedure for release by a state agency of statistical information for research purposes and relative to health care data.
SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR Chapter Law 0292

HB 685 - Exempting transfers of real property with conservation, preservation, or development restrictions from the real estate transfer tax.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 690 - (3rd New Title) Relative to agricultural vandalism and relative to agricultural liming materials.
SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR Chapter Law 0181

HB 713 - Relative to the penalty for violating a zoning ordinance.
RETAINED IN COMMITTEE

HB 719 - Relative to the duties, function, and operation of the Pease development authority.
LAW WITHOUT SIGNATURE Chapter Law 0242

HB 721 - Establishing a marine preservation number plate.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 722 - Relative to land use changes.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 723 - Relative to the definition of residences in an industrial or commercial zone.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 737 - Relative to the state conservation committee and making an appropriation therefor.
VETOED BY THE GOVERNOR

HB 738 - Permitting aid to public water systems to be used for forming or improving regional water systems and making an appropriation therefor.
SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR Chapter Law 0178

HB 742 - Establishing a committee to study the relationship between groundwater withdrawals and the ownership of watershed land.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 748 - (2nd New Title) Relative to making changes to the laws governing off highway recreational vehicles and the multi-use state-wide trail system and allowing the department of safety to suspend or revoke a motor vehicle drivers' license for causing certain serious damage to property.
SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR Chapter Law 295

HB 761 - Relative to enabling towns to adopt subdivision regulations that require innovative land use controls on certain lands when supported by the master plan, making a change in an innovative land use control, and relative to the preliminary review of subdivisions.
RETAINED IN COMMITTEE

HB 768 - (2nd New Title) Establishing a committee to study the flow in the Connecticut River and the effect of the flow on water levels in Lake Francis and the Connecticut Lakes.
SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR Chapter Law 0233

HB 769 - Relative to the lighting of certain advertising devices along highways.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 772 - Relative to including undeveloped shoreline property in land granted tax relief under current use.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 774 - Relative to enabling municipalities to expend funds to plow private roads.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 782 - Establishing a committee to study voting membership of municipal boards and commissions.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 787 - (New Title) Relative to forest products promotion, establishing a forest products utilization charge, and requiring the department of resources and economic development to convene a task force.
COMMITTEE OF CONFERENCE

HB 797 - Establishing a committee to study methods for the legislature to protect New Hampshire groundwater aquifers.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 799 - Relative to assessing a surcharge on waste disposed at solid waste landfills and incinerators, and making an appropriation therefor.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 803 - Establishing the New Hampshire downtown development program.
RETAINED IN COMMITTEE

HB 810 - Relative to processing excavating and dredging and terrain alteration permits, changing the fees for permits, establishing 2 new positions, and making an appropriation therefor.
LAW WITHOUT SIGNATURE Chapter Law 0224

HB 818 - Relative to clearing land before plan approval.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

HB 830 - Relative to creating enterprise zones in which qualifying businesses are eligible for tax credits.
RETAINED IN COMMITTEE

HR 007 - Urging increased consideration and preservation of local authority in international trade and investment agreements.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

SB 019 - Relative to notification of groundwater contamination and repealing certain MTBE notification requirements for public water systems.
RETAINED IN COMMITTEE

SB 035 - Relative to the transfer and exchange of certain state owned land for certain land owned by the Manchester water works.
RETAINED IN COMMITTEE

SB 048 - Exempting housing for older persons from certain age discrimination laws.
SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR Chapter Law 0058

SB 062 - (New Title) Relative to the application and enforcement of the state building code and the membership of the state building code review board.
SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR Chapter Law 0175

SB 063 - (New Title) Relative to establishing community reinvestment and opportunity zones and granting business tax credits for investments in projects in such zones.
SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR Chapter Law 0301

SB 067 - Relative to a report on municipal water needs.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

SB 070 - (New Title) Establishing a commission to study implementing a recommendation of the New Hampshire estuaries project management plan.
SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR Chapter Law 0236

SB 073 - (2nd New Title) Establishing a committee to study establishing enterprise zones in economically deprived or challenged communities, and relative to the Black Brook Corporate Park Tax Increment Financing District.
LAW WITHOUT SIGNATURE Chapter Law 0213

SB 087 - (2nd New Title) Changing the membership of the commission to study setback requirements for septage, biosolids, and short paper fibers, and extending the temporary use of septage, biosolids, and short paper fiber by certain persons.
SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR Chapter Law 0302

SB 090 - Relative to increasing the cap for relocation assistance for businesses in eminent domain proceedings.
SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR Chapter Law 0207

SB 091 - Relative to extending the committee to study eminent domain proceedings and adding certain duties.
SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR Chapter Law 0062

SB 095 - Relative to the development of workforce housing within municipalities.
RETAINED IN COMMITTEE

SB 106 - Relative to the operation of personal watercraft.
LAID ON TABLE

SB 115 - (New Title) Relative to increasing the fees for review of subdivisions and waste disposal systems by the department of environmental services and making an appropriation for implementing information technology and regulatory process improvements.
SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR Chapter Law 0246

SB 155 - (2nd New Title) Establishing a commission to study issues relative to groundwater withdrawals.
SIGNED BY THE GOVERNOR Chapter Law 0305

SB 157 - (New Title) Establishing a committee to study certain issues relative to municipal planning.
LAW WITHOUT SIGNATURE Chapter Law 0179

SB 162 - Establishing a committee to study water resources.
LAW WITHOUT SIGNATURE Chapter Law 0217

SB 194 - Establishing a committee to study certain issues relative to large groundwater withdrawals and their effect on Darrah Pond in Litchfield.
INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE

SCR 001 - Relative to urging a study of the operating efficiency of state government.
LAID ON TABLE

SCR 002 - Relative to urging the United States Congress to act to rectify the science, research funding, and restrictions governing the Northeast multispecies fishing industry and its impact on New Hampshire fishermen.
PASSED As Amended by the House