HB 330-FN-A - AS INTRODUCED
2023 SESSION
23-0216
06/10
HOUSE BILL 330-FN-A
AN ACT relative to the national guard recruitment incentive program and its funding and rulemaking.
SPONSORS: Rep. C. McGuire, Merr. 27; Rep. Edwards, Rock. 31; Rep. Schmidt, Straf. 14; Rep. Roy, Rock. 31; Sen. Pearl, Dist 17; Sen. Lang, Dist 2
COMMITTEE: State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
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ANALYSIS
This bill removes the requirements for administrative rulemaking under RSA 541-A for certain department of military affairs and veterans services programs, designates fines from military court proceedings to be credited to the enlistment incentive program, and increases the allowable payment of enlistment incentives to $1,000.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
23-0216
06/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three
AN ACT relative to the national guard recruitment incentive program and its funding and rulemaking.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services; Execution of Sentences. Amend RSA 110-B:55, I to read as follows:
I. Fines may be paid to a military court or to an officer executing its process. The amount of any fine imposed may be noted upon any state roll or account for pay of the delinquent and deducted from any pay or allowance due or thereafter to become due them, until said fine is liquidated; or the same may be collected with lawful costs of collection, as in the case of executions issued in action founded upon torts. Fines collected shall be paid over to the state treasurer and credited to the New Hampshire national guard enlistment incentive fund under RSA 110-B:60.
2 Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services; New Hampshire National Guard Enlistment Incentive Program Established. Amend RSA 110-B:60 to read as follows:
110-B:60 New Hampshire National Guard Enlistment Incentive Program Established. For the purpose of encouraging enlistment in the national guard there is hereby established a New Hampshire national guard enlistment incentive program. This program authorizes a cash incentive up to [$500] $1,000 to current members of the New Hampshire national guard in the pay grades of E-1 to O-3 or any former member of the New Hampshire national guard for each new or prior service recruit that they bring into the New Hampshire national guard.
3 Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services; Revenue for Enlistment Incentive Program. Amend RSA 110-B:61, I to read as follows:
I. There is hereby established a fund to be known as national guard enlistment incentive program fund. Any appropriations received shall be deposited in the fund. Moneys in the fund and any interest earned on the fund shall be used for the purpose of encouraging enlistment in the national guard and shall not be used for any other purpose. The adjutant general shall oversee expenditures from the fund. The moneys in the fund shall be continually appropriated and nonlapsing.
4 Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services; National Guard Enlistment Incentive Program; Oversight and Administration. Amend RSA 110-B:62 to read as follows:
110-B:62 Oversight and Administration. The adjutant general shall [adopt rules pursuant to RSA 541-A relative to ] establish procedures necessary for the administration of the enlistment incentive program and relative to its execution by the New Hampshire Army and Air National Guard recruiting offices in coordination with the department of military affairs and veterans services.
5 Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services; Postsecondary Educational Assistance; Eligibility Determinations. Amend RSA 110-B:63-d to read as follows:
110-B:63-d Eligibility Determinations. Eligibility for educational assistance provided by this subdivision shall be determined and monitored by the adjutant general, who shall establish [adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, and] procedures [deemed by the adjutant general to be] necessary to carry out and monitor the educational assistance provided by this subdivision.
6 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
23-0216
1/5/23
HB 330-FN-A- FISCAL NOTE
AS INTRODUCED
AN ACT relative to the national guard recruitment incentive program and its funding and rulemaking.
FISCAL IMPACT: [ X ] State [ ] County [ ] Local [ ] None
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STATE: | FY 2023 | FY 2024 | FY 2025 | FY 2026 |
Appropriation | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Revenue | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Expenditures | $0 | Up to $50,000 | Up to $50,000 | Up to $50,000 |
Funding Source: | [ X ] General [ ] Education [ ] Highway [ ] Other | |||
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METHODOLOGY:
This bill removes the requirements for administrative rulemaking under RSA 541-A for certain
department of military affairs and veterans services programs, designates fines from military court proceedings to be credited to the enlistment incentive program, and increases the allowable payment of enlistment incentives from $500 to $1,000.
The Department of Military Affairs and Veterans Services indicates, based on projected enlistments, the enlistment incentive of $1,000 as proposed in the bill will require an annual general fund appropriation of $50,000. This would allow for 45 to 49 individual incentive payments to eligible recipients and cover approximately $1,000 in administrative and processing cost. Such costs include the cost of establishing each recipient as a vendor in the state's accounting system, processing payments and IRS W-9s and 1099 forms and for program audits. In the previous operating budget, the program was funded at $25,000 per year. However, RSA 110-B:61 provides that the program "may consist of an annual appropriation, as determined by the general court", therefore the Department has provided the total cost of the incentive program.
It is assumed that any fiscal impact would occur after FY 2023.
This bill does not include an appropriation.
AGENCIES CONTACTED:
Department of Military Affairs ad Veterans Services