Citizen in a RepublicNH House Testimony

SB217

Senate · 2025 sessionRepublicanKilled in House

Public notice of tax impacts

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Requires cities and towns to provide public notice of historical tax rates and the tax impacts of proposed building projects.

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94 submissions

All 17 written submissions were individually written — no organized campaign detected.

Status

Killed in the House — Inexpedient to Legislate · May 8, 2025
  1. Introduced
  2. Senate
  3. House
  4. Governor
  5. Law
Sponsors, hearings & roll-call votes

The record · every submission as filed

94 submissions
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James Gardner
for Myself
Keene

This bill provides better government transparency to us Granite Staters!

Support
Karen Bemis
for Myself
Bristol

I OPPOSE this bill because it would impose statewide mandates on how local communities govern.

Oppose
Diane Betz
for Myself
North Hampton

OPPOSE!!

Oppose
Julie Laracy
for Myself
Conway

This bill would impose statewide mandates on how local communities govern

Oppose
Rosemary D'Arcy
for Myself
Bristol

This bill amounts to state government overreach and could take authority for local projects and initiatives away from local governing bodies and put an unnecessary burden on them without resources to meet the requirements. This is not useful legislation!

Oppose
Ian Rogers
for Myself
Warner

Everyone knows that tax rates go up over time: forcing towns to display this in shiny graphs not only places yet another burden on our overworked town employees, but is liable to stir up unnecessary rage in communities by getting people even angrier about their tax bills going up. Instead of directing blame elsewhere, let's properly fund our infrastructure and existing programs at the state level to place less burden on local town property taxes.

Oppose
Donna Mccay
for Myself
North Hampton

The state has no right to interfere in Town government. Keep local control!

Oppose
Leslie Parker
for Myself
Greenland

Local boards and communities should together decide the necessity of SAU's.

Oppose
Nancy Brown
for Myself
Hopkinton

Unfunded mandates are bad for local governance.

Oppose
Jodi Langellotti
for Myself
Dover

I will repeat myself: This should be a local decision. I thought the goal was for less government, not more?

Oppose
April Melo
for Myself
South Hampton

I oppose this bill, local communities already have a hard time governing and finding people willing to do so. Please don’t make it more complicated than it has to be!

Oppose
Marie Kapsar
for Myself
Center Conway

I oppose this bill

Oppose
Asra Zahn
for Myself
Lyndeborough

I oppose this bill.

Oppose
Robin Helrich
for Myself
Hopkinton

OPPOSE SB217 Stop imposing statewide unfunded mandates on local communities! Robin Helrich Hopkinton

Oppose
Daniel Richardson
for Myself
Nashua

This is stupid. Tax rates are rendered MEANINGLESS by frequent revaluations. The only thing that matters is historic property taxes paid and any tailored tax exemptions secured by entities.

Neutral
James Mason
for Myself
Hancock

This bill could create an unfunded mandate around historical and potential project

Oppose
Paul Lambert
for Myself
Canaan

This bill flies in the face of maintaining local control.

Oppose
Katharine Wentworth
for Myself
Greenland

Position recorded without written comment.

Oppose
Megan Haffner
for Myself
Nashua

Position recorded without written comment.

Support
Donna Seigel
for Myself
North Hampton

Position recorded without written comment.

Oppose
Kelly Warner
for Myself
Exeter

Position recorded without written comment.

Oppose
Sally Widerstrom
for Myself
Plymouth

Position recorded without written comment.

Oppose
Ray Chadwick
for Myself
Bedford

Position recorded without written comment.

Support
Leigh Fleury
for Myself
Dover

Position recorded without written comment.

Oppose
Richard Bohn
for Myself
GREENLAND

Position recorded without written comment.

Oppose