Citizen in a RepublicNH House Testimony

HB1516

House · 2026 sessionRepublicanInterim study

Tax bill spending charts and QR codes

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Requires municipalities to include pie charts, bar charts, and QR codes on property tax bills depicting how tax dollars are allocated.

(New Title) allowing municipalities to vote to require that pie charts, bar charts, and QR codes be placed on property tax bills depicting where and how tax dollars are being allocated.Official record

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32 submissions
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All 7 written submissions were individually written — no organized campaign detected.

Status

Referred to interim study (Senate) · April 10, 2026
  1. Introduced
  2. House
  3. Senate
  4. Governor
  5. Law
Sponsors, hearings & roll-call votes

The record · every submission as filed

32 submissions
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Margaret Konze
for Myself
Pembroke

Please reconsider the QR code part. One should not need to buy a smart phone with apps that will sell their data just so they can see where their property taxes are being spent. Elderly people who don’t pay for internet shouldn’t have to sign up just to get this information if people are entitled to it.

Support
Melanie Kasparian
for Myself
Hudson

Suggest you modify the text to not specify the type of data visualization (i.e. pie charts, bar charts). Best practices in data visualization should be deployed based on the context = leveraging size, shape, color, etc.

Oppose
Patricia Hunt
for Myself
Francona

This bill seems to require municipalities to produce pie charts, bar charts, and QR codes on property tax bills depicting where and how tax dollars are being allocated. Are you kidding me? Stop requiring more and more of cities and towns and do your own jobs!

Oppose
Kelly Butler
for Myself
Gilsum

More information is always good, and some people are more visual learners that find charts easier to understand.

Support
INES MONTALVO
for Myself
Gorham

Transparency is important especially in relation to our property taxes and where it all going.

Support
Donna. Tully.
for Myself
Littleton

I am oppose this bill for the benefit of NH voters.

Oppose
Simon Berrio
for Myself
Dalton

While transparency is never a bad thing, I oppose this bill as written as it will increase costs for my town(Dalton) by requiring additional hours for our lone town office employee to produce these Concord specified items. Increasing local costs will not decrease or at least keep even local property taxes, and I could have sworn the party of the sponsors ran on decreasing costs with an eye towards runaway property taxes. Fix it so the state pays for it or ITL completely. Oh, and a QR code. Really? Stop it.

Oppose
Debrah Howes
for American Federation of Teachers - NH
Bow

Position recorded without written comment.

Oppose
Katherine Phelps
for Myself
Loudon

Position recorded without written comment.

Oppose
Daniel Richardson
for Myself
Nashua

Position recorded without written comment.

Support
Patricia E Kellogg
for Myself
Littleton

Position recorded without written comment.

Oppose
Lois Cote
for Myself
Manchester

Position recorded without written comment.

Oppose
Ellen Astle
for Myself
Northumberland

Position recorded without written comment.

Oppose
JANICE KELBLE
for Myself
Hooksett

Position recorded without written comment.

Oppose
Susan Moore
for Myself
Whitefield

Position recorded without written comment.

Oppose
Barbara Langworthy
for Myself
Franconia NH

Position recorded without written comment.

Oppose
Johann Griffin
for Myself
Lancaster

Position recorded without written comment.

Oppose
Stephen Monsein
for Myself
Sugar Hill

Position recorded without written comment.

Oppose
Marilyn Monsein
for Myself
Sugar Hill

Position recorded without written comment.

Oppose
Mary Ruppert
for Myself
Lyman

Position recorded without written comment.

Oppose
kris pastoriza
for Myself
easton

Position recorded without written comment.

Oppose
Ann snide
for Myself
Pelham

Position recorded without written comment.

Oppose
Nicole MacKay
for Myself
Sugar Hill

Position recorded without written comment.

Oppose
Eric Pauer
for Myself
Brookline

Position recorded without written comment.

Support
Ruth O'Neal
for Myself
Effingham

Position recorded without written comment.

Oppose