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SB 277 · 2025 · Senate · Ways and Means Committee

Utility tax rules for power plants

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relative to the application of utility property taxes and statewide education property taxes to electric generating facilities.

Exempts certain electric generating facilities with payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreements from the statewide education property tax until the agreement expires or July 1, 2032, and establishes utility property tax calculation and payment provisions for future agreements.AI-generated

Status

Killed in the Senate — Inexpedient to Legislate · November 3, 2025
  1. ✓Introduced
  2. ✕Senate
  3. House
  4. Governor
  5. Law

Analysis

This bill provides: I. That an electric generating facility exempt from the utility property tax and making a payment in lieu of taxes to the municipality shall not be responsible for payment of the state education tax until such agreement expires or until July 1, 2032, whichever occurs first. II. For calculation and payment of the utility property tax in future agreements.

From the bill's official ANALYSIS section.

In the bill's words

Quoted verbatim from the bill as amended by the Senate. Passages chosen from the operative text.Computed by this site

“Persons and property subject to taxation under this chapter shall not be subject to tax under RSA 76:3; provided, however, that nothing in this chapter shall be construed to exempt such persons or property from local school, municipal, district, or county taxation under RSA 76, except as provided in RSA 72:74, VIII.”
RSA 83-F:9

Official record

Bill page — docket & status

gc.nh.gov · the authoritative source

Sponsors

Sen. Timothy LangRPrimeChair· Ways and Means
  • Sen. Howard PearlRChair· Executive Departments and Administration
  • Rep. Michael MoffettRChair· State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

Also: Sen. David WattersD

Public testimony

No one submitted online testimony on this bill. See the record

Votes

yeanay
Starting text: Bill as introduced

Hearings and debates

  • Feb 12, 2025Public hearingSenate Ways and Means1:25:10–1:29:324m 22slocated in the stream transcriptHearing
  • Mar 6, 2025Floor debateSenate floorWatchnot located in the transcript — opens the full streamCommittee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0398s; Ought to Pass with Amendment #2025-0398s — adopted, voice vote; Committee Amendment # 2025-0398s — adopted, voice vote
  • Mar 27, 2025Floor debateSenate floor3:53:54–3:56:112m 17slocated in the stream transcriptCommittee Report: Ought to Pass; Ought to Pass — adopted, voice vote; Sen. Gray Moved Laid on Table — adopted, voice vote

Timestamps locate where this bill is taken up in the chamber's YouTube stream.

Legislative history

  1. Jan 9, 2025SenIntroduced 01/09/2025 and Referred to Ways and Means; SJ 3
  2. Feb 12, 2025SenHearing: 02/12/2025, Room 100, SH, 09:45 am; SC 9
  3. Mar 6, 2025Sen: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2025-0398s, 03/06/2025; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 11
  4. Mar 6, 2025SenCommittee Amendment # 2025-0398s, AA, VV; 03/06/2025; SJ 6
  5. Mar 6, 2025SenOught to Pass with Amendment #2025-0398s, MA, VV; Refer to Finance Rule 4-5; 03/06/2025; SJ 6
  6. Mar 27, 2025Sen: Ought to Pass, 03/27/2025, Vote 7-0; SC 14
  7. Mar 27, 2025SenOught to Pass: MA, VV; 03/27/2025; SJ 9
  8. Mar 27, 2025SenSen. Gray Moved Laid on Table, MA, VV; 03/27/2025; SJ 9
  9. Mar 27, 2025SenPending Motion OT3rdg; 03/27/2025; SJ 9
  10. Oct 31, 2025SenInexpedient to Legislate, Senate Rule 3-23, 10/31/2025; SJ 1

Coverage

No reporting linked yet.

Documents (PDF)

Bill text & amendments link direct to gc.nh.gov; committee reports stream from the state record.