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SB 46 · 2025 · Senate · Election Law and Municipal Affairs Committee

Current use valuation buffer requirement

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enabling municipalities to allow land impacted by new construction or reconstruction to be eligible for current use valuation only after a no cut, vegetated buffer is established and maintained.

Allows municipalities to permit land affected by new construction or reconstruction to remain eligible for current use valuation only after a no-cut, vegetated buffer is established and maintained.AI-generated

Status

Killed in the Senate — Inexpedient to Legislate · March 20, 2025
  1. ✓Introduced
  2. ✕Senate
  3. House
  4. Governor
  5. Law

Analysis

This bill allows municipalities to permit land affected by new construction or reconstruction to be eligible for current use valuation only after a no-cut, vegetated buffer is established and maintained.

From the bill's official ANALYSIS section.

In the bill's words

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

“Municipalities may adopt ordinances to enroll land affected by new construction or reconstruction for current use only after a minimum 75-foot no-cut vegetated buffer to the ordinary high water line of any adjacent perennial stream, shoreline of any great pond, or from tidal mean higher high water is established and maintained.”
Section 1

Official record

Bill page — docket & status

gc.nh.gov · the authoritative source

Sponsors

Sen. Ruth WardRPrimeDeputy Majority Leader

Public testimony

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

Votes

yeanay
Starting text: Bill as introduced
  • Mar 20, 2025SenateCommittee report: Inexpedient to Legislate4–0
    Overall
    100% yea
  • Mar 20, 2025SenateVoice voteInexpedient to Legislateadopted

Hearings and debates

  • Jan 21, 2025Public hearingSenate Election Law and Municipal Affairs42:51–44:171m 26slocated in the stream transcriptHearing
  • Mar 20, 2025Floor debateSenate floorWatchnot located in the transcript — opens the full streamCommittee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate; Inexpedient to Legislate — 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 Election Law and Municipal Affairs; SJ 3
  2. Jan 21, 2025SenHearing: 01/21/2025, Room 103, LOB, 09:45 am; SC 7
  3. Mar 20, 2025Sen: Inexpedient to Legislate, 03/20/2025, Vote 4-0, CC; SC 13
  4. Mar 20, 2025SenInexpedient to Legislate, MA, VV === BILL KILLED ===; 03/20/2025; SJ 8

Coverage

No reporting linked yet.

Documents (PDF)

  • Introducedversion

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