Longtime state representative and Franklin Pierce University history professor Douglas Ley died at home on Thursday, family members announced Friday.Ley’s son, Ethan, announced his father’s passing Friday on CaringBridge, a crowd-funding site aimed at.
Longtime state representative and Franklin Pierce University history professor Douglas Ley died at home on Thursday, family members announced Friday.Ley’s son, Ethan, posted on CaringBridge, a crowd-funding site aimed at paying medical expenses, on.
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American Rescue Plan provision bars states from using funds to reduce revenues
April 20, 2021
As if the tensions between Governor Sununu, the New Hampshire House and Senate were not enough to potentially gum up the state budget process, a controversial provision of the American Rescue Plan Act poses another challenge for lawmakers in Concord.
Section 9901 of the act prohibits states from applying the funds it distributes to “either directly or indirectly offset a reduction in net tax revenue arising from a change in law, regulation or administrative interpretation … that reduces any tax (by providing for a reduction in a rate, a rebate, a deduction, a credit or otherwise) or delays the imposition of any tax or tax increase.”
Tax prohibition amendments don’t pass House
By Garry Rayno - InDepthNH | Apr 11, 2021
House members enjoy some food at Friday s session at the NH SportsPlex in Bedford. (PAULA TRACY photo)
BEDFORD House Republicans failed Friday to muster the votes needed to advance two proposed constitutional amendments prohibiting broad-based taxes.
The House did approve a bill to expand the base of the rooms and meals tax to include internet transactions for rental cars and rooms.
The proposed constitutional amendments would have prohibited the legislature from approving an income tax and a “broad-based sales tax.”
Supporters of the prohibition of an income tax said the proposal has previously been before voters and had majority support, but not enough to meet the two-thirds majority needed to be added to the constitution.
Rayno: Heated battles expected this week in New Hampshire House
Gary Rayno
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” is the opening line of Charles Dickens’ classic novel “A Tale of Two Cities.”
Although it was written about the French Revolution, it could have been written about three days in April for the New Hampshire House.
Another description may be “three days in hell” as the nearly 400-member House works its way through 331 bills in order to meet its already delayed crossover deadline.
Scheduled to meet from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at the NH Sportsplex in Bedford, the three long days may not be enough time given the contentious issues legislators face.