Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 200-A:5

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Legislative session: That part of a chamber's daily session in which it considers legislative business (bills, resolutions, and actions related thereto).
The New England Board of Higher Education shall certify to the department of education, division of educator support and higher education on or before October 1 of the year preceding each legislative session the amounts needed to carry out the purposes of N.H. Rev. Stat. § 200-A:4 for the coming biennium. Upon such certification, the division shall include such amounts in the budget request for its division. The sums appropriated by the legislature in accordance with the provisions of this subdivision shall be a continuing appropriation and shall not lapse.