---
type: "Bill"
title: "relative to capital reserve fund appropriations by municipalities."
description: "relative to capital reserve fund appropriations by municipalities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 251"
citation: "New Hampshire HB 251 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2016-12-30"
last_action: "2017-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6eaf8a97-001a-41ba-b8b0-bfda75e61f8f"
source_url: "http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_Status/bill_status.aspx?lsr=0517&sy=2017&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2017"
source_hash: "281db9e0921eb7fa833338a073bf159a10a0112d0837e3d8333765debb0336ce"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nh"]
---

# New Hampshire HB 251 (2017) — relative to capital reserve fund appropriations by municipalities.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Amendment #2017-1573e** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/billText.aspx?sy=2017&id=2017-1573e&txtFormat=amend)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2016-12-30** Introduced 01/04/2017 and referred to Municipal and County Government HJ 2 P. 22 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-11** Public Hearing: 01/17/2017 01:30 PM LOB 301
- **2017-01-26** ==RECESSED== Subcommittee Work Session: 01/26/2017 02:30 PM LOB 301
- **2017-01-26** ==CONTINUED== Subcommittee Work Session: 01/31/2017 09:45 AM LOB 301
- **2017-02-10** Executive Session: 02/01/2017 LOB 301
- **2017-02-10** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2017-0231h for 02/15/2017 (Vote 13-0; CC) HC 11 P. 13 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-15** Amendment # 2017-0231h: AA VV 02/15/2017 HJ 7 P. 18
- **2017-02-15** Ought to Pass with Amendment 0231h: MA VV 02/15/2017 HJ 7 P. 18 `passage`
- **2017-02-22** Introduced 02/16/2017 and Referred to Public and Municipal Affairs; SJ 7 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** Hearing: 03/22/2017, Room 102, LOB, 09:45 am; SC 15
- **2017-04-13** Committee Report: Ought to Pass, 04/20/2017; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 19 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-20** Ought to Pass: MA, VV; OT3rdg; 04/20/2017; SJ 14 `passage`
- **2017-05-03** Enrolled Bill Amendment # 2017-1573e Adopted, VV, (In recess of 04/27/2017); SJ 16
- **2017-05-03** Enrolled Bill Amendment # 2017-1573e: AA VV 04/20/2017 HJ 14 P. 26
- **2017-05-12** Enrolled (In recess 05/11/2017); SJ 17
- **2017-05-17** Enrolled 05/04/2017 HJ 15 P. 48
- **2017-06-19** Signed by Governor Sununu 06/16/2017; Chapter 127; Eff. 8/15/2017 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6eaf8a97-001a-41ba-b8b0-bfda75e61f8f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).