The Rockingham County Conservation District (RCCD) opposes legislation that would restrict or eliminate non-assessable health risk pools or require insufficient contingency reserves. RCCD depends largely on grant funding and the technical services we provide to communities, and our operating budgets remain relatively fixed. Any unexpected assessment related to health coverage would create a significant financial hardship, either jeopardizing our ability to operate or shifting an unaffordable burden onto our employees. For these reasons, we urge the Senate to oppose any bill that undermines predictable, stable health coverage for small public entities.
HB1491
House · 2026 sessionRepublicanVeto — override pendingMunicipal pooled risk management programs
AIEstablishes and regulates political subdivision risk management programs, setting eligibility and reporting requirements, oversight and enforcement authority, financial and solvency standards, and tax exemption and confidentiality provisions.
relative to pooled risk management programs.
Status
Vetoed by the governor — the override vote has not been held yet · June 24, 2026- ✓Introduced
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32 submissionsPelham School District is a member of HealthTrust and we strongly support HB1491. The bill allows for strong oversight, prudent reserves, and a solvency model applied to similar insurance entities nationally by all 50 state Insurance Departments.
Continuing and supporting insurance risk pools are very important for NH municipalities.
I support this bill as it allows non-assessable risk pools to maintain adequate reserves while having solid oversight and aligns with similar insurance entities nationally.
I vote this way for the sake of NH voters.
As a fiscal conservative I feel the current reserve pool accounting is the more conservative and prudent.
I oppose this bill that would lower maximum contingency reserves allowed in health risk pools.
This will allow for stringent oversight of non-assessable risk pools. It will also allow the continuation of these risk pools and protect the local governments from unexpected shortfalls similar to the short sighted funding of the retirement systems in the past.
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