2012-2013 N.H. Budget Highlights

Highlights of New Hampshire's 2012-2013, $10.2 billion budget for the two years beginning July 1:

BIG NUMBERS

$10.2 billion total funds budget, about 6 percent less than current budget.

$2.5 billion funded from state taxes, about 8 percent less than current state tax budget.

$1.9 billion education aid from state taxes, the same as current budget.

Makes up for $375 million in federal stimulus money in current budget.

REVENUE CHANGES

No new or higher taxes.

Allows temporary $30 motor vehicle registration surcharge to end. Fee raised $90 million toward highway projects.

Cuts cigarette tax 10 cents to $1.68 per pack. Up to $16 million in annual revenue lost.

Cuts the saltwater fishing license from $15 to $10.

Reduces the marriage license fee from $50 to $45.

Reduces condominium fees and license fees for pet shops.

Counts on $10 million from sale of the Laconia prison site.

Repeals the 10 percent gambling tax on winnings over $600.

BIG IMPACTS

Cuts payments to hospitals for caring for the poor by $115 million.

Cuts aid to University System of New Hampshire $84 million, almost in half, resulting in higher tuition, layoffs.

Reduces funding for community colleges by $11 million.

Spends $187 million less than the governor recommended on social services.

Lays off perhaps as many as 500 state workers once lump-sum agency budget cuts are implemented.

Reorganizes the court system into a circuit court resulting in perhaps three dozen layoffs.

Increases workers' pension costs to reduce employers' pension costs and reduces benefits for non-vested workers.

Requires governor to negotiate $50 million in benefit or personnel savings by Sept. 1. More layoffs are possible.

Raises health care premiums for retirees under 65.

Reduces local aid from tax on renting hotel rooms and eating in restaurants.

Suspends revenue sharing with communities.

SOCIAL SERVICES

Funds existing services for disabled. Partially funds services for the disabled on a waiting list.

Allows mental health providers to triage clients to save money.

Funds services for only 90 of the most troubled youth at risk of becoming delinquent and ends help to hundreds more.

Eliminates help for unemployed, two-parent families.

Reduces family planning funding and bars using remaining money for abortions.

Reduces domestic violence funding.

Suspends funding for foster grandparents, senior volunteers and congregate housing.

Cuts funding for clinics to test for sexually transmitted diseases and HIV.

Reduces adoption subsidies to help with placing foster children.

Suspends funding for Alzheimer's caregivers support.

Takes over a subsidized health insurance program now handled privately.

Repeals the catastrophic illness program.

OTHER AGENCIES

Authorizes the Department of Corrections to privatize functions, including sending inmates to private facilities.

Streamlines regulatory permitting for construction along rivers and lakes.

Reduces funding for tax auditors.

Eliminates all but administrative funding for a land conservation program.

Eliminates a subsidy to schools for driver training.

Increases funding for charter schools.

Includes funding for kindergarten classroom construction but with a $1 million cap per school.

Funds existing school construction projects, but no new projects without a waiver during the two-year budget.