{"id":13197,"date":"2013-01-22T15:46:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T20:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=13197"},"modified":"2013-01-22T17:39:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T22:39:31","slug":"rd-tax-credit-bill-gets-the-go-ahead-in-ways-and-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2013\/01\/22\/rd-tax-credit-bill-gets-the-go-ahead-in-ways-and-means\/","title":{"rendered":"R&#038;D Tax Credit Bill Gets The Go Ahead In Ways And Means"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Ways and Means committee has unanimously agreed to send to the floor a bill that doubles New Hampshire\u2019s research and development tax credit \u2013 a priority of both the <a href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/12\/20\/expansion-of-rd-tax-credit-tops-bia-policy-priorities\/\" target=\"_blank\">Business and Industry Association<\/a>, as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhpr.org\/post\/senate-democrats-outline-priorities\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Democrats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Odell, who is chairman of the Ways and Means committee, says he introduced a similar bill last year, but it failed despite unanimous support in the Senate and strong support in the house. Odell says the House added a non-germaine amendment in committee of conference. &#8220;The goal was to force the Senate to accept an amendment that dealt with abortion,&#8221; Odell says, &#8220;and the Senate would not do that. That&#8217;s just not our style.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The bill, if passed, will increase the total amount of available funds from $1 million to $2 million, while maintaining the current maximum of $50,000 per credit. The Senate will debate the bill on January 31st.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Ways and Means committee has unanimously agreed to send to the floor a bill that doubles New Hampshire\u2019s research and development tax credit \u2013 a priority of both the Business and Industry Association, as well as Senate Democrats. Senator Odell, who is chairman of the Ways and Means committee, says he introduced a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[474,53],"tags":[547,437,468],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}