Governor Chris Sununu Statement on SB 12

Today, Governor Chris Sununu issued the following statement after letting SB 12, establishing the New Hampshire college graduate retention incentive partnership program and making an appropriation therefor, into law without signature:

"Senate Bill 12 will become law, however, I could not in good faith sign a bill that is nothing more than political window dressing. SB 12 appropriates $1 a year to the Department of Business and Economic Affairs to create a website to promote New Hampshire business. In my budget, I proposed a $16 million a year student debt assistance and workforce recruitment program that would have enabled participants to become debt free after five years of living and working for a New Hampshire employer. This innovative program would have been funded with over $150 million dollars over the next 10 years, none of it coming from taxpayers. Unfortunately, the legislature replaced this program with a $1 broken promise to the students of New Hampshire and I will not endorse such a measure."