Wednesday • May 8 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XIX
Manchester, N.H.
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Of the 19 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 4 and opposition of 2 with 0 being of interest.
Of the 20 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 1 and opposition of 2 with 3 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Oppose | SB380 | relative to moving the state primary date. | Election Law | Mon 3/11 | 1:50 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill moves the state primary date to June. |
| Oppose | SB454 | increasing the annual real estate transfer tax revenue contribution to the affordable housing fund. | Ways and Means | Mon 3/11 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill increases the amount of annual real estate transfer tax revenues which are transfered to the affordable housing fund. |
| Support | SB513 | relative to permitting charity auctions by non-profit corporations. | Ways and Means | Mon 3/11 | 2:15 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill permits non-profit corporations to conduct charity auctions. |
| Support | SB514 | relative to the timber tax. | Ways and Means | Mon 3/11 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill increases the amount of wood or wood chips a landowner can use for personal use or for land conservation purposes without being subject to the timber tax. |
| Of Interest | HB354 | relative to chartered public school eligibility for state school building aid. | Education | Tue 3/12 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill adds chartered public schools to the procedures for consideration, approval, plan requirements, and determination of grants for school building aid. |
| Of Interest | SB449 | relative to the permit issuance timeline for state air permits. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 3/12 | 9:35 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill provides the commissioner 180 days to act upon an air pollution control permit application. |
| Support | HB1575 | prohibiting the state of New Hampshire from enforcing any federal agricultural checkoff program. | Environment and Agriculture | Wed 3/13 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill prohibits the state of New Hampshire from enforcing payments for any federal checkoff program for agricultural commodities. |
| Support | HB1703 | relative to the sale of kangaroo and caribou meat. | Environment and Agriculture | Wed 3/13 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill allows for the raising, butchering, and sale of kangaroo and caribou meat. |
| Support | HB644 | relative to regulating barbers, cosmetologists, and estheticians. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 3/13 | 9:15 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill makes changes to the regulation of barbers, cosmetologists, and estheticians. |
| Of Interest | SB605 | relative to ethical standards for members of the general court. | Judiciary | Thu 3/14 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill defines “organization” for the purpose of determining the ethical duties of members of the general court. |
| Oppose | SB601 | restricting electronic mail solicitation. | Judiciary | Thu 3/14 | 9:15 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill makes certain restrictions to electronic mail solicitation and provides penalties for violations of such restrictions. |
| Oppose | SB593 | relative to possession of firearms in safe school zones. | Judiciary | Thu 3/14 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill prohibits carrying a firearm in a safe school zone. |
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Of the 32 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 5 and opposition of 11 with 3 being of interest.
Of the 19 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 2 and opposition of 0 with 2 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Oppose | HB1608 | relative to providing an induction program for new teachers. | Education | Mon 3/4 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill creates an induction program for new teachers. |
| Oppose | HB1605 | relative to alternative education programs for granting credit leading to graduation. | Education | Mon 3/4 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires all alternative learning programs for granting credit leading to graduation to comply with state and federal anti-discrimination laws. |
| Oppose | HB1592 | relative to the use of education freedom account funds in religious schools. | Education | Mon 3/4 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill prohibits the use of education freedom account funds at religious schools or for religious education or training, and repeals provisions relating to independence of and legal proceedings concerning education freedom account providers. |
| Oppose | HB1084 | relative to qualifications for the commissioner of education. | Education | Mon 3/4 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill establishes minimum qualifications for the commissioner and deputy commissioner of the department of education. |
| Oppose | HB1610 | relative to standardized assessment data for participants in education freedom accounts. | Education | Mon 3/4 | 12:30 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires all students to participate in standardized statewide assessments. |
| Oppose | HB1654 | relative to review of education freedom account service providers. | Education | Tue 3/5 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires the state board of education to annually review education freedom account service providers for continued compliance with all state and federal anti-discrimination laws. |
| Oppose | HB1650 | relative to the approval of alternative programs for granting credit leading to graduation. | Education | Tue 3/5 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires all alternative learning programs for granting credit leading to graduation to comply with state and federal anti-discrimination laws, and establishes a committee to evaluate applications for alternative programs. |
| Support | HB1093 | prohibiting mandatory mask policies in schools. | Education | Tue 3/5 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill prohibits school boards and other public education agencies from adopting, enforcing, or implementing a policy that requires students or members of the public to wear a facial covering. |
| Of Interest | HB115 | relative to changing the date of the state primary election. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 3/5 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill changes the date of the state primary election to the third Tuesday in August. |
| Oppose | HB1102 | relative to the definition of animal cruelty. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 3/5 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill adds the sale of certain animals with deformities to the definition of animal cruelty. |
| Support | HB370 | relative to after market window tinting on motor vehicles for drivers with medical conditions. | Transportation | Tue 3/5 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 101 | This bill authorizes persons with medical conditions to apply for a special permit to waive the prohibition on automobile after market window tinting on the left and right side of the driver. |
| Of Interest | HB1410 | relative to certain professional licenses. | Ways and Means | Tue 3/5 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill repeals the chapter on the board of registration of medical technicians. This bill further makes changes to the nurse practice act. |
| Oppose | HB1293 | (New Title) relative to the use of certain fertilizers on turf. | Ways and Means | Tue 3/5 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill prohibits the use of certain fertilizers using phosphorus. |
| Support | HB1565 | (New Title) relative to the definition of potentially hazardous food. | Ways and Means | Tue 3/5 | 12:00 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill removes “processed acidified” food from the definition of potentially hazardous food. |
| Oppose | HB1611 | relative to establishing a child care workforce fund. | Ways and Means | Tue 3/5 | 12:30 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill establishes a child care workforce fund. |
| Of Interest | HB1628 | relative to regulatory authority for apples, coal grading, potatoes, cider, milk, and lumber. | Environment and Agriculture | Wed 3/6 | 11:15 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill repeals certain regulatory statutes that have been preempted by the federal government and moves regulatory authority for apples, cider, and lumber to the chapter relative to standards for farm products. This bill is a request of the committee to study the New Hampshire law relative to standards for farm products and marketing and grading commodities established in 2023, 12:1. |
| Support | HB1578 | relative to organic food certification and labeling. | Environment and Agriculture | Wed 3/6 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill repeals the certification program and the organic processors-handlers certification fund. |
| Support | HB1574 | removing regulations on the direct sale of raw milk to consumers. | Environment and Agriculture | Wed 3/6 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill removes certain regulations on direct sale of raw milk to consumers. |
| Of Interest | HB274 | relative to the administrative rulemaking process. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 3/6 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill directs agencies to notify legislative policy committees and known stakeholders of proposed rulemaking under RSA 541-A. The bill also directs the agency to pay attorneys fees in cases in which the agency adopted rules after final objection by the joint legislative committee on administrative rules and a finding by the court that the rule is invalid. |
| Support | HB1233 | relative to animal chiropractors. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 3/6 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill exempts individuals who have completed a nationally recognized animal chiropractic program, as determined by the executive director of the office of professional licensure and certification, from veterinary licensure requirements. |
| Of Interest | HB1562 | relative to personal watercraft. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 3/6 | 9:00 AM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill removes the term “ski craft” from laws on navigation of state waters and defines such craft as personal watercraft. |
| Oppose | HB1390 | relative to regulating wakeboating and wakesports. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 3/6 | 1:00 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill establishes prohibitions and limitations for the operation of wakeboats and their use in wakesports on public waters of the state. |
| Support | HB1291 | relative to accessory dwelling unit uses allowed by right. | Special Committee on Housing | Fri 3/8 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill increases the number of accessory dwelling units allowed by right from one to 2, adds definitions, and increases the maximum square footage. It also gives municipalities the right to require accessory units meet the definition for workforce housing. |
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Of the 52 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 10 and opposition of 3 with 6 being of interest.
Of the 15 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 1 with 1 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Of Interest | CACR19 | relating to redistricting. Providing that an independent redistricting commission shall be established to draw boundaries for state and federal offices. | Election Law | Tue 2/20 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution establishes an independent redistricting commission to draw the boundaries for state and federal elections. |
| Of Interest | HB1098 | relative to ballots delivered to elder care facilities. | Election Law | Tue 2/20 | 9:25 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill enables ballot clerks, assistant clerks, or clerks pro tem to deliver ballots to elder care facilities. This bill is a request of the secretary of state. |
| Oppose | SB538 | relative to zoning procedures concerning residential housing. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 2/20 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill establishes a tax relief program for office conversion to residences; enables municipalities to allow its governing body to adopt certain zoning ordinance changes; and adds additional authority in zoning powers for parking requirements and lot size requirements related to sewer infrastructure. |
| Of Interest | SB594 | defining state approved processing facility and regulating on farm slaughter of amenable animals. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 2/20 | 9:15 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill defines state approved processing facility for slaughtering and processing amenable animals and makes regulations regarding the on-farm slaughter of amenable animals. |
| Oppose | HB1351 | prohibiting the sale and use of adhesive-based rodent traps. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 2/20 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill prohibits the sale and use of adhesive-based rodent traps. |
| Support | HB1325 | relative to allowing private ownership of small tailed monkeys, raccoons, foxes, otters, skunks, and kangaroos. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 2/20 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill allows the private ownership of small tailed monkeys, raccoons, foxes, otters, skunks, and kangaroos. |
| Oppose | HB1505 | establishing an animal abuse offender registry. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 2/20 | 2:45 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill establishes an animal abuse offender registry. |
| Of Interest | HB1190 | relative to adopting the interstate social work licensure compact. | Executive Departments and Administration | Tue 2/20 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 307 | This bill adopts the social work licensure compact. |
| Support | HB1391 | allowing new vehicles purchased in the model year or before to be inspected in the second year after purchase. | Ways and Means | Tue 2/20 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill allows new vehicles purchased in the model year or before to be inspected in the second year after purchase. |
| Support | HB1278 | relative to qualifying medical conditions for purposes of therapeutic cannabis. | Ways and Means | Tue 2/20 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill adds debilitating or terminal medical conditions to the qualifying medical conditions for therapeutic cannabis if a health care provider certifies the potential benefit to the patient. The bill also removes certain limitations on a qualifying visiting patient’s access to cannabis. |
| Of Interest | HB1204 | relative to government agent entries into secured premises. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/21 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill establishes requirements for when a government agent may enter a secured premises without a warrant. |
| Support | HB1276 | relative to repealing the prohibition on the possession or sale of blackjacks, slung shots, and metallic knuckles except by or to minors. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/21 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill amends the prohibition against carrying or selling a blackjack, slung shot, or metallic knuckles to prohibit sale to or possession of the said items by those under 18 years of age. |
| Support | HB1539 | relative to annulling, resentencing, or discontinuing prosecution of certain cannabis offenses. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/21 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill allows for additional annulments, resentencings, or discontinuations of prosecutions for certain cannabis offenses. |
| Oppose | HB1173 | relative to the disposition of vicious dogs. | Environment and Agriculture | Wed 2/21 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill provides for the euthanizing of dogs that attack humans or domestic animals 2 or more times in a 12 month period. |
| Support | HB1501 | repealing the requirement to register dogs annually. | Environment and Agriculture | Wed 2/21 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill repeals the requirement that cats and dogs be registered annually. |
| Support | HB1556 | relative to exemptions from the rabies vaccine. | Environment and Agriculture | Wed 2/21 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill removes the requirement that dogs exempt from the rabies vaccine be muzzled. |
| Of Interest | HB1328 | relative to public safety providers defined as essential services. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 2/21 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill deems all first responders as providing essential services. |
| Support | HB1174 | relative to plumbing apprentices. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 2/21 | 11:15 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill permits a licensed plumber to employ 3 apprentices. |
| Of Interest | HB1335 | removing Columbus Day as a holiday. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 2/21 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill removes Columbus Day as a holiday. |
| Support | HB1506 | relative to required votes to approve issuance of bonds. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 2/21 | 1:20 PM | LOB Room 307 | This bill requires that the approval of bonds issuance, if petitioned by at least 50 registered voters, shall be authorized only by a vote by ballot of 2/3 of all the voters present and voting at an annual or special meeting of the town, district, or city called for the purpose. |
| Support | HB1053 | relative to permissible residential units in a commercial zone. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 2/21 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 307 | This bill requires that for new or rehabilitated buildings in commercial zoned districts in a municipality residential uses shall be allowed as a matter of right. |
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Of the 76 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 8 and opposition of 9 with 17 being of interest.
Of the 20 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 1 and opposition of 1 with 2 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Oppose | HB1594 | establishing an annual review and qualification to determine eligibility to participate in the education freedom accounts program. | Education | Mon 2/12 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires annual determination of eligibility for awarding of education freedom account funds. |
| Oppose | HB1453 | relative to degree granting authority of certain institutions of higher education. | Education | Mon 2/12 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires institutions of higher education approved by the higher education commission for degree granting authority to be organized as nonprofit organizations and to comply with the Higher Education Act and state and federal anti-discrimination laws. |
| Oppose | HB1512 | limiting education freedom account funding to budgeted amounts. | Education | Mon 2/12 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill limits the amounts of funds appropriated from the education trust fund to the education freedom account program to budgeted sums. |
| Of Interest | HB1269 | relative to the use of child restraints in schools. | Children and Family Law | Tue 2/13 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill requires video and audio monitoring and recording of restraint and seclusion incidents if recording is included within a student’s individualized education program, and requires parental notification prior to the use of seclusion or restraints if practicable. |
| Of Interest | HB1659 | relative to interference with child custody and shared parenting. | Children and Family Law | Tue 2/13 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill provides that unless the parenting plan specifically provides otherwise, both parents shall have access to all records and information pertaining to the child. The bill further directs the court to award a parent additional parenting time in response to the other parent’s noncompliance with the parenting schedule. The bill also permits the court to fine the parent for noncompliance with either the obligation to share records or to comply with the parenting schedule. |
| Oppose | HB1092 | creating a period for the placing of and removal of political advertising on public property. | Election Law | Tue 2/13 | 9:50 AM | LOB Room 307 | This bill creates a period for the placing of and removal of political advertising on public property. |
| Of Interest | HB1099 | relative to partisan school district elections. | Election Law | Tue 2/13 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 307 | This bill enables school districts to adopt partisan elections. |
| Of Interest | HB1348 | relative to polling places at which total ballot counts exceed the total number of registered voters. | Election Law | Tue 2/13 | 1:50 PM | LOB Room 307 | This bill negates election results at polling places at which total ballot counts exceed the total number of registered voters. |
| Of Interest | HB1381 | relative to required training on election procedures. | Election Law | Tue 2/13 | 2:15 PM | LOB Room 307 | This bill requires the secretary of state to provide training on election procedures. |
| Of Interest | HB1091 | relative to the financing of political campaigns. | Election Law | Tue 2/13 | 2:40 PM | LOB Room 307 | This bill makes various changes to the laws that regulate the financing of political campaigns. |
| Of Interest | SB383 | relative to local tax caps. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 2/13 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill creates an additional adjustment to local tax caps based on inflation and population changes. The bill also establishes procedures for adoption of a budget cap by school districts. |
| Oppose | SB538 | relative to zoning procedures concerning residential housing. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 2/13 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill establishes a tax relief program for office conversion to residences; enables municipalities to allow its governing body to adopt certain zoning ordinance changes; and adds additional authority in zoning powers for parking requirements and lot size requirements related to sewer infrastructure. |
| Of Interest | HB1132 | relative to permits for the siting of new landfills. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 2/13 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill requires persons siting new solid waste landfills to identify brownfields within the state that may serve as the site of a new solid waste landfill as part of the public benefit requirement analysis. |
| Oppose | HB1170 | requiring public benefit and community impact assessments from the department of environmental services. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 2/13 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill requires the department of environmental services to conduct public benefit and community impact assessments when the department considers any permit or project to ensure that human values, safety, and concerns receive proper consideration during planning and project development. |
| Of Interest | HB1620 | relative to suspending the issuance of new landfill permits until 2031. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 2/13 | 2:45 PM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill requires the suspension of approval of new landfill permits by the department of environmental services until 2031. |
| Of Interest | HB1387 | relative to revisions to the state building code. | Executive Departments and Administration | Tue 2/13 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 305 | This bill updates the state building code and state building code review board. |
| Of Interest | HB1059 | relative to the state building code. | Executive Departments and Administration | Tue 2/13 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 305 | This bill updates the definition of the state building code to include more recent versions of certain international codes and amendments approved by the building code review board. |
| Of Interest | HB1106 | relative to net asset limits under the elderly property tax exemption. | Municipal and County Government | Tue 2/13 | 9:35 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill redefines the definition of net asset and residence for purposes of the elderly property tax exemption and expands the income eligibility threshold and the exemption amount. |
| Of Interest | HB1284 | relative to the quasi-judicial authority of planning boards. | Municipal and County Government | Tue 2/13 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill clarifies the quasi-judicial nature of local planning boards and adds requirements for duties, procedures, and disqualification of board members. |
| Support | HB1187 | relative to local legislative bodies’ voting threshold for approval of lease agreements over $100,000. | Municipal and County Government | Tue 2/13 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill changes the voting threshold for local legislative bodies’ approval of equipment leases over $100,000 from a simple majority to a 2/3 or 3/5 supermajority and requires a ballot vote. |
| Oppose | CACR16 | relating to local governance. Providing that local construction projects seeking amendments, waivers, or variances be subject to certain local approval, disclosure, and vote requirements. | Municipal and County Government | Tue 2/13 | 2:15 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution would require that projects governed by zoning and land use regulations seeking changes, variances, or waivers shall require prior approval of all civic, veterans, fraternal, and not-for-profit association property owners affected, a financial impact statement, and approval by three-fifths vote. |
| Oppose | HB1145 | prohibiting the private ownership of landfills. | Environment and Agriculture | Wed 2/14 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill prohibits new solid waste landfill permits in the state for facilities owned by any person other than the state of New Hampshire or a political subdivision thereof. |
| Of Interest | SB599 | relative to the state fire code. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 2/14 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill: I. Revises the definition of the state fire code. II. Ratifies amendments to the state fire code. |
| Of Interest | HB1688 | relative to the use of artificial intelligence by state agencies. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 2/14 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill prohibits state agencies from using artificial intelligence to manipulate, discriminate, or surveil members of the public. |
| Oppose | HB1545 | relative to the disposal of state surplus property for affordable housing. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 2/14 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill permits the disposal of state surplus property at less than fair market value if the property is transfered to a nonprofit for the purpose of constructing affordable housing. |
| Support | SB402 | relative to allowing pharmacists to administer FDA approved vaccines without explicit approval from the general court. | Health and Human Services | Wed 2/14 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill allows pharmacists to administer FDA approved vaccines without explicit approval from the general court. |
| Support | HB1115 | relative to the termination of tenancy at the expiration of the tenancy or lease term. | Judiciary | Wed 2/14 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill adds the expiration of the term of the lease or tenancy if over 6 months as grounds for an eviction. |
| Oppose | HB1368 | prohibiting termination of a tenancy based on a tenant’s failure to pay rent that was increased by certain price fixing programs. | Judiciary | Wed 2/14 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill prohibits evictions based upon certain vertical price fixing programs used by landlords. |
| Of Interest | HB1640 | relative to qualified immunity standards. | Judiciary | Wed 2/14 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill establishes standards and procedures for claims against the state for alleged violations of constitutional rights by government employees. |
| Of Interest | HB1268 | relative to prohibiting the issuance of large groundwater withdrawal permits for the commercial sale of bottled or bulk water. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 2/14 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 305 | This bill prohibits the issuance of large groundwater withdrawal permits for the commercial sale of bottled or bulk water. |
| Of Interest | HB1314 | relative to the comprehensive state development plan. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 2/14 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 305 | This bill adds provisions to the comprehensive state development plan concerning protection of natural resources and identifying environmental threats. |
| Of Interest | HB1646 | relative to chartered public schools. | Education | Thu 2/15 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill changes the eligibility requirements for chartered public schools. |
| Support | HB1065 | relative to fire sprinkler requirements in residential buildings. | Special Committee on Housing | Fri 2/16 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill adds an exception to the state fire code for fire suppression or sprinkler systems requirements for certain existing residential buildings with no more than 4 dwelling units. |
| Support | HB1215 | relative to subdivision regulations on the completion of improvements and the regulation of building permits. | Special Committee on Housing | Fri 2/16 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill provides that approved subdivision plats, site plans, and building permits shall be exempt from subsequent changes in the state building code, fire code, and municipal zoning regulations. |
| Support | HB1361 | relative to municipal land use regulation for manufactured housing and subdivisions. | Special Committee on Housing | Fri 2/16 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill requires municipalities to provide reasonable and realistic opportunities for the siting of manufactured housing parks and subdivisions. |
| Support | HB1399 | allowing municipalities to permit 2 residential units in certain single-family residential zones. | Special Committee on Housing | Fri 2/16 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill allows the expansion of a single family residence within a residential zone in an urban area to no more than 2 residential units without discretionary review or a hearing, if the proposed development meets certain requirements. |
| Support | HB1400 | relative to the required maximum number of residential parking spaces. | Special Committee on Housing | Fri 2/16 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill provides that zoning and planning regulations shall not set the maximum residential parking spaces, per unit, to greater than one parking space per residential unit. |
| Support | HB1291 | relative to accessory dwelling unit uses allowed by right. | Special Committee on Housing | Fri 2/16 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill increases the number of accessory dwelling units allowed by right from one to 2, adds definitions, and increases the maximum square footage. It also gives municipalities the right to require accessory units meet the definition for workforce housing. |
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Of the 106 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 18 and opposition of 12 with 8 being of interest.
Of the 18 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 1 with 2 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Of Interest | HB1473 | relative to social-emotional learning in public schools. | Education | Mon 2/5 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill prohibits the teaching of curriculum for social emotional learning in public schools. |
| Support | HB1298 | relative to the definition of part-time teachers. | Education | Mon 2/5 | 12:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill defines “part-time teachers” and subjects them to the board of education’s professional code of ethics and professional code of conduct. |
| Support | HB1458 | relative to authorizing parents to remove children from the English Language Learner Program. | Education | Mon 2/5 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill allows parents to remove their children from the English language learner (ELL) program, automatically removes them if they have not received ELL services in the last 2 years, and puts the burden on the local school district to appeal removals. |
| Of Interest | HB1496 | relative to the state’s duty to protect children in public schools. | Education | Mon 2/5 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill adds a provision stating that the state, acting as the temporary guardian for children in public schools, has a duty to protect those children. |
| Of Interest | HB1692 | relative to public high school graduation requirements. | Education | Mon 2/5 | 2:15 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill revises the requirements for public high school graduation by adding a requirement to earn a minimum competency score on the statewide assessment administered in high school. |
| Of Interest | HB1682 | relative to the civics test graduation requirement. | Education | Mon 2/5 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill provides authority for schools to use the department of education provided civics test to satisfy graduation requirements. |
| Of Interest | HB1573 | relative to oversight of and criteria for residential placement of children. | Children and Family Law | Tue 2/6 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill revises criteria for the out-of-home placement of children and increases oversight and certification criteria for out-of-state residential treatment programs. The bill also expands the definition of abuse or neglect under RSA 169-C to include a child in certain residential placements. |
| Support | HB1582 | relative to allowing for the consumption of alcohol in artist performance areas. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Tue 2/6 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 305 | This bill includes the stage and performance areas in the definition of entertainers under an exception to liquor license requirements. |
| Support | HB1151 | relative to the carrying of alcoholic beverages on hotel premises. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Tue 2/6 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 305 | This bill allows a guest of a hotel to purchase a drink at a hotel bar or restaurant and carry it back to the guest’s room. |
| Oppose | HB1591 | relative to fines for prohibited sales of tobacco. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Tue 2/6 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 305 | This bill moves fines for tobacco-related violations from statute to administrative rules, adopted by the liquor commission. |
| Oppose | HB1162 | relative to teaching discrimination in public schools and discrimination in public workplaces. | Education | Tue 2/6 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill provides that no education law of this state shall be construed to bar any school employee from teaching the historical or current experiences of any group that is protected from discrimination. The bill also repeals provisions of the law relating to the right to freedom from discrimination in public workplaces and education. |
| Oppose | HB1671 | relative to the complaint process for teaching discrimination and allowing educators and school officials a right of action for damages and costs for false accusations. | Education | Tue 2/6 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill provides that complaints for teaching discrimination first be made to the local school board and are appealed to the state board of education. The bill also allows educators or other school employees falsely accused of teaching discrimination to initiate a civil action for legal or equitable relief. |
| Support | HB1616 | relative to parental consent for student participation in Medicaid to schools program. | Education | Tue 2/6 | 2:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires schools to obtain parental consent for each service is provided to a student under the Medicaid to schools program. Violation of the requirement would subject the educator to disciplinary action by the state board of education. The bill also requires certain legislative policy committees to receive reports regarding the Medicaid to schools program. |
| Of Interest | SB531 | relative to background checks of municipal health officers. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 2/6 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill provides that municipalities shall be responsible for reviewing criminal background checks of nominated health officers, with oversight of appointments by the department of health and human services. The bill is a request of the department of health and human services. |
| Oppose | HB1504 | relative to architectural paint recycling. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 2/6 | 3:30 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill establishes an architectural paint recycling program administered by the department of environmental services. |
| Support | HB1331 | relative to dentists licensed in another country. | Executive Departments and Administration | Tue 2/6 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill allows the board of dental examiners to grant a limited dental license to applicants licensed in another country. |
| Support | HB1526 | relative to a conditional veterinary license for veterinarians educated in other countries. | Executive Departments and Administration | Tue 2/6 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill enables the board of veterinary medicine to issue a conditional veterinary license for veterinarians who are educated in other countries. |
| Support | HB1029 | relative to exempting certain persons from requiring a New Hampshire landing license if such persons are not landing for the purpose of the sale of the lobster or crab they have caught. | Fish and Game and Marine Resources | Tue 2/6 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 307 | This bill exempts certain persons from requiring a New Hampshire landing license if such persons are not landing for the purpose of the sale of the lobster or crab they have caught. |
| Oppose | HB1148 | relative to the fish and game commission. | Fish and Game and Marine Resources | Tue 2/6 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 307 | This bill makes changes to the fish and game commission including notice of appointment, qualifications, and misconduct and removal from office. |
| Support | HB1532 | relative to land owner rights and responsibility pertaining to game cameras and tree stands. | Fish and Game and Marine Resources | Tue 2/6 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 307 | This bill allows a tree stand to be erected from August 1 to June 1. This bill also allows for the placement of game cameras on a property with the owners’ permission. |
| Oppose | HB1100 | relative to coyote hunting. | Fish and Game and Marine Resources | Tue 2/6 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 307 | This bill prohibits hunting coyote during certain months to coincide with coyote pup rearing. |
| Support | HB1063 | relative to motor vehicle speed within 10 miles per hour of the speed limit. | Transportation | Tue 2/6 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 203 | This bill allows motor vehicles to lawfully travel 10 miles per hour over the speed limit in certain circumstances. |
| Support | HB1403 | relative to temporary vehicle emission control equipment. | Transportation | Tue 2/6 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 203 | This bill extends the repair period for vehicles that fail the OBD II test to 90 days. |
| Of Interest | HB1637 | relative to reducing requirements for vehicle inspections. | Transportation | Tue 2/6 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 203 | This bill reduces requirements for vehicle inspection. |
| Support | HB1247 | relative to requiring the display of certain information concerning Selective Service registration at driver licensing and school military recruiting locations. | Transportation | Tue 2/6 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 203 | This bill requires a form to be available at locations of state driver’s licensing and at schools hosting military recruiters concerning registration with the Selective Service System. |
| Oppose | HB1244 | prohibiting smoking and e-cigarettes in motor vehicles when a passenger is under 16 years of age. | Transportation | Tue 2/6 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 203 | This bill prohibits smoking and e-cigarettes in motor vehicles when a passenger under the age of 16 is in the vehicle. |
| Oppose | HB1467 | relative to child passenger protection. | Transportation | Tue 2/6 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 203 | This bill requires a motor vehicle restraint system for motor vehicle operators and passengers under 18 years of age. |
| Of Interest | HB1339 | relative to department of safety firearm background checks. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/7 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill requires the department of safety to be responsible for conducting the required firearm background checks for federal firearm licensees through NICS for all firearm transfers. |
| Oppose | HB1462 | relative to requirements for reporting hate crimes. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/7 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill establishes reporting requirements for hate-based crimes. |
| Of Interest | SB373 | relative to the state building code. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 2/7 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill updates the state building code definition. |
| Oppose | SB401 | relative to removing the prospective repeal of the New Hampshire granite advantage health care program and trust fund. | Health and Human Services | Wed 2/7 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill removes the prospective repeal of the New Hampshire granite advantage health care program and trust fund. |
| Support | HB1300 | relative to terminal patients’ right to try act. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 2/7 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill revises the definition of eligible patient and terminal illness for purposes of the patient’s right to try act, expands the criteria for informed consent, and removes references to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for purposes of defining an investigational drug or device. |
| Of Interest | HB1283 | relative to end of life options. | Judiciary | Wed 2/7 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill establishes a procedure for an individual with terminal illness to receive medical assistance in dying through the self administration of medication. The bill establishes criteria for the prescription of such medication and establishes reporting requirements and penalties for misuse or noncompliance. |
| Support | HB1377 | relative to granting workers free choice to join or refrain from joining labor unions. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Wed 2/7 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 307 | This bill prohibits collective bargaining agreements that require employees to join or contribute to a labor union. |
| Oppose | HB1388 | relative to recusal by members of the general court for conflicts of interest. | Legislative Administration | Wed 2/7 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 203 | This bill defines “conflict of interest” and makes provisions for the recusal of members of the general court for conflicts of interest. |
| Support | HB1479 | relative to prohibiting the use of federal, state, or local funds for lobbying activities. | Legislative Administration | Wed 2/7 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 203 | This bill regulates the use of public funds for lobbying activities and establishes certain additional enforcement mechanisms. |
| Support | HB1202 | relative to the issuance of permits for the alteration of driveways exiting onto public ways. | Public Works and Highways | Wed 2/7 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 201 | This bill establishes certain deadlines for issuance of permits for the alteration of driveways exiting onto public ways. |
| Oppose | HB1360 | relative to emergency authority on the public or coastal waters of the state. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 2/7 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 305 | This bill allows the department of safety to establish an emergency maximum speed limit on public and coastal waters for up to 10 days due to weather or environmental conditions. |
| Oppose | HB1611 | relative to establishing a child care workforce fund. | Special Committee on Childcare | Wed 2/7 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 209 | This bill establishes a child care workforce fund. |
| Support | HB1567 | relative to zoning provisions concerning family and group family child care uses. | Special Committee on Childcare | Wed 2/7 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 209 | This bill generally requires family and group family child care programs to be allowed as an accessory use to any primary residential use under local zoning and planning regulations. |
| Support | HB1584 | relative to home day care licensing requirements. | Special Committee on Childcare | Wed 2/7 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 209 | This bill exempts from child day care licensing requirements private homes in which care is provided for up to 4 children in addition to the provider’s own children. Current law permits care for 3 additional children. |
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Of the 118 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 24 and opposition of 17 with 5 being of interest.
Of the 55 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 3 and opposition of 8 with 4 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Of Interest | HB1437 | relative to the membership of the state board of education. | Education | Mon 1/29 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill changes the composition of the state board of education. |
| Oppose | HB1205 | relative to women’s school sports. | Education | Mon 1/29 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires schools to designate athletics by sex and prohibits biological males from participating in female athletics. This bill further creates various causes of action based on violations of the provisions in the bill. |
| Oppose | HB1279 | relative to payment by the state of a portion of retirement system contributions of political subdivision employers. | Finance | Mon 1/29 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill provides that the state shall pay 7.5 percent of contributions of retirement system employers other than the state for group I teachers and group II members. |
| Oppose | HB1508 | requiring fiber optic communications service providers to prioritize service restoration for public safety and public health organizations. | Science, Technology and Energy | Mon 1/29 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill requires fiber optic communications providers to prioritize the restoration of communication and Internet access for critical infrastructure of public safety and public health organizations over commercial and residential customers. |
| Support | HB1576 | relative to allowing property owners to opt out of public utilities. | Science, Technology and Energy | Mon 1/29 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill requires public utilities, cooperatives, and municipal corporations providing electric, gas, water, and sewer connection services to allow property owners or existing customers to decline service. |
| Support | HB1308 | relative to parent access to children’s library records. | Children and Family Law | Tue 1/30 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill provides a parent or legal guardian with access to their minor child’s library records. |
| Of Interest | CACR25 | relating to the rights of children and parents. Providing that parents and children have the right to control their health, education, and welfare. | Children and Family Law | Tue 1/30 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution amends the constitution to recognize the rights of children and parents to provide for the protection of their minor children. |
| Of Interest | CACR17 | relating to the rights of parents. Providing that parents shall have a fundamental right to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their minor children. | Children and Family Law | Tue 1/30 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution adds an amendment to the constitution stating that parents have a fundamental right to direct the upbringing of their minor children. |
| Oppose | SB308 | relative to the state minimum hourly rate. | Commerce | Tue 1/30 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill provides for increases in the minimum hourly rate. |
| Support | HB1159 | relative to toilet facilities provided by restaurants and other food establishments. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Tue 1/30 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 305 | This bill would require that restaurants designed to seat 50 or more patrons have at least 2 separate toilet rooms, and eliminates the requirement for separate bathrooms to be gender-specific. |
| Support | HB1090 | repealing the requirement to register “farmers’ market” as a trade name. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Tue 1/30 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 305 | This bill repeals the prohibition against using the term “farmers’ market” in a trade name unless the use met specific requirements. |
| Of Interest | SB523 | relative to the regulation of public school library materials. | Education | Tue 1/30 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill prohibits material that is obscene or harmful to minors in schools, requires vendors of school library materials to develop appropriate ratings, and creates a procedure for removal and cause of action. |
| Support | SB339 | relative to repealing the graduation requirement regarding Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) applications. | Education | Tue 1/30 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill removes requirements that students file a free application for federal student aid form (FAFSA) or a waiver for such form prior to graduation, and removes all references to the FAFSA. |
| Support | HB1446 | relative to eliminating the cost for electronic copies of the checklist. | Election Law | Tue 1/30 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill eliminates the cost for an electronic copy of the checklist that is emailed to the requestor but enables the town or city clerk and the secretary of state to charge a fee for electronic copies given on an external storage device. |
| Support | HB1313 | relative to access to the voter checklist by candidates. | Election Law | Tue 1/30 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill enables municipalities to send a copy of the voter checklist electronically to candidates. |
| Oppose | HB1292 | relative to coverage of children under the state retiree insurance plan. | Executive Departments and Administration | Tue 1/30 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill removes the requirement that young adult children covered under a retired state employee’s insurance plan be full-time students. |
| Support | HB1070 | relative to procedures during a state of emergency. | Executive Departments and Administration | Tue 1/30 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill prohibits state employees from cooperating with the executive branch in suspending civil liberties during a declared state of emergency. |
| Oppose | SB460 | establishing the crime of and penalties for unlawful use of unmanned aircraft systems. | Judiciary | Tue 1/30 | 1:30 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes the crime of and penalties for unlawful use of small unmanned aircraft systems (drones). |
| Support | SB578 | relative to criminal pre-trial services and monitoring. | Judiciary | Tue 1/30 | 2:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill prohibits criminal defendants on pre-trial release from being required to pay for pre-trial services or monitoring, including electronic monitoring, with the cost instead the be paid by the court where the defendant is charged or through appropriations to the agency performing the pretrial services and monitoring. This bill further requires the agency performing the pretrial services and monitoring to use the least restrictive interventions that are necessary unless otherwise ordered by the court. |
| Oppose | HB1218 | relative to voting for municipal bonds. | Municipal and County Government | Tue 1/30 | 9:50 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill allows for the adoption of municipal bonds by a simple majority vote. |
| Oppose | HB1362 | relative to authorizing municipalities to stabilize rent increases in rental housing. | Municipal and County Government | Tue 1/30 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill authorizes municipalities to enact and enforce rent stabilizing ordinances. |
| Support | HB1439 | relative to vehicle registrations and reciprocal toll collection enforcement agreements. | Public Works and Highways | Tue 1/30 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 201 | This bill removes the authority of the commissioner of the department of transportation to suspend the motor vehicle registration of owners in violation of reciprocal toll collection enforcement agreements. |
| Oppose | HB1487 | relative to the health effects of 5G technology. | Science, Technology and Energy | Tue 1/30 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill requires certain provisions around measurements of RF-radiation and notification of the effects of such radiation from 5G technology. |
| Oppose | HB1332 | relative to prohibiting electric vehicles from parking in parking garages. | Transportation | Tue 1/30 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 203 | This bill prohibits the parking of electric vehicles in parking garages. |
| Oppose | HB1445 | relative to electric bicycles, electric scooters, and electric unicycles. | Transportation | Tue 1/30 | 11:20 AM | LOB Room 203 | This bill modifies the requirements for the operation of and equipment required for all classes of electric bicycles, requires the division of motor vehicles to develop procedures for the registration of electric bicycles, and requires that electric scooters and electric unicycles be regulated as motor vehicles. |
| Oppose | SB428 | relative to the use of automated license plate readers by law enforcement officers. | Transportation | Tue 1/30 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 101 | This bill defines the appropriate use of automated license plate readers by law enforcement officers. The bill also makes an appropriation to the department of safety for digital automatic programming interface to connect data from the division of motor vehicles to the state police. |
| Oppose | HB1203 | relative to prohibiting the charging of rent to charities by charitable gaming facilities. | Ways and Means | Tue 1/30 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill prohibits the charging of rent for facilities or equipment to charities by primary game operators. |
| Support | HB1346 | relative to food service at a bed and breakfast. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/31 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill permits bed and breakfasts to serve snacks and meals in addition to breakfast. |
| Support | HB1540 | relative to the definitions of full course meals and full service restaurant for purposes of alcohol licensing. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/31 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill revises the definition of full course meal and full service restaurant for purposes of alcohol licensing. |
| Support | HB1374 | relative to liquor licenses for restaurants. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/31 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill changes the sales requirements for food for on-premises beverage and liquor licenses. |
| Support | HB1271 | relative to the conversion, combination, and reorganization of boards and advisory boards. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 1/31 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill, at the request of the office of professional licensure and certification: 1. Converts the board of acupuncture licensing into an advisory board and makes other amendments implementing this change. 2. Converts the board of family mediator certification into an advisory board and makes other amendments implementing this change. 3. Converts the guardian at litem board into an advisory board and makes other amendments implementing this change. 4. Converts the manufactured housing installations standards board into an advisory board and makes other amendments implementing this change. 5. Combines the advisory board of massage therapists with the advisory board of reflexology, structural integration, and Asian bodywork therapy and makes other amendments implementing this change. 6. Converts the midwifery council into an advisory council and makes other amendments implementing this change. 7. Converts the board of septic system evaluators into an advisory board and makes other amendments implementi |
| Oppose | SB406 | relative to emergency housing assistance and making an appropriation therefor. | Health and Human Services | Wed 1/31 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill directs the department of health and human services to establish a homelessness prevention pilot program, to be administered through municipalities and community action programs. The bill also makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services to assist municipalities in providing emergency housing assistance and preventing homelessness. |
| Of Interest | SB498 | relative to the department of health and human services, division for children, youth and families. | Health and Human Services | Wed 1/31 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill provides that under RSA 169-B, relative to delinquent children, and RSA 169-D, relative to children in need of services, a child may be placed with fictive kin or a child care institution, psychiatric residential treatment program, or other program certified by the department of health and human services. |
| Oppose | SB559 | relative to the definition of vaccine for purposes of the New Hampshire vaccine association. | Health and Human Services | Wed 1/31 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill revises the definition of vaccine for purposes of the New Hampshire vaccine association. |
| Support | HB1693 | relative to the use of psychedelics for therapeutic purposes. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 1/31 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill allows and regulates the use of psychedelics for certain qualifying medical conditions. |
| Support | HB1585 | relative to medication administration by direct care staff in residential care facilities. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 1/31 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill directs the department of health and human services, in consultation with the board of nursing, to adopt rules governing the administration of medication by direct care staff in residential care facilities. |
| Support | HB1010 | relative to expanding maternity options and midwifery access. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 1/31 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill provides that the midwifery council shall not adopt rules limiting care by a midwife based on the patient being pregnant with multiple fetuses, malpresentation of the fetus, the number of prior cesarean sections, or distance from a hospital. |
| Support | CACR12 | relating to the definition of the word “cherish.” Providing that the 1784 word “cherish” shall be replaced by the 2024 word “cherish.” | Judiciary | Wed 1/31 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution reinserts the word “cherish”. |
| Oppose | HB1169 | creating a private cause of action for discrimination based on hairstyles relative to a person’s ethnicity. | Judiciary | Wed 1/31 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill creates a private cause of action for discrimination based on hairstyles relative to a person’s ethnicity. This bill also exempts such causes of action from the jurisdiction of the human rights commission. |
| Support | HB1220 | relative to abolishing the collection of racial and ancestral data for use in a marital application worksheet. | Judiciary | Wed 1/31 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill abolishes the collection of racial and ancestral data for use in a marital application worksheet. |
| Support | HB1245 | relative to release of confidential records of a person appointed a guardian. | Judiciary | Wed 1/31 | 11:15 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill provides that a person appointed a guardian shall retain the right to access and consent to the release of his or her confidential records unless the terms of the appointment provide otherwise. |
| Oppose | HB1432 | relative to prohibiting certain uses of artificial intelligence and creating a private claim of action. | Judiciary | Wed 1/31 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill: 1. Establishes the crime of fraudulent use of artificial intelligence and sets penalties therefor; 2. Establishes a cause of action for fraudulent use of artificial intelligence; 3. Establishes registration of lobbyists who have been found to have fraudulently used artificial intelligence in certain cases; 4. Establishes a mechanism for the enforcement of a ban on the fraudulent use of artificial intelligence in elections. |
| Oppose | SB315 | relative to law enforcement agency reporting on information concerning bias crimes. | Judiciary | Wed 1/31 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill requires a law enforcement agency operating within New Hampshire to collect and report information concerning bias crimes as prescribed by the division of state police. |
| Support | SB507 | extending the time to petition for a new trial in certain cases. | Judiciary | Wed 1/31 | 1:15 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill extends the time to petition a court for a new trial in certain cases. |
| Support | HB1475 | relative to preventing strategic lawsuits against public participation. | Judiciary | Wed 1/31 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill establishes legal process for preventing strategic lawsuits against public participation (anti-SLAPP) as qualified immunity from suit, prosecution, and from liability for any defendant or counter-defendant in any action, case, claim, administrative proceeding, arbitration, or any other legal process that impacts their First Amendment rights. |
| Oppose | HB1037 | relative to repealing limited liability for manufacturers, distributors, dealers, or importers of firearms or ammunition. | Judiciary | Wed 1/31 | 3:15 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill repeals the statute that provides limited liability to manufacturers, distributors, dealers, or importers of firearms or ammunition. |
| Support | HB1343 | prohibiting the use by the governor of emergency orders concerning elections procedures without the written consent of the majority and minority leaders of the house of representatives and senate. | Legislative Administration | Wed 1/31 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 203 | This bill requires the governor to get prior written or electronic approval from legislative majority and minority leaders to issue an emergency order concerning elections procedures. |
| Oppose | HB1208 | relative to permitting requirements before timber harvesting operations in a wetland. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 1/31 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 305 | This bill requires that persons or entities conducting timber harvesting operations in wetlands verify compliance with and maintain in their records all permitting documents required for the work being done. |
| Support | HB1209 | relative to observers in motorboats. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 1/31 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 305 | This bill provides that an observer is not required in a motorboat towing water skiers, aquaplanes, or similar devices, or while engaged in wake surfing, when the motorboat is equipped with a mirror allowing the operator to view the water skiers. |
| Oppose | HB1229 | relative to the purchase and sale of any interest in real property abutting public waters. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 1/31 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 305 | This bill requires buyers, lessees and transferees of shoreland property to acknowledge minimum requirements for compliance with the shoreland water quality protection act. |
| Support | CACR15 | relating to taxation. Providing that a 2/3 vote is required to pass legislation imposing new or increased taxes or license fees, or to authorize the issuance of state bonds and providing that the general court shall appropriate funds for payment of interest and installments of principle of all state bonds. | Ways and Means | Wed 1/31 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution provides that a 2/3 vote of the house of representatives and the senate shall be required to pass a new tax or license fee or to increase any tax or license fee that has been levied, or to authorize the issuance of state bonds. |
| Of Interest | SB475 | relative to design of a climate-controlled storage facility for the New Hampshire state library. | Capital Budget | Thu 2/1 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill makes a capital appropriation to the department of natural and cultural resources toward the design of a climate-controlled storage facility to properly preserve precious state materials stored within the New Hampshire state library. |
| Of Interest | SB476 | making a capital appropriation to the department of corrections toward the replacement of the New Hampshire state prison for men. | Capital Budget | Thu 2/1 | 10:15 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill makes a bonded appropriation of funds for architectural, engineering, programming, and design and construction documents for the New Hampshire state prison for men. |
| Oppose | SB533 | relative to physical quorums at public meetings. | Judiciary | Thu 2/1 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill enables public bodies to allow one or more members of the body to participate in a meeting by electronic means. |
| Oppose | SB563 | relative to federal immigration enforcement. | Judiciary | Thu 2/1 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill prohibits state and local government entities from adopting sanctuary policies to prohibit or impede the enforcement of federal immigration law. |
| Of Interest | HB1050 | relative to establishing a voluntary waiver of the right to purchase a firearm. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 2/2 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill establishes the New Hampshire voluntary do not sell firearms list and prohibits the commercial sale or transfer of firearms to any person who voluntarily waives that person’s right to purchase a firearm and registers to be enrolled onto the list and sets out penalties for violations thereof. This bill further protects from public disclosure any governmental documents relating to the list. |
| Oppose | HB1336 | relative to employees’ firearms in locked vehicles. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 2/2 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill prohibits employers from inquiring into, searching for, or banning employee’s storage of firearms or ammunition in their locked vehicles and provides civil immunity to employers for any economic loss, injury, or death that results from an employer’s adherence to this law. |
| Support | HB1337 | relative to the return of weapons and ammunition upon expiration of protective orders. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 2/2 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill changes the burden to the plaintiff to file a request for a hearing prior to the expiration of a protective order or else any and all firearms, ammunition, or specified deadly weapons will be returned to the defendant. This bill further removes the prohibition that law enforcement agencies shall not release firearms, ammunition, or specified deadly weapons without a court order, and removes the authorization for law enforcement agencies to charge the defendant a fee for the storage of the firearms, ammunition, and specified deadly weapons. This bill further removes the subsection providing law enforcement agencies release from liability for damage or deterioration to the firearms, ammunition, or specified deadly weapons stored. |
| Oppose | HB1711 | authorizing the state to report mental health data for firearms background check purposes and providing for processes for confiscation of firearms following certain mental health-related court proceedings and for relief from mental health-related firearms disabilities. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 2/2 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill authorizes the state to report mental health data for firearms background check purposes and provides for processes for the confiscation of firearms following certain mental health-related court proceedings and for relief from mental health-related firearms disabilities. |
| Support | HB1701 | relative to annulments of records related to involuntary commitments. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 2/2 | 12:00 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill creates a process to annul records related to involuntary commitments to the state hospital or secure psychiatric unit. |
| Of Interest | HB1156 | relative to public health, safety, and state sovereignty. | State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs | Fri 2/2 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill provides that the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization shall have no jurisdiction in New Hampshire. |
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Of the 97 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 18 and opposition of 9 with 4 being of interest.
Of the 44 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 1 and opposition of 8 with 5 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Support | HB1652 | relative to establishing a local education freedom account program. | Education | Mon 1/22 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill allows school districts to adopt a program for local education freedom accounts for a parent of an eligible student to receive a grant from a scholarship organization for qualifying educational expenses at a public school, chartered public school, nonpublic school, or program approved by the department of education. |
| Oppose | HB1572 | prohibiting using mRNA technology in food and requiring the labeling of lab grown meat and food containing insects. | Environment and Agriculture | Mon 1/22 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill prohibits the use of mRNA technology in food sold in New Hampshire and requires the labeling of lab grown meat and food products containing insects. |
| Support | HB1565 | relative to the sale of homestead food to consumers and local food production. | Environment and Agriculture | Mon 1/22 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill makes changes to the regulations regarding the sale of homestead foods to consumers. |
| Support | HB1685 | redefining “homestead foods” as “artisan foods,” creating an artisan food operations exemption, establishing artisan food products sales venues, and allowing the production and sale of artisan food products requiring refrigeration. | Environment and Agriculture | Mon 1/22 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill redefines “homestead foods” as “artisan foods,” creates an artisan food operations exemption, establishes artisan food products sales venues, and allows the production and sale of artisan food products requiring refrigeration. |
| Of Interest | HB1697 | suspending New Hampshire’s participation in emissions reduction credit programs for a period of 2 years. | Science, Technology and Energy | Mon 1/22 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill suspends New Hampshire’s participation in emissions reduction credit programs administered by the department of environmental services for a period of 2 years. |
| Oppose | HB1472 | relative to rebates of energy efficiency funds for electric vehicles. | Science, Technology and Energy | Mon 1/22 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill dedicates $3,000,000 from proceeds from the energy efficiency fund to be used by the department of energy to develop a pilot program for a “cash on the hood” program for point-of-sale electric vehicle rebates to buyers. |
| Oppose | SB443 | relative to school building aid for eligible projects and the definition of school transportation vehicle. | Education | Tue 1/23 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill increases the annual amount to be expended for school building aid construction and renovation projects of school districts. The bill also allocates a portion of funds to be paid for school building projects approved in prior years but which were not funded. This bill also defines school transportation vehicle and implements licensing and inspection requirements for drivers of such vehicles. |
| Oppose | SB525 | relative to administration of the education freedom accounts program. | Education | Tue 1/23 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill changes income eligibility and reporting requirements for the education freedom account program and modifies the program’s administration and oversight. |
| Support | SB521 | relative to the educational credentials for master teacher. | Education | Tue 1/23 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill changes the requirements for the granting of the educational credential of master teacher. |
| Oppose | SB384 | relative to a municipal loan and grant program for rental housing and making an appropriation therefor. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 1/23 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill directs the department of business and economic affairs to establish a median income rental housing program and makes an appropriation to the InvestNH fund for this purpose. |
| Of Interest | SB391 | relative to electric grid interconnection for certain customer generators. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 1/23 | 9:15 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill requires the public utilities commission to begin rulemaking for the purposes of setting uniform procedures for distributed energy resources that are proposed for interconnection to the electrical infrastructure. |
| Of Interest | SB451 | relative to an expedited track for certain applications to the site evaluation committee. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 1/23 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill establishes an alternative procedure and timelines for an expedited track for changes to existing energy facilities meeting certain criteria. |
| Oppose | SB452 | relative to making an appropriation for the hiring and training of small business development counselors in rural areas of New Hampshire. | Finance | Tue 1/23 | 1:20 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill appropriates $250,000 to the department of business and economic affairs to be applied to the hiring and training of small business development counselors for the small business development center in rural areas of New Hampshire. |
| Oppose | HB279 | increasing the penalty for on-premises licensees overserving alcohol. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 1/24 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill increases the penalty for on-premises licensees overserving alcohol. |
| Support | HB1161 | relative to use of the public school infrastructure fund for energy efficient school buses. | Education | Wed 1/24 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill prohibits the use of the public school infrastructure fund from funding energy efficient school buses or other student transportation vehicles. |
| Oppose | HB1452 | relative to credentials for the position of superintendent of schools and school business officer. | Education | Wed 1/24 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill establishes required credentials for school superintendents and school business officers. |
| Of Interest | SB336 | relative to misrepresentation by public employees. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 1/24 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill establishes that a public officer or employee who knowingly makes a fraudulent statement or material misrepresentation to a member of the public in the course of his or her employment shall be subject to disciplinary action through the disciplinary procedures of his or her employer or licensing board, subject to certain exceptions. |
| Oppose | SB355 | relative to newborn screening for cytomegalovirus. | Health and Human Services | Wed 1/24 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill requires newborn screening for cytomegalovirus (CMV). The bill also directs the pregnant woman’s health care provider to perform an amniocentesis to confirm a congenital CMV infection under certain circumstances. |
| Oppose | SB496 | directing the department of health and human services to establish a climate and health protection program. | Health and Human Services | Wed 1/24 | 10:20 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill directs the department of health and human services to establish a climate and health protection program in response to health threats associated with a changing environment. |
| Oppose | SB503 | relative to requiring a criminal background check when applying for a fish and game guide license. | Judiciary | Wed 1/24 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill requires a criminal background check when applying for a fish and game guide license. |
| Support | HB1412 | relative to court reporters. | Judiciary | Wed 1/24 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill repeals the requirements for licensure and regulation of court reporters. |
| Support | HB1281 | relative to zoning restrictions on residential rental property. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 1/24 | 1:20 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill prohibits a zoning ordinance or regulation from restricting the number of occupants in a residential rental property to less than 2 occupants per bedroom. |
| Of Interest | HB1297 | relative to the authority of municipalities to enforce ordinances related to health and safety. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 1/24 | 2:10 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill requires zoning ordinances to be directly related to the promotion of the residents health and safety. |
| Support | HB1140 | relative to requirements for homeowner installations of septic systems. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 1/24 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 305 | This bill enables a homeowner to install a replacement waste disposal system in their own domicile without a permit. |
| Oppose | HB1033 | relative to the advertising of nominal dimensions of lumber. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Thu 1/25 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill prohibits the advertising of nominal dimensions of lumber. |
| Oppose | HB1498 | establishing a state short term rental registry. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Thu 1/25 | 2:15 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill includes short-term rentals in the licensing and registration requirements for taxes on meals and rooms. |
| Oppose | HB1382 | relative to special education support for military-connected students. | Education | Thu 1/25 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill creates special education support for military-connected transfer students and provides for reimbursement of witness fees in certain situations. |
| Support | HB1469 | relative to the retention of individualized education program records. | Education | Thu 1/25 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires the department of education to remove student individualized education plan records from the state special education information system on the same schedule as school districts. |
| Support | HB1695 | relative to the release of student personally identifiable information. | Education | Thu 1/25 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill prohibits the transfer of student’s personally identifiable information to third parties without written consent of the parents and student. |
| Support | HB1233 | relative to animal chiropractors. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 1/25 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill exempts individuals who have completed a nationally recognized animal chiropractic program, as determined by the executive director of the office of professional licensure and certification, from veterinary licensure requirements. |
| Support | HB1272 | relative to occupational license reciprocity. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 1/25 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill removes the statutory requirement that the licensing requirements for the out of state license be substantially similar for purposes of license reciprocity. |
| Support | HB1676 | establishing a sunset commission to evaluate various occupational boards and commissions, and sunsetting various boards and commissions. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 1/25 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill establishes a sunset commission to evaluate the need for or any improvements to various occupational boards and commissions within the office of professional licensure and certification, as well as the least restrictive regulation they can adopt. The bill further repeals various occupational boards and commissions each year through 2031. |
| Support | HB1683 | relative to coverage of circumcision under the state Medicaid plan. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Thu 1/25 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill provides that the state Medicaid plan shall not include circumcision unless the child has a specific diagnosis for which the procedure is determined to be medically necessary. |
| Of Interest | HB1669 | relative to restricting data sharing through the state immunization registry. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Thu 1/25 | 11:15 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill prohibits the department of health and human services from sharing data from the state immunization registry with other organizations unless the department can assure withdrawals from the registry will be honored by the organization. |
| Support | HB1194 | relative to the definition of noncommunicable disease. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Thu 1/25 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill removes the word infectious from the definition of noncommunicable disease. |
| Support | HB1213 | relative to immunization requirements for private schools and child care agencies. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Thu 1/25 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill provides that certain immunizations are required for public school children. This bill also removes the requirement for private schools and child care agencies. |
| Of Interest | SB417 | relative to out-of-home placements for children. | Judiciary | Thu 1/25 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill revises criteria for out-of-home placement of children under the child protection act and other juvenile statutes and establishes an order of preference based on placement with the child’s siblings, when possible, and proximity to the child’s community of origin. |
| Oppose | SB360 | relative to extreme risk protection orders. | Judiciary | Thu 1/25 | 1:30 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes a procedure for issuing extreme risk protection orders to protect against persons who pose an immediate risk of harm to themselves or others. |
| Of Interest | SB573 | relative to parental consent for medical care. | Judiciary | Thu 1/25 | 1:45 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill requires any person, private entity, government entity, or any employee or agent of any private or government entity obtain the consent of a parent of a child before performing or asking to perform various medical care interventions on the child. |
| Support | HB1519 | relative to a minor’s available work hours. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Thu 1/25 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 307 | This bill permits youths to work during the school year when their attendance at school is not required. |
| Oppose | HB1000 | relative to classifying New Hampshire legislators’ service as public service for certain federal purposes. | Legislative Administration | Thu 1/25 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 203 | This bill allows for the service of a current or former member of the general court to be deemed by the state to qualify as full-time public service for the purposes of federal public service student loan forgiveness programs. |
| Oppose | HB1290 | relative to protection of employment for members of the general court. | Legislative Administration | Thu 1/25 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 203 | This bill provides members of the general court with employment protections during voting sessions. |
| Of Interest | HB1204 | relative to government agent entries into secured premises. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 1/26 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill establishes requirements for when a government agent may enter a secured premises without a warrant. |
| Support | HB1276 | relative to repealing the prohibition on the possession or sale of blackjacks, slung shots, and metallic knuckles except by or to minors. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 1/26 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill amends the prohibition against carrying or selling a blackjack, slung shot, or metallic knuckles to prohibit sale to or possession of the said items by those under 18 years of age. |
| Support | HB1539 | relative to annulling, resentencing, or discontinuing prosecution of certain cannabis offenses. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 1/26 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill allows for additional annulments, resentencings, or discontinuations of prosecutions for certain cannabis offenses. |
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Of the 139 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 24 and opposition of 25 with 8 being of interest.
Of the 50 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 5 and opposition of 13 with 1 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Of Interest | HB1667 | relative to establishing a department for children, youth, and families. | Children and Family Law | Tue 1/16 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill establishes the department for children, youth and families as a separate state agency responsible for the general supervision and enforcement of all programs and services for children and youths. The bill also transfers all former powers, duties and responsibilities of the department of health and human services, division for children, youth and families and the division of juvenile justice services to the newly established department. |
| Oppose | SB328 | relative to deceptive ticket sale practices. | Commerce | Tue 1/16 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill makes the resale of event tickets by a person who is not the venue or an authorized agent of the venue unlawful if it does not meet certain criteria. |
| Oppose | SB519 | relative to evictions based on the owner’s intent to renovate the property. | Commerce | Tue 1/16 | 9:15 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill adds evidentiary requirements to evictions based upon renovation and permits a discretionary stay of eviction for up to 6 months. |
| Oppose | SB518 | relative to incentivizing landlords to accept housing choice vouchers. | Commerce | Tue 1/16 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes a landlord housing incentive program and fund. This bill makes an appropriation to implement the fund. |
| Oppose | SB366 | relative to restricting the purchase of real property on or around military installations. | Commerce | Tue 1/16 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill prohibits the purchase of real property by the People’s Republic of China on or within 10 miles of any military installations or critical infrastructure facilities. |
| Oppose | SB343 | relative to school based health services. | Education | Tue 1/16 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill allows school districts to contract with a health care provider, health system, or community partner to establish a school based health center for the purpose of providing services to students beyond the scope of school nursing services. |
| Support | SB374 | relative to the licensing of part-time teachers. | Education | Tue 1/16 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill defines “part-time teacher.” |
| Support | HB1402 | establishing a procedure for a high school proficiency exam waiver of mandatory school attendance. | Education | Tue 1/16 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill allows for a student to take and pass a high school proficiency exam so that the student shall no longer be bound by the mandatory school attendance requirements. |
| Oppose | HB1212 | relative to eligibility for free school meals. | Education | Tue 1/16 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill increases the eligibility for free school meals to household incomes up to 350 percent of federal poverty guidelines, and provides funding from the education trust fund for the additional costs. |
| Oppose | HB1153 | relative to mandatory and elective public school curricula. | Education | Tue 1/16 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires mandatory “anti-communist” curricula and establishes elective curricula for public schools. |
| Oppose | SB380 | relative to moving the state primary date. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 1/16 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill moves the state primary date to June. |
| Oppose | SB445 | establishing a voter-owned elections fund for eligible candidates to executive councilor and making an appropriation to the fund. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 1/16 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill establishes a voter owned election fund for eligible candidates to executive councilor and makes an appropriation to the fund. |
| Support | SB446 | allowing voters to vote for multiple candidates for an office. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 1/16 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill allows voters to vote for multiple candidates for an office. |
| Of Interest | SB387 | relative to a state parks pass pilot program for recovery centers and community health centers. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 1/16 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill requires the establishment of a 3-year pilot program for state parks passes for recovery centers and community health centers registered with the department of health and human services. |
| Oppose | HB1184 | relative to making an appropriation to the organic certification program. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 1/16 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill makes an appropriation to the department of agriculture, markets and food for the staffing and funding of the organic certification program. |
| Oppose | HB1618 | mandating a cooperative agreement with USDA for “organic” certification. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 1/16 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill requires the commissioner to hire inspectors and enter into a USDA cooperative agreement. |
| Support | HB1578 | relative to organic food certification and labeling. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 1/16 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill repeals the certification program and the organic processors-handlers certification fund. |
| Oppose | HB1680 | relative to prohibiting the sale of dogs and cats by retail pet shops. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 1/16 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill prohibits the sale of dogs and cats by retail pet shops except in certain cases. |
| Oppose | SB348 | relative to emergency crop relief. | Finance | Tue 1/16 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill makes an appropriation to the department of agriculture, markets, and food to distribute emergency relief to farmers who suffered crop damage in the unseasonable cold and floods. |
| Oppose | SB494 | relative to establishing a farmer assistance fund. | Finance | Tue 1/16 | 1:10 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill establishes the farmer assistance for natural disasters fund and makes an appropriation therefor. |
| Support | HB1127 | relative to the revocation and suspension of drivers’ licenses. | Transportation | Tue 1/16 | 11:20 AM | LOB Room 203 | This bill allows individuals with suspended licenses to mow their lawns without penalty and eliminates the requirement that drivers with suspended licenses surrender their licenses to the department of motor vehicles. |
| Of Interest | HB1118 | relative to the issuance of drivers’ licenses for aliens temporarily residing in New Hampshire. | Transportation | Tue 1/16 | 1:20 PM | LOB Room 203 | This bill allows the director of motor vehicles to require nonresident aliens to submit various certifications for drivers license issuance. |
| Support | SB510 | relative to sale of a vehicle to a Massachusetts resident. | Transportation | Tue 1/16 | 2:15 PM | LOB Room 101 | This bill eliminates the requirement that a retail motor vehicle dealer submit a form notifying the New Hampshire department of motor vehicles of a sale of a vehicle to a Massachusetts resident. |
| Support | HB1422 | relative to the rates of the business profits tax, business enterprise tax, communications service tax, and meals and rooms tax. | Ways and Means | Tue 1/16 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill reduces the rates of the business profits tax, business enterprise tax, and meals and rooms tax. It also reduces and subsequently repeals the communications services tax. |
| Oppose | HB1492 | relative to the rate and exemptions of the interest and dividends tax. | Ways and Means | Tue 1/16 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill reimplements the interest and dividends tax. |
| Support | HB1533 | relative to the safe harbor compensation amount under the business profits tax. | Ways and Means | Tue 1/16 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill increases the amount of the safe harbor provision for compensation under the business profits tax and provides for a biennial increase in future years based on the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index. |
| Support | HB1536 | relative to increasing the amount of the expense deduction allowed against the business profits tax. | Ways and Means | Tue 1/16 | 12:00 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill increases the amount of the section 179 expense deduction permitted against the business profits tax. |
| Of Interest | HB1241 | relative to regulation of money transmitters. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/17 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill revises the regulation and licensure of money transmitters by the banking department. This bill is a request of the banking department. |
| Of Interest | HB1559 | repealing the chapter relative to cash dispensing machines. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/17 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill repeals RSA 399-F relative to cash dispensing machines. This is a request by the banking department. |
| Oppose | HB1538 | relative to credit card late fees and interest. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/17 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill requires that the total of interest and other charges in a consumer credit transaction shall not exceed the consumer’s total original balance from the credit card sale or loan. |
| Support | HB1633 | relative to the legalization and regulation of cannabis and making appropriations therefor. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/17 | 2:45 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill establishes procedures for the legalization, regulation, and taxation of cannabis; the licensing and regulation of cannabis establishments; and makes appropriations therefor. |
| Oppose | HB1678 | establishing a New Hampshire farm to school local food incentive pilot program. | Education | Wed 1/17 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill establishes a New Hampshire farm to school local food incentive pilot program. |
| Support | HB1634 | relative to universal eligibility for the education freedom account program. | Education | Wed 1/17 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill removes the household income criteria from eligibility requirements for the education freedom account program. |
| Support | HB1677 | relative to participation in education freedom accounts based on school or school district proficiency scores. | Education | Wed 1/17 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill extends eligibility for the education freedom account program to students who participated in the program in the preceeding year, students whose enrollment transfer requests were denied, and to students in school districts which performed at 49 percent or below in statewide assessments. |
| Support | HB1665 | relative to student eligibility for the education freedom accounts program. | Education | Wed 1/17 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill changes the annual household income limit to qualify for the education freedom account program. |
| Oppose | HB1112 | relative to establishing a continuing education requirement regarding human trafficking for individuals licensed by the office of professional licensure and certification. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 1/17 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill requires the office of professional licensure and certification to audit compliance by licensees of continuing education requirements and further provides that all boards regulating health professionals shall require each licensee to complete continuing education in human trafficking each renewal cycle. |
| Support | HB1410 | relative to certain professional licenses. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 1/17 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill repeals the chapter on the board of registration of medical technicians as well as the chapter on medical imaging and radiation therapy. This bill further makes changes to the nurse practice act, including amending the licensure of licensed nursing assistants to a registration process and making changes to the board of nursing. |
| Oppose | HB1394 | relative to licensure and regulation of music therapists and making an appropriation therefor. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 1/17 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill establishes the licensure and regulation of music therapists under the office of professional licensure and certification. This bill further establishes a new program assistant II position at the office of professional licensure and certification and makes an appropriation to the office of professional licensure and certification. |
| Oppose | SB352 | establishing an early detection cancer screening pilot program for active and retired firefighters. | Health and Human Services | Wed 1/17 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill establishes an early detection cancer screening pilot program in the department of safety, division of fire standards and training and emergency medical services, for retired and full-time active firefighters New Hampshire. |
| Oppose | SB495 | relative to certification of alcohol and other drug use treatment facilities. | Health and Human Services | Wed 1/17 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill provides for certification of substance use treatment programs by the department of health and human services and establishes an office of the behavioral health ombudsman in the department. |
| Oppose | SB500 | establishing a primary care provider loan repayment program, and making an appropriation therefor. | Health and Human Services | Wed 1/17 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill establishes a primary care provider loan repayment program and fund in the department of health and human services and makes an appropriation to the department for this purpose. |
| Oppose | SB558 | relative to insurance coverage for infertility treatments, protection from discrimination during IVF treatments, parental leave, and adoption. | Health and Human Services | Wed 1/17 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill provides insurance coverage for infertility treatments, protection from discrimination during IVF treatments, parental leave, and adoption. |
| Oppose | HB1002 | relative to fees for records under the right-to-know law. | Judiciary | Wed 1/17 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill establishes parameters for when a public body may charge a fee for records provided under RSA 91-A. |
| Support | HB1105 | relative to application of a local tax cap. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 1/17 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill provides clarification that all recommended appropriations in the warrant are included when determining the estimated amount of local taxes to be raised for the fiscal year under the local tax cap. |
| Oppose | HB1544 | relative to indemnification for municipalities adopting policies to address homelessness. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 1/17 | 11:10 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill allows public property to be used to aid and shelter the homeless and indemnifies the government units in charge. |
| Oppose | HB1641 | relating to requiring large parking lots to have a solar power canopy. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 1/17 | 11:50 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill requires that large parking facilities, whether existing or new, utilize photovoltaic solar canopies over at least 50 percent of the open asphalt surface. |
| Of Interest | HB1124 | relative to limiting conflicts of interest and excessive concentration of power for municipal board and committee members. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 1/17 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill limits conflicts of interest and excessive concentration of power for municipal board and committee members. |
| Support | HB1396 | relative to prohibiting municipal inspections of owner-occupied units of multi-unit housing. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 1/17 | 3:15 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill prohibits municipal inspections of owner-occupied units within residential structures of 4 units or less. |
| Of Interest | HB1049 | relative to the prohibition on overnight mooring of houseboats. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 1/17 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 305 | This bill repeals a general prohibition for the overnight mooring of houseboats otherwise permitted under RSA 270-A. |
| Oppose | HB1103 | relative to revising the penalties of the shoreland protection act. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 1/17 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 305 | This bill revises the penalties of the shoreland protection act. |
| Oppose | HB1113 | relative to shoreland septic systems. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 1/17 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 305 | This bill modifies requirements for site assessment studies of shoreland septic systems. |
| Support | HB1121 | relative to creating certain wetlands permit exemptions after a natural disaster or flooding event. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 1/17 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 305 | This bill exempts certain land owners from requiring wetlands permits after a natural disaster or flooding event. |
| Support | SB514 | relative to the timber tax. | Ways and Means | Wed 1/17 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill increases the amount of wood or wood chips a landowner can use for personal use or for land conservation purposes without being subject to the timber tax. |
| Of Interest | HB1563 | relative to the education property tax and the authority of political subdivisions. | Ways and Means | Wed 1/17 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill replaces the statewide education property tax with a property tax contribution from political subdivisions based on the state education property tax warrant issued for the tax year beginning April 1, 2024. The bill also restores statutory authority for the determination of education grants for municipalities that tuition students to other institutions. |
| Of Interest | HB1551 | relative to distinguishing between C corporations and S corporations for purposes of calculating business profits taxes. | Ways and Means | Wed 1/17 | 12:00 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill directs the state to distinguish between C corporations and S corporations for purposes of calculating the business profits tax and to exclude flow through items on the Schedule K for S corporations from corporate income for purposes of calculating the tax. |
| Oppose | HB1571 | relative to requiring insurance coverage for glucose monitoring devices for people with diabetes. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Thu 1/18 | 11:15 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill requires insurance coverage and Medicaid coverage for glucose monitoring devices for people with diabetes. |
| Oppose | HB1094 | relative to insurance coverage for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Thu 1/18 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill removes the prospective repeal of a reference to treatments for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders in the requirement for insurance coverage of certain biologically-based mental illnesses. |
| Oppose | HB1296 | relative to insurance coverage for diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Thu 1/18 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill provides that certain insurers that provide diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations shall not impose co-payments, deductibles, or other cost-sharing requirements. |
| Support | HB1017 | relative to duties of county sheriffs and the appointment of special deputy sheriffs. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/18 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill requires county sheriff’s or deputies to have a presence at all federal law enforcement actions in the county. The bill also clarifies the appointment of special deputy sheriffs. |
| Support | HB1026 | relative to resisting arrest. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/18 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill establishes an affirmative defense to the crime of resisting arrest that the arrest was unlawful or constitutional. |
| Support | HB1372 | relative to prohibiting torture. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/18 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill establishes a criminal prohibition against torture, which is defined as an act committed by a person acting under the color of law specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering upon another person within the person’s custody or control, other than the pain or suffering incidental to lawful sanctions. This bill is intended to supplement the federal law located at 18 U.S.C. sections 2340, 2340A, and 2340B, which apply to torture committed outside of the United States. |
| Oppose | HB1570 | relative to administration of school building aid funds by the department of education and making an appropriation therefor. | Education | Thu 1/18 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill transfers moneys from the education trust fund to a new building aid fund. It also directs the department of education to contract with a vendor to conduct a facility assessment of public schools and public chartered schools. |
| Support | HB1546 | relative to government purchasing. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 1/18 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill prohibits any state, county, or local government entity from contracting with or purchasing goods or services from companies that discriminate in hiring, promotion, or job assignment on the basis of sex, race, sexuality, national origin, ethnicity, or ideology, including but not limited to permitting diversity, equity, and inclusion statements. This bill further provides an enforcement mechanism. |
| Oppose | HB1486 | relative to proxy carbon pricing in state procurement. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 1/18 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill requires the department of administrative services to consider proxy carbon pricing in transportation costs and building project costs. |
| Support | HB1278 | relative to qualifying medical conditions for purposes of therapeutic cannabis. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Thu 1/18 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill adds debilitating or terminal medical conditions to the qualifying medical conditions for therapeutic cannabis if a health care provider certifies the potential benefit to the patient. The bill also removes certain limitations on a qualifying visiting patient’s access to cannabis. |
| Support | HB1240 | relative to eating disorders as a qualifying condition for the therapeutic cannabis program. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Thu 1/18 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill adds eating disorders as a qualifying medical condition for the use of therapeutic cannabis. |
| Support | HB1349 | relative to generalized anxiety disorder as a qualifying condition for the therapeutic cannabis program. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Thu 1/18 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill adds generalized anxiety disorder as a qualifying medical condition for the use of therapeutic cannabis. |
| Support | HB1350 | relative to therapeutic cannabis possession limits. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Thu 1/18 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill increases qualifying patients’ limit on possession of therapeutic cannabis from 2 to 4 ounces, and increases the amount they may obtain in a 10-day period from 2 to 4 ounces. |
| Support | HB1231 | permitting qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Thu 1/18 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill permits qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use. |
| Support | SB356 | relative to the return of property collected in the course of a police investigation. | Judiciary | Thu 1/18 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill provides for the automatic return of seized property following certain dispositions of criminal cases, subject to certain exceptions. |
| Oppose | HB1072 | relative to prohibiting employers from using polygraph testing. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Thu 1/18 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 307 | This bill prohibits employers from using polygraphs unless the employer is in law enforcement or meets other exceptions. |
| Oppose | HB1110 | relative to requiring certain employers to use the federal E-Verify system of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Thu 1/18 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 307 | This bill requires employers with 25 or more employees to use the federal E-Verify system of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. |
| Oppose | HB1226 | relative to employment protections for freelance employees. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Thu 1/18 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 307 | This bill provides comprehensive rights and responsibilities relative to freelance employees and hiring parties. |
| Support | HB1246 | relative to allowing for payment of wages in gold or silver. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Thu 1/18 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 307 | This bill allows employers to pay the weekly or biweekly wages due to employees in gold or silver. |
| Oppose | HB1217 | relative to an exception to allow the state or a municipality to use video monitoring to identify the cause of damage to historic covered bridges. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 1/19 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill allows the state or a municipality to use video monitoring to identify the cause of damage to historic covered bridges. |
| Oppose | HB1587 | relative to the installation of video surveillance equipment in special education school buses. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 1/19 | 12:00 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill requires video surveillance equipment to be installed and operated on all vehicles provided through services related to a student’s IEP. The bill also requires school districts to develop a privacy policy for resulting recordings. |
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