Thursday • July 3 • 2025
Vol.XVII • No.XXVII
Manchester, N.H.
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It is a bit ridiculous that I have to do this… but here is my “Demand Letter” to the Keene Police demanding they comply with NH RSA 91-A. The next step is filing a formal lawsuit against the City of Keene in the Cheshire County Superior Court.
I know many of you who engage here at FreeKeene.com are skeptical of Mr. Lamontagne’s claims of innocence. I’d like to think that even if you are one who is skeptical of Rob’s claims that you would agree that the KPD should be complying with state laws regarding public records.
A thorough review of what happened in his case is only possible if we can acquire these records.
UPDATE: 178 minutes after posting this blog and e-mailing the demand letter to Assistant County Attorney Tim Donovan I received the records that were requested.
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Of the 7 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 2 and opposition of 1 with 0 being of interest.
Of the 21 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 2 and opposition of 1 with 2 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Support | HB208 | relative to certification requirements for school nurses. | Education | Tue 3/18 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill allows a superintendent and school board to nominate and appoint a school nurse, who must be licensed and registered with the board of nursing. |
| Of Interest | HB127 | extending the closing date of the OHRV trails on the Connecticut River Headwaters property from September 30 to Columbus Day. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 3/18 | 9:20 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill extends the annual closing date for OHRV trails on the Connecticut Lakes headwaters working forest property until the second Monday in October, which is Columbus Day. |
| Oppose | HB468 | establishing the crime of and penalties for unlawful use of unmanned aircraft systems. | Judiciary | Tue 3/18 | 2:30 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes the crime of and penalties for unlawful use of small unmanned aircraft systems. |
| Oppose | HB25 | making appropriations for capital improvements. | Public Works and Highways | Tue 3/18 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 201 | This bill makes appropriations for capital improvements for the biennium and extends certain lapse dates for previous appropriations. |
| Support | HB224 | relative to rebates to ratepayers from the renewable energy fund. | Ways and Means | Tue 3/18 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill requires moneys paid into the renewable energy fund to be rebated to ratepayers. |
| Support | HB524 | repealing the New Hampshire vaccine association. | Ways and Means | Tue 3/18 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill repeals RSA 126-Q, relative to the New Hampshire vaccine association. |
| Of Interest | SB301 | creating a joint legislative oversight committee. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 3/19 | 9:15 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill creates a joint legislative oversight committee. |
| Support | HB591 | expanding hours for keno gaming on weekends. | Ways and Means | Wed 3/19 | 9:50 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill expands permitted keno hours of operations on weekends. |
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As I wrote in the last blog I published I am presently awaiting a records request that I made to the Keene, NH Police Department on 1/21/25. That request was made in the form of a letter to the Keene Police Chief, Steve Stewart.
I received an email response from Assistant Cheshire County Attorney Tim Donovan on 1/24/25 that they were unable to locate the records I was seeking. I reiterated in an email response that same day that I was looking for all department records that pertain to Mr. Robert Lamontagne. On 1/27/25 Attorney Donovan responded that the request was being forwarded to the Keene Police Records Department for fulfilment. Oddly, Attorney Donovan also responded that they were not treating my request as a “91-A” records request.
New Hampshire RSA 91-A is New Hampshire’s “Right-to-Know” law that requires that governmental entities respond promptly and provide most records when they are requested. The law itself in section 91-A:4, IV. (b)(3) requires that the Keene Police provide a written statement of the time reasonably required to fulfill the records request if they cannot immediately provide the requested records. By saying the government was not treating my records request as a “91-A” request, Attorney Donovan conveniently avoided having to tell me how long it would take to prepare Mr. Lamontagne’s records for release.
I reached back out to Attorney Donovan a month after the request on February 21, 2025 asking what the status of the records request. I was told by Attorney Donovan that he personally had seen the Records Department working on my request but that he did not have any further information.
Frustrated, weeks later, I just recently reached back out to Attorney Donovan on March 8, 2025 with the following email:
Hi Attorney Donovan.
Having not heard back from you or the Keene Police Department Records Division I am compelled to ask you the following question:
Why did you (the government) decide not to treat the records request I made as a 91-A request? What legal authority do you rely on for this?
I realize that I didn’t quote or reference 91-A in my letter to the Chief of Police, but given that 91-A is so well known in New Hampshire to be controlling for such requests it simply made sense to me that the Chief would perceive the request as such.
As you are most definitely aware, 91-A requests have codified timeframes associated with them. According to RSA 91-A:4, IV. the government has five days to respond with an estimate of the necessary time needed to fulfil the request. I received no estimate which in my view makes the City of Keene quite possibly in violation of the law.
Mr. Lamontagne and I have been very patient with this request due to the fact that his records might be extensive given the seriousness of the case he was involved in. Our patience has been exhausted though as we are both determined to investigate his case and convictions to see if any post-sentence relief is warranted.
Given that the nature of the post-sentence investigation is circled around allegations of prosecutorial and investigative misconduct, Mr. Lamontagne and I can’t help but be suspicious as to what the real motivation is for not providing these records.
The last thing I really want to do is file a lawsuit against the City of Keene for failure to properly transact 91-A requests… but I will if I have to.
If you could please give me some sort of explanation that I can provide to Mr. Lamontagne I would be very appreciative.
I hope we can resolve this without having to go to court.
Respectfully,
After sending it, I realized I made an error in my email. I actually *did* include a reference to RSA Chapter 91-A in my original letter to Keene Police Chief Stewart. I actually had made it pretty clear that I was making an official 91-A request.
I inform you all of this update as it looks like I may have to file a lawsuit against the Keene Police Department to get the records I’m looking for to assist Rob with defending his case. Quite frankly, the taxpayers of the City of Keene shouldn’t have to foot the bill to defend this as it is so blatantly obvious that the Keene Police are stalling with this request.
Think about it… if it works out that a court agrees that Rob’s due process rights were actually violated by the State failing to disclose the lead investigators credibility issues (a “Brady” violation), think about all the other defendants out there who could challenge convictions obtained by Detective James McLaughlin where they too weren’t told that he was placed on the EES for quite literally falsifying records. Boy would that be costly and embarrassing for various government agencies if convictions began to fall.
It is my personal opinion that Keene Police Chief Stewart should have to personally pay to defend against me for most likely having to sue them for violating 91-A.
The Department should know better.
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Of the 15 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 7 and opposition of 0 with 2 being of interest.
Of the 12 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 1 with 0 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Oppose | SB265 | repealing the provision related to religious use of land and structures. | Judiciary | Tue 3/11 | 1:15 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill repeals the statute that prohibits certain zoning ordinances and site plan reviews related to the use of land and structures for religious purposes. |
| Support | HB695 | relative to school districts and medically-related grants. | Education Policy and Administration | Wed 3/12 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill directs the department of education to require school districts to adopt a policy prohibiting schools from seeking grants for medical products or services or accepting grant-provided medical products or services, or funds therefor, unless the citizens of the municipality vote in favor of such action. |
| Support | HB768 | allowing public schools to contract with any approved private school. | Education Policy and Administration | Wed 3/12 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill allows public schools to enter into contracts with any approved private school, including religious schools. |
| Support | HB446 | relative to parental notice for non-academic surveys in public schools. | Education Policy and Administration | Wed 3/12 | 2:15 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires school districts to email parents copies of non-academic surveys in public schools. |
| Of Interest | HB1 | making appropriations for the expenses of certain departments of the state for fiscal years ending June 30, 2026 and June 30, 2027. | Finance | Wed 3/12 | 2:00 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | No analysis needed. |
| Of Interest | HB2 | relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. | Finance | Wed 3/12 | 2:00 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill: 1. Makes various changes to the standards and the administration of bail. 2. Adds new definitions to the endangered species conservation act. 3. Requires the department of environmental services to adopt rules and review procedures such that actions of state agencies do not jeopardize the existence or habitats of species protected under the endangered species conservation act. 4. Establishes an environmental scientist position within the department of environmental services to ensure that state agencies do not jeopardize the existence or habitats of species protected under the endangered species conservation act. 5. Requires that rules established by the executive director of the fish and game department establish an administrative fee that the executive director may collect from payments made to the threatened and endangered species compensatory mitigation fund. 6. Requires the department of environmental services to adopt rules regarding when mitigation payments to the threatened and end |
| Support | HB621 | allowing the birth mother to opt out of sharing certain information from the birth worksheet with state agencies. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 3/12 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill allows the birth mother to opt out of sharing certain information from the birth worksheet with state agencies. The bill also directs the department of health and human services and the division of vital records to update the memorandum of understanding regarding information sharing to reflect this practice. |
| Support | HB664 | relative to childhood immunization requirements. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 3/12 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill provides that childhood immunization requirements shall not require a vaccine that has not been tested with an inert placebo in clinical trials. |
| Support | HB679 | relative to immunization requirements. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 3/12 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill provides that no childhood immunization requirement shall require a vaccine that has not been shown in clinical trials to prevent transmission of any disease. |
| Support | HB584 | relative to public health, safety, and state sovereignty. | Judiciary | Wed 3/12 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill: I. Provides that the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum shall have no jurisdiction in New Hampshire. II. Removes a reference to medical schools recognized by the World Health Organization and replaces it with a reference to the World Directory of Medical Schools. III. Creates a cause of action against counties, cities, towns, precincts, water districts, school districts, school administrative units, or quasi-public entities who create and enforce policies based on the claims of the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum. |
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As many of you know I am not a licensed “Attorney-at-Law.” I am, however, a former law enforcement officer with some legal experience who enjoys dabbling in legal work as a hobby to help others who find themselves in various legal predicaments.
I recently posted on the Shire Society Forum that I was interested in donating some of my free time to get involved in another legal case. A gentleman named Robert “Rob” Lamontagne responded and asked me if I would help him with his legal situation.
Please meet Mr. Robert “Rob” Lamontagne
Rob was originally charged with three counts of Aggravated Felonious Sexual Assault in the late 80s and the charges were later changed to three counts of Endangering Welfare of a Minor or Incompetent in the Cheshire County Superior Court. Rob was found guilty and was sentenced to nearly a decade in the New Hampshire State Prison. He served his sentence but never once waivered in asserting his innocence to the charges he was accused of. Since his release and as of recently the Innocence Project and Grafton County Attorney have been reviewing his case for potential violations of his constitutional rights.
Rob is a listener and occasional caller to Free Talk Live and has friends in the New Hampshire liberty community. I have met Rob on more than one occasion and he has always struck me as a gentleman.
I now legally represent Mr. Lamontagne as his “Attorney-in-Fact.” Though I don’t have the experience and training that a licensed Attorney may have I am going to do my best to investigate Rob’s case and fight for his position that his legal rights during his trial were violated. From the outset it sounds to me that there was a potential “Brady” violation in that Rob’s defense attorney was never informed that the lead detective investigating his case had credibility issues. Fairness, and the United States Supreme Court since 1963, have required that witnesses with credibility issues must be disclosed to a defendant.
As I always do, I will share with you what I find as I review his case and potentially file legal actions to defend him. I welcome all of your feedback… whether positive or negative. I’m far from a pro at this stuff, but I’m willing to try to help people who ask for assistance. I feel I become a better legal advocate with feedback from people like you.
I sent a letter to the Keene Police Department on January 21st of this year (2025) requesting all documents in their possession relating to Rob and his case. Though we have not received these documents as of yet, Rob and I understand that this request may be tricky as not all documents may have been digitized. I have been in contact with the cordial Keene Police prosecutor who has assured me that this records request is in the works.
Stay tuned for updates!
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Of the 48 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 12 and opposition of 3 with 1 being of interest.
Of the 35 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 7 and opposition of 5 with 0 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Support | HB748 | establishing a local education freedom account program. | Education Policy and Administration | Mon 3/3 | 9:30 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. |
| Support | HB231 | prohibiting school district personnel from transporting students to medical procedures without parental consent. | Education Policy and Administration | Mon 3/3 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires school districts to create a policy prohibiting school district personnel from transporting any student who is a minor for any medical or health-related procedures or appointments without knowledge and approval of a parent or guardian unless he or she is following a published school district emergency health or medical protocol or policy. |
| Support | HB413 | relative to subdivision regulations on the completion of improvements and the regulation of building permits. | Municipal and County Government | Mon 3/3 | 9:40 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill: I. Extends the existing 5-year exemption for subdivision plats to 7 years and increases the preliminary step from 2 years to 3 years. II. Changes the building code and fire code appeals process, limiting the jurisdiction of the local building code board of appeals to hearing decisions made under local amendments to those codes. III. Provides that decisions of the building code review board regarding decisions of the fire marshal and local building code board of appeals may be appealed to superior court or the housing appeals board. |
| Of Interest | HB266 | relative to structural changes to the department of energy. | Science, Technology and Energy | Mon 3/3 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill: I. Ensures the department’s full party status in proceedings before the public utilities commission. II. Requires the department to support the public utilities commission, site evaluation committee, office of the consumer advocate, and any related entities. III. Allow the department to demand documents and specific answers from public utilities or related entities. This bill is at the request of the department of energy. |
| Oppose | HB493 | requiring education on child abuse and neglect for certain healthcare providers as a condition for licensure. | Children and Family Law | Tue 3/4 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill requires education on child abuse and neglect for certain healthcare providers as a condition for licensure. |
| Support | SB90 | allowing high-density residential development on land zoned for commercial use. | Commerce | Tue 3/4 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill authorizes high-density residential development on commercially zoned land. |
| Support | SB175 | relative to the use of covenants by municipalities. | Commerce | Tue 3/4 | 10:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill grants municipalities the authority to enforce private covenants while prohibiting municipalities and state government from requiring or encouraging covenants as a condition of zoning or land use approval, with exceptions made for workforce housing developments. |
| Support | SB281 | prohibiting municipalities from denying building or occupancy permits for property adjacent to class VI roads under certain circumstances. | Commerce | Tue 3/4 | 10:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill changes the requirements that allow a building to be constructed on a lot adjacent to a class VI roadway. |
| Support | SB283 | relative to the calculation of floor-area-ratios under local building ordinances. | Commerce | Tue 3/4 | 11:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill requires municipalities to exclude below-grade areas from floor-area-ratio (FAR) calculations and review and adjust height limitations as needed to maximize capacity and height potential for new construction. |
| Support | SB163 | prohibiting local moratoria and limitations on building permits. | Commerce | Tue 3/4 | 11:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill prohibits municipalities from adopting new ordinances, regulations, or policies that establish moratoria or limitations on building permits or approvals for subdivisions and site plans, and repeals existing authority for temporary moratoria or limitations. |
| Support | HB463 | relative to the composition of the board of recount in elections for the select board and for the school board. | Election Law | Tue 3/4 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill prohibits candidates for the select board and the school board from sitting on a board of recount in an election where such candidate is on the ballot. |
| Oppose | SB214 | enabling no-excuse absentee registration and voting. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 3/4 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill allows for no-excuse absentee registration and voting. |
| Support | SB231 | relative to road frontage requirements and setbacks for wetlands. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 3/4 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill adopts limits on road frontage requirements and setbacks for wetlands and lot lines to improve housing density, ensuring these requirements do not exceed 50 feet and are consistent with existing shoreland protection and environmental standards. |
| Oppose | SB235 | enabling funds from the Pitman-Robertson Act to be spent by the fish and game department on threatened and endangered species in New Hampshire. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 3/4 | 9:40 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill enables funds from the Pitman-Robertson Act to be spent by the fish and game department on threatened and endangered species in New Hampshire. |
| Support | HB616 | relative to the confiscation of animals from persons suspected of or charged with abuse of animals. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 3/4 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill prohibits the confiscation of animals from persons suspected of abuse of animals unless such person is charged with cruelty to animals or the animals require temporary protective custody. This bill also requires the state veterinarian or their designee to accompany an investigating officer when livestock are the subject of a cruelty case in order to set probable cause criteria for the taking of the animal. |
| Support | SB270 | relative to allowing owners to gather items necessary for work from impounded vehicles. | Judiciary | Tue 3/4 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill allows individuals to retrieve personal and work-related items from an impounded vehicle so long as the individual is accompanied by the vehicle’s owner. |
| Oppose | SB259 | creating an exception to physical attendance and quorum requirements under the right-to-know law for individuals with disabilities. | Judiciary | Tue 3/4 | 1:10 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill creates an exception to physical attendance and quorum requirements under the right-to-know law for individuals with disabilities. |
| Oppose | SB263 | criminalizing and creating a private right of action for the facilitation, encouragement, offer, solicitation, or recommendation of certain acts or actions through a responsive generative communication to a child. | Judiciary | Tue 3/4 | 1:40 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill criminalizes and creates a private right of action for the facilitation, encouragement, offer, solicitation, or recommendation of certain acts or actions through a responsive generative communication to a child. |
| Oppose | HB660 | requiring historic horse racing facilities to compensate their host communities with a percentage of the revenue generated from their historic horse racing machines. | Ways and Means | Tue 3/4 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill requires historic horse racing facilities to transfer 10 percent of revenue generated, after breakage and payment of winnings, to host municipalities. |
| Support | HB529 | relative to the liquor commission. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 3/5 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill: I. Extends the hours of sales of alcoholic beverages. II. Allows on-premises licensees to deliver liquor to customers who order a meal for home delivery. III. Allows on-premises licensees to sell beer in refillable containers and refill such containers with beer. |
| Support | HB695 | relative to school districts and medically-related grants. | Education Policy and Administration | Wed 3/5 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill directs the department of education to require school districts to adopt a policy prohibiting schools from seeking grants for medical products or services or accepting grant-provided medical products or services, or funds therefor, unless the citizens of the municipality vote in favor of such action. |
| Oppose | HB250 | enabling local governing bodies to regulate the muzzling of dogs. | Environment and Agriculture | Wed 3/5 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill enables local governing bodies to regulate the muzzling of dogs. |
| Oppose | SB302 | requiring background checks for solid waste facility owners. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 3/5 | 9:15 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill requires background checks for solid waste facility owners including partners and managers. |
| Support | HB559 | relative to staffing requirements in emergency medical transport vehicles. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 3/5 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 201 | This bill provides that not more than one emergency medical care provider shall be required to provide care to a patient during transport in an ambulance or other emergency medical service vehicle. |
| Support | HB357 | relative to the department of health and human services’ rulemaking authority regarding immunization requirements. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 3/5 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 201 | This bill limits childhood immunization requirements to diseases identified in statute. The bill removes the authority of the commissioner of health and human services to adopt rules requiring immunization for additional childhood diseases. |
| Support | HB358 | relative to exemption from immunization requirements on the basis of religious belief. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 3/5 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 201 | This bill provides that a parent or legal guardian may claim an exemption from childhood immunization requirements on the basis of religious belief by providing a signed statement to that effect. The bill removes the statutory reference to a form used for such purpose. |
| Support | HB701 | relative to a health care patient’s right to try certain emergency health care treatment options. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 3/5 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 201 | This bill expands a health care patient’s right to try emerging health care treatment options. |
| Support | HB522 | relative to the expectation of privacy in personal information maintained by the state. | Judiciary | Wed 3/5 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill establishes an expectation of privacy in personal information maintained by the state. |
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In support of our Civic Action fund and in celebration of progress on Defend the Guard, we’re hosting a screening of WarGames at Chunky’s in Manchester.
Please grab a ticket today and join us on Tuesday, May 6. See you there!
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Of the 31 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 5 and opposition of 0 with 0 being of interest.
Of the 0 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 0 with 0 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Support | HB200 | relative to the procedure for overriding a local tax cap. | Municipal and County Government | Thu 2/27 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill requires a supermajority vote of the legislative body to override a local tax cap. |
| Support | HB138 | relative to tax impact notation on warrant articles with multi-year tax impacts. | Municipal and County Government | Thu 2/27 | 10:20 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill requires a notation stating the estimated tax impact for any special warrant article with a multi-year tax impact in towns that have voted to require a notation stating the estimated tax impact of the annual budget and all special warrant articles. |
| Support | HB284 | requiring tax impact statements on municipal warrant articles. | Municipal and County Government | Thu 2/27 | 10:40 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill requires that municipalities require tax impact statements on budgets and warrant articles and a total tax summary statement. |
| Support | HB613 | relative to enabling local political subdivisions to vote and set a reduced default budget option. | Municipal and County Government | Thu 2/27 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill enables local political subdivisions that have adopted the official ballot referendum form of meeting to adopt provisions for an annual choice for a reduced default budget. |
| Support | HB475 | relative to the reductions from the default budget for official ballot town meetings. | Municipal and County Government | Thu 2/27 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill alters the definition of default budget to include salary and benefit reductions which occur as a result of position turnover. |
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Of the 84 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 18 and opposition of 14 with 1 being of interest.
Of the 51 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 6 and opposition of 10 with 0 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Oppose | HB285 | relative to determination of parental rights and responsibilities. | Children and Family Law | Tue 2/18 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill adds to the list of factors for a court to consider in determining parental rights and responsibilities any known mental health conditions of the parent. |
| Oppose | SB169 | requiring employers to provide certain information regarding cost sharing to employees receiving workers’ compensation benefits. | Commerce | Tue 2/18 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill requires employers who provide supplemental pay to employees receiving workers’ compensation benefits to notify the employee with a breakdown of payments, anticipated financial adjustments, employee costs of withholdings, and method of payment options. |
| Oppose | SB177 | relative to requiring New Hampshire employers with over 25 employees use the E-Verify system. | Commerce | Tue 2/18 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill requires New Hampshire employers with over 25 employees to use the E-Verify system and provides for complaint investigation through the department of labor. |
| Oppose | SB176 | relative to the state minimum hourly rate. | Commerce | Tue 2/18 | 10:15 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill provides for increases in the minimum hourly rate. |
| Support | SB33 | relative to the regulation of public school materials. | Education | Tue 2/18 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill requires local school districts to adopt and publicly post policies describing materials authorized for use by students in the district and outlining procedures to address complaints alleging that material is harmful or age-inappropriate for use in the district’s schools. |
| Support | HB709 | allowing parents or guardians to admit their children into any school district where they pay any property or school district taxes. | Education Policy and Administration | Tue 2/18 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill allows parents or guardians to admit their children into any school district where they pay any property tax or school district taxes. |
| Support | HB741 | allowing parents to send their children to any school district they choose. | Education Policy and Administration | Tue 2/18 | 3:15 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill allows parents to send their children to public schools outside of their resident district. |
| Oppose | HB714 | creating a single primary ballot. | Election Law | Tue 2/18 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill creates a single party ballot for use in state and congressional primaries. |
| Support | SB105 | enabling towns to adopt budget caps. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 2/18 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill enables towns to adopt budget caps. |
| Support | SB217 | relative to public notice of historic tax rates and tax impacts of proposed projects. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 2/18 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill requires cities and towns to provide public notice of historical tax rates and proposed building projects. |
| Support | SB229 | relative to the sale of uninspected bison, red deer, and elk meat. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 2/18 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill allows the sale of uninspected bison, red deer, and elk meat and removes the prospective repeal of the provisions governing the sale of uninspected bison, red deer, and elk meat. |
| Oppose | SB234 | relative to the electric assistance program. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 2/18 | 9:40 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill:I. Establishes an advisory council for the electric assistance program. II. Caps the system benefits charge for the program at 2 mills (or 0.2 cents) per kilowatt-hour, with adjustments based on the Consumer Price Index. The bill is a request of the office of the consumer advocate. |
| Oppose | SB226 | suspending applications for new landfills and establishing a committee to study the feasibility of incinerating solid waste. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 2/18 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill suspends applications for new landfills and establishes a committee to study the feasibility of incinerating solid waste. |
| Oppose | SB227 | relative to site setbacks for landfills. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 2/18 | 10:20 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill requires certain tests and setbacks before the department of environmental services grants a landfill permit in New Hampshire. |
| Support | HB505 | allowing the sale of freeze dried foods produced in homestead food operations. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 2/18 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill allows the sale of freeze dried foods produced in homestead food operations. |
| Support | HB396 | exempting meat and meat food products slaughtered and prepared in state for sale in state from certain inspections. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 2/18 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill exempts meat and meat food products slaughtered and prepared in state for sale in state from certain inspections. |
| Support | HB457 | relative to zoning restrictions on dwelling units. | Housing | Tue 2/18 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 305 | This bill prohibits the adoption and enforcement of any zoning ordinance that restricts the number of occupants of a dwelling unit to fewer than 2 occupants per bedroom. The bill also prohibits the adoption and enforcement of any zoning ordinance that discriminates based on familial, non-familial, or marital status. |
| Oppose | SB139 | creating a private right of action in civil rights cases. | Judiciary | Tue 2/18 | 1:40 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill creates a private right of action in civil rights cases. |
| Oppose | HB542 | relative to weekly benefit amounts for unemployment compensation. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Tue 2/18 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 307 | This bill updates the weekly benefit amount for total unemployment and the maximum total amount of benefits payable during any benefit year. |
| Oppose | HB744 | relative to workers’ compensation indemnity benefits percentage. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Tue 2/18 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 307 | This bill changes the percentage of workers’ compensation indemnity benefits to 66 2/3 percent. |
| Oppose | HB554 | enabling municipalities to choose whether or not to place political advertising on municipal property. | Municipal and County Government | Tue 2/18 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 201 | This bill designates the authority to decide where political signs will be placed in a municipality to that municipality. |
| Support | HB512 | relative to preventing municipal employees from being paid under multiple municipal contracts simultaneously. | Municipal and County Government | Tue 2/18 | 9:20 AM | LOB Room 201 | This bill:I. Prevents town managers, administrators, and school superintendents from being compensated by more than one town or district contract at a time. II. Creates criminal penalties for town managers, administrators, and school superintendents who accept compensation from more than one town or district contract at a time. |
| Oppose | HB490 | relative to indemnification for municipalities adopting policies to address homelessness. | Municipal and County Government | Tue 2/18 | 10:20 AM | LOB Room 201 | This bill allows public property to be used to aid and shelter the homeless and indemnifies the governmental unit from claims for injury related to such aid and shelter absent intentional misconduct or a conscious disregard for safety. |
| Oppose | HB668 | authorizing municipalities to hold a referendum to rescind the licenses of historic horse racing facilities. | Municipal and County Government | Tue 2/18 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 201 | This bill authorizes municipalities to hold a referendum on whether to prohibit the sale of pari-mutuel wagers on historic horse racing. |
| Of Interest | HB755 | relative to the state’s electric utility market. | Science, Technology and Energy | Tue 2/18 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill revises the definition of grid modernization to reference cost-effective measures intended to create a competitive market place of electricity suppliers, defines “load reducer” for purposes of electric utility restructuring; and establishes certain retail market reforms intended to enable innovation. |
| Oppose | HB533 | relative to the use of civilian employees in commercial truck inspections. | Transportation | Tue 2/18 | 10:10 AM | LOB Room 203 | This bill authorizes the division of state police to use civilian automotive equipment inspectors in certain inspections and authorizes any officer of the department of safety or other law enforcement agent certified to conduct truck inspections to enter, during regular business hours, the commercial premises owned or leased by a commercial carrier, wherein certain required records are stored or maintained, for the purpose of conducting a compliance review, new entrant safety audit, or investigation, and to inspect, in a reasonable manner, the records for the purpose of enforcing certain regulations. This bill is a request of the department of safety. |
| Support | HB721 | relative to establishing gold and silver as legal tender. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 2/19 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill establishes gold and silver as legal tender. |
| Oppose | HB454 | requiring that retailers of fuel blends with 15% ethanol also offer fuel blends with 10% or lower ethanol content. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 2/19 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill requires a fuel retailer to sell a fuel blend with 10% ethanol or less if they sell a fuel blend with 15% or more of ethanol. |
| Support | HB517 | repealing the Granite State paid family leave plan. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 2/19 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill repeals the Granite State paid family leave plan. |
| Oppose | HB774 | requiring Medicare supplemental policies to cover pre-existing conditions. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 2/19 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill requires Medicare supplemental policies to cover pre-existing conditions. |
| Support | HB565 | allowing persons under 21 into veterans’ clubs, private clubs, and social clubs under certain conditions. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 2/19 | 2:15 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill allows persons under 21 into veterans’ clubs, private clubs, and social clubs if they are signed in by a person who is 21 years of age or older. |
| Support | HB361 | prohibiting mandatory mask policies in schools. | Education Policy and Administration | Wed 2/19 | 1:45 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. |
| Support | HB360 | prohibiting public schools from performing diagnostic tests or surgical procedures, or prescribing pharmaceutical drugs. | Education Policy and Administration | Wed 2/19 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill prohibits public schools from performing diagnostic tests or surgical procedures, or prescribing pharmaceutical drugs. |
| Oppose | HB50 | relative to teaching discrimination in public schools and discrimination in public workplaces. | Education Policy and Administration | Wed 2/19 | 3:15 PM | 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. |
| Support | HB779 | allowing the sale of rabbit meat in intrastate commerce. | Environment and Agriculture | Wed 2/19 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill allows for the sale of uninspected rabbit meat in intrastate commerce. |
| Support | HB694 | requiring leases of land, buildings, or space by state agencies to be at fair market value. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 2/19 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill requires that property leased by state agencies be leased at a rate which would be considered a fair market rate, unless a sub-market rate is agreed to by the property owner. |
| Oppose | SB243 | relative to the child care scholarship program. | Health and Human Services | Wed 2/19 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill requires the commissioner of the department of health and human services to adopt administrative rules regarding payments for child care providers, the child care scholarship presumptive eligibility pilot program, and the child care scholarship application process study. |
| Support | HB117 | relative to the substitution of biological products. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 2/19 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill modifies the definition of “interchangeable biological product” and allows for interchangeable biological products to be provided by pharmacists subject to certain restrictions. |
| Support | HB148 | permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain circumstances. | Judiciary | Wed 2/19 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill permits classification of individuals based on biological sex in lavatory facilities and locker rooms, sporting competitions, and detention facilities. |
| Support | HB584 | relative to public health, safety, and state sovereignty. | Judiciary | Wed 2/19 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill: I. Provides that the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum shall have no jurisdiction in New Hampshire. II. Removes a reference to medical schools recognized by the World Health Organization and replaces it with a reference to the World Directory of Medical Schools. III. Creates a cause of action against counties, cities, towns, precincts, water districts, school districts, school administrative units, or quasi-public entities who create and enforce policies based on the claims of the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum. |
| Oppose | HB641 | establishing a private right of action for civil rights violations. | Judiciary | Wed 2/19 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill allows a person who is the subject of a civil rights violation to bring suit and receive punitive damages. |
| Support | HB620 | relative to the exercise of the freedom of religion. | Judiciary | Wed 2/19 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill enacts a religious freedom restoration act, prohibiting the government from substantially burdening a person’s exercise of religion unless it is in furtherance of a compelling government interest and is the least restrictive means of furthering such interest. The bill further provides for remedies for violations of the act’s provisions. |
| Oppose | HB477 | establishing a commission to study safety and security procedures in the New Hampshire state house. | Legislative Administration | Wed 2/19 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 203 | This bill establishes a commission to study the feasibility and implementation of certain state house complex safety and security procedures; provides the commission with duties; and provides for the commission’s repeal. |
| Support | HB314 | prohibiting the use of federal, state, or local funds for lobbying activities. | Legislative Administration | Wed 2/19 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 203 | This bill regulates the use of public funds for lobbying activities and establishes certain additional enforcement mechanisms. |
| Oppose | HB605 | relative to employment protections for members of the general court. | Legislative Administration | Wed 2/19 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 203 | This bill provides that serving as a member of state legislature shall be considered public service for purposes of federal student loan forgiveness programs. The bill also provides members of the general court with employment protections during the legislative session. |
| Support | SB282 | relative to stairway requirements in certain residential buildings. | Commerce | Thu 2/20 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill allows residential buildings between 6 and 4 floors above grade to have only one stairway under certain conditions. |
| Support | SB284 | relative to the required maximum number of residential parking spaces. | Commerce | Thu 2/20 | 10:15 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill limits residential parking spaces to one per unit, with exceptions for certain workforce housing and multi-family developments. |
| Oppose | SB267 | relative to the penalty for engaging in prostitution as a patron. | Judiciary | Thu 2/20 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes a mandatory $500 fine for engaging in prostitution as a patron, in addition to any other penalty, and directs that the funds are to be forwarded for use in the victims’ assistance fund. |
| Oppose | SB144 | 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. | Judiciary | Thu 2/20 | 1:45 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill authorizes the state to report mental health data for firearms background check purposes and provides processes for the confiscation of firearms following certain mental health-related court proceedings and for relief from mental health-related firearms disabilities. |
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