Tuesday • March 31 • 2026
Vol.XVIII • No.XIV
Manchester, N.H.
Of the 34 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 4 and opposition of 5 with 1 being of interest.
Of the 79 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 28 and opposition of 4 with 7 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Of Interest | SB432 | (New Title) authorizing the application of sunscreen in schools and camps without a licensed health care provider’s note or prescription and establishing a skin cancer prevention education program. | Education Policy and Administration | Mon 3/30 | 10:00 AM | GP Room 232 | This bill permits the self-application of sunscreen by children in schools and camps without the requirement of a prescription or a licensed health care provider’s note. The bill authorizes specific school and camp personnel to apply sunscreen to a child with permission of the child’s parent or guardian. The bill also establishes a skin cancer prevention education program in public schools. |
| Support | HB1336 | (New Title) relative to regulated conditional deposits. | Commerce | Tue 3/31 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill allows for the use of regulated conditional deposits by landlords and tenants and clarifies that advance rental payments need not be held in escrow, a trust, or a reserve account. |
| Of Interest | HB1523 | relative to disclosure requirements for condominium associations. | Commerce | Tue 3/31 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes disclosure requirements for homeowners’ associations. |
| Of Interest | HB1774 | (New Title) relative to qualifying scholarship granting organizations and federal workforce Pell grants. | Education | Tue 3/31 | 9:15 AM | SL Room Map Room | This bill: I. Directs the department of revenue administration to participate in the federal income tax credit for contributions of individuals to qualified scholarship granting organizations. II. Directs the department of education to create a qualifying scholarship granting organizations list. III. Directs the governor to approve workforce training programs for federal Workforce Pell Grants. |
| Support | HB1817 | (New Title) relative to access to curricular courses and cocurricular programs within school districts. | Education | Tue 3/31 | 9:25 AM | SL Room Map Room | This bill expands access to curricular courses and cocurricular programs within school districts for education freedom account students. |
| Support | SB223 | (New Title) prohibiting student identification cards from being used as photo identification for purposes of obtaining a ballot. | Election Law | Tue 3/31 | 10:00 AM | GP Room 158 | This bill prohibits student identification cards from being used as photo identification for purposes of obtaining a ballot. |
| Support | HB1541 | requiring the secretary of state to provide all voting precincts with secure containers for storing ballots. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 3/31 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 122-123 | This bill requires the secretary of state to provide all voting precincts with secure containers for storing ballots. |
| Support | HB1807 | (New Title) relative to mandatory reports to voters. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 3/31 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 122-123 | This bill makes changes to the form and content of the mandatory report to voters distributed before any meeting at which any school district adopts a school budget. |
| Support | HB1125 | enabling school districts to adopt partisan school district elections. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 3/31 | 11:00 AM | SH Room 122-123 | This bill enables school districts to choose whether or not to adopt partisan school district elections. |
| Support | HB1272 | (New Title) providing an option for each candidate’s party affiliations to be printed on the town or school district ballot. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 3/31 | 1:30 PM | SH Room 122-123 | This bill provides an option for each candidate’s party affiliation to be printed on the town or school district ballot. |
| Support | HB686 | (New Title) prohibiting certain public entities from conducting or sponsoring political surveys, polls, or questionnaires in their official capacities. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 3/31 | 1:45 PM | SH Room 122-123 | This bill prohibits certain public entities from conducting or sponsoring political surveys, polls, or questionnaires in their official capacities. This bill also exempts from such prohibition any surveys, polls, or questionnaires conducted by institutions of higher education. |
| Oppose | HB1676 | limiting consumer access to certain high-risk rodenticides. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 3/31 | 9:10 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill prohibits the sale of certain rodenticides to persons not licensed or registered with the department of agriculture, markets, and food. |
| Support | SB418 | prohibiting municipalities from requiring licenses for the production and sale of homestead food products. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 3/31 | 10:30 AM | GP Room 153 | This bill prohibits municipalities from requiring licenses for the production and sale of homestead food products. |
| Oppose | SB624 | restricting access to certain hemp-derived products. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 3/31 | 1:00 PM | GP Room 153 | This bill sets penalties for possession of certain hemp-derived products, directs liquor licensees to comply with the prohibition, and amends the definition of hemp. |
| Oppose | SB465 | classifying xylazine as a schedule III controlled drug. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 3/31 | 1:30 PM | GP Room 153 | This bill classifies xylazine as a schedule III controlled drug. |
| Of Interest | HB1100 | establishing an exception to the prohibition against interception and disclosure of telecommunication or oral communications. | Judiciary | Tue 3/31 | 1:15 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill permits an individual to record a telecommunication after being informed that the call may be recorded. |
| Oppose | HB1240 | relative to the apparent use of a deadly weapon during the offense of criminal threatening. | Judiciary | Tue 3/31 | 1:25 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill makes it a class B felony to violate certain provisions of the criminal threatening statute while using what reasonably appears to the victim to be a deadly weapon. This bill is a request of the county attorneys. |
| Support | HB1598 | (New Title) relative to notice and proceedings for tenants and landlords engaged in eviction processes. | Judiciary | Tue 3/31 | 1:55 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill amends various landlord/tenant laws to makes it easier for landlords to evict tenants for non-payment of rent or for a material breach of a rental agreement. |
| Support | HB1499 | relative to additional grounds for eviction under the landlord and tenant statute. | Judiciary | Tue 3/31 | 2:05 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill allows eviction if a tenant uses someone else’s personal information to obtain the rental or if the tenant or an occupant has certain criminal convictions, including improper entry as a non-citizen or a conviction requiring registration as a sexual offender or offender against children. The landlord cannot use a conviction disclosed in writing before the start of the tenancy as grounds for eviction. |
| Oppose | SB627 | (New Title) relative to toll rate adjustments and periodic inflation-based toll reviews for the New Hampshire turnpike system to support the 2027-2036 ten-year transportation plan. | Public Works and Highways | Tue 3/31 | 10:00 AM | GP Room 228 | This bill: I. Provides for toll rate adjustments at specified turnpike plazas to support projects in the 2027–2036 ten year transportation plan. II. Provides for periodic toll adjustments tied to the New Hampshire department of transportation’s projected inflation index as part of the statewide transportation improvement program. |
| Of Interest | HB1121 | defining the cost of an adequate education. | Education Finance | Wed 4/1 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill defines specific elements to be used to calculate the cost of an adequate education. |
| Of Interest | HB1495 | allowing a reimbursement anticipation note to be used as collateral in certain circumstances. | Education Finance | Wed 4/1 | 1:10 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill allows school districts to borrow and categorize funds as revenue, so long as they are only used for the same purpose as anticipated funds. |
| Support | HB1610 | allowing school districts to annually retain year-end unassigned general funds. | Education Finance | Wed 4/1 | 1:20 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill allows school districts to retain year-end unassigned general funds on an annual basis. |
| Oppose | HB1816 | relative to the intervention of the department of education into a school or school district during a financial emergency. | Education Finance | Wed 4/1 | 1:30 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill allows the commissioner of the department of education to initiate and implement a district recovery plan if a school district’s financial and operational condition is deemed a financial emergency by the state board of education. |
| Support | SB101 | (New Title) authorizing parents to enroll their children in any public school in the state and creating a limited exemption from parental consent required for certain recordings under the parental bill of rights. | Education Policy and Administration | Wed 4/1 | 10:00 AM | GP Room 232 | This bill: I. Allows parents to send their children to public schools outside of their resident district. II. Creates a limited exemption from the consent requirement under the parental bill of rights for required assessments and school-sponsored events open to the general public. |
| Support | HB1306 | relative to the counting of absentee ballots. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Wed 4/1 | 1:45 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill creates the absentee ballot certificate and requires certain counts of absentee ballots to be performed by the moderator and the clerk and recorded on the absentee ballot certificate. |
| Support | HB1211 | relative to the scope of review of state agency interpretations. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 4/1 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill states that in actions brought by or against state agencies, after applying all customary tools of interpretation, the court or hearing officer shall resolve any remaining doubt as to legal meaning in favor of a reasonable interpretation that limits agency power and maximizes liberty for the individuals impacted by restrictions, fees, fines, or civil or criminal action as a result of the state statute, regulation, or other subregulatory agency document. |
| Support | HB1286 | (New Title) relative to the practice of dentistry and when radiographic examinations are required. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 4/1 | 9:20 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill provides that a dentist may treat a patient who declines to have a radiographic examination and the dentist in such cases shall require the patient to sign a waiver of liability. |
| Support | SB486 | relative to the administrative procedure act. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 4/1 | 10:00 AM | GP Room 231 | This bill revises the procedures of the administrative procedure act. |
| Oppose | SB488 | enabling the governor to declare a state of emergency due to the failure of the legislature to pass a budget or continuing resolution to fund the New Hampshire state government by July 1 of the first year of a biennium. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 4/1 | 11:00 AM | GP Room 231 | This bill enables the governor to declare a state of emergency due to the failure of the legislature to pass a budget or continuing resolution to fund the New Hampshire state government by July 1 of the first year of a biennium. |
| Oppose | SB669 | relative to on-premises licenses for licensed barbershops and salons. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 4/1 | 11:30 AM | GP Room 231 | This increases separates the on-premises license for barbershops and salons into two tiers, one which allows for a single sale and one which allows for service without charge, and requires the liquor commission to make an annual report to the legislature regarding the issuance of licenses and the number of violations which occurred. |
| Support | HB1117 | relative to the right of licensed health care providers to freely communicate with patients, colleagues, and the public about medical information, emerging therapies, and treatment options. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/1 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill provides that a health care provider shall not be subject to disciplinary action, professional sanction, or civil or criminal liability for communicating with a patient, another provider, or the public about emerging medical research, experimental treatments, innovative therapies, or off-label uses of medications, provided the communication is made in good faith and not knowingly false or misleading. |
| Support | HB1734 | authorizing the establishment of experimental treatment centers. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/1 | 9:15 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill permits the establishment of experimental treatment centers. The centers would be authorized by the department of health and human services to provide treatment involving an investigational drug, biologic, or device that has successfully completed phase one of a clinical trial, but is not yet FDA-approved for general use and either remains under investigation in a clinical trial or has a demonstrated safety record from a qualified medical institution. |
| Support | HB1735 | permitting treatment of certain severe illness under the right to try act. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/1 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill permits treatment of certain severe illness under the right to try act. |
| Support | HB1706 | repealing the refugee resettlement program in the department of health and human services and prohibiting expenditure of state funds on refugee resettlement. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/1 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill repeals the refugee resettlement program in the department of health and human services and prohibits expenditure of state funds on refugee resettlement. |
| Support | HB1597 | relative to business profits tax expense deductions. | Ways and Means | Wed 4/1 | 10:15 AM | SH Room 122-123 | This bill increases the expense deduction cap to $2,500,000 for property placed in service on or after January 1, 2027, aligning with federal standards. |
| Support | HB1039 | relative to the contents of parenting plans. | Children and Family Law | Thu 4/2 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill enables a parenting plan to include provisions relative to the sharing of a child’s image on social media. |
| Support | HB1643 | relative to the report of a guardian ad litem. | Children and Family Law | Thu 4/2 | 9:40 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill removes the authority of the court to request that the guardian ad litem’s report propose an allocation of decision-making responsibility; a parenting plan; or a specific parenting schedule. |
| Support | HB1565 | relative to the penalty for false reports of suspected abuse and neglect made to the division for children, youth, and families. | Children and Family Law | Thu 4/2 | 9:50 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill provides that reports of suspected abuse and neglect may include the name of the person making the report and that a person who makes a false report maliciously or with the intent to cause harm shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. The bill also creates a private right of action for civil damages against a person who makes a false report of suspected abuse or neglect. |
| Support | HB1376 | relative to a parent’s ability to raise their child in a manner consistent with the child’s biological sex. | Children and Family Law | Thu 4/2 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill exempts child rearing consistent with the child’s biological sex from being considered within the definition of abused child and child endangerment. The bill also removes child rearing consistent with the child’s biological sex from being a basis for findings relative to family law determinations, including: adoptions, child-placing agency licensing, and best interests of the child determinations. |
| Oppose | HB1186 | relative to the sale and labeling of eggs. | Energy and Natural Resources | Thu 4/2 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill recodifies the subdivision relative to the sale of eggs to reflect modern methods of sorting, labeling, and grading eggs. This bill also requires egg producers who sell from their home or farmstand to label their eggs and exempts such egg producers from requirements for sorting, selling and grading eggs. |
| Support | HB1719 | removing Hepatitis B from the list of diseases for which immunization is required under state law. | Health and Human Services | Thu 4/2 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill removes Hepatitis B from the list of diseases for which childhood immunization is required. |
| Support | HB1584 | directing the department of health and human services to provide notice of medical and religious exemptions from immunization requirements and relative to the form of such exemption. | Health and Human Services | Thu 4/2 | 1:20 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill directs the department of health and human services to provide notice of medical and religious exemptions from immunization requirements and provides that any written signed statement attesting to the religious objection shall be sufficient. |
| Support | HB524 | (New Title) relative to disbursement of funds by the New Hampshire vaccine association and establishing a committee to study the efficacy of the New Hampshire vaccine association. | Health and Human Services | Thu 4/2 | 1:40 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill directs the New Hampshire vaccine association to disburse funds collected through assessments by the end of each fiscal year to the extent practicable. The bill also establishes a committee to study the efficacy of the New Hampshire vaccine association. |
| Of Interest | HB1449 | limiting times vaccine clinics may operate at schools and requiring parents or legal guardians to be present with their child during the administration of vaccinations at such a clinic. | Health and Human Services | Thu 4/2 | 2:00 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill prohibits the operation of a vaccination clinic at schools during school hours and requires the parent or legal guardian of a child be present during the administration of any vaccination to their child at such a clinic. |
| Support | HB1064 | relative to liability of governmental units. | Judiciary | Thu 4/2 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill: I. Modifies the standards and amounts for which a governmental unit may be held liable for negligence resulting in personal injury or property damage. II. Requires political subdivisions to indemnify employees absent wanton on reckless conduct for negligent conduct resulting in personal injury or property damage, if the action was within the scope of the employment. |
| Of Interest | HB1709 | (New Title) prohibiting certain unlawfully present felons from occupying or renting real property. | Judiciary | Thu 4/2 | 1:30 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill prohibits certain unlawfully present aliens with prior felony convictions from occupying or renting real property and authorizes sheriffs to arrest such individuals during service of a writ of possession. |
| Support | HB1788 | (New Title) holding state contracts with DEI provisions to be void as a matter of law and establishing a right of action for citizens where public entities or state agencies engage with contracts with DEI provisions. | Judiciary | Thu 4/2 | 1:40 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill: I. Requires courts to find that contracts that include DEI-related provisions are void as a matter of law. II. Allows citizens to sue public entities or state agencies for engaging in, or failing to investigate allegations of, contracts with DEI-related provisions. |
| Support | HB1442 | limiting the use of certain facilities on the basis of sex and redefining the term “gender identity.” | Judiciary | Thu 4/2 | 1:50 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill: I. Modifies statutory construction of the term “gender identity”. II. Requires bathrooms and locker rooms in public schools and municipally owned buildings to be used on the basis of sex. III. Permits owners and operators of places of public accommodation to restrict the use of bathrooms and locker rooms on the basis of sex. IV. Requires that inmates in New Hampshire correctional facilities be housed separately on the basis of their sex. V. Modifies the enforcement of civil rights to provide protections on the basis of gender identity only for certain purposes. |
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