Thursday • February 12 • 2026
Vol.XVIII • No.VII
Manchester, N.H.
Local BLM activist Monica Cannon-Grant is a local New England elite who won Bostonian of the year. Praise was heaped on her for expeditiously “deporting” a plane full of illegal immigrants from her Island shortly after a plane landed and couched up two score and ten filthy foreign peasants onto the ritzy Martha’s Vineyard tarmac. ... Read more
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Of the 123 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 19 and opposition of 11 with 8 being of interest.
Of the 28 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 4 and opposition of 4 with 2 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support | HB1548 | requiring the department of education to collect and publish data regarding the costs associated with providing special education services to students of public, charter, private, trade, and other K-12 schools or academies. | Education Policy and Administration | Mon 2/2 | 11:10 AM | GP Room 232 | This bill requires the New Hampshire department of education to collect and publish data on the costs of special education services across public school districts, charter schools, and approved private schools. |
| Oppose | HB1566 | making a contingent appropriation to the department of health and human services for the purpose of providing recruitment and benefit grants to child care employers. | Finance | Mon 2/2 | 10:00 AM | GP Room 230 | This bill makes a contingent appropriation to the department of health and human services for recruitment and benefit grants for child care employers if the federal government denies the use of TANF reserve funds for such purpose. |
| Oppose | HB1750 | making a supplemental appropriation to the department of health and human services for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). | Finance | Mon 2/2 | 11:00 AM | GP Room 230 | This bill makes a supplemental appropriation to the department of health and human services for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to address a budget shortfall due to a reduction in federal matching funds. |
| Oppose | HB1399 | making an appropriation to the Claremont school district for costs associated with a building renovation project from the revenue stabilization reserve account. | Finance | Mon 2/2 | 11:30 AM | GP Room 230 | This bill appropriates money to the Claremont school district for costs associated with the 2015 Stevens High School renovation project. |
| Of Interest | HB1411 | directing the state treasurer to withhold payments owed by the state to the federal government where the state has been deprived of federal aid as a result of presidential executive order. | Finance | Mon 2/2 | 1:00 PM | GP Room 230 | This bill requires the state treasurer to withhold moneys owed to the federal government where the federal government has withheld existing or expected state aid to New Hampshire by means of an executive order or violation of a court order. The bill also authorizes the state treasurer to make payments owed to the federal government upon New Hampshire’s receipt of existing or expected state aid. |
| Of Interest | HB1748 | establishing the New Hampshire energy efficiency and resource development authority. | Science, Technology and Energy | Mon 2/2 | 1:30 PM | GP Room 229 | This bill establishes the New Hampshire energy efficiency and resource development authority. |
| Of Interest | HB1646 | creating an off-site infrastructure improvement tax credit for the value of qualified off-site infrastructure improvements constructed or funded by business organizations that directly benefit the public. | Ways and Means | Mon 2/2 | 10:45 AM | GP Room 159 | This bill creates an off-site infrastructure improvement tax credit for the value of qualified off-site infrastructure improvements constructed or funded by business organizations that directly benefit the public. |
| Support | HB1036 | relative to the maximum duration of term alimony. | Children and Family Law | Tue 2/3 | 10:00 AM | GP Room 230 | This bill limits the maximum duration of term alimony that a court can set absent agreement by the parties or the interest of justice to 8 years. |
| Support | HB1225 | relative to the definition of adjusted gross income with respect to child support guidelines. | Children and Family Law | Tue 2/3 | 11:00 AM | GP Room 230 | This bill adds additional tax obligations that are subtracted when calculating “adjusted gross income” for child support obligations. |
| Support | HB1229 | relative to waivers of alimony. | Children and Family Law | Tue 2/3 | 1:30 PM | GP Room 230 | This bill requires waivers of alimony to be enforced unless the waiver is found invalid. |
| Support | SB487 | allowing credit union members to pay members of the board of directors for their services as a board member. | Commerce | Tue 2/3 | 10:15 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill allows credit union members to pay members of the board of directors for their services as a board member. |
| Of Interest | SB434 | relative to regulation of public school materials. | Education | Tue 2/3 | 9:15 AM | SL Room Map Room | 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. |
| Of Interest | SB430 | relative to mandatory disclosure by school district employees to parents. | Education | Tue 2/3 | 9:30 AM | SL Room Map Room | This bill requires all school employees to respond honestly and completely to written requests by parents regarding information relating to their children. |
| Oppose | HB1781 | relative to child support obligations during postsecondary education. | Education Funding | Tue 2/3 | 11:30 AM | GP Room 232 | This bill extends parental child support obligations to potentially include payment for post-high school education, including college tuition. |
| Oppose | HB1257 | requiring that candidates for state representative and state senator live in the district for which they seek election for at least 2 years. | Election Law | Tue 2/3 | 10:00 AM | GP Room 158 | This bill requires candidates for the offices of state representative and state senator live in the district for which they seek election for at least 2 years. |
| Of Interest | HB1381 | extending the time of the party filing period. | Election Law | Tue 2/3 | 11:20 AM | GP Room 158 | This bill allows political organizations to file on behalf of candidates for 10 days following the deadline for filing for an election. |
| Of Interest | CACR31 | relating to ballot reconciliation. Providing that the state adopt certain provisions and penalties relative to the ballot reconciliation process. | Election Law | Tue 2/3 | 2:40 PM | GP Room 158 | This resolution adopts provisions governing ballot reconciliation, ballot access, ballot retention, polling location limits, selection of poll workers, allowance of registered voters for post-election ballot viewing, allowance for recording ballot lot and voting documentation during citizen audits and compliance with Presidential Executive Order 14248 (March 25, 2025) in the New Hampshire constitution. |
| Support | HB1541 | requiring the secretary of state to provide all voting precincts with secure containers for storing ballots. | Election Law | Tue 2/3 | 3:20 PM | GP Room 158 | This bill requires the secretary of state to provide all voting precincts with secure containers for storing ballots. |
| Oppose | HB1186 | relative to the sale and labeling of eggs. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 2/3 | 1:30 PM | GP Room 153 | This bill recodifies the subdivision relative to the sale of eggs to reflect modern methods of sorting, labeling, and grading eggs. |
| Oppose | SB604 | making an appropriation to the university system of New Hampshire. | Finance | Tue 2/3 | 1:55 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill makes an appropriation to the university system and community college systems of New Hampshire. |
| Support | HB1045 | relative to hunting with lights at night. | Fish and Game and Marine Resources | Tue 2/3 | 10:45 AM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill clarifies when lights may be used while hunting or engaging in other outdoor activities. |
| Support | HB1619 | relative to the rights of property owners and limitations on municipal land use regulation, and repealing the workforce housing program. | Housing | Tue 2/3 | 1:00 PM | GP Room 231 | This bill affirms, codifies, and attempts to clarify property owners’ rights and municipal limits on regulation. This bill also repeals the workforce housing program. |
| Of Interest | HB1713 | relative to zoning conformity and redevelopment standards. | Housing | Tue 2/3 | 1:30 PM | GP Room 231 | This bill revises RSA 204-D to define eligible housing and income thresholds, authorize the transfer of surplus state-owned property to the New Hampshire housing finance authority for housing development, establish procedures for property disposition and affordability restrictions, and require rulemaking to govern occupancy, resale, and mixed-income housing standards. |
| Support | HB1295 | relative to eligibility requirements for charitable and nonprofit housing projects. | Housing | Tue 2/3 | 2:30 PM | GP Room 231 | This bill restricts eligibility requirements for charitable, nonprofit housing project tax exemptions. |
| Oppose | SB554 | repealing the limitation of liability for certain design features of firearms. | Judiciary | Tue 2/3 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill repeals the limitation of liability for certain design features of firearms. |
| Oppose | SB467 | relative to the penalty for certain fentanyl-related offenses and establishing a mandatory minimum sentence for the crime of distribution of a controlled drug with death resulting. | Judiciary | Tue 2/3 | 1:10 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill: I. Adds mandatory minimum sentences for certain fentanyl-related offenses. II. Sets a mandatory minimum sentence for the crime of distribution of a controlled drug with death resulting. |
| Support | HB510 | relative to establishing certain due process rights for students, student organizations, and faculty members facing disciplinary actions by state institutions of higher learning. | Judiciary | Tue 2/3 | 1:40 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes for students, student organizations, and faculty members of publicly funded New Hampshire colleges and universities the right to certain due process protections when disciplinary proceedings are brought against them by such institutions, and addresses the provisions’ applicability to collective bargaining agreements. |
| Oppose | HB1484 | establishing a state minimum wage and providing for incremental increases. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Tue 2/3 | 2:30 PM | GP Room 159 | This bill establishes a state minimum wage and provides for incremental increases. |
| Oppose | HB1512 | allowing municipalities to hold a vote to prevent their residents from receiving education freedom account vouchers. | Municipal and County Government | Tue 2/3 | 10:20 AM | GP Room 154 | This bill allows municipalities to a vote to prevent their residents from receiving education freedom account vouchers. |
| Support | HB1549 | establishing that titles, bills of sale, and identification documents are required only at initial registration or transfer of ownership. | Transportation | Tue 2/3 | 10:00 AM | GP Room 234 | This bill limits the requirement to present ownership and identification documents to the initial registration or transfer of a vehicle, allows personal recognizance by the town or city clerk as a form of identification, and affirms that prior registration is sufficient for renewal. |
| Support | HB1551 | relative to permanent vehicle registrations. | Transportation | Tue 2/3 | 10:20 AM | GP Room 234 | This bill establishes permanent registration for the owner of a vehicle that is 11 years old or older, sets associated fees, prohibits transfer of registration upon ownership change, and allows non-residents and entities to obtain permanent registration with residency disclaimers |
| Support | HB1521 | clarifying the definition of home education. | Education Policy and Administration | Wed 2/4 | 10:30 AM | GP Room 232 | This bill exempts students receiving funding from education freedom accounts from the definition of a home education. |
| Support | HB1817 | permitting all students the choice to attend the school district in which they reside. | Education Policy and Administration | Wed 2/4 | 10:45 AM | GP Room 232 | This bill allows all students the choice to attend school in the school district in which they reside. |
| Oppose | CACR28 | relating to morality and piety. Providing that town, parishes, bodies corporate, or religious societies may elect and contract with teachers. |
Education Policy and Administration | Wed 2/4 | 1:00 PM | GP Room 232 | This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution grants towns, parishes, bodies corporate, and religious societies a constitutional right to elect their own public teachers, and grants every denomination of Christian additional religious protections under the constitution. |
| Support | CACR26 | the powers of the governor. the governor shall not call up the national guard without the approval of the executive council. |
Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 2/4 | 1:30 PM | GP Room 231 | This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution would amend the New Hampshire constitution to allow the Executive Council to hold a vote to prevent the governor from having power over the military forces of this state. |
| Oppose | SB616 | relative to reporting requirements under the right to try act. | Health and Human Services | Wed 2/4 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes a reporting requirement for providers and facilities providing services under the right to try act. The bill also directs the department of health and human services to provide a report to the general court and to adopt rules regarding the collection and reporting of such information. |
| Support | HB349 | relative to the practice of optometry and authorization to perform ophthalmic laser procedures. | Health and Human Services | Wed 2/4 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill authorizes optometrists who meet criteria established by the board of registration in optometry to perform certain ophthalmic laser procedures. |
| Support | HB1811 | repealing statutory immunization requirements for children. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 2/4 | 9:00 AM | GP Room 158 | This bill repeals immunization requirements for children, including requirements regarding religious and medical exemptions, recordkeeping by schools and child care agencies, and rulemaking. |
| Support | CACR23 | relative to legislative oversight of the judicial branch. establishing legislative oversight of the judicial branch. |
Judiciary | Wed 2/4 | 10:00 AM | GP Room 230 | This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution gives the general court the power to oversee and recommend discipline for members of the judicial branch. |
| Support | CACR27 | relating to the authority to establish courts Provided that the sole authority lies within the general court. |
Judiciary | Wed 2/4 | 10:30 AM | GP Room 230 | This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution removes the exception to the general court’s power to establish courts. |
| Support | CACR29 | Relating to the supreme court. Providing that the supreme court may not make rules that have the force and effect of law. |
Judiciary | Wed 2/4 | 11:00 AM | GP Room 230 | This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution provides that the supreme court may not make rules that have the force and effect of law. |
| Support | HB1064 | relative to liability of governmental units. | Judiciary | Wed 2/4 | 1:00 PM | GP Room 230 | 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. |
| Support | HB1116 | relative to judicial privilege and relative to the litigation of small claims. | Judiciary | Wed 2/4 | 1:30 PM | GP Room 230 | This bill: I. States that a New Hampshire state judge may not claim judicial privilege to refuse to testify in a criminal proceeding where they have firsthand knowledge of material facts. II. Requires the court in small claims litigations to send notice of the claim within 10 days of its filing. |
| Of Interest | HB1825 | relative to the regulation of the practice of law, establishing an independent legal licensing board, and making an appropriation therefor. | Judiciary | Wed 2/4 | 3:00 PM | GP Room 230 | This bill restructures the regulation of legal practice in New Hampshire. |
| Support | HB1608 | relative to grand jury minutes and relative to the defense and indemnification of certain government officers and employees. | Judiciary | Wed 2/4 | 3:30 PM | GP Room 230 | This bill states that a criminal defendant shall be entitled to any grand jury minutes applicable to his or her case, which shall be required to be taken. This bill also extends certain defense and indemnification protections against complaints filed with or investigations by a professional licensing board, committee, or regulatory agency to include those against any assistant county attorney, county attorney, or municipal prosecutor. |
| Support | HB155 | reducing the rate of the business enterprise tax. | Ways and Means | Wed 2/4 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 122-123 | This bill reduces the rate of the business enterprise tax for tax years ending on or after December 31, 2027. |
| Oppose | HB1800 | relative to statewide education property taxes. | Ways and Means | Wed 2/4 | 10:00 AM | GP Room 154 | This bill: I. Raises the statewide education property tax. II. Creates tax credit against the statewide education property tax. III. Has the department of revenue administration distribute education property taxes to municipalities. IV. Changes the meaning of the cost of an adequate education. V. Repeals statutes pertaining to extraordinary need grants. |
| Oppose | HB1787 | modifying the statewide education property tax. | Ways and Means | Wed 2/4 | 10:45 AM | GP Room 154 | This bill: I. Requires that statewide education property tax revenues be collected and remitted to the state treasurer for deposit into the education trust fund. II. Makes changes to the low- and moderate-income homeowners property tax relief program. III. Creates a committee to study the low- and moderate-income homeowners property tax relief program. |
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Why do the legacy media’s talking heads continue to give Representative Ilhan Omar face time without asking her the obvious questions about her questionable, if not illegal, life choices, and how she amassed $30M in net worth in a year? Let’s put that thought on hold for a second and address her reactions and responses ... Read more
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