Wednesday • April 30 • 2025
Vol.XVII • No.XVIII
Manchester, N.H.
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Of the 56 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 7 and opposition of 2 with 1 being of interest.
Of the 40 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 11 and opposition of 1 with 2 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Of Interest | SB112 | relative to purchased power agreements for electric distribution utilities. | Science, Technology and Energy | Mon 4/21 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill allows the department of energy or the electric distribution utilities, or both, to issue requests for proposals for multi-year agreements for energy, in conjunction with or independent of any attendant environmental attributes from electric energy sources, and coordinate with one or more New England states in issuing this RFP. |
| Support | SB25 | allowing credit union members to pay members of the board of directors for their services as a board member. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Tue 4/22 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill allows credit union members to pay members of the board of directors for their services as a board member. |
| Support | HB115 | relative to universal eligibility for the education freedom account program. | Education | Tue 4/22 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill increases the income eligibility for the EFA program in fiscal year 2026 and removes the income eligibility criteria beginning in fiscal year 2027. |
| Support | SB43 | removing articles of clothing from the definition of electioneering. | Election Law | Tue 4/22 | 11:40 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill allows certain articles of clothing supporting a candidate or measure to be worn by a voter in the process of casting his or her vote. |
| Support | HB138 | relative to tax impact notation on warrant articles with multi-year tax impacts. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 4/22 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 103 | 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. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 4/22 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill requires that municipalities require tax impact statements on budgets and warrant articles and a total tax summary statement. |
| Support | HB200 | relative to the procedure for overriding a local tax cap. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 4/22 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill requires a supermajority vote of the legislative body to override a local tax cap. |
| Support | HB723 | repealing the multi-use energy data platform. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 4/22 | 9:15 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill repeals the multi-use energy data platform. |
| Support | HB240 | (New Title) relative to nonpayment of dog licensing fees. | Judiciary | Tue 4/22 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill changes the law to enable local governing bodies to issue warrants for civil forfeiture of an unlicensed dog for nonpayment of dog license fees. The law currently requires local governing bodies to issue warrants for civil forfeiture of an unlicensed dog for nonpayment of dog license fees. |
| Support | HB616 | (New Title) relative to the confiscation of animals from persons suspected of or charged with abuse of animals and establishing a committee to study the animal cruelty statutes. | Judiciary | Tue 4/22 | 1:30 PM | SH Room 100 | 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. |
| Of Interest | HB88 | establishing community property trusts. | Judiciary | Tue 4/22 | 1:45 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill allows community property trusts to be formed in New Hampshire. |
| Support | SB40 | relative to safe boater education certificates. | Transportation | Tue 4/22 | 9:50 AM | LOB Room 203 | This bill adds an online examination approved by the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators (NASBLA) to the safe boater education certificate qualification and requires the department of safety to adopt rules relative to its implementation. |
| Oppose | SB150 | defining electric vehicle charging station and charging a fee for annual testing by the division of weights and measures. | Transportation | Tue 4/22 | 11:10 AM | LOB Room 203 | This bill: I. Defines electric vehicle charging station. II. Charges a fee for annual testing by the division of weights and measures. III. Authorizes the department of agriculture, markets, and food to appropriate funds for electric vehicle charging station testing and certification. |
| Support | SB33 | relative to the regulation of public school materials. | Education Policy and Administration | Wed 4/23 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | 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. |
| 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. | Fish and Game and Marine Resources | Wed 4/23 | 10:50 AM | LOB Room 307 | 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 | HB701 | relative to a health care patient’s right to try certain emergency health care treatment options. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/23 | 9:15 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill expands a health care patient’s right to try emerging health care treatment options. |
| Support | SB250 | relative to pharmacist administration of long-acting injectable drugs. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 4/23 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill allows pharmacists to administer certain long-acting controlled drugs pursuant to a prescription. |
| Support | SB252 | relative to criteria for providing certain medical care through telemedicine. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 4/23 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill modifies the requirements for the use of telemedicine to prescribe non-opioids and opioids classified in schedules II through IV, including authorizing physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses to do so. |
| Support | HB302 | relative to enabling the state treasury to invest in precious metals and digital assets. | Ways and Means | Wed 4/23 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill enables the state treasurer to invest state funds into precious metals and digital assets. |
| Of Interest | HB25 | making appropriations for capital improvements. | Capital Budget | Thu 4/24 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill makes appropriations for capital improvements for the biennium and extends certain lapse dates for previous appropriations. |
| Oppose | HB473 | criminalizing multiple forms of exposing children to controlled substances and allowing law enforcement to take a child into protective custody for screening and testing in an instance of suspected or actual criminal exposure to controlled substances. | Children and Family Law | Thu 4/24 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill expands the criminal statute criminalizing exposing children to methamphetamine and allowing for law enforcement to take a child into protective custody for screening or testing for criminal exposure to methamphetamine to cover all controlled substances, except those possessed pursuant to a lawful prescription. |
| Support | HB273 | relative to a parent’s access to their minor child’s library records. | Children and Family Law | Thu 4/24 | 10:20 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill allows parents to access all of their minor child’s library records. |
| Support | SB94 | prohibiting municipal amendments to the state building code. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 4/24 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill prohibits all local legislative bodies from adopting any new regulations that differ from the state building code. |
| Support | HB66 | relative to material subject to disclosure under the right to know law. | Judiciary | Thu 4/24 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill describes who may invoke the right to know law and in what manner, includes preliminary drafts of documents that are distributed to a quorum of a body among the materials that must be disclosed, allows certain persons to request documents in either paper or electronic form, and modifies the manner in which the right to know ombudsman’s ruling may be appealed to superior court. |
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