Saturday • May 3 • 2025
Vol.XVII • No.XVIII
Manchester, N.H.
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Of the 36 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 9 and opposition of 4 with 8 being of interest.
Of the 25 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 4 and opposition of 6 with 2 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oppose | HB84 | allowing municipalities to collect fees for certain recreational vehicles located on campground properties. | Municipal and County Government | Mon 1/13 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill allows municipalities to impose a fee on campground owners for recreational vehicles on campgrounds that are not taxable as real estate. |
| Oppose | HB86 | increasing the cost of service for notice of civil forfeiture of unlicensed dogs to the rate for certified mail. | Municipal and County Government | Mon 1/13 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill increases the cost of service for notice of civil forfeiture of unlicensed dogs to the rate for certified mail. |
| Of Interest | HB99 | relative to a waiver from property taxes for disabled veterans. | Municipal and County Government | Mon 1/13 | 11:20 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill increases the range of the optional tax credit for service-connected total disability. |
| Of Interest | HB101 | relative to exempting certain elderly homeowners from paying property taxes. | Municipal and County Government | Mon 1/13 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill creates a qualified persons tax exemption to allow certain seniors property tax relief on their primary residence. |
| Support | SB19 | relative to hotel and motel operations. | Commerce | Tue 1/14 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill: I. Repeals the requirement that hotel keepers post a notice of rental rates in hotel rooms. II. Repeals the requirement that motel operators place signs displaying rates for rental units. |
| Support | SB24 | allowing students under age 21 to taste wine in educational settings. | Commerce | Tue 1/14 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill allows students under age 21 to taste wine in certain educational settings. |
| Support | SB27 | relative to dwellings over water. | Commerce | Tue 1/14 | 10:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill allows improvements to certain dwellings over water. |
| Support | HB81 | allowing patrons to take purchased alcoholic beverages into the restroom of a restaurant. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Tue 1/14 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 307 | This bill allows patrons in on-premises establishments to take purchased alcoholic beverages into the restroom of the establishment. |
| Of Interest | HB79 | establishing a commission to study the privatization of the liquor commission. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Tue 1/14 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 307 | This bill establishes a commission to study the privatization of the liquor commission. |
| Support | HB276 | removing the requirement that on-premises beverage licensees serve food. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Tue 1/14 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 307 | This bill removes the requirement that on-premises beverage licensees serve food. |
| Of Interest | SB11 | relative to the allocation of electoral college votes. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 1/14 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill apportions the state’s presidential electors so that 2 at-large presidential electors shall cast their ballots for the presidential and vice-presidential candidates who received the highest number of votes in the state, and congressional district presidential electors shall cast their ballots for the presidential and vice-presidential candidates who received the highest number of votes in their respective congressional districts. |
| Support | SB45 | clarifying the placement of political signs on municipal property. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 1/14 | 9:50 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill clarifies the conditions under which political advertising may be placed on municipal property. |
| Of Interest | SB43 | removing articles of clothing from the definition of electioneering. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 1/14 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill removes articles of clothing from the definition of electioneering. |
| Oppose | SB35 | making an appropriation for rail trail project matching funds. | Finance | Tue 1/14 | 1:20 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill appropriates funds to the department of transportation to be granted to the town of Warner as matching funds for a section of the rail trail in Warner. |
| Oppose | SB20 | relative to payment by the state of a portion of retirement system contributions of political subdivision employers. | Finance | Tue 1/14 | 1:30 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill provides that the state shall pay 7.5 percent of contributions of retirement system employers other than the state for group I teachers and group II members. |
| Oppose | HB106 | establishing a commission to determine the monetary costs of climate damage to the state of New Hampshire and the best means of recouping such costs. | Science, Technology and Energy | Tue 1/14 | 3:30 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill establishes a commission to determine the financial cost of climate damage to New Hampshire and methods of recouping such costs. |
| Of Interest | HB310 | establishing a commission to study the creation of a regulatory framework for stable tokens and tokenized real-world assets in New Hampshire. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/15 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill establishes a commission to study the creation of a regulatory framework for stable tokens and tokenized real-world assets (“RWAs”) in New Hampshire. |
| Support | HB302 | relative to enabling the state treasury to invest in precious metals and digital assets. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/15 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill enables the state treasurer to invest state funds into precious metals and digital assets. |
| Of Interest | HB359 | prohibiting denial of banking and insurance services based on any factor that is not quantitative, impartial, and risk-based as measured by an objective standard. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/15 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill requires that financial institutions and insurers use objective information when providing banking services and prohibits those institutions from denying or canceling services based certain personally held beliefs. |
| Oppose | SB21 | relative to establishing a New Hampshire state trooper recruitment loan debt relief program and making an appropriation therefor. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 1/15 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill establishes the New Hampshire state trooper school loan debt relief program. |
| Oppose | SB28 | relative to workers’ compensation claims involving emergency responders with acute stress disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 1/15 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill provides that “date of injury” for purposes of workers’ compensation claims by emergency responders with acute stress disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder shall be determined in accordance with the statute governing date of injury for occupational disease or cumulative trauma. |
| Oppose | SB29 | relative to membership, jurisdiction, and reports of the health care workplace safety commission and relative to health care facility reporting requirements under the workplace violence prevention program. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 1/15 | 10:15 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill adds a representative of Hampstead hospital to the health care workplace safety commission, requires monthly reporting of incidents to the department of labor, repeals an exemption for state operated health care facilities from jurisdiction of the commission, and clarifies that annual reports of the commission are not confidential. The bill is a request of the health care workplace safety commission. |
| Oppose | SB37 | relative to residential care and health facility licensing. | Health and Human Services | Wed 1/15 | 9:15 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill revises residential care and health facility licensing requirements by (1) requiring licensed residential care facilities to have quality assurance programs; (2) requiring the results of any investigation be posted in a conspicuous place in the facility; (3) requiring facilities to post the results of Life Safety inspections known as “notices to correct;” (4) removing a redundant reference to administrative fines; (5) changing the term “hospital” to the term “facility;” and (6) removing the word “continuing” from the initial education requirements and replacing the term “ongoing training” with continuing education in the annual training requirement. The bill is a request of the department of health and human services. |
| Of Interest | HB88 | establishing community property trusts. | Judiciary | Wed 1/15 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill allows community property trusts to be formed in New Hampshire. |
| Of Interest | HB111 | extending the position of right-to-know ombudsman for 2 years. | Judiciary | Wed 1/15 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill extends the office of the right-to-know ombudsman, complaint process, appeal and enforcement, and rulemaking for 2 years. |
| Of Interest | HB127 | extending the closing date of the OHRV trails on the Connecticut River Headwaters property from September 30 to Columbus Day. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 1/15 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 305 | 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 | HB203 | relative to coast guard approved personal flotation devices while on New Hampshire state waters. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 1/15 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 305 | This bill requires occupants of canoes, kayaks, or rowing sculls on state waters who are not part of an official competition to wear a personal floatation device of a type approved by the United States Coast Guard. |
| Support | HB115 | relative to universal eligibility for the education freedom account program. | Education Funding | Thu 1/16 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill removes the household income criteria from eligibility requirements for the education freedom account program. |
| Support | HB267 | relative to animal chiropractors. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 1/16 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill exempts individuals with degrees in veterinary medicine or chiropractics who have completed a nationally recognized animal chiropractic program, as determined by the executive director of the office of professional licensure and certification, from veterinary licensure requirements. |
| Support | HB85 | relative to temporary licensure for student respiratory therapists. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 1/16 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill allows for the temporary licensure of student respiratory therapists and authorizes the office of professional licensure and certification, in consultation with the advisory board of respiratory care practitioners, to adopt rules governing this temporary licensure. |
| Support | HB82 | relative to the regulation of various occupations. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 1/16 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill amends licensing statutes and the office of professional licensure and certification’s governing statutes to shift certain responsibilities and regulation to the office, in keeping with prior legislation. This bill amends statutes related to the regulation of (1) land surveyors, (2) landscape architects; (3) alcohol and other drug use professionals, (4) mental health practitioners, (5) professional engineers, (6) psychologists, (7) architects, (8) podiatrists, (9) the boxing and wrestling commission, (10) auctioneers, (11) electricians, (12) professional bondsmen, (13) nurse agency registration, and (14) doula and lactation specialist certification. This bill is at the request of the office of professional licensure and certification. |
| Support | HB55 | repealing the Selective Service Compliance Act. | State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs | Fri 1/17 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill repeals the Selective Service Registration Awareness and Compliance Act. |
| Support | HB104 | relative to requiring an official declaration of war for the activation of the New Hampshire national guard in a foreign state. | State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs | Fri 1/17 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill limits the activation of the New Hampshire national guard to only those times where the United States Congress has passed an official action pursuant to Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution. |
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