Sunday • October 26 • 2025
Vol.XVII • No.XLIII
Manchester, N.H.
Of the 59 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 14 and opposition of 6 with 0 being of interest.
Of the 45 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 20 and opposition of 2 with 2 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support | HB342 | relative to the approval process for new construction. | Commerce | Tue 1/21 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill allows property owners to build on their property without seeking a variance for minimum lot size or lot coverage if the proposed building density conforms to that of the surrounding neighborhood, as verified by the local planning board. |
| Support | HB296 | relative to issuing building permits along private roads. | Commerce | Tue 4/15 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill adds an alternative condition and provides another pathway to authorization for local governing bodies to erect buildings along private roads and adds additional requirements for subdivisions creating new lots. |
| Support | HB685 | permitting in all residentially zoned areas by right the construction of manufactured housing. | Commerce | Tue 4/15 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill updates the definition of manufactured housing, and establishes the requirement that manufactured housing must be permitted in all residential zoned areas within every municipality in the state, overriding any local zoning ordinances that prohibit or unreasonably restrict its placement. |
| Support | HB382 | (New Title) relative to authority for municipalities to regulate mandatory on-site parking requirements. | Commerce | Tue 4/15 | 10:05 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill amends the amount of accessory parking that municipalities can require for residential units. |
| Support | HB413 | relative to subdivision regulations on the completion of improvements and the regulation of building permits. | Commerce | Tue 4/15 | 10:35 AM | SH Room 100 | 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. |
| Support | HB68 | making best interest placements within the same school district mandatory in the absence of a valid reason to deny the placement. | Education | Tue 4/15 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill requires superintendents to approve student requests for reassignment within the same school district, and requires superintendents to provide written reasons to parents for denials of requests. |
| Support | HB235 | relative to amending the educator code of ethics and code of conduct to include responsibility to parents. | Education | Tue 4/15 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill amends the educator code of conduct to include responsibility to parents. |
| Oppose | SB204 | relative to the responsibility of local school districts to provide meals to students during school hours, reimbursing schools for meals provided to students at no cost, and making an appropriation therefor. | Education Funding | Tue 4/15 | 12:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill authorizes school boards to raise eligibility for free meals, requires the department of education to reimburse schools who raise eligibility, and provides an appropriation therefor. |
| Support | SB295 | (New Title) relative to education freedom accounts. | Education Funding | Tue 4/15 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill: I. Increases the number of students eligible for education freedom accounts by removing household income thresholds. II. Removes certain conditions tied to education freedom account funds. |
| Support | HB340 | relative to electioneering by public employees. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 4/15 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill defines electioneering in relation to public employees |
| Support | HB464 | (New Title) prohibiting certain candidates for political office from participating in counting ballots. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 4/15 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill prohibits certain candidates for political office from participating in counting ballots. |
| Support | HB474 | requiring a second witness at the counting of write-in votes. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 4/15 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill requires a second witness who is another sworn-in election official if a moderator uses a ballot counting device’s printed or digitally displayed images to count write-in votes in place of examining each ballot to obtain the name of the person who received a write-in vote. |
| Oppose | HB171 | establishing a moratorium on the issuance of permits for new landfills. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 4/15 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill establishes a moratorium on the issuance of permits for new landfills. |
| Oppose | HB707 | (New Title) requiring the department of environmental services to revise the rules for proposed new landfills. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 4/15 | 9:15 AM | SH Room 103 | The bill requires the department to modify rules to avoid significant harms to human health and the environment, and changes the enabling statute of the department of environmental services solid waste division to require the department to consider health and the environment when making future rules. |
| Oppose | SB302 | requiring background checks for solid waste facility owners. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 4/15 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill requires background checks for solid waste facility owners including partners and managers. |
| Support | SB229 | relative to the sale of uninspected bison, red deer, and elk meat. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 4/15 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | 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. |
| Support | SB84 | relative to zoning procedures concerning residential housing. | Housing | Tue 4/15 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 305 | This bill sets maximum lot sizes for single-family residential uses based on the type of infrastructure servicing the lot. |
| Support | SB163 | prohibiting local moratoria and limitations on building permits. | Housing | Tue 4/15 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 305 | This bill repeals the authority for a local legislative body to adopt an ordinance establishing a temporary moratoria and limitations on building permits and the approval of subdivisions and site plans. |
| Support | SB281 | prohibiting municipalities from denying building or occupancy permits for property adjacent to class VI roads under certain circumstances. | Housing | Tue 4/15 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 305 | This bill changes the requirements that allow a building to be constructed on a lot adjacent to a class VI roadway. |
| Support | SB282 | relative to stairway requirements in certain residential buildings. | Housing | Tue 4/15 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 305 | This bill allows residential buildings between 6 and 4 floors above grade to have only one stairway under certain conditions. |
| Support | SB170 | (New Title) relative to development and related requirements in cities, towns, and municipalities. | Housing | Tue 4/15 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 305 | This bill: I. Prohibits cities, towns, and municipalities from restricting certain development-related activities. II. Requires cities, towns, and municipalities to allow for septic systems, wells, electric systems, drainage structures, and other utilities to be placed in open spaces or perimeter buffers of subdivisions. III. Prohibits cities, towns, and municipalities from mandating that occupants of housing units be related by blood or marriage. IV. Adopts limits on road frontage requirements and setbacks for lot lines to improve housing density, ensuring these requirements are consistent with existing shoreland protection and environmental standards. |
| Support | HB226 | relative to the use of drug checking equipment. | Judiciary | Tue 4/15 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill amends and adds definitions to the Controlled Drug Act to exclude drug checking equipment from being considered drug paraphernalia and authorizes the use of drug checking equipment. |
| Support | HB190 | relative to therapeutic cannabis possession limits. | Judiciary | Tue 4/15 | 1:20 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill increases qualifying patients’ limit on possession of therapeutic cannabis from 2 to 4 ounces, and increases the amount they may obtain in a 10-day period from 2 to 4 ounces. |
| Support | HB380 | relative to penalties for criminal violations of the therapeutic use of cannabis. | Judiciary | Tue 4/15 | 1:30 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill amends the penalty for the unauthorized sale of cannabis by a qualifying patient or designated caregiver. |
| Support | HB198 | relative to legalizing certain quantities of cannabis and establishing penalties for the smoking or vaping of cannabis in public. | Judiciary | Tue 4/15 | 1:40 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill legalizes the possession of a certain amount of cannabis for persons 21 years or older and prohibits public consumption of cannabis. |
| Support | HB528 | (New Title) amending the penalties for the possession and use of psilocybin for persons 18 years of age or older. | Judiciary | Tue 4/15 | 1:50 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill modifies the penalties for a person 18 years of age or older to obtain, purchase, transport, possess, or use psilocybin. |
| Support | SB19 | relative to hotel and motel operations. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 4/16 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | 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 and Consumer Affairs | Wed 4/16 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill allows students under age 21 to taste wine in certain educational settings. |
| Oppose | SB80 | consolidating licensing, auditing, and enforcement responsibilities for wholesale and retail e-cigarettes sales under the liquor commission. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 4/16 | 2:15 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill consolidates licensing, auditing, and enforcement responsibilities for wholesale and retail e-cigarettes sales under the liquor commission. The bill also provides for tobacco tax certificates to be issued by the department of revenue administration and licenses issued by the liquor commission. |
| Support | SB87 | relative to one day liquor license requirements and making salons and barber shops eligible for on-premise licenses. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 4/16 | 2:45 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill allows for-profit organizations to receive a one day liquor license and makes barber shops, salons, and spas eligible for on-premises licenses. |
| Support | SB89 | enabling non-citizens who are legally authorized to work in the United States to deliver alcohol. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 4/16 | 3:15 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill enables non-citizens who are legally authorized to work in the United States to deliver alcohol. |
| Of Interest | HB598 | establishing a committee to study data sources of all entities operated by all branches of government that are or are potentially made available to the public, identify the data formats of those sources, and recommend legislation to standardize types and formats of data output from all or select governmental entities. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 4/16 | 9:20 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill establishes a committee to study data sources of all entities operated by all three branches of government that are or are potentially made available to the public, identify the data formats of those sources, and recommend legislation to standardize types and formats of data output from all or select governmental entities. |
| Support | HB428 | prohibiting municipal amendments to the state building code. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 4/16 | 9:40 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill prohibits local legislative bodies from making any new changes to the state building codes. |
| Support | HB559 | relative to staffing requirements in emergency medical transport vehicles. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/16 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 101 | 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 | HB548 | relative to licensing requirements for health care facilities that operate on a membership-based business model. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/16 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill exempts direct-pay health care facilities from certain licensing requirements and policies in RSA 151:2-f as well as the moratorium on licensing and bed capacity in RSA 151:2, VI(a) provided that the facility is not a nursing home or skilled nursing facility. The bill also establishes a patient’s bill of right for direct-pay facilities and directs the department of health and human services to study direct-pay models. |
| Of Interest | HB705 | relative to health care cost transparency. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/16 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill requires health plans to disclose specific pricing information regarding covered items and services. The bill is contingent upon finalization of federal guidance under Presidential Executive Order 14221. |
| Oppose | SB243 | relative to the child care scholarship program. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 4/16 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | 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 | SB141 | extending the time to petition for a new trial in certain cases. | Judiciary | Wed 4/16 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill creates an exception to the 3-year timeframe to petition for a new trial. |
| Support | SB268 | permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances. | Judiciary | Wed 4/16 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill provides a definition for “biological sex” and provides that certain designations by biological sex do not constitute unlawful discrimination. |
| Support | SB27 | relative to dwellings over water. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 4/16 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 305 | This bill allows improvements to certain dwellings over water. |
| Oppose | SB241 | relative to construction of a public pier on Hampton Beach and making an appropriation therefor. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 4/16 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 305 | This bill establishes and makes an appropriation to the Hampton Beach State Park pier fund, a dedicated fund to be administered by the division of parks and recreation for the purpose of siting, permitting, designing, and constructing a public pier at Hampton Beach. |
| Support | HB557 | relative to the information that appears on the school budget ballot. | Education Finance | Thu 4/17 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill requires the printing of certain information on the school budget ballot. |
| Support | HB771 | relative to funding for open enrollment schools. | Education Finance | Thu 4/17 | 1:20 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill: I. Changes how funding for open enrollment schools is sent and received. II. Requires school districts to establish a line item in their operating budgets that reflects expenditures for open enrollment tuition costs. |
| 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 | Thu 4/17 | 11:15 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | 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. |
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