Wednesday • April 30 • 2025
Vol.XVII • No.XVIII
Manchester, N.H.
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Of the 4 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 1 with 0 being of interest.
Of the 23 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 7 and opposition of 0 with 1 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support | HB81 | (NEW TITLE) relative to consumption of beverages or liquor in areas not approved for service by the liquor commission. | Commerce | Tue 4/29 | 10:20 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill removes restrooms from the list of areas not approved for the serving or consumption of beverages or liquor. |
| Support | HB276 | (New Title) establishing a liquor license where beverages, wine, and liquor can be sold without food. | Commerce | Tue 4/29 | 10:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes a tavern license allowing the sale of beverages, wine, and liquor without the sale of food. |
| Support | HB505 | allowing the sale of freeze dried foods produced in homestead food operations. | Commerce | Tue 4/29 | 10:40 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill requires the licensing of homestead food operations processing and selling freeze dried foods. |
| Of Interest | HB310 | (New Title) establishing a commission to study the creation of a regulatory framework for stable tokens, tokenized real-world assets, and blockchain-based trusts in New Hampshire. | Commerce | Tue 4/29 | 10:50 AM | SH Room 100 | 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 | HB639 | relative to the use of and disputes over blockchain and digital currencies. | Commerce | Tue 4/29 | 11:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill: I. Creates an act to protect blockchain technology and its users. II. Establishes a blockchain dispute docket to oversee blockchain-related disputes. |
| Support | HB361 | prohibiting mandatory mask policies in schools. | Education | Tue 4/29 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill prohibits school boards and other public education agencies from adopting, enforcing, or implementing a policy that requires students or members of the public to wear a facial covering. |
| Support | HB217 | relative to absentee ballots. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 4/29 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill requires absentee ballot voters to submit information demonstrating citizenship, age, domicile, and identity in order to qualify to vote. |
| Support | HB584 | relative to public health, safety, and state sovereignty. | Judiciary | Tue 4/29 | 1:20 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill: I. Provides that the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum shall have no jurisdiction in New Hampshire. II. Removes a reference to medical schools recognized by the World Health Organization and replaces it with a reference to the World Directory of Medical Schools. III. Creates a cause of action against counties, cities, towns, precincts, water districts, school districts, school administrative units, or quasi-public entities who create and enforce policies based on the claims of the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum. IV. Provides that in a claim against the state or a local government agency for enforcing policies or directives of the World Health Organization, the United Nations, or the World Economic Forum, the limits of awards under RSA 541-B shall apply and shall not be increased by the proceeds of an insurance policy held by such entity. |
| Oppose | SB249 | relative to the uncompensated care and Medicaid fund. | Ways and Means | Tue 4/29 | 10:20 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill revises the funding mechanism for uncompensated care costs under the state Medicaid program, including the distribution of disproportionate share hospital payments. The percentage of funds used for Medicaid payments to hospitals is repealed July 1, 2027. The bill also establishes a committee to study the Medicaid enhancement tax and disproportionate share hospital payments. |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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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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 |
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| 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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Of the 69 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 12 and opposition of 10 with 1 being of interest.
Of the 69 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 19 and opposition of 4 with 1 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Support | SB97 | relative to intra-district public school transfers. | Education Policy and Administration | Mon 4/7 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill authorizes parents to transfer their children to other schools within their resident district as long as such school has the capacity to accommodate the student. |
| Support | SB217 | relative to public notice of historic tax rates and tax impacts of proposed projects. | Municipal and County Government | Mon 4/7 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill requires cities and towns to provide public notice of historical tax rates and proposed building projects. |
| Support | SB78 | relative to the zoning board of adjustments appeal period. | Municipal and County Government | Mon 4/7 | 10:35 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill removes the zoning board of adjustment’s discretion for determining when to take an appeal and replaces it with a non-discretionary 30-day period. |
| Support | SB105 | enabling towns to adopt budget caps. | Municipal and County Government | Mon 4/7 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill enables towns to adopt budget caps. |
| Of Interest | SB108 | relative to the department of energy. | Science, Technology and Energy | Mon 4/7 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill transfers specific regulatory and adjudicative responsibilities from the public utilities commission to the department of energy, including prohibiting unauthorized telecommunications service provision, protecting ratepayer communication preferences, and refining net energy metering, assessment, complaint, investigation, and aggregation procedures. |
| Support | HB649 | removing the requirement for physical safety inspections and on-board diagnostic tests for passenger vehicles and eliminating funding for the motor vehicle air pollution abatement fund. | Commerce | Tue 4/8 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill removes the requirement for physical safety inspections and on-board diagnostic tests for passenger vehicles and eliminates funding for the motor vehicle air pollution abatement fund. |
| Oppose | HB406 | relative to the formation of fraudulent businesses. | Commerce | Tue 4/8 | 10:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill: I. Establishes a registry of registered agents for New Hampshire businesses. II. Allows corporations to restate their articles of incorporation. III. Enables the secretary of state to verify and prevent fraudulent business formations. IV. Creates penalties for individuals who fraudulently formulate businesses. The bill is a request of the secretary of state. |
| Support | HB319 | (New Title) relative to the responsibility of local school districts to provide transportation for pupils in kindergarten. | Education | Tue 4/8 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill removes the requirement that school districts provide transportation to half-day kindergarten students. |
| Support | HB230 | relative to the adoption of public health ordinances by municipalities. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 4/8 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill changes when town public health officials may make regulations relating to public health. |
| Of Interest | HB265 | requiring that a public body’s meeting minutes include start and end times of the meeting and the printed name and signature of the recording secretary | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 4/8 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill requires that public meeting minutes be documented with the start time, end time, and recording secretary’s signature. |
| Support | HB517 | (New Title) repealing certain outreach and marketing requirements under the Granite State paid family leave plan. | Finance | Tue 4/8 | 1:15 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill repeals the requirement that the state engage in certain outreach and marketing activities to increase awareness of the Granite State paid family leave plan. |
| Support | SB91 | allowing one-time special appraisals of residences located in commercial zones. | Housing | Tue 4/8 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 305 | This bill allows owners of a residence in an industrial or commercial zone to file one application for a special appraisal of the residence based on its current use as a residence. |
| Support | SB188 | allowing independent permitting and inspections, and allowing local governments to authorize licensed engineers and architects to perform building code inspections. | Housing | Tue 4/8 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 305 | This bill: I. Allows independent third-parties, hired by the property owner, to inspect land, buildings, and structures to determine compliance with state and local building codes. II. Establishes private providers as an alternative to local enforcement agencies for conducting building code inspections and plan reviews. |
| Support | SB281 | prohibiting municipalities from denying building or occupancy permits for property adjacent to class VI roads under certain circumstances. | Housing | Tue 4/8 | 11:30 AM | 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 4/8 | 1:00 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 | SB283 | relative to the calculation of floor-area-ratios under local building ordinances. | Housing | Tue 4/8 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 305 | This bill requires municipalities to exclude below-grade areas from floor-area-ratio (FAR) calculations and review and adjust height limitations as needed to maximize capacity and height potential for new construction. |
| Support | SB284 | relative to the required maximum number of residential parking spaces. | Housing | Tue 4/8 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 305 | This bill limits residential parking spaces to one per unit, with exceptions for certain workforce housing and multi-family developments. |
| Support | SB170 | (New Title) relative to development and related requirements in cities, towns, and municipalities. | Housing | Tue 4/8 | 2:30 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 | HB522 | relative to the expectation of privacy in personal information maintained by the state. | Judiciary | Tue 4/8 | 1:30 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes an expectation of privacy in personal information maintained by the state. |
| Support | HB146 | relative to the use of body-worn cameras. | Judiciary | Tue 4/8 | 1:40 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill modifies the scenarios requiring retention of body-worn camera recordings to include violation-level cases. |
| Oppose | SB28 | relative to workers’ compensation claims involving emergency responders with acute stress disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Tue 4/8 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 307 | 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 | SB169 | requiring employers to provide certain information regarding cost sharing to employees receiving workers’ compensation benefits. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Tue 4/8 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 307 | This bill requires employers who provide supplemental pay to employees receiving workers’ compensation benefits to notify the employee with a breakdown of payments, anticipated financial adjustments, employee costs of withholdings, and method of payment options. |
| Oppose | SB14 | relative to the penalty for certain fentanyl-related offenses. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 4/9 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill adds mandatory minimum sentences for certain fentanyl-related offenses. |
| Oppose | SB15 | relative to establishing a mandatory minimum sentence for the crime of distribution of a controlled drug with death resulting. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 4/9 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill sets a mandatory minimum sentence for the crime of distribution of a controlled drug with death resulting. |
| Oppose | SB54 | relative to refusal of consent to testing to determine alcohol concentration and penalties for aggravated driving while intoxicated. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 4/9 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill modifies periods of suspension under different circumstances stemming from a refusal of consent to testing to determine alcohol concentration. This bill further modifies the penalties for aggravated driving while intoxicated. |
| Oppose | SB49 | establishing the crime of and penalties for unlawful use of unmanned aircraft systems. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 4/9 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill establishes the crime of and penalties for unlawful use of small unmanned aircraft systems. This bill is at the request of the department of safety. |
| Support | SB34 | relative to parental consent for student participation in Medicaid to schools program. | Education Policy and Administration | Wed 4/9 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires schools to obtain parental consent for each new service that is provided to a student under the Medicaid to schools program. The bill also requires certain legislative policy committees to receive reports regarding the Medicaid to schools program. |
| Support | HB509 | relative to the contents of the attorney general’s annual report detailing state forfeiture information for the preceding fiscal year. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 4/9 | 9:50 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill changes the requirements for the annual report from the attorney general concerning forfeitures of personal property. |
| Support | HB267 | relative to animal chiropractors. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 4/9 | 10:50 AM | SH Room 103 | 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 | HB233 | (New Title) requiring meetings of the New Hampshire vaccine association to be audio and video recorded and published on its website within 48 hours. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 4/9 | 1:20 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill requires meetings of the New Hampshire vaccine association to be audio and video recorded and published on its website within 48 hours. |
| Support | HB679 | relative to immunization requirements. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/9 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill provides that no childhood immunization requirement shall require a vaccine that has not been shown in clinical trials to prevent transmission of any disease. |
| Support | HB357 | relative to the department of health and human services’ rulemaking authority regarding immunization requirements. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/9 | 10:15 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill limits childhood immunization requirements to diseases identified in statute. The bill removes the authority of the commissioner of health and human services to adopt rules requiring immunization for additional childhood diseases. |
| Support | HB358 | relative to exemption from immunization requirements on the basis of religious belief. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/9 | 10:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill provides that a parent or legal guardian may claim an exemption from childhood immunization requirements on the basis of religious belief by providing a signed statement to that effect. The bill removes the statutory reference to a form used for such purpose. |
| Support | HB94 | relative to coverage of circumcision under the state Medicaid plan. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/9 | 1:45 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill provides that the state Medicaid plan shall not include circumcision unless the child has a specific diagnosis for which the procedure is determined to be medically necessary. |
| Oppose | SB37 | relative to residential care and health facility licensing. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 4/9 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | 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 investigations and inspections to be posted on the department of health and human services website; (3) removing a redundant reference to administrative fines; (4) changing the term “hospital” to the term “facility;” and (5) removing the word “continuing” from the initial education requirements and replacing the term “ongoing training” with continuing education in the annual training requirement. |
| Oppose | SB119 | relative to Medicaid pharmaceutical services. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 4/9 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill directs pharmacists to dispense brand name drugs to Medicaid beneficiaries when the brand name drug is on the department of health and human services preferred drug list. The bill also directs the department to develop a standing order for certain Medicaid-covered, over-the-counter medications, medical supplies, and laboratory tests when deemed medically necessary and cost effective by the department. The bill is a request of the department of health and human services. |
| Oppose | SB263 | criminalizing and creating a private right of action for the facilitation, encouragement, offer, solicitation, or recommendation of certain acts or actions through a responsive generative communication to a child. | Judiciary | Wed 4/9 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill criminalizes and creates a private right of action for the facilitation, encouragement, offer, solicitation, or recommendation of certain acts or actions through a responsive generative communication to a child. |
| Oppose | HB309 | relative to making electronic rent payments optional. | Commerce | Thu 4/10 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill prohibits landlords from requiring a tenant or prospective tenant to pay by electronic funds transfers. |
| Support | HB631 | (New Title) permitting residential building in commercial zoning. | Commerce | Thu 4/10 | 10:15 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill requires municipalities to permit multi-family residential development on commercially zoned land, with stipulations for infrastructure and exemptions for adaptive reuse. |
| Support | HB90 | relative to the definition of part-time teachers. | Education | Thu 4/10 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill defines “part-time teacher.” |
| Support | HB741 | allowing parents to send their children to any school district they choose. | Education | Thu 4/10 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill allows parents to send their children to public schools outside of their resident district. |
| Oppose | HB250 | enabling local governing bodies to regulate the muzzling of dogs. | Energy and Natural Resources | Thu 4/10 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill enables local governing bodies to regulate the muzzling of dogs. |
| Oppose | HB355 | relative to the membership of the solid waste working group. | Energy and Natural Resources | Thu 4/10 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill changes a member on the solid waste working group and extends the due dates for interim and final reports. |
| Support | HB207 | relative to repealing the prohibition on the possession or sale of blackjacks, slung shots, and metallic knuckles except by or to minors. | Judiciary | Thu 4/10 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill amends the prohibition against carrying or selling a blackjack, slung shot, or metallic knuckles to prohibit sale to or possession of the said items by those under 18 years of age. |
| Support | HB381 | exempting firearms and firearm accessories manufactured for in-state use only from the National Firearm Act. | Judiciary | Thu 4/10 | 1:30 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill exempts firearms and firearm accessories manufactured for in-state use only from the National Firearm Act. |
| Support | HB551 | repealing the license to sell pistols and revolvers. | Judiciary | Thu 4/10 | 1:45 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill repeals the local licensing requirement for the sale of pistols and revolvers. |
| Oppose | SB267 | relative to the penalty for engaging in prostitution as a patron. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 4/11 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill establishes a mandatory $500 fine for engaging in prostitution as a patron, in addition to any other penalty, and directs that the funds are to be forwarded to the department of justice for the purposes of funding the New Hampshire human trafficking collaborative task force. This bill also enhances the penalty for paying, agreeing to pay, or offering to pay another person to engage in sexual contact or penetration with the payor or another person from a misdemeanor to a class A misdemeanor. |
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Of the 0 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 0 with 0 being of interest.
Of the 56 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 13 and opposition of 3 with 1 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Support | HB649 | removing the requirement for physical safety inspections and on-board diagnostic tests for passenger vehicles and eliminating funding for the motor vehicle air pollution abatement fund. | Commerce | Tue 4/1 | 9:50 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill removes the requirement for physical safety inspections and on-board diagnostic tests for passenger vehicles and eliminates funding for the motor vehicle air pollution abatement fund. |
| Support | HB319 | (New Title) relative to the responsibility of local school districts to provide transportation for pupils in kindergarten. | Education | Tue 4/1 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill removes the requirement that school districts provide transportation to half-day kindergarten students. |
| Support | HB107 | relative to political advertising printed in newspapers, periodicals, or billboards. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 4/1 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill removes the requirement to mark political advertising printed in newspapers, periodicals or billboards as “political advertising.” |
| Support | HB672 | to allow for off-grid electricity providers in New Hampshire. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 4/1 | 9:40 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill defines “off-grid electricity providers” and establishes a specific category for off-grid electricity providers, exempting them from certain regulations as long as they remain independent from the regulated electric grid. |
| Support | HB779 | allowing the sale of rabbit meat in intrastate commerce. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 4/1 | 10:20 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill allows for the sale of uninspected rabbit meat in intrastate commerce. |
| Oppose | HB468 | establishing the crime of and penalties for unlawful use of unmanned aircraft systems. | Judiciary | Tue 4/1 | 2:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes the crime of and penalties for unlawful use of small unmanned aircraft systems. |
| Support | HB231 | (New Title) prohibiting school district personnel from transporting students to medical or mental health appointments, visits, or procedures without parental consent. | Education | Wed 4/2 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 101 | This bill requires school districts to create a policy prohibiting school district personnel from transporting any student who is a minor for any medical, mental health, or health-related procedures, appointments, or visits without knowledge and approval of a parent or guardian unless he or she is following a published school district emergency health or medical protocol or policy. |
| Support | HB435 | relative to the definition of professional engineer. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 4/2 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill clarifies that the “practice of engineering” for purposes of the regulation of professional engineers does not include any professional service or creative work performed in the fields of information technology, information security, electronics, digital systems, or computing. |
| Oppose | HB64 | relative to extending hiring preferences for military members and their spouses to the state and private businesses, and establishing purchase preferences for disabled veterans and military spouses regarding state supply purchases. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 4/2 | 10:15 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill expands the definition of veteran for purposes of veteran hiring and employment preferences to include a veteran’s spouse and any active duty service member regardless of length of service. This bill also extends employment preferences for veterans or their spouse to include veteran owned suppliers of goods and services in dealings with the state. |
| Support | HB117 | relative to the substitution of biological products. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/2 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill modifies the definition of “interchangeable biological product” and allows for interchangeable biological products to be provided by pharmacists subject to certain restrictions. |
| Support | HB223 | relative to licensing requirements for health care facilities that operate within 15 miles of a critical access hospital. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/2 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill exempts ambulatory surgical centers, emergency medical care centers, birthing centers, drop-in or walk-in care centers, dialysis centers, and special health care services from the notice and consent requirements for establishment within 15 miles of a critical access hospital. |
| Of Interest | HB204 | relative to criteria for reporting child support delinquencies to federal agencies. | Children and Family Law | Thu 4/3 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill requires the department of health and human services to ensure that the automated system of reporting child support delinquencies meets, but does not exceed, federal guidelines. The bill also directs the department to provide the amount of the arrearage to the requesting agency. |
| Support | HB189 | defining “clean energy” and the department of energy’s 10-year state energy strategy to include new technology small-scale nuclear energy, renewable energy, and fuel diversity; and, removing references to the energy efficiency and sustainable energy board. | Energy and Natural Resources | Thu 4/3 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill defines “clean energy” to mean small-scale nuclear energy and renewable energy, and makes it part of the department of energy’s 10-year state energy strategy. This bill also removes reference to the energy efficiency and sustainable energy board. |
| Support | HB504 | relative to the state energy policy. | Energy and Natural Resources | Thu 4/3 | 9:20 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill revises the state energy policy to promote affordable, reliable, diverse, and secure energy resources for the health, safety, and welfare of its citizens. |
| Support | HB682 | relative to the office of offshore wind industry, the offshore and port development commission, and the office of energy innovation. | Energy and Natural Resources | Thu 4/3 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill: I. Removes the office of offshore wind industry development from the office of energy innovation. II. Repeals the offshore wind industry workforce training center committee and the offshore and port development commission. III. Moves the grid modernization advisory council and the hydrogen advisory council to the office of energy innovation. |
| Support | HB218 | relative to providing victims of crime with a free police report of the investigation. | Judiciary | Thu 4/3 | 1:15 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill provides victims of crime with a right to request a free initial police report and, following the conclusion of the investigation or case, a free copy of the complete case file. |
| Oppose | HB59 | relative to the assault of a firefighter, emergency medical care provider, or law enforcement officer. | Judiciary | Thu 4/3 | 1:45 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes felony-level offenses for assaults on firefighters, emergency medical care providers, and law enforcement and for assaults specifically targeting law enforcement officers. |
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Of the 4 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 1 and opposition of 1 with 0 being of interest.
Of the 42 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 13 and opposition of 4 with 1 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Oppose | HB225 | relative to the employment of military spouses in the event of involuntary deployment of service member. | Commerce | Tue 3/25 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill provides employment protections to the spouses of military service members who are involuntarily mobilized in support of war, national emergency, or contingency operations. |
| Support | HB150 | enabling homestead operations to use commercial kitchen equipment in preparing food for sale. | Commerce | Tue 3/25 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill defines commercial kitchen equipment and allows for its use in homestead food operations. |
| Oppose | HB304 | relative to labeling requirements for food produced in homestead kitchens. | Commerce | Tue 3/25 | 10:15 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill details labeling requirements for food products produced in homestead kitchens. |
| Support | HB577 | relative to modifying the definition of ADUs. | Commerce | Tue 3/25 | 10:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill expands accessory dwelling units by right to include detached units, adds definitions related to accessory dwelling units, and increases the maximum square footage. |
| Oppose | HB86 | increasing the cost of service for notice of civil forfeiture of unlicensed dogs to the rate for certified mail. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 3/25 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 103 | 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. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 3/25 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill increases the range of the optional tax credit for service-connected total disability. |
| Support | HB87 | prohibiting the posting of land not owned by the poster. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 3/25 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill prohibits the posting of land not owned by the poster and creates a penalty therefor. |
| Support | HB211 | relative to the use of air rifles for hunting game. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 3/25 | 9:20 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill: I. Allows the taking of game in New Hampshire with air rifles. II. Further defines “air rifle.” III. Requires the fish and game commission to make rules creating and administering a hunting tag program for air rifle hunting. |
| Support | HB508 | relative to decreasing assessment rates for entities providing VoIP and IP-enabled services, as well as certain local exchange carriers and their affiliates. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 3/25 | 9:40 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill decreases the gross utility revenue of all excepted local exchange carriers, and all providers’ gross revenue received from New Hampshire retail customers for a VoIP service or an IP-enabled service. |
| Oppose | HB493 | requiring education on child abuse and neglect for certain healthcare providers as a condition for licensure. | Executive Departments and Administration | Tue 3/25 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill requires education on child abuse and neglect for certain healthcare providers as a condition for licensure. |
| Support | HB51 | relative to hemp-derived cannabinoids and the definition of cannabis in therapeutic cannabis. | Judiciary | Tue 3/25 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill: I. Eliminates “seeds” from the definition of “cannabis” concerning therapeutic cannabis. II. Permits alternative treatment centers to purchase non-intoxicating hemp cannabinoids for use in products. |
| Support | HB53 | permitting qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use. | Judiciary | Tue 3/25 | 1:15 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill permits qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use. |
| Support | HB196 | (New Title) relative to annulling certain cannabis possession offenses. | Judiciary | Tue 3/25 | 1:30 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill requires the annulment of misdemeanor or violation-level offenses for possession of cannabis prior to January 1, 2025 upon petition. |
| Support | HB75 | legalizing cannabis for persons 21 years of age or older. | Judiciary | Tue 3/25 | 1:45 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill legalizes the possession and use of cannabis for persons 21 years of age and older. |
| Support | HB302 | relative to enabling the state treasury to invest in precious metals and digital assets. | Ways and Means | Tue 3/25 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill enables the state treasurer to invest state funds into precious metals and digital assets. |
| Support | HB85 | relative to temporary licensure for student respiratory therapists. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 3/26 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 103 | 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. |
| Oppose | HB64 | relative to extending hiring preferences for military members and their spouses to the state and private businesses, and establishing purchase preferences for disabled veterans and military spouses regarding state supply purchases. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 3/26 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill expands the definition of veteran for purposes of veteran hiring and employment preferences to include a veteran’s spouse and any active duty service member regardless of length of service. This bill also extends employment preferences for veterans or their spouse to include veteran owned suppliers of goods and services in dealings with the state. |
| Support | HB55 | (New Title) relative to the Selective Service Compliance Act. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 3/26 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill relocates the Selective Service Registration Awareness and Compliance Act from RSA chapter 187-A to chapter 112, and removes the state university’s requirement to enforce selective service registration. |
| Support | HB63 | relative to the use of nasal spray to treat anaphylaxis. | Health and Human Services | Wed 3/26 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill allows authorized entities, including schools, camps, and day care facilities, to possess and administer epinephrine nasal spray to treat anaphylaxis. The law currently permits epinephrine administration through auto-injectors. |
| Support | HB126 | relative to prescriptions for certain controlled drugs. | Health and Human Services | Wed 3/26 | 10:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill clarifies exceptions to the 34-day limit on prescriptions for controlled drugs and permits a pharmacist to fill a prescription for a 92-day supply of injectable androgen under certain circumstances. |
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Of the 7 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 2 and opposition of 1 with 0 being of interest.
Of the 21 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 2 and opposition of 1 with 2 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Support | HB208 | relative to certification requirements for school nurses. | Education | Tue 3/18 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill allows a superintendent and school board to nominate and appoint a school nurse, who must be licensed and registered with the board of nursing. |
| Of Interest | HB127 | extending the closing date of the OHRV trails on the Connecticut River Headwaters property from September 30 to Columbus Day. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 3/18 | 9:20 AM | SH Room 103 | 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 | HB468 | establishing the crime of and penalties for unlawful use of unmanned aircraft systems. | Judiciary | Tue 3/18 | 2:30 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes the crime of and penalties for unlawful use of small unmanned aircraft systems. |
| Oppose | HB25 | making appropriations for capital improvements. | Public Works and Highways | Tue 3/18 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 201 | This bill makes appropriations for capital improvements for the biennium and extends certain lapse dates for previous appropriations. |
| Support | HB224 | relative to rebates to ratepayers from the renewable energy fund. | Ways and Means | Tue 3/18 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill requires moneys paid into the renewable energy fund to be rebated to ratepayers. |
| Support | HB524 | repealing the New Hampshire vaccine association. | Ways and Means | Tue 3/18 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill repeals RSA 126-Q, relative to the New Hampshire vaccine association. |
| Of Interest | SB301 | creating a joint legislative oversight committee. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 3/19 | 9:15 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill creates a joint legislative oversight committee. |
| Support | HB591 | expanding hours for keno gaming on weekends. | Ways and Means | Wed 3/19 | 9:50 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill expands permitted keno hours of operations on weekends. |
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Of the 15 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 7 and opposition of 0 with 2 being of interest.
Of the 12 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 1 with 0 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Oppose | SB265 | repealing the provision related to religious use of land and structures. | Judiciary | Tue 3/11 | 1:15 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill repeals the statute that prohibits certain zoning ordinances and site plan reviews related to the use of land and structures for religious purposes. |
| Support | HB695 | relative to school districts and medically-related grants. | Education Policy and Administration | Wed 3/12 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill directs the department of education to require school districts to adopt a policy prohibiting schools from seeking grants for medical products or services or accepting grant-provided medical products or services, or funds therefor, unless the citizens of the municipality vote in favor of such action. |
| Support | HB768 | allowing public schools to contract with any approved private school. | Education Policy and Administration | Wed 3/12 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill allows public schools to enter into contracts with any approved private school, including religious schools. |
| Support | HB446 | relative to parental notice for non-academic surveys in public schools. | Education Policy and Administration | Wed 3/12 | 2:15 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires school districts to email parents copies of non-academic surveys in public schools. |
| Of Interest | HB1 | making appropriations for the expenses of certain departments of the state for fiscal years ending June 30, 2026 and June 30, 2027. | Finance | Wed 3/12 | 2:00 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | No analysis needed. |
| Of Interest | HB2 | relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. | Finance | Wed 3/12 | 2:00 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill: 1. Makes various changes to the standards and the administration of bail. 2. Adds new definitions to the endangered species conservation act. 3. Requires the department of environmental services to adopt rules and review procedures such that actions of state agencies do not jeopardize the existence or habitats of species protected under the endangered species conservation act. 4. Establishes an environmental scientist position within the department of environmental services to ensure that state agencies do not jeopardize the existence or habitats of species protected under the endangered species conservation act. 5. Requires that rules established by the executive director of the fish and game department establish an administrative fee that the executive director may collect from payments made to the threatened and endangered species compensatory mitigation fund. 6. Requires the department of environmental services to adopt rules regarding when mitigation payments to the threatened and end |
| Support | HB621 | allowing the birth mother to opt out of sharing certain information from the birth worksheet with state agencies. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 3/12 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill allows the birth mother to opt out of sharing certain information from the birth worksheet with state agencies. The bill also directs the department of health and human services and the division of vital records to update the memorandum of understanding regarding information sharing to reflect this practice. |
| Support | HB664 | relative to childhood immunization requirements. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 3/12 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill provides that childhood immunization requirements shall not require a vaccine that has not been tested with an inert placebo in clinical trials. |
| Support | HB679 | relative to immunization requirements. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 3/12 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill provides that no childhood immunization requirement shall require a vaccine that has not been shown in clinical trials to prevent transmission of any disease. |
| Support | HB584 | relative to public health, safety, and state sovereignty. | Judiciary | Wed 3/12 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill: I. Provides that the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum shall have no jurisdiction in New Hampshire. II. Removes a reference to medical schools recognized by the World Health Organization and replaces it with a reference to the World Directory of Medical Schools. III. Creates a cause of action against counties, cities, towns, precincts, water districts, school districts, school administrative units, or quasi-public entities who create and enforce policies based on the claims of the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum. |
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