Monday • December 4 • 2023
Vol.XV • No.XLIX
Manchester, N.H.
Of the 121 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 31 and opposition of 16 with 11 being of interest.
Of the 39 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 0 with 1 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oppose | HB134 | extending the public employees labor relations act to employees of the general court and relative to the duties of the joint committee on legislative facilities. | Legislative Administration | Mon 2/6 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill establishes the legislature as a public employer under the public employee labor relations act and establishes procedures for collective bargaining by nonpartisan employees. |
| Support | HB381 | relative to the system benefits charge. | Science, Technology and Energy | Mon 2/6 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill provides that system benefits charge and local distribution adjustment charge funding levels may only be increased by passage of legislation or authorization by the fiscal committee of the general court. |
| Support | HB257 | relative to telephone carrier of last resort obligations. | Science, Technology and Energy | Mon 2/6 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill allows for an incumbent telephone utility to be relieved of its carrier of last resort obligations. |
| Support | HB491 | relative to prohibiting the use of the prone restraint for minors. | Children and Family Law | Tue 2/7 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill prohibits the use of prone restraint on a child in a school or treatment facility. |
| Support | HB490 | relative to modifying the definition of neglect. | Children and Family Law | Tue 2/7 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill amends the definition of neglected child to exclude a child permitted to engage in certain independent activities. |
| Oppose | SB143 | establishing a scholarship fund for certain small businesses applying for loans from the capital access program administered by the New Hampshire business finance authority. | Commerce | Tue 2/7 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes a scholarship fund in the capital access program of the business finance authority to cover entry costs for socially and/or economically disadvantaged individual small business owners applying for loans from the program. |
| Oppose | SB196 | establishing a minimum amount of uninsured motorist coverage required for vehicles operating as part of transportation network companies in New Hampshire. | Commerce | Tue 2/7 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes a set minimum amount of coverage required for vehicles operating as part of a transportation network company in New Hampshire. |
| Oppose | SB144 | relative to the state minimum hourly rate. | Commerce | Tue 2/7 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill provides for increases in the minimum hourly rate. |
| Of Interest | HB648 | relative to establishing a state bank of New Hampshire. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Tue 2/7 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill establishes a state bank of New Hampshire. |
| Oppose | SB214 | establishing a department of early childhood education and relative to a pre-kindergarten pilot program. | Education | Tue 2/7 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill establishes an executive branch department of early childhood education. The bill also establishes the authority for the department to design, create, and administer a 3-year high quality, community-based, mixed delivery public pre-kindergarten pilot program. |
| Of Interest | HB505 | relative to comprehensive mental health education in schools. | Education | Tue 2/7 | 11:15 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill adds comprehensive mental health education to the public school health education curriculum. |
| Support | HB539 | relative to vaccination clinics at schools. | Education | Tue 2/7 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill prohibits a public elementary or secondary school from conducting a vaccination clinic during school hours. |
| Of Interest | HB179 | relative to the definition of electioneering. | Election Law | Tue 2/7 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill amends the definition of “electioneering” to remove the prohibition against wearing clothing or paraphernalia that a reasonable person would believe explicitly advocates for or against any candidate, political party, or measure being voted. |
| Oppose | SB132 | prohibiting cities and towns from adopting sanctuary policies. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 2/7 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill prohibits any state or local government entity from establishing sanctuary policies. |
| Of Interest | SB155 | relative to the adoption of school administrative unit budgets. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 2/7 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill revises the procedure for the adoption of the annual budget for school administrative units and repeals the alternative budget adoption procedure. |
| Oppose | SB55 | making an appropriation for the Cannon Mountain tramway. | Finance | Tue 2/7 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill appropriates $25 million for the Cannon Mountain tramway from the fiscal year 2023 surplus. |
| Of Interest | HB558 | relative to electric microgrids and electric grid resiliency. | Science, Technology and Energy | Tue 2/7 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill establishes the authority for and procedures for adoption of electric microgrids. |
| Of Interest | HB605 | relative to solar generation under the renewable portfolio standards. | Science, Technology and Energy | Tue 2/7 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill revises the minimum percentages for solar electrical generation included in the renewable portfolio standards for 2024 through 2050 and after. |
| Of Interest | HB616 | relative to administration of the New Hampshire’s renewable portfolio standard. | Science, Technology and Energy | Tue 2/7 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill eliminates the use of the class definitions for renewable electrical generation for compliance with the renewable portfolio standard requirements, and adds Generation IV or later nuclear energy systems as a new class for the renewable energy portfolio standard. |
| Support | HB370 | relative to after market window tinting on motor vehicles for drivers with medical conditions. | Transportation | Tue 2/7 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill authorizes persons with medical conditions to apply for a special permit to waive the prohibition on automobile after market window tinting on the left and right side of the driver. |
| Support | HB537 | permitting vehicles to have front windshield tinting. | Transportation | Tue 2/7 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill removes the prohibition on front windshield tinted glass. |
| Oppose | HB356 | relative to the application of motor vehicle laws to bicycles. | Transportation | Tue 2/7 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill would require bicycles to have 4″ diameter mirrors on each side of the handlebars while operating on public ways with other motor vehicles. |
| Of Interest | HB198 | modifying the new resident drivers’ license transfer requirement. | Transportation | Tue 2/7 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill would require nonresident drivers who establish residency in New Hampshire to notify the department of safety if they then cease to become residents within 60 days, or if their out of state driver’s license expires or is relinquished. |
| Support | HB280 | relative to the sale of freeze-dried food. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 2/8 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill excludes freeze dried fruits and vegetables from the definition of potentially hazardous food. |
| Of Interest | HB645 | relative to the establishment of decentralized autonomous organizations as legal entities within the state. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 2/8 | 2:15 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill establishes decentralized autonomous organizations within the state. |
| Oppose | HB32 | relative to possession or discharge of a firearm in a safe school zone. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/8 | 9:00 AM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill adds a criminal offense for the possession or discharge of a firearm in a safe school zone. |
| Oppose | HB59 | requiring a background check prior to any commercial firearm sale. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/8 | 9:45 AM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill requires commercial firearms sales or transfers in this state to be subject to a criminal background check and provides a criminal penalty for a violation. The bill excludes private, noncommercial sales or transfers between individuals, provided neither individual is prohibited from owning or possessing a firearm under state or federal law. |
| Oppose | HB76 | imposing a waiting period between the purchase and delivery of a firearm. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/8 | 10:30 AM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill establishes a waiting period for the delivery of a firearm. |
| Oppose | HB78 | repealing an act prohibiting the state from enforcing any federal statute, regulation, or Presidential Executive Order that restricts or regulates the right of the people to keep or bear arms. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/8 | 11:15 AM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill repeals the prohibition on the state from enforcing any federal statute, regulation, or Presidential Executive Order that restricts or regulates the right of the people to keep and bear arms. |
| Oppose | HB106 | relative to extreme risk protection orders. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/8 | 1:00 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill establishes a procedure for issuing extreme risk protection orders to protect against persons who pose an immediate risk of harm to themselves or others. |
| Oppose | HB351 | relative to the negligent storage of firearms and relative to firearm safety devices. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/8 | 1:45 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill requires a locking safety device accompany all private and commercial firearms transactions and expands the criminal penalties for negligent storage of firearms. |
| Oppose | HB444 | prohibiting possession of a firearm at a polling place. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/8 | 2:30 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill prohibits possessing a firearm at a polling place and includes certain exceptions. |
| Support | HB474 | relative to enforcement of federal firearms laws and establishing penalties. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/8 | 3:15 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill prohibits the enforcement of any federal law or rule that might impair a person’s natural right to firearm ownership and natural right to self-defense and requires any public official who attempts to enforce such a federal law to be terminated from their position. |
| Oppose | HB623 | establishing a teacher candidate loan forgiveness program. | Education | Wed 2/8 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill establishes a teacher candidate loan forgiveness program administered by the university system for new teachers in critical teacher shortage areas of the state. |
| Support | HB563 | relative to the adoption of school administrative unit budgets. | Education | Wed 2/8 | 11:15 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill revises the procedure for the adoption of the annual budget for school administrative units and repeals the alternative budget adoption procedure. |
| Of Interest | HB354 | relative to chartered public school eligibility for state school building aid. | Education | Wed 2/8 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill adds chartered public schools to the procedures for consideration, approval, plan requirements, and determination of grants for school building aid. |
| Support | HB394 | relative to the organization of cooperative school boards. | Education | Wed 2/8 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires that officers of cooperative school boards and the locations of meetings of the board rotate among the members and their districts. |
| Support | HB632 | relative to the cooperative school district budget committee. | Education | Wed 2/8 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires that the chairperson of the cooperative school district budget committee shall not be from the same pre-existing district in consecutive years. |
| Of Interest | SB1 | (New Title) relative to the closing of the Sununu youth services center and establishing a commission to study the public safety of the secured youth development center and surrounding communities. | Finance | Wed 2/8 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill requires the closure of the Sununu youth services center, and sets out parameters for the contract for a replacement facility. The bill also establishes a commission to study the public safety of the youth development center and surrounding communities. |
| Oppose | SB175 | relative to Medicaid coverage for mothers. | Health and Human Services | Wed 2/8 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill: 1. Mandates that the department of health and human services extend Medicaid coverage for pregnant women to 12 months postpartum, to cover doula services, to cover lactation services, and to cover donor breast milk for eligible infants, and creates appropriations thereof. 2. Establishes minimum workplace supports for nursing mothers. 3. Appropriates money to the department of health and human services to support healthy outcomes for caregivers and children. 4. Establishes a commission to study home visiting programs for all parents of newborns and young children. 5. Mandates the department of health and human services establish a network of early childhood behavioral health supports. |
| Support | HB262 | relative to laboratory testing by licensed naturopaths | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 2/8 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill adds naturopathic doctors to the definition of “licensed medical practitioner” for health facilities authorized for laboratory testing. |
| Support | HB477 | to prohibit municipal inspections of owner-occupied units of multi-unit housing. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 2/8 | 10:50 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill prohibits municipal inspections of owner-occupied units within residential structures of 4 units or less. |
| Oppose | HB467 | relative to public playground accessibility. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 2/8 | 12:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill requires public playgrounds in use on or after January 1, 2024 to have solid rubber or rubber composite surfacing for accessibility to the playground and each piece of equipment. |
| Support | HB423 | relative to accessory dwelling unit uses allowed by right. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 2/8 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill increases the number of accessory dwelling units allowed by right from one to 2, changes the definition of attached unit, and increases the maximum square footage from 750 to 1,000. It also gives towns the right to require one unit to meet the definition for workforce housing. |
| Support | HB135 | prohibiting no-knock warrants. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 2/9 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill prohibits a law enforcement officer from seeking, executing, or participating in the execution of a no-knock search warrant. |
| Support | HB481 | relative to arrest warrants and search warrants. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 2/9 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill requires that the state disclose any prior evidence used to obtain either an arrest warrant or a search warrant, and whether a prior arrest or search warrant was denied based on the evidence being submitted in requesting a new arrest or search warrant. |
| Support | HB593 | relative to the forfeiture of assets in connection with a drug offense. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 2/9 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill establishes a procedure for the forfeiture of items used in connection with a drug offense. |
| Support | HB624 | relative to federal immigration checkpoints. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 2/9 | 3:30 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill requires a law enforcement agency to provide public notice of an immigration checkpoint. |
| Of Interest | HB653 | prohibiting personal recognizance bail for violent crimes. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 2/9 | 4:00 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill lists certain offenses which, if committed by the defendant, create a presumption that a defendant is a danger to the public and shall be detained for up to 36 hours. The bill also provides that a person who commits an offense while on bail shall be detained without bail pending a hearing before a judge. |
| Oppose | HB532 | relative to the licensure and regulation of music therapists. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 2/9 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill establishes the licensure and regulation of music therapists under the allied health professionals. |
| Support | HB507 | relative to unauthorized practice in occupational and professional licensing and certification. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 2/9 | 11:15 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill clarifies that penalties for the unlicensed practice of a profession regulated under the office of professional licensure and certification do not apply so long as the person practicing does not hold themselves out as being licensed or certified and discloses the fact that he or she is not licensed or certified. |
| Support | HB594 | relative to the licensure of out-of-state applicants to boards or commissions organized under the office of professional licensure and certification. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 2/9 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill authorizes the office of professional licensure and certification to issue licenses to out-of-state applicants who are licensed in another state, if the other state’s licensing requirements are substantially similar to those in New Hampshire. |
| Support | HB644 | relative to regulating barbers, cosmetologists, and estheticians. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 2/9 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill makes changes to the regulation of barbers, cosmetologists, and estheticians. |
| Support | HB188 | relative to the duration of physical therapy. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Thu 2/9 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill removes the requirement that a physical therapist refer a patient to a health care provider if there is no documented improvement after 25 days of treatment. |
| Support | HB500 | relative to prescribing opioids via telehealth medicine. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Thu 2/9 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill allows practitioners of telehealth medicine to prescribe opioids. |
| Support | HB611 | relative to eligibility criteria for the therapeutic cannabis program. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Thu 2/9 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill removes the requirement that severe pain be resistant to other treatment options in order to be considered a qualifying medical condition for therapeutic cannabis. |
| Support | HB610 | expanding the definition of providers who can certify patients of the therapeutic cannabis program. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Thu 2/9 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill expands the definition of provider under the therapeutic cannabis program to include any individual licensed in New Hampshire to prescribe drugs to humans who holds an active registration from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration to prescribe controlled substances. The bill also requires, for issuance of a registry identification card to a minor, certification from either a pediatrician or family practice provider. |
| Support | HB431 | permitting qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Thu 2/9 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill permits qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use. |
| Oppose | HB191 | relative to voluntarily surrendered firearms. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 2/10 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill removes the prohibition on a state agency operating a voluntary firearms “surrender and destroy” program and permits a state agency to destroy voluntarily surrendered firearms. |
| Support | HB305 | relative to exceptions for violations related to Presidential Executive Orders governing the keeping or bearing of arms. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 2/10 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill limits the ability of state, local, or county law enforcement officials to aid federal officials in the investigation of criminal violations for federal firearms laws to cases where the state criminal violation is a class A felony only. |
| Support | HB651 | authorizing the department of education and local school districts to contract with transportation network companies to provide school transportation services. | Education | Fri 2/10 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill allows the department of education to contract for buses to transport pupils with transportation network companies. |
| Support | HB275 | relative to schools approved for a school tuition program by a school board. | Education | Fri 2/10 | 11:15 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill allows a pupil’s parents to pay the difference between a receiving school tuition cost and the sending district tuition cap in a school tuition program. |
| Oppose | HB640 | relative to cost recovery for vocational rehabilitation programs. | Education | Fri 2/10 | 12:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill repeals the state’s right to recover the cost of vocational rehabilitation services from an individual who receives a third party settlement or benefit award. |
| Oppose | HB628 | requiring certain non-public schools or education service providers that accept public funds to perform background checks on all employees and volunteers. | Education | Fri 2/10 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires nonpublic schools and education service providers that accept public funds to comply with requirements for criminal history background checks for employees and volunteers. |
| Support | HB427 | relative to public comment and inquiry during school board meetings. | Education | Fri 2/10 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill establishes requirements for public meetings held by a school board to include a designated time period for questions from the public and answers from the board. The bill also allows an attendee of a meeting of the school board to demand which New Hampshire statute or administrative rule gives the school board the authority described in a school policy or operational procedure. |
| Oppose | HB629 | establishing a student bill of rights. | Education | Fri 2/10 | 2:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill establishes a student bill of rights. |
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Of the 97 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 11 and opposition of 14 with 3 being of interest.
Of the 71 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 2 and opposition of 2 with 1 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oppose | CACR4 | relating to compensation for legislators. Providing that legislators’ biennial salary compensation shall be increased. | Legislative Administration | Mon 1/30 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution increases the biennial compensation for legislators and increases additional compensation for attendance at special sessions, emergency sessions, and veto sessions. |
| Of Interest | HB301 | relative to recusal by members of the general court for conflicts of interest. | Legislative Administration | Mon 1/30 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill defines conflicts of interests relative to legislative ethics and delineates when members of the general court should recuse themselves due to such conflicts of interests. |
| Oppose | HB208 | establishing greenhouse gas emission reduction goals for the state and establishing a climate action plan. | Science, Technology and Energy | Mon 1/30 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill establishes greenhouse gas emission reduction goals for the state and authorizes the department of environmental services to inventory greenhouse gas emissions on an annual basis and to develop and report on a 5-year action plan. |
| Oppose | SB201 | relative to resale of event tickets. | Commerce | Tue 1/31 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill provides a civil penalty for the unauthorized resale of event tickets. |
| Support | HB130 | repealing the drug affordability board. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Tue 1/31 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill repeals the New Hampshire drug affordability board and the fund related to the administration of the board. |
| Oppose | HB249 | establishing regulatory standards for the pet insurance industry. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Tue 1/31 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill establishes regulatory standards for the sale of pet insurance. The bill is a request of the insurance department. |
| Oppose | SB141 | relative to administration of the education freedom accounts program. | Education | Tue 1/31 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill provides for applications to the education freedom account program for a child currently attending a New Hampshire public school, including a chartered public school, for a minimum of one year, or who is entering kindergarten or first grade. This bill requires annual determination of eligibility for awarding of education freedom account funds. The bill also requires an annual report on the number of students participating in the program in each school district. |
| Oppose | SB151 | relative to mental health education. | Education | Tue 1/31 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill expands the adequate education standards to include mental health education and provides rulemaking authority to the department of education to accommodate this change. |
| Oppose | HB324 | relative to campaign contributions and expenditures and making an appropriation therefor. | Election Law | Tue 1/31 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill establishes a fund to provide campaign financing for eligible candidates for governor and executive councilor and makes an appropriation to the fund. |
| Of Interest | HB482 | requiring the use of ballots with embedded security, traceability, and relative to the chain of custody for ballots cast in elections. | Election Law | Tue 1/31 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill: I. Requires the secretary of state to select a supplier to print and deliver ballots for elections. II. Makes certain security requirements of ballots. III. Specifies the chain of custody for ballots during and after an election. IV. Requires photocopied proof of identity and residency when submitting an absentee ballot. |
| Oppose | HB259 | relative to a study about making working at polling places on election day a civic responsibility and legal obligation for citizens. | Election Law | Tue 1/31 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This establishes a committee to study whether to make working at polling places on election day a civic responsibility and legal obligation for citizens |
| Oppose | SB133 | relative to changing the date of the state primary election and creates runoff election for federal primary election. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 1/31 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill changes the date of the state primary election to May and creates a runoff election for the federal primary election. |
| Support | HB119 | relative to homestead food operation licensure. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 1/31 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill increases the maximum annual gross sales of food a homestead food operation may sell and retain an exemption from food licensing provisions. |
| Support | HB122 | relative to microenterprise home kitchen operations. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 1/31 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill defines homestead food operations and provides food service licensing exemptions for them. |
| Support | HB493 | eliminating the state meat inspection program. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 1/31 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill eliminates the state meat inspection program. This bill is a request of the department of agriculture, markets, and food. |
| Support | HB348 | relative to the sale of raw milk and products made with raw milk. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 1/31 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill increases the amount of raw milk a producer processor can sell or process without a license and removes the requirement that such ice cream and frozen yogurt produced using raw milk be sold in 6 ounce containers. |
| Oppose | SB114 | relative to payment by the state of a portion of retirement system contributions of political subdivision employers. | Finance | Tue 1/31 | 1:55 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill restores the state’s contribution to the retirement liabilities of certain teachers, firefighters, and police officers within the state retirement system. |
| Support | HB646 | eliminating the vehicle inspection mandate for non-commercial vehicles. | Transportation | Tue 1/31 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill exempts vehicles that do not require a commercial driver license to operate from annual equipment inspection to determine whether such vehicles are fit to be driven. |
| Oppose | SB256 | establishing a safety program for off-highway recreational vehicles. | Transportation | Tue 1/31 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 101 | This bill establishes a safety program for off highway recreational vehicles. |
| Support | HB288 | relative to taxation of sole proprietorship businesses. | Ways and Means | Tue 1/31 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill exempts sole proprietorships and single member LLCs from business enterprise and business profits taxes. |
| Support | HB486 | relative to vehicle registrations and reciprocal toll collection enforcement agreements. | Ways and Means | Tue 1/31 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill removes the authority of the commissioner of the department of transportation to suspend the motor vehicle registration of owners in violation of reciprocal toll collection enforcement agreements. |
| Oppose | HB225 | relative to prohibiting the use of currency that could be detrimental to privacy rights. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 2/1 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill prohibits the use of any currency as legal tender that could be detrimental to privacy rights. |
| Of Interest | HB46 | relative to the appointment of magistrates and repealing the statutes governing bail commissioners. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/1 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill authorizes the superior court and circuit court to appoint magistrates and repeals the powers, duties, and authority of bail commissioners. |
| Oppose | HB400 | relative to certain assault offenses, bail eligibility for commission of certain assault offenses, and making a false report to a law enforcement officer. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/1 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill establishes a separate criminal penalty and bail conditions for assaults involving a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or emergency medical services worker. The bill also establishes a criminal penalty for making a false report to a law enforcement officer. |
| Oppose | HB549 | relative to definitions of domestic violence. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/1 | 12:30 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill expands the definition of abuse to includes acts of financial abuse and domestic violence. |
| Support | SB206 | prohibiting corporal punishment in child day care agencies. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 2/1 | 10:15 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill expands the definition of endangerment to include corporal punishment as defined by the department of health and human services. |
| Support | HB274 | relative to the administrative rulemaking process. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 2/1 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill makes various changes to the administrative procedures act, including requiring the agency to verify that the rule complies with the underlying statutory authority and legislative intent; expanding the scope of fiscal impact statements; requiring that proposed rules be submitted to the appropriate legislative policy committee for approval; permitting JLCAR to deny adoption of a rule following final objection, and repealing certain exemptions from rulemaking authority. |
| Oppose | HB566 | relative to establishing a fund for child care workers and early childhood educators at state licensed child care centers. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 2/1 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill establishes a child care workforce fund to provide grants to eligible child care employers for child care workforce recruitment and retention bonuses and benefits. |
| Support | SB254 | relative to community-based sentencing alternatives for primary caregivers. | Judiciary | Wed 2/1 | 2:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill adds “dependent child,” “elder,” “person with a disability,” and “primary caretaker of a dependent child” to sentencing definitions. This bill requires sentencing courts make determinations for individually assessed sentences without imprisonment based on community rehabilitation and parent-child or dependent unity and support factors for primary caretakers of dependents. |
| Oppose | HB489 | establishing a county tourism development fund administered by the department of business and economic affairs and making an appropriation therefor. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 2/1 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill establishes a county tourism development fund administered by the department of business and economic affairs and makes an appropriation therefor. The bill also establishes a county tourism grant program funded from tax on meals and rooms income. |
| Oppose | HB226 | enabling municipalities to regulate the distribution and disposal of certain solid waste within landfills. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 2/1 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill allows towns and municipalities to regulate the distribution and disposal of certain solid waste within landfills. |
| Oppose | HB273 | requiring composting and waste recycling to be made available to residents of public housing. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 2/1 | 2:20 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill requires public housing residents to have access to on-site composting and recycling receptacles. |
| Support | HB592 | relative to buffers around wetlands. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 2/1 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill exempts temporary impacts and small impervious surface impacts projects from local over lay districts and permits for construction, excavation, or filling near wetlands. |
| Of Interest | SB191 | relative to road toll registration surcharges for electric vehicles. | Ways and Means | Wed 2/1 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes a registration surcharge for electric vehicles and requires the division of motor vehicles and department of transportation to report annually on the surcharge revenue and use of funds. |
| Oppose | SB261 | relative to the interest and dividends tax rate and threshold. | Ways and Means | Wed 2/1 | 10:15 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill: I. Removes the repeal of the interest and dividends tax rate that was to take place on January 1, 2027. II. Removes the interest and dividends tax rate reductions that were to occur after December 31, 2024. III. Increases the taxable minimum of gross income from interest and dividends. |
| Oppose | SB262 | allowing municipalities to collect an occupancy fee from operators of local room rentals. | Ways and Means | Wed 2/1 | 10:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill enables a municipality to collect an occupancy fee from room rentals for the purpose of establishing a municipal capital fund, revolving fund, or tourism support fund. |
| Oppose | SB168 | relative to participation in a low-moderate income residential customers community solar project. | Energy and Natural Resources | Thu 2/2 | 1:45 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill allows for participation of certain large electrical generators in low-moderate income community solar projects and expands the eligibility of residents to benefit from community solar additions. |
| Oppose | SB149 | relative to nurse agencies. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 2/2 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill establishes a licensing and application process for nurse agencies. |
| Support | HB110 | prohibiting the use of state funds for new passenger rail projects. | Public Works and Highways | Fri 2/3 | 11:45 AM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill prohibits the department of transportation from utilizing state funds for the planning, construction, operation, or management of new passenger rail projects. |
| Oppose | HB511 | relative to requiring the department of transportation to do road maintenance and repairs according to its complete streets program | Public Works and Highways | Fri 2/3 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill requires towns, cities, state departments and state institutions who request maintenance and repair assistance for their roads from the department of transportation to coordinate with the complete streets advisory committee to plan and follow the complete streets program standards of the National Association of City Traffic Officials. |
| Oppose | HB633 | relative to electric distribution company market share, prohibiting certain electric rate increases, and requiring enforcement against Eversource. | Science, Technology and Energy | Fri 2/3 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill requires that electric distribution companies shall not raise electric rates by an amount that exceeds the annual increase in the Consumer Price Index. The bill also prohibits electric distribution companies from having market share greater than 50 percent and requires the attorney general to bring an action against Eversource. |
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Of the 167 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 22 and opposition of 42 with 10 being of interest.
Of the 35 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 0 with 3 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oppose | HB633 | relative to electric distribution company market share, prohibiting certain electric rate increases, and requiring enforcement against Eversource. | Science, Technology and Energy | Mon 1/23 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill requires that electric distribution companies shall not raise electric rates by an amount that exceeds the annual increase in the Consumer Price Index. The bill also prohibits electric distribution companies from having market share greater than 50 percent and requires the attorney general to bring an action against Eversource. |
| Of Interest | SB102 | relative to the Jones Act’s effect on New Hampshire’s heating and energy fuel market. | Commerce | Tue 1/24 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill requires the department of energy to submit a report to the legislature on the impact of the Jones Act on New Hampshire’s heating and energy fuel market. |
| Oppose | HB487 | establishing a New Hampshire farm-to-school reimbursement program. | Education | Tue 1/24 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill establishes a New Hampshire farm to school reimbursement program and makes an appropriation therefor. |
| Oppose | HB334 | relative to determination and cost of state adequate education. | Education | Tue 1/24 | 12:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill changes the calculation for the per pupil amount for grants for the opportunity for an adequate education to be 1/2 of the statewide average cost per pupil. |
| Oppose | HB430 | relative to applications for the education freedom accounts program. | Education | Tue 1/24 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill provides for applications to the education freedom account program for a child currently attending a New Hampshire public school, including a chartered public school, for a minimum of one year, or who is entering kindergarten or first grade. |
| Oppose | HB324 | relative to campaign contributions and expenditures and making an appropriation therefor. | Election Law | Tue 1/24 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill establishes a fund to provide campaign financing for eligible candidates for governor and executive councilor and makes an appropriation to the fund. |
| Of Interest | SB61 | relative to surface water setbacks for landfills. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 1/24 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill enables the department of environmental services to adopt rules relative to surface water setbacks for landfills. |
| Oppose | HB332 | relative to school building aid for eligible projects. | Finance | Tue 1/24 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill increases the amount to be appropriated by the legislature for school building aid construction and renovation projects of school districts. The bill also allocates a portion of funds to be paid for school building projects approved in prior years but which were not funded. |
| Oppose | HB541 | relative to school building aid grants and making an appropriation therefor. | Finance | Tue 1/24 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill increases the amount of school building aid grants that may be approved by the department of education per fiscal year. The bill also makes appropriations of $100 million in fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for approved school building aid projects. |
| Oppose | HB546 | relative to the school building aid program. | Finance | Tue 1/24 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill requires a minimum of $50,000,000 per fiscal year to be transferred to the school building aid fund, in addition to any debt service payments, for school building aid grants. |
| Of Interest | SB80 | requiring the recording of custodial interrogations and making an appropriation therefor. | Judiciary | Tue 1/24 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill requires that custodial interrogations be recorded, establishes a fund to make grants to state law enforcement agencies to purchase equipment to enable such recordings, and makes an appropriation therefor. |
| Oppose | SB117 | relative to the definition of a “child” for the purpose of negligent storage of firearms. | Judiciary | Tue 1/24 | 1:35 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill changes the age of a child for the purpose of negligent storage of firearms. |
| Oppose | HB418 | relative to eliminating the rebates distributed by the energy efficiency fund. | Science, Technology and Energy | Tue 1/24 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill eliminates the rebate amount distributed to retail electricity ratepayers and allocates all auction proceeds to support current or future energy efficiency resource standards programs. |
| Oppose | HB92 | requiring the adoption of innovative vehicle emissions standards pursuant to section 177 of the federal Clean Air Act. | Science, Technology and Energy | Tue 1/24 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill requires the adoption of California Low Emission/Zero Emission vehicle standards to protect public health, enable New Hampshire automotive customers to utilize the extended emissions-specific warranty, and to enable New Hampshire automotive dealers to carry Zero Emissions Vehicles in stock. The bill also increases the inspection sticker fee and makes an appropriation to the department of environmental services to fund an additional position. |
| Oppose | HB597 | relative to race and ethnicity data on driver’s licenses, and race and ethnicity data collection. | Transportation | Tue 1/24 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill adds race and ethnicity as optional information that may be included on a driver’s license, commercial driver’s license, and nondriver’s picture identification card and requires law enforcement agencies to collect such data. |
| Support | HB650 | relative to prohibiting suspension of driver’s licenses due to nonpayment of fines or fees. | Transportation | Tue 1/24 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill modifies the circumstances under which a driver’s license may be suspended or revoked for nonpayment of fines, fees, or restitution; removes suspension of a driver’s license or privilege as a sentencing punishment for nonpayment of fines, fees, or restitution; and authorizes the commissioner of safety to expunge the records of individuals covered by this bill. |
| Support | HB388 | relative to number plates for motor vehicles. | Transportation | Tue 1/24 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill would require private passenger vehicles to display only one number plate on the rear of the vehicle. |
| Support | HB393 | permitting a motor vehicle operator to use only a rear license plate. | Transportation | Tue 1/24 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill allows all private passenger vehicles and commercial vehicles to have a single license plate on the rear. |
| Support | HB15 | relative to the rate of the business enterprise tax. | Ways and Means | Tue 1/24 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill reduces the rate of the business enterprise tax for tax years ending on or after December 31, 2024. |
| Support | HB133 | relative to repealing the communications services tax. | Ways and Means | Tue 1/24 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill repeals the communications services tax. |
| Oppose | HB192 | relative to the rate and exemptions of the interest and dividends tax. | Ways and Means | Tue 1/24 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill repeals the previously passed phase out of the interest and dividends tax and changes the rates and exemptions. |
| Support | HB100 | to repeal the interest and dividends tax. | Ways and Means | Tue 1/24 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill changes the effective date of the repeal of the interest and dividends tax. |
| Oppose | HB531 | relative to the taxation of tobacco and nicotine products. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/25 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill directs the commissioner of the department of revenue administration to annually set the tobacco and nicotine tax based on the rates charged by neighboring states, and directs the commissioner to produce a report detailing the uses of such taxes. |
| Oppose | HB279 | increasing the penalty for on-premises licensees overserving alcohol. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/25 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill increases the penalty for on-premises licensees overserving alcohol. |
| Of Interest | HB612 | relative to the fees for New Hampshire wine manufacturers. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/25 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill: I. Allows wine manufacturers to give a bottle as a sample under certain conditions. II. Changes the fee and tax structure on wine sold in state. III. Exempts a certain volume of wine from taxes for home use. |
| Support | HB639 | relative to the legalization and regulation of cannabis and making appropriations therefor. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/25 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill establishes procedures for the legalization, regulation, and taxation of cannabis; the licensing and regulation of cannabis establishments; and makes appropriations therefor. |
| Of Interest | HB544 | legalizing cannabis for retail sale. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/25 | 1:20 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill: I. Legalizes the retail sale, possession, and use of cannabis for persons 21 years of age and older. II. Authorizes the liquor commission to regulate and administer the cultivation, manufacture, testing, and retail sale of cannabis statewide, and makes an appropriation therefor. III. Authorizes alternative treatment centers registered to dispense therapeutic cannabis to register, as a separate entity, to manufacture, cultivate, or transport cannabis to the state for retail sale. IV. Authorizes a municipality to enact an ordinance prohibiting or limiting the number and type of cannabis establishments that may be permitted within the municipality and regulating the time, place, and manner of operation of a cannabis establishment permitted within the municipality. V. Establishes the cannabis control fund and requires funds to be distributed to municipalities and the general fund. VI. Makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services to create public media and social media campaigns to address some of the risks of cannabis use. |
| Oppose | HB272 | increasing chartered public school per pupil funding. | Education | Wed 1/25 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill increases the amount of the additional grant for tuition of chartered public school students paid by the state. |
| Oppose | HB626 | requiring the department of education to administer the education freedom account. | Education | Wed 1/25 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill changes the administration of the education freedom account program under RSA 194-F from scholarship organizations to the department of education. |
| Oppose | HB341 | establishing licensure for massage establishments. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 1/25 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill establishes licensure for massage establishments under the regulation of massage therapists by the office of professional licensure and certification. |
| Oppose | HB105 | relative to the registration of medical spas. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 1/25 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill establishes the registration of medical spa facilities. |
| Oppose | HB620 | establishing a department of early childhood education and relative to a pre-kindergarten pilot program. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 1/25 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill establishes an executive branch department of early childhood education. The bill also establishes the authority for the department to design, create, and administer a 3-year high quality, community-based, mixed delivery public pre-kindergarten pilot program. |
| Oppose | HB329 | establishing an ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) registry in New Hampshire. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 1/25 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill establishes an ALS registry administered by the department of health and human services. |
| Oppose | HB112 | relative to tenant’s right to notification prior to the sale of a multifamily home. | Judiciary | Wed 1/25 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill requires the owner of restricted residential property to provide tenants with notice of sale of the property and an opportunity to make an offer to purchase the property. |
| Support | HB117 | relative to the termination of tenancy at the expiration of the tenancy or lease term. | Judiciary | Wed 1/25 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill adds the expiration of the term of the lease or tenancy if over 6 months as grounds for an eviction. |
| Oppose | HB261 | authorizing residential tenants to terminate their lease in instances of domestic violence or following a disabling illness or accident. | Judiciary | Wed 1/25 | 11:15 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill permits residential tenants to terminate their lease in instances of domestic violence or following a disabling illness or accident, and describes the written documentation required. |
| Oppose | HB283 | to limit application fees charged to prospective residential tenants. | Judiciary | Wed 1/25 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill limits the rental application fee and other fees charged by a landlord as part of the rental application process for a residential property. |
| Oppose | HB340 | relative to the transfer of residential property. | Judiciary | Wed 1/25 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill restricts the acquisition of single-family and multi-family housing to natural persons with certain exceptions. The bill requires a nonnatural person that acquires single or multi family housing within one of the specified exceptions to register and file reports with the secretary of state. |
| Oppose | HB379 | requiring that attorneys be appointed to represent indigent tenants during residential eviction proceedings and making an appropriation therefor. | Judiciary | Wed 1/25 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill provides that an indigent tenant shall have the right to counsel at an eviction proceeding, establishes a fund for this purpose, and makes an appropriation therefor. |
| Oppose | HB401 | relative to evictions based on the owner’s intent to renovate the property. | Judiciary | Wed 1/25 | 3:15 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill establishes certain criteria for evictions based on the landlord’s intent to renovate or remove the property from the residential housing market. |
| Support | HB296 | relative to local authority for granting driveway permits. | Public Works and Highways | Wed 1/25 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill clarifies that local land use boards and not the state fire code regulate driveway access. |
| Oppose | HB472 | relative to the placement of temporary seasonal docks. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 1/25 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill prohibits a wetlands permitting exception for temporary seasonal docks which impact any wildlife species, threatened species, or endangered species in accordance with the endangered species conservation act. |
| Oppose | HB353 | establishing an interstate compact for universal healthcare. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Thu 1/26 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill establishes an interstate compact for universal healthcare to provide payment for providing healthcare for the citizens of New Hampshire and other member states after the date of implementation. |
| Of Interest | HB318 | eliminating bail commissioners, and relative to the release of a defendant pending trial and establishing new circuit court judge positions. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/26 | 9:00 AM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill eliminates bail commissioners; provides that judges shall set bail; amends the procedure for the release of a defendant pending trial; and requires the judicial branch to include in its budget funding for 3 new full-time circuit court judges. |
| Of Interest | HB643 | relative to legalizing marijuana. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/26 | 10:30 AM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill legalizes marijuana for persons 21 years of age and older. |
| Support | HB581 | repealing the controlled drug act and establishing a committee to study the policy and statutory changes necessary to implement the repeal. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/26 | 11:15 AM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill repeals the controlled drug act effective July 1, 2025, and establishes a committee to recommend legislation to make the necessary policy and statutory changes to accompany the repeal. |
| Support | HB473 | relative to penalties for controlled drug violations. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/26 | 12:45 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill changes the penalty for certain schedule I, II, III, and IV drug offenses. |
| Support | HB360 | an act legalizing cannabis for persons 21 years of age or older. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/26 | 1:30 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill legalizes the possession and use of cannabis for persons 21 years of age and older. |
| Support | HB344 | relative to the home cultivation of cannabis plants and the possession of certain cannabis-infused products. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/26 | 2:15 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill permits adults to possess up to 3/4 of an ounce of cannabis, 5 grams of hashish, and certain cannabis-infused products; permits adults to cultivate up to 6 cannabis plants at home in a secure location that is not visible from other properties, and to possess and process the cannabis produced from their plants at the same location; permits adults to give cannabis to other adults, provided it is not more than 3/4 of an ounce of cannabis, 5 grams of hashish, or up to 300 mg of cannabis-infused products, or 3 immature plants; provides that smoking or vaporizing cannabis in public by an adult would be punishable by a $100 fine; provides that violations of the restrictions on cultivation would be a violation punishable by fine of up to $750; penalizes dangerous, volatile extraction; and permits adults to possess, make, and sell cannabis accessories to other adults. |
| Support | HB328 | an act legalizing certain controlled substances for persons 21 years of age or older. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/26 | 3:00 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill legalizes the possession and use of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), mescaline, psilocybin, and peyote for persons 21 years of age and older. |
| Support | HB470 | relative to fentanyl test strips and other drug checking equipment. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/26 | 3:45 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill amends the definition of drug paraphernalia to exclude drug checking equipment and authorizes the use of drug checking equipment. |
| Oppose | HB436 | relative to group II retirement under transition provisions in the retirement system. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 1/26 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill adjusts the application of the minimum age, minimum years of service, and annuity multipliers in the transition provisions for group II service retirement adopted in 2011 to be applicable as of January 1, 2014 rather than January 1, 2012. |
| Oppose | HB449 | relative to the calculation of group II retirement benefits in the retirement system. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 1/26 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill increases the service retirement and disability retirement annuity multiplier for the first 20 years of service of group II retirement system members under the transition provisions adopted in 2011. |
| Oppose | HB525 | relative to group II service retirement provisions in the retirement system. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 1/26 | 2:15 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill adjusts the application of the transition provisions for group II service retirement adopted in 2011 to be applicable as of January 1, 2014 rather than January 1, 2012. |
| Oppose | HB579 | eliminating the 2011 transition provision requirements for group II retirement. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 1/26 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill eliminates the transition provision adopted in 2011 for group II retirement system members that began service before July 1, 2011 but were not yet vested. |
| Oppose | HB506 | relative to the construction of a rail trail box tunnel on Exit 4-A in Derry and making an appropriation therefor. | Finance | Thu 1/26 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill requires the department of transportation to complete the rail trail box tunnel project in Derry, makes an appropriation for the project, and establishes a criminal penalty for any person who fails to complete or impedes the progress of the project. |
| Oppose | HB50 | relative to payment by the state of a portion of retirement system contributions of political subdivision employers. | Finance | Thu 1/26 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 210-211 | 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. |
| Of Interest | HB555 | appropriating state general fund surplus toward the retirement system unfunded accrued liability. | Finance | Thu 1/26 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill requires the transfer of 75 percent of a state biennial surplus to the reduction in the retirement system’s unfunded accrued liability. |
| Oppose | HB469 | prohibiting discrimination against tenants holding certain vouchers for purposes of renting dwellings. | Judiciary | Thu 1/26 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill prohibits discrimination against tenants holding certain vouchers for purposes of renting dwellings. |
| Oppose | HB567 | relative to notice of rent increases in certain residential rental property. | Judiciary | Thu 1/26 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill requires a landlord of certain residential property to provide additional notice of a prospective rent increase. |
| Of Interest | HB533 | relative to public school human rights complaints. | Judiciary | Thu 1/26 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill allows the department of education to bring a complaint on student discriminatory practices to the state commission on human rights. |
| Support | HB647 | relative to causes of action for individual rights. | Judiciary | Thu 1/26 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill establishes a cause of action against the state for violations against individual rights. |
| Oppose | HB182 | prohibiting discharge of volunteer firefighters or volunteer emergency medical technicians from other employment. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Thu 1/26 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill prohibits an employer from discharging or disciplining an employee who is a volunteer firefighter or emergency medical technician and whose failure to report for work was due to such employee responding to an emergency. |
| Support | HB190 | relative to the duration of unemployment benefits. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Thu 1/26 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill specifies the duration of unemployment benefits based on the state’s average unemployment rate. |
| Oppose | HB125 | relative to youth employment during the school year and at night. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Thu 1/26 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill clarifies the number of hours a minor is permitted to work when school is in session and limits the evening hours a minor is permitted to work when school is in session. |
| Oppose | HB483 | to remove the duties of county delegations and delegate them to county commissioners. | Municipal and County Government | Thu 1/26 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill transfers the duties of the county delegation to the county commissioners as members of the county convention. |
| Oppose | HB357 | relative to the length of terms for Belknap county officers. | Municipal and County Government | Thu 1/26 | 10:20 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill establishes a 4-year term for the county treasurer, county sheriff, county register of deeds, and county attorney in Belknap county. |
| Support | HB313 | relative to the reductions from the default budget for official ballot town meetings. | Municipal and County Government | Thu 1/26 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill alters the definition of default budget to include salary and benefit reductions which occur as a result of position turnover. |
| Oppose | HB293 | allowing a town to appropriate funds to create a town scholarship fund. | Municipal and County Government | Thu 1/26 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill allows a town to establish a scholarship fund for the benefit of town residents. |
| Of Interest | HB294 | enabling municipalities to adopt a child tax credit. | Municipal and County Government | Thu 1/26 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill allows municipalities to adopt a per-child property tax credit. |
| Support | HB498 | requiring fish and game officers to obtain a warrant to conduct a search and seizure. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 1/27 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill requires conservation officers to obtain a search warrant for conducting certain enforcement operations. |
| Support | HB588 | relative to the criteria for applying for parole. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 1/27 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill allows an eligible incarcerated person to apply for parole upon the completion of 50 percent of such person’s minimum sentence. |
| Oppose | HB158 | relative to armor piercing ammunition. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 1/27 | 2:15 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill creates a criminal penalty for the possession, manufacture, or use of armor-piercing ammunition. |
| Support | HB503 | relative to the rights afforded to a person accused of a crime. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 1/27 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill codifies certain rights of an accused person in the criminal process, increases the penalty assessment in cases involving charges related to an alcohol or controlled drug offense, and requires those penalty assessments to be used by the state crime lab. |
| Of Interest | HB439 | relative to the duty to provide an education and contracts with private schools. | Education | Fri 1/27 | 11:45 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill repeals the authority of a school board to execute a contract with a nonsectarian private school to provide education. The bill also provides that a school board has a duty to provide an education to a pupil until the pupil reaches 22 years of age. |
| Of Interest | HB540 | relative to adequate education grant amounts for pupils receiving special education services. | Education | Fri 1/27 | 12:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill provides for categories of special education services for application to the calculation of differentiated aid in adequate education grant amounts. |
| Of Interest | HB530 | relative to withdrawal from a cooperative school district. | Education | Fri 1/27 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill clarifies the process for the vote on withdrawal from a cooperative school district. |
| Support | HB466 | relative to water bottle filling stations in schools. | Education | Fri 1/27 | 2:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill repeals the state board of education’s rulemaking authority to adopt rules pursuant to RSA 541-A relative to requirements for the installation of water bottle filling stations. |
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Of the 119 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 18 and opposition of 24 with 13 being of interest.
Of the 32 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 2 and opposition of 2 with 2 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support | HB108 | relative to the confidentiality of reports made to the division of children, youth, and families and requiring guardians ad litem be appointed in certain instances. | Children and Family Law | Tue 1/17 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill provides that reports of suspected abuse and neglect may include the name of the person making the report and provides that the person’s identity shall be fully confidential unless such a person makes such a report in bad faith or maliciously and with intent to cause harm, in which case the person may be subject to civil and criminal penalties. |
| Oppose | HB115 | relative to changing the date of the state primary election. | Election Law | Tue 1/17 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill changes the date of the state primary election to the second Tuesday in June. |
| Oppose | HB333 | relative to changing the date of the state primary election and adding a run-off election if necessary. | Election Law | Tue 1/17 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill changes the date of the state primary election to the second Tuesday in March. This bill also creates a run-off election in the event no state primary election candidate reaches 50 percent of the total vote. |
| Of Interest | HB345 | enabling ranked-choice voting for state party primary elections and municipal elections. | Election Law | Tue 1/17 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill establishes procedures for ranked-choice voting and allows state parties and municipalities to opt into such procedures. |
| Of Interest | HB350 | relative to ranked-choice voting. | Election Law | Tue 1/17 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill establishes procedures for ranked-choice voting for federal and state offices. |
| Oppose | HB402 | relative to prohibiting false statements against candidates. | Election Law | Tue 1/17 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill prohibits the publication of false statements by any candidate, political committee, or political party regarding another candidate’s positions on issues. |
| Of Interest | SB12 | relative to the leasing of seasonal camp lots by the fish and game department. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 1/17 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill allows the executive director of fish and game to lease certain seasonal camp lots on fish and game lands, and changes the requirements for approval of short-term leases and contracts of the department. |
| Of Interest | SB54 | relative to purchased power agreements for electric distribution utilities. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 1/17 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill requires electric distribution utilities to issue requests for proposals to provide more diverse and longer term options for providing default energy service to customers in purchased power agreements as directed by the public utilities commission. |
| Support | HB252 | exempting agricultural operations from certain municipal noise ordinances. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 1/17 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill exempts farming and agricultural operations from municipal noise ordinances. |
| Support | SB48 | relative to the definition of “way” for the purposes of driving after revocation or suspension. | Judiciary | Tue 1/17 | 1:15 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill clarifies laws related to driving after revocation or suspension by prohibiting persons with revoked or suspended licenses from driving a motor vehicle upon a way, removing the prohibition on operating motor vehicles while not on a way. |
| Oppose | SB58 | relative to arrests without a warrant while in the care of a medical professional on the premises of a residential care or health care facility. | Judiciary | Tue 1/17 | 1:45 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill authorizes a law enforcement officer to arrest a person without a warrant for interfering with the provision of medically-necessary health care services. |
| Oppose | HB260 | prohibiting the operation of motor vehicles by drivers with animals on their laps. | Transportation | Tue 1/17 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill prohibits operation of a motor vehicle while the driver has an animal on his or her person. |
| Of Interest | HB121 | relative to worldwide combined reporting for unitary businesses under the business profits tax. | Ways and Means | Tue 1/17 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill repeals the water’s edge combined group provisions of the business profits tax. |
| Oppose | HB303 | relative to insurance coverage for pain management services. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/18 | 2:15 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill requires insurance coverage for pain management services. |
| Of Interest | HB97 | establishing an additional penalty for a violation of privacy. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 1/18 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill increases the penalty for certain offenses that constitute a violation of privacy. |
| Oppose | HB107 | relative to employment restrictions for registered sex offenders. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 1/18 | 11:45 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill prohibits a person convicted of certain sexual assault offenses from hiring or otherwise engaging in any employment or volunteer service which provides direct services to a minor, or supervision or oversight of a minor. |
| Oppose | HB420 | relative to the availability and funding for the dual and concurrent enrollment program by the community college system and making an appropriation therefor. | Education | Wed 1/18 | 10:10 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill amends the purpose and course eligibility for the dual and concurrent enrollment program withing the regional career and technical education program and makes an appropriation therefor. |
| Oppose | HB429 | requiring the offering of breakfast and lunch in all public and chartered public schools. | Education | Wed 1/18 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires school districts and chartered public schools to offer both breakfast and lunch programs to students. |
| Oppose | HB327 | prohibiting the state from requiring the public use proprietary software when visiting state websites. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 1/18 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill prohibits the state from requiring the public use proprietary software when visiting state websites. |
| Support | SB35 | relative to RSV vaccine administration. | Health and Human Services | Wed 1/18 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill authorizes pharmacists, pharmacy interns, and licensed advanced pharmacy technicians to administer an RSV vaccine to adults. |
| Support | HB164 | relative to prohibiting towns from criminalizing the right to peacefully and orderly assemble. | Judiciary | Wed 1/18 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill creates an exemption from the criminal code for orderly and peaceful assembly. |
| Of Interest | HB169 | relative to termination of guardianship. | Judiciary | Wed 1/18 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill changes the burden of proof for termination of guardianship proceedings. |
| Of Interest | HB63 | relative to religious use of land and structures. | Judiciary | Wed 1/18 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill prohibits zoning ordinances and local land use regulations from burdening religious land and structures in their use as residential housing. |
| Support | HB256 | prohibiting cities and towns from discriminating in the use of public facilities. | Judiciary | Wed 1/18 | 3:30 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill prohibits a municipality from unlawfully discriminating against any individual or group based on their speech or purpose. |
| Oppose | HB95 | enabling municipalities to adopt rental practice regulations. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 1/18 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill enables municipalities to adopt bylaws to regulate the period of notice required prior to a rent increase on residential property and the permissible amount of such rent increases. |
| Oppose | HB422 | to create a public county registry of the monthly rent charged by landlords for each owned unit. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 1/18 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill creates a public registry of rents. |
| Oppose | HB295 | relative to requiring all selectboard and school board meetings to be recorded and broadcast live online. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 1/18 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill requires public sessions of the boards of selectmen and school boards to be video recorded and live-streamed. |
| Of Interest | HB416 | relative to membership on certain local land use boards. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 1/18 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill prohibits certain persons from being elected or appointed or sitting on any zoning board of adjustment, planning board, or board of selectmen of the town in which they reside. |
| Support | HB434 | relative to flying drones in state parks. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 1/18 | 11:15 AM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill allows for the commercial and recreational use of drones or small unmanned aircraft in state parks subject to exceptions and limitations. The bill also establishes fees and authorizes fines to be assessed for violations. |
| Oppose | HB143 | relative to wiretapping to record conversations related to domestic violence. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/19 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill allows a person to make an audio or video recording, or both, without the consent of the person being recorded for the purpose of obtaining evidence of domestic violence. Such recording shall be admissible as evidence. |
| Support | HB201 | relative to changing the penalties for driving without a license. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/19 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill changes the penalties for driving without a license to a violation, unless the individualis convicted for second time in a 12-month period. |
| Support | HB464 | relative to eligible students in the education freedom account program. | Education | Thu 1/19 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill expands the definition of who is an eligible student qualifying under the education freedom accounts program. |
| Support | HB367 | relative to eligibility of students in the education freedom account program. | Education | Thu 1/19 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill increases the household income level based on the federal poverty guidelines for the eligibility of students to participate in the education freedom account program. |
| Oppose | HB380 | relative to non-academic surveys administered by a public school or a chartered public school to its students. | Education | Thu 1/19 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill makes changes to the requirements for school district or chartered public school policies governing the administration of non-academic surveys or questionnaires. |
| Of Interest | HB399 | allowing for a testing exception for graduation from high school. | Education | Thu 1/19 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires the department of education to design and administer a high school diploma equivalency test which would except students age 13 or older who pass the test from school attendance requirements. The bill also provides a private right of action to enforce the provisions of the bill. |
| Oppose | HB45 | establishing a committee to study student loan forgiveness in New Hampshire. | Education | Thu 1/19 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill establishes a committee to study student loan forgiveness in New Hampshire. |
| Oppose | HB258 | establishing a certification for animal chiropractors. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 1/19 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill establishes a certification for animal chiropractors. |
| Support | HB409 | relative to nonresident licensure by the board of barbering, cosmetology, and esthetics. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 1/19 | 2:15 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill modifies the requirements for nonresident licensure by the board of barbering, cosmetology, and esthetics. |
| Oppose | HB320 | relative to free speech in interactive computer services. | Judiciary | Thu 1/19 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill prohibits, with limited exception, censorship of speech on interactive computer services social media platforms. The bill establishes a civil right of action for violation of the statute. |
| Support | HB314 | relative to the expectation of privacy in the collection and use of personal information. | Judiciary | Thu 1/19 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill regulates the collection, retention, and use of personal information and establishes a cause of action for violations of an individual’s expectation of privacy in personal information. |
| Support | HB149 | relative to the handling of requests made under the right-to-know law. | Judiciary | Thu 1/19 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill requires periodic updates to the requestor when a request is made under the right-to-know law. |
| Of Interest | HB254 | relative to remote participation in public meetings under the right to know law. | Judiciary | Thu 1/19 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill modifies the requirements for remote participation in public meetings under the right to know law. |
| Support | HB289 | relative to consultation with legal counsel under the right to know law. | Judiciary | Thu 1/19 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill prohibits a public official from retaining legal counsel for the purpose of evading compliance with the right to know law and makes violation of the requirement a misdemeanor. |
| Support | HB307 | relative to attorney’s fees in actions under the right to know law. | Judiciary | Thu 1/19 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill requires the court to issue a final judgment in favor of the requester before attorney’s fees are awarded under the right to know law. |
| Oppose | HB308 | relative to a quorum for meetings open to the public to include remote presence. | Judiciary | Thu 1/19 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill removes the emergency exception requirement for remote presence of members to constitute a quorum for meetings open to the public. |
| Of Interest | HB321 | relative to minutes from nonpublic sessions under the right to know law. | Judiciary | Thu 1/19 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill requires public bodies to review meeting minutes withheld from public disclosure at least every 10 years to determine whether they should continue to be withheld. Minutes not reviewed after 10 years shall be made public. |
| Of Interest | HB347 | establishing a superior court land use review docket. | Judiciary | Thu 1/19 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill establishes the land use review docket in the superior court. |
| Oppose | HB57 | relative to the state minimum hourly rate. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Thu 1/19 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill increases the minimum hourly rate, increases the base rate for tipped employees, and adjusts both rates annually based on the most recent 12-month average of the consumer price index. The bill also requires a youth minimum wage for employees under 18 years of age. |
| Oppose | HB48 | relative to employee protections from COVID-19 in the workplace. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Thu 1/19 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill establishes COVID-19 related workplace rights for employees. |
| Oppose | HB74 | relative to an employee’s unused earned time. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Thu 1/19 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill requires an employer to pay an employee for unused earned time. |
| Oppose | HB82 | relative to employment protection for participants in the therapeutic cannabis program. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Thu 1/19 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill prohibits an employer from refusing to hire, or terminating the employment of a qualified patient of the New Hampshire therapeutic cannabis program solely on the basis of a positive drug test. |
| Oppose | HB118 | prohibiting employers from engaging in certain anti-union activities. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Thu 1/19 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill prohibits employers from requiring employees to attend or participate in anti-union training. |
| Support | HB44 | relative to permissible residential units in a residential zone. | Municipal and County Government | Thu 1/19 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill requires that local legislative bodies permit by right certain single-family lots in residential districts to be used for up to 4 residential units. |
| Oppose | HB90 | relative to the municipal planning master plan. | Municipal and County Government | Thu 1/19 | 2:15 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill adds the authority for local planning master plans to contain sections on transition to renewable energy and other relevant topics. |
| Of Interest | HB292 | establishing a criminal penalty for theft by a public servant. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 1/20 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill establishes a criminal penalty for theft by a public servant who authorizes payment for legal actions against the municipality, and creates a right of action against such public servants. |
| Support | HB216 | exempting dimethyltryptamine from the controlled drug act. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 1/20 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill exempts dimethyltryptamine from the controlled drug act. |
| Support | HB144 | restoring firearm ownership rights to ex-felons. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 1/20 | 2:15 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill provides that a non-violent felon who has completed the term of incarceration, and all other conditions of the sentence, shall have the right to possess and use a firearm. |
| Support | HB31 | repealing the prohibition on the possession or sale of blackjacks, slung shots, and metallic knuckles. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 1/20 | 2:45 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill repeals the prohibition, penalty, and exceptions relating to the carrying and possessing with intent to sell a black jack, slung shot, or metallic knuckles. |
| Support | HB229 | relative to requiring an official declaration of war for the activation of the New Hampshire national guard. | State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs | Fri 1/20 | 10:00 AM | 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. |
| Of Interest | HB269 | relative to limiting the authority of New Hampshire delegates to policymaking conventions. | State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs | Fri 1/20 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill: I. Establishes a procedure for the selection of delegates to an inter/intrastate policy-making convention. II. Limits the authority of delegates to policymaking conventions to only those granted by the New Hampshire legislature. III. Creates a procedure for recalling and replacing delegates to policymaking conventions who act outside of the scope of the authority granted to them by the New Hampshire legislature. |
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Of the 41 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 1 and opposition of 6 with 4 being of interest.
Of the 18 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 0 with 3 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Oppose | HB101 | relative to requiring voters declare a party affiliation prior to a state primary election. | Election Law | Tue 1/10 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill requires any undeclared voter who wishes to vote in a state party primary to declare a party affiliation at least 4 months prior to such primary. |
| Oppose | HB116 | relative to fees and primary petitions required for primary ballot election access. | Election Law | Tue 1/10 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill increases certain filing fees and the number of signed primary petitions required for primary ballot candidates. This bill also removes the filing fee for state representative candidates. |
| Oppose | HB102 | requiring high schools to include instruction on the nature and history of communism. | Education | Wed 1/11 | 10:40 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires school boards and governing boards of private schools to include at least one hour of instruction on the nature and history of communism for high school graduation. |
| Of Interest | HB170 | requiring the teaching of cursive handwriting and multiplication tables. | Education | Wed 1/11 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires school boards to teach cursive handwriting and the memorization of multiplication tables. |
| Of Interest | HB83 | relative to county commissioners’ authority on county buildings. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 1/11 | 2:45 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill removes references to expense thresholds for county commissioners’ authority to purchase real estate and repair, enlarge, or erect county buildings. |
| Of Interest | HB146 | relative to the closure of state liquor stores. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Thu 1/12 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill requires the liquor commission to obtain the prior approval of the fiscal committee of the general court before closing a state liquor store. |
| Support | HB173 | relative to toilet facilities provided by restaurants. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Thu 1/12 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill removes the requirement for restaurants or food establishments that are capable of seating 25 or more, or serve alcohol, from having to provide separate toilet rooms for each sex. |
| Oppose | HB39 | relative to paper billing fees. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Thu 1/12 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill prohibits a person doing business in this state from charging an additional fee for receiving a paper billing statement, electing to make a payment by United States mail, or attempting to pay a bill in person. |
| Oppose | HB73 | relative to the repair of home appliances. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Thu 1/12 | 2:15 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill requires home appliance manufacturers to make available to appliance owners and repair providers certain repair-related documentation, parts, and tools. The failure to do so would be a violation of the consumer protection act. |
| Oppose | HB61 | relative to teaching on discrimination in the public schools and discrimination in public workplaces. | Education | Thu 1/12 | 9:30 AM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill provides that no education law of this state shall be construed to bar any school employee from teaching the historical or current experiences of any group that is protected from discrimination. The bill also repeals provisions of the law relating to the right to freedom from discrimination in public workplaces and education. |
| Of Interest | CACR1 | relating to the governor. Providing that there be a lieutenant governor who shall assume the duties of the governor if the governor is incapacitated. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 1/12 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution establishes the office of lieutenant governor and changes succession provisions in the event a governor is unable to perform the duties of the office. |
| Of Interest | SB14 | relative to the use of game cameras. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 1/10 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill adds a definition of “game camera” and permits the use of a game camera to take or attempt to take a game animal or fur-bearing animal. |
| Of Interest | SB15 | relative to the use of tree stands and observation blinds. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 1/10 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill amends the permissible uses of tree stands, observation blinds, and pit blinds. |
| Of Interest | SB1 | relative to the Sununu youth services center. | Judiciary | Thu 1/12 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill requires the closure of the Sununu youth services center, and sets out parameters for the contract for a replacement facility. |
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Liberty continues to live and grow in New Hampshire. We had 97 NHLA Endorsed Representatives and Senators elected!
We supported 158 candidates in the primary and general election and must replenish funds to be able to support liberty candidates in special elections. We are holding a PAC fundraising event at Vine 32 in Bedford on Monday, November 28th. If you can attend, we’d love to see you at the event. Please buy your ticket (which acts as a contribution to our PAC). If you can’t attend but have the means to help us prepare for what are sure to be challenging special elections in 2023, please consider donating to the PAC.
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The initial list of endorsed candidates for the 2022 state elections has been posted. This list may be updated as additional candidates are identified.
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The New Hampshire Liberty Alliance cordially invites you to its 2022 Liberty Dinner on Saturday July 23rd from 6:00 to 11:00 PM. Formal attire please.
We will unveil this year’s Liberty Rating and award the Legislator of the Year and Activist of the Year. In addition to a buffet dinner and an evening with both old and new friends, there will be a silent auction of various items – many of them liberty themed!
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The New Hampshire Liberty Alliance cordially invites you to its 2022 Liberty Dinner on Saturday July 23rd from 6:00 to 11:00 PM. Formal attire please.
We will unveil this year’s Liberty Rating and award the Legislator of the Year and Activist of the Year. In addition to a buffet dinner and an evening with both old and new friends, there will be a silent auction of various items – many of them liberty themed!
Get your tickets at libertydinner.com!
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Of the 6 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 1 with 2 being of interest.
Of the 15 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 1 and opposition of 1 with 0 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support | HB1280 | prohibiting a parent’s refusal to vaccinate a child pursuant to an order of the state or federal government to be used as a basis for terminating parental rights. | Judiciary | Tue 4/26 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill prohibits a parent’s decision not to have their child vaccinated from being used as grounds to terminate parental rights. |
| Of Interest | SB353 | Public hearing on proposed non-germane Amendment #2022-1675h to SB 353, relative to the education professional standards board. The amendment requires cooperative school district boards to meet requirements for apportionment of their elected board members by July 2025. | Education | Tue 4/26 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | The amendment requires cooperative school district boards to meet requirements for apportionment of their elected board members by July 2025. |
| Oppose | SB368 | Public hearing on non-germane Amendment #2022-1674h to SB 368-FN, relative to the unlicensed sale of live animals and establishing the agricultural hearings officer revolving fund. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 4/26 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | Establishes the revolving fund for agricultural hearing officers. Requires a dog, cat, or ferret to be transferred with a health certificate. |
| Of Interest | SB401 | Public hearing on non-germane amendment #2022-1703h, to SB 401- FN, (Third New Title) making appropriations to the department of transportation for local highway aid and to the body-worn and dashboard camera fund and permitting the department of transportation to operate dash cameras in fleet vehicles. The amendment authorizes the department of transportation to proceed with the Dixville-Colebrook road project if certain criteria are met and make an appropriation to the department of transportation for this purpose. |
Finance | Tue 4/26 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | The amendment authorizes the department of transportation to proceed with the Dixville-Colebrook road project if certain criteria are met and make an appropriation to the department of transportation for this purpose. |
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Of the 6 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 1 with 2 being of interest.
Of the 15 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 1 and opposition of 1 with 0 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Support | HB1280 | prohibiting a parent’s refusal to vaccinate a child pursuant to an order of the state or federal government to be used as a basis for terminating parental rights. | Judiciary | Tue 4/26 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill prohibits a parent’s decision not to have their child vaccinated from being used as grounds to terminate parental rights. |
| Of Interest | SB353 | Public hearing on proposed non-germane Amendment #2022-1675h to SB 353, relative to the education professional standards board. The amendment requires cooperative school district boards to meet requirements for apportionment of their elected board members by July 2025. | Education | Tue 4/26 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | The amendment requires cooperative school district boards to meet requirements for apportionment of their elected board members by July 2025. |
| Oppose | SB368 | Public hearing on non-germane Amendment #2022-1674h to SB 368-FN, relative to the unlicensed sale of live animals and establishing the agricultural hearings officer revolving fund. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 4/26 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | Establishes the revolving fund for agricultural hearing officers. Requires a dog, cat, or ferret to be transferred with a health certificate. |
| Of Interest | SB401 | Public hearing on non-germane amendment #2022-1703h, to SB 401- FN, (Third New Title) making appropriations to the department of transportation for local highway aid and to the body-worn and dashboard camera fund and permitting the department of transportation to operate dash cameras in fleet vehicles. The amendment authorizes the department of transportation to proceed with the Dixville-Colebrook road project if certain criteria are met and make an appropriation to the department of transportation for this purpose. |
Finance | Tue 4/26 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | The amendment authorizes the department of transportation to proceed with the Dixville-Colebrook road project if certain criteria are met and make an appropriation to the department of transportation for this purpose. |
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