- These are the most liberty-critical hearings for the week
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Of the 207 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 21 and opposition of 29 with 33 being of interest.
Of the 54 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 4 and opposition of 4 with 5 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Of Interest | HB1436 | relative to appeals of family court decisions. | Children and Family Law | Tue 1/18 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill establishes the right to a de novo appeal to the superior court for family court decisions. |
| Of Interest | HB1265 | relative to a judge’s discretion to set aside rules in family court proceedings. | Children and Family Law | Tue 1/18 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill prohibits a judge from waiving a family court rule, except for rules relating to fees. |
| Of Interest | HB1142 | relative to the right to submit evidence and testimony in family court proceedings. | Children and Family Law | Tue 1/18 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill provides that parties in a family court proceeding shall have the right to present evidence and testimony. |
| Of Interest | HB1551 | relative to the right of a party in a family court case to create their own written transcripts of court proceedings. | Children and Family Law | Tue 1/18 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill establishes the right of parties in family court proceedings to create their own written transcripts of court proceedings and to submit those transcripts to the appellate court. |
| Of Interest | HB1550 | relative to the right of children and teenagers to testify in family court proceedings. | Children and Family Law | Tue 1/18 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill requires the court to allow a child 12 years of age or older to testify in a family court proceeding and permits a child under 12 years of age to testify at the judge’s discretion. |
| Of Interest | HB1511 | relative to submitting officially authorized recordings of hearings for appeal of family court decisions. | Children and Family Law | Tue 1/18 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill allows for parties in a family court proceeding to submit officially authorized recordings of hearings for appeal of family court decisions. |
| Support | HB1253 | relative to the choice of counselor to evaluate a child in family court proceedings. | Children and Family Law | Tue 1/18 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill allows for parents to choose their counselor for counseling that is part of the parenting plan issued in a court order, as well as in any other counseling used in family court to evaluate a child. This bill also requires courts to select counselors that are participating providers in the parties’ insurance networks. |
| Oppose | SB331 | relative to waivers of deductibles in automobile insurance policies. | Commerce | Tue 1/18 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill requires any automobile insurance policy that contains coverage for physical damage by reason of collision to waive any deductible of such coverage when the damage is caused by any motor vehicle if the operator of such vehicle has been positively identified and is solely at fault. |
| Oppose | SB347 | relative to the use of protected health information by employers. | Commerce | Tue 1/18 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill prohibits an employer from inquiring, either verbally or in writing, about an employee’s protected health information as a requirement for initial or continued employment. |
| Oppose | HB1564 | requiring school districts to provide breakfast for students. | Education | Tue 1/18 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires school districts to provide breakfast to students through the National School Breakfast Program or through a program of its own. |
| Of Interest | HB1627 | establishing an education freedom account program administrator in the department of education and making an appropriation therefor. | Education | Tue 1/18 | 11:15 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill establishes the position of education freedom account administrator in the department of education, division of learner support, and makes an appropriation to the department for the position. |
| Oppose | HB1630 | requiring high school students to complete a half year required course in the introduction to philosophy. | Education | Tue 1/18 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill establishes a requirement for high school students to have a course in the introduction to philosophy. |
| Of Interest | HB1367 | relative to civics instruction in schools. | Education | Tue 1/18 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires a competency assessment in government and civics instruction in schools. The bill modifies the provisions enacted in 2021, 157 effective July 1, 2023. |
| Of Interest | HB1533 | relative to health education curriculum in schools. | Education | Tue 1/18 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires that health education instruction in schools include the meaning of consent, respect for personal boundaries, and sexual violence prevention. |
| Of Interest | HB1144 | requiring public schools to teach labor history. | Education | Tue 1/18 | 3:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires middle schools and high schools to include instruction on United States and New Hampshire labor history. |
| Oppose | HB1121 | relative to new solid waste sites. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 1/18 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill requires an applicant for a new solid waste landfill to provide proof of insurance and obtain a surety bond against all damages. |
| Oppose | HB1420 | prohibiting the issuance of new landfill permits until the state’s solid waste plan is updated. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 1/18 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill prohibits the issuance of new landfill permits under the state’s solid waste plan is updated. |
| Of Interest | HB1454 | relative to permits for the siting of new landfills. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 1/18 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill prohibits the siting of landfills within a proscribed distance of groundwater sources. |
| Oppose | HB1652 | relative to the recycling of beverage containers. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 1/18 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill establishes the beverage container deposit recycling program and directs the proceeds of such program to the general fund and to the state recycling fund. |
| Oppose | HB1444 | relative to the registration of medical spas. | Executive Departments and Administration | Tue 1/18 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill establishes the registration of medical spa facilities. |
| Oppose | HB1429 | establishing licensure for massage establishments. | Executive Departments and Administration | Tue 1/18 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill establishes licensure for massage establishments. |
| Support | SB274 | relative to governmental construction contracts. | Finance | Tue 1/18 | 1:20 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill removes labor agreements from the competitive bid process and awarding of state government and state government assisted construction contracts. |
| Support | HB1045 | requiring legislative oversight over the emergency powers of the department of health and human services. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Tue 1/18 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill clarifies certain public health emergency management powers of the department of health and human services. |
| Of Interest | HB1345 | relative to the release of a teenager’s medical records to a parent or guardian. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Tue 1/18 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill provides for the release of a minor’s medical records to the parent or guardian unless the parent or guardian’s consent is not required for the medical treatment or the health care provider reasonably believes that there is possibility of abuse and release of the record may endanger the minor. |
| Support | HB1022 | permitting pharmacists to dispense the drug ivermectin by means of a standing order. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Tue 1/18 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill allows pharmacists to dispense invermectin pursuant to a standing order entered into by licensed health care providers. |
| Of Interest | HB1369 | relative to COVID-19 health and safety policies at New Hampshire performing arts venues. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Tue 1/18 | 2:45 PM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill provides that performing arts venues in New Hampshire have the authority to establish their own COVID health and safety policies. |
| Oppose | SB300 | relative to the state commission for human rights. | Judiciary | Tue 1/18 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill defines and includes the refusal of an experimental drug in the protections provided under the state commission for human rights. |
| Support | SB393 | relative to the use of restraints on pregnant women in the custody of a state or county correctional facility. | Judiciary | Tue 1/18 | 2:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes procedures for the use of restraints on pregnant women in county or state correctional custody. |
| Of Interest | SB431 | relative to child support in cases with equal or approximately equal parenting schedules. | Judiciary | Tue 1/18 | 2:15 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes methods for adjustment of child support for equal or approximately equal parenting residential responsibilities. |
| Oppose | SB294 | relative to the release of a defendant pending trial. | Judiciary | Tue 1/18 | 2:30 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill amends the statute governing bail and pre-trial release to include provisions for pre-trial detention for commission of certain offenses that would create a presumption that the defendant is a danger to the public. |
| Oppose | HB1615 | relative to driver education and the driver training fund. | Transportation | Tue 1/18 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill directs the department of safety to distribute $250 to approved driving schools for each pupil who completes the driver education program in the prior 3 months. |
| Support | HB1208 | relative to driver education. | Transportation | Tue 1/18 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill authorizes a waiver of the driver education requirement if a father, mother, guardian, or other responsible adult provides equivalent classroom instruction and behind the wheel training. |
| Oppose | SB378 | relative to the disposal of highway or turnpike funded real estate. | Transportation | Tue 1/18 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 101 | This bill creates an exception for the disposal of highway or turnpike funded real estate under fair market value for the preservation of public interest. |
| Of Interest | HB1110 | relative to windshield tint waivers. | Transportation | Tue 1/18 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill increases the required light transmittance of after market tinted windshields. |
| Of Interest | HB1469 | prohibiting banks or businesses from using social credit scores. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/19 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill prohibits banks and other financial institutions from engaging in discriminatory practices. |
| Support | HB1237 | relative to cigar bars. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/19 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill lowers the amount of revenue from cigars required of cigar bars for 2 years. |
| Of Interest | HB1591 | eliminating the enforcement division of the liquor commission. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/19 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill eliminates the enforcement division of the liquor commission. |
| Oppose | HB1523 | establishing a New Hampshire child care fund. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/19 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill establishes the New Hampshire child care fund and its operational requirements under the department of health and human services. |
| Of Interest | HB1589 | prohibiting the sale of products containing intentionally-added PFAS. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/19 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill prohibiting the sale of products containing intentionally-added PFAS. |
| Of Interest | HB1622 | relative to mental health parity. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/19 | 2:45 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill requires the insurance department to investigate whether certain insurance carrier conduct violates the federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act. The bill also requires that insurance reimbursement rates for behavioral health services be no less extensive than any other type of health care services provided to treat physical illness. |
| Of Interest | HB1027 | establishing the crime of undermining legislative process by false claim of emergency. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 1/19 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill establishes the crime of subversion of the legislative process-treason for any act to subvert the legislative process based on a false claim of emergency caused by COVID-19. |
| Oppose | HB1025 | relative to impeding, provoking, or harassing law enforcement officers. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 1/19 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill makes it a misdemeanor to impede, provoke, or harass a law enforcement officer. |
| Oppose | HB1117 | relative to the circumstances constituting criminal threatening. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 1/19 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill adds the intent to coerce or terrorize the people of one age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, creed, color, marital status, familial status, mental or physical disability, religion, or national origin to the criminal threatening statute. |
| Oppose | HB1011 | relative to the penalty for criminal mischief. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 1/19 | 11:15 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill increases the penalty for criminal mischief for destruction or vandalism of public property. |
| Oppose | HB1017 | establishing criminal penalties for harming or threatening to harm an essential worker. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 1/19 | 12:00 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill establishes criminal penalties for causing or threatening harm to an essential worker. |
| Of Interest | HB1423 | relative to campaign contributions and expenditures, and making an appropriation therefor. | Election Law | Wed 1/19 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill establishes a fund to provide campaign financing for eligible candidates for governor and councilor and makes an appropriation to the fund. Candidates qualify for financing by collecting a requisite number of qualifying contributions, limiting the size of private contributions, and complying with other provisions of the public financing law. The bill also establishes a voter-owned elections commission to administer the fund. |
| Of Interest | HB1542 | relative to documentation required to prove a voter’s eligibility to vote. | Election Law | Wed 1/19 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill requires voters to show certain documentation in order to cast a vote. |
| Of Interest | SB362 | relative to training as a certified service plumber. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 1/19 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill defines “certified service plumber” and directs the mechanical licensing board to adopt administrative rules regulating certified service plumbers. |
| Support | SB330 | relative to reciprocal licensing requirements for boards, commissions, and councils administered by the office of professional licensure and certification and establishing registration of paid feeding assistant programs. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 1/19 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill clarifies requirements for reciprocal licenses granted by the boards, commissions, and councils administered by the office of professional licensure and certification and establishes registration for paid feeding assistant programs. This bill is a request of the office of professional licensure and certification. |
| Oppose | SB230 | relative to the practice of body art. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 1/19 | 10:20 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill defines and regulates body art establishments. This bill is a request of the office of professional licensure and certification. |
| Support | SB286 | establishing an association health plan pilot program. | Health and Human Services | Wed 1/19 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill requires the insurance commissioner to establish a pilot program for association health plans. |
| Oppose | SB326 | establishing the office of early childhood. | Health and Human Services | Wed 1/19 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill establishes an office of early childhood to coordinate, consolidate, and integrate early childhood programs. |
| Support | HB1425 | relative to the taking of real property by eminent domain. | Judiciary | Wed 1/19 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill modifies the power of the governor and council to take private property during states of emergency and modifies the calculation of compensation paid for such takings. |
| Oppose | HB1291 | prohibiting discrimination against tenants holding certain vouchers for purposes of renting dwellings. | Judiciary | Wed 1/19 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill prohibits discrimination against tenants holding certain vouchers for purposes of renting dwellings. |
| Oppose | HB1544 | prohibiting the placement of construction and demolition debris in landfills. | Judiciary | Wed 1/19 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill prohibits the placement of construction and demolition debris in landfills and establishes fines for violations. |
| Oppose | HB1007 | relative to qualifications for office. | Legislative Administration | Wed 1/19 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill clarifies certain qualifications of elected officials. |
| Support | HB1033 | prohibiting recipients of state or local grants or appropriations from using such funds for lobbying. | Legislative Administration | Wed 1/19 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill prohibits the recipient of a grant or appropriation of county, municipal, school district, or village district funds from using such funds to engage in lobbying activities. |
| Oppose | HB1041 | 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 | Wed 1/19 | 10:00 AM | 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. |
| Oppose | HB1486 | relative to an income-based public assistance stipend for legislators. | Legislative Administration | Wed 1/19 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill directs the department of health and human services to determine eligibility for and administer a stipend provided to members of the general court where members receive such stipend from any program for public assistance. |
| Oppose | HB1656 | establishing a road usage registration fee and making an appropriation therefor. | Public Works and Highways | Wed 1/19 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill provides for an annual adjustment to motor vehicle registration fees to take into account gross vehicle weight and vehicle miles traveled, and directs the department of transportation to use part of the funds generated through vehicle registration for implementation of Type II noise abatement projects. |
| Of Interest | HB1585 | relative to removing the ramp tolls at exit 11 in Hooksett. | Public Works and Highways | Wed 1/19 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill eliminates the ramp tolls on the Everett turnpike in the town of Hooksett. |
| Oppose | HB1675 | establishing a surcharge collected through E-Z Pass for electric vehicles as an alternative road toll. | Public Works and Highways | Wed 1/19 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill establishes a surcharge collected through E-Z Pass for electric vehicles as an alternative road toll. The provisions are repealed in 2025. |
| Support | HB1555 | repealing the permit required for fires at campgrounds. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 1/19 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill removes the permit requirement for camp fires. |
| Of Interest | HB1167 | establishing a maximum contaminant level for perfluorinated chemicals in surface water. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 1/19 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill establishes maximum contaminant levels for perfluorinated chemicals in surface water. |
| Oppose | SB338 | enabling municipalities to adopt a municipal occupancy fee. | Ways and Means | Wed 1/19 | 9:30 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. |
| Of Interest | SB315 | directing that a portion of revenue distributions from the meals and rooms municipal revenue fund be used by municipalities to reduce the local property tax rate. | Ways and Means | Wed 1/19 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill requires that a portion of revenues distributed to municipalities from the meals and rooms municipal revenue fund, which exceed fiscal year 2021 amounts received, shall be used to reduce the local property tax rate. |
| Support | HB1349 | decriminalizing the possession and use of psilocybin mushrooms. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/20 | 9:00 AM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill decriminalizes the possession or use of a certain amount or psilocybin mushrooms by a person 18 years of age or older. |
| Of Interest | HB1598 | legalizing the possession and use of cannabis. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/20 | 9:30 AM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill legalizes the possession and use of cannabis for persons 21 years of age and older. |
| Support | CACR20 | relating to personal liberty. Providing that adults shall have the right to possess cannabis for personal consumption. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/20 | 2:00 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution establishes that right for all adults to possess cannabis for personal consumption. |
| Support | CACR34 | relating to the use, sale, or cultivation of cannabis. Providing that the state shall make no law prohibiting the use, sale, or cultivation of cannabis for persons over 18 years of age. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/20 | 2:30 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution prohibits the legislature from making laws that prohibit the use, sale, or cultivation of cannabis for adults. |
| Support | CACR35 | relating to cannabis. Providing that all adults have the right to possess, use, and cultivate cannabis, subject to regulation by the legislature. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/20 | 3:00 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution establishes the right for all adults to possess, use, and cultivate cannabis, subject to further regulation by the legislature. |
| Of Interest | HB1015 | relative to school district policies regarding objectionable material. | Education | Thu 1/20 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill revises the requirements for school district policies providing an alternative to specific course material based on a parent or legal guardian’s determination that the material is objectionable. |
| Of Interest | HB1051 | relative to state board of education rules for credit for alternative, extended learning, and work-based programs. | Education | Thu 1/20 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill revises rulemaking authority of the state board of education to adopt rules on alternative programs for granting credit to provide for alternative, extended learning, and work-based programs. |
| Of Interest | HB1113 | prohibiting the department of education and the state board of education from directing or limiting school instructional options, such as remote learning. | Education | Thu 1/20 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill prohibits the department of education and the state board of education from directing or limiting remote learning options. |
| Support | HB1434 | relative to the availability of school curriculum materials. | Education | Thu 1/20 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires that curriculum course materials taught to pupils in public schools and public academies be available to the public. |
| Of Interest | HB1567 | relative to the removal of election officials from office. | Election Law | Thu 1/20 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill provides that registered voters may remove certain election officials by bringing suit in superior court. |
| Of Interest | HB1457 | relative to chain of custody of ballot boxes after an election. | Election Law | Thu 1/20 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill requires that ballot boxes be sent to the secretary of state’s office for storage within 48 hours of an election. This bill also modifies the retention policy for such boxes. |
| Of Interest | HB1522 | requiring the use of ballots with embedded security and relative to chain of custody of absentee ballots. | Election Law | Thu 1/20 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill requires that elections are conducted using ballots with embedded security. The bill also specifies the chain of custody for ballots during and after an election. |
| Oppose | SB400 | relative to training and procedures for zoning and planning boards and relative to financial investments and incentives for affordable housing development. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Thu 1/20 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill makes changes to the training and procedures for zoning and planning boards offered by the office of planning and development. This bill creates incentives and establishes requirements for workforce housing and affordable housing development. The bill also revises the time frames for planning board consideration of applications, and establishes the New Hampshire housing champion certification program. |
| Of Interest | SB239 | relative to noncompliance with municipal audit requirements. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Thu 1/20 | 1:30 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill requires notification to the department of revenue administration of a completed municipal or county audit and establishes a fine for failure to complete a required audit. |
| Oppose | SB407 | relative to expanding Medicaid to include certain postpartum health care services and making an appropriation therefor. | Health and Human Services | Thu 1/20 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill directs the department of health and human services to submit a state plan amendment to expand postpartum coverage under Medicaid, establishes a quarterly reporting requirement, and makes an appropriation to the department for the purpose of funding the postpartum health care services. |
| Of Interest | SB444 | relative to childhood adverse experiences treatment and prevention. | Health and Human Services | Thu 1/20 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill directs the department of health and human services to establish a pilot program for young children who have experienced adverse childhood events and other emotional trauma and makes an appropriation to the department for this purpose. The bill also makes an appropriation to the department to develop and implement a plan to increase child parent psychotherapy services for young children who have experienced severe emotional trauma. |
| Support | HB1147 | relative to governmental records available upon request. | Judiciary | Thu 1/20 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill establishes the right to inspect and make copies of school curricula, reading lists, and student survey dates and questions. |
| Oppose | HB1408 | requiring the refund of residential tenancy application fees. | Judiciary | Thu 1/20 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill requires the refund of residential tenancy application fees when an applicant does not become a party to a signed rental agreement. |
| Support | HB1603 | defining certain school information as governmental records under the right to know law. | Judiciary | Thu 1/20 | 11:15 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill provides for the inclusion of certain records of schools and school administrative units under the right-to-know law, RSA 91-A. |
| Support | HB1021 | prohibiting regulation of religious land use based on the religious nature of the assembly or speech taking place on the land or in the structure. | Judiciary | Thu 1/20 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill prohibits the regulation of religious land use based on the religious nature of the assembly or speech taking place on the land or in the structure. |
| Of Interest | HB1519 | defining “religious belief” and protecting it from discrimination. | Judiciary | Thu 1/20 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill defines “religious belief” and protects it from discrimination. |
| Oppose | HB1053 | relative to the hourly rate paid to an employee for hours worked but not previously scheduled. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Thu 1/20 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill requires an employer to pay an hourly rate of time and a half for hours worked by an employee who is called in to work hours not previously scheduled. |
| Oppose | HB1385 | prohibiting the use of credit history in employment decisions. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Thu 1/20 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill prohibits an employer from using an employee’s or prospective employee’s credit history as a criterion for making certain employment decisions. |
| Oppose | HB1251 | prohibiting payment of subminimum wages. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Thu 1/20 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill prohibits the payment of subminimum wages to an employee. |
| Oppose | HB1094 | relative to employee work schedules and rest periods. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Thu 1/20 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill requires employers with 10 or more employees in this state or 2 or more locations in this state to schedule a rest period between certain employment shifts and provide employees with advance notice of the work schedule. |
| Support | HB1081 | relative to the dissolution of a village district. | Municipal and County Government | Thu 1/20 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill allows for the dissolution of a village district by a simple majority vote at an annual district meeting. |
| Support | HB1272 | limiting the authority of town health officers. | Municipal and County Government | Thu 1/20 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill limits the authority of local health officers in making bylaws or ordinances relating to public health matters. |
| Support | HB1411 | relative to transparency of federal agency operations within New Hampshire. | State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs | Thu 1/20 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill requires the attorney general to request information from federal agencies operating in New Hampshire and to compile and display such information on a website. |
| Of Interest | CACR32 | relating to independence. Providing that the state peaceably declares independence from the United States and proceeds as a sovereign nation. | State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs | Thu 1/20 | 3:30 PM | LOB Room 201-203 | This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution declares the state’s independence from the United States and moves New Hampshire forward as a sovereign nation. |
| Of Interest | HB1407 | including the promotion of affordable housing under the land and community heritage investment program. | Ways and Means | Thu 1/20 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill includes the promotion of affordable housing under the land and community heritage investment program and requires an annual transfer from the real estate transfer tax revenue to the land and community heritage investment program trust fund. |
| Oppose | HB1478 | relative to the business profits tax applicable to certain large, low-wage employers. | Ways and Means | Thu 1/20 | 11:15 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill increases the rate of the business profits tax applicable to business organizations with more than 100 employees who pay wages below a specified amount. |
| Support | HB1176 | relative to reducing the penalty for sex work within one’s own home. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 1/21 | 12:00 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill establishes a violation-level offense for engaging in sex work in one’s own home. |
| Support | HB1400 | prohibiting law enforcement from using the scent of marijuana as probable cause for a search. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 1/21 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill prohibits law enforcement from using the scent of marijuana as probable cause for a search. |
| Oppose | HB1283 | relative to liability as taxable income of education freedom account payments. | Education | Fri 1/21 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill repeals the statement that education freedom account funds shall not constitute taxable income to the parent of the education freedom account student. |
| Oppose | HB1114 | relative to education service providers under the education freedom account program. | Education | Fri 1/21 | 3:30 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires education freedom account program scholarship organizations to compile a directory of public profiles for education service providers. |
| Oppose | HB1653 | relative to educational and employment opportunities and protections for military families and their dependents. | State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs | Fri 1/21 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill: I. Establishes residency and enrollment rights and procedures for military-connected students. II. Provides for temporary occupational licensing for qualified military service members and their spouses. III. Provides for in-state tuition at any university system or community college system institution for military-connected students. |