- These are the most liberty-critical hearings for the week
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Of the 118 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 17 and opposition of 22 with 17 being of interest.
Of the 70 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 2 and opposition of 2 with 7 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oppose | HB1680 | establishing a foundation opportunity budget program for funding public education. | Education | Mon 1/24 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill modifies the determination and funding for an opportunity for a constitutionally adequate education by establishing foundation opportunity budgets and state foundation opportunity grants. |
| Of Interest | SB246 | relative to qualified private communities. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Mon 1/24 | 1:45 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill defines and regulates “qualified private communities.” |
| Of Interest | SB425 | relative to the establishment of an election information portal. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Mon 1/24 | 2:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill authorizes the secretary of state to develop an election information portal. |
| Of Interest | CACR30 | officers of the government. Providing that the elected positions of inspectors general are created. | Executive Departments and Administration | Mon 1/24 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution establishes the positions of inspectors general to investigation elections fraud and fraud by elected officials, as well as allows an inspector general with probable cause to prosecute findings of fraud. |
| Of Interest | HB1294 | requiring the commission on demographic trends to consider data on race and ethnicity for the purpose of increasing racial and ethnic diversity in New Hampshire. | Executive Departments and Administration | Mon 1/24 | 2:15 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill requires the commission on demographic trends to consider data on race and ethnicity for the purpose of increasing racial and ethnic diversity in New Hampshire. |
| Of Interest | HB1439 | relative to hospital visitation policies. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Mon 1/24 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill allows, with limited exception, a patient to designate a parent, spouse, family member, or other caregiver to be present while the patient receives hospital care. |
| Support | HB1608 | requiring the department of health and human services to contact certain individuals whose information was included in the state immunization registry. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Mon 1/24 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill requires the department of health and human services to contact individuals who, pursuant to emergency order #76, were not given an opportunity to opt out of having COVID-19 vaccination information included in the state immunization registry. |
| Of Interest | HB1405 | allowing out-of-state mental health care providers to provide telehealth treatment during a mental health emergency. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Mon 1/24 | 2:15 PM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill allows out-of-state mental health care providers to provide telehealth treatment during a mental health emergency and requires insurance coverage for out-of-state mental health services provided through telemedicine. |
| Of Interest | HB1518 | relative to the requirements for appointed guardians. | Children and Family Law | Tue 1/25 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill establishes the requirement for guardians appointed by the court to receive a home visit within 30 days of their appointment to verify the safety and adequacy of the home for the minor and the consequences for failing to do so. |
| Of Interest | HB1431 | establishing the parental bill of rights. | Children and Family Law | Tue 1/25 | 2:15 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill establishes a parental bill of rights, a framework for notice of, and to report violations of, such rights, and consequences for affirmative findings of violations. |
| Of Interest | SB217 | relative to eviction notices. | Commerce | Tue 1/25 | 9:15 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill modifies the circumstances under which a landlord may evict a tenant and modifies the requirements relating to eviction notices. |
| Support | SB249 | prohibiting planning and zoning ordinances that prohibit short-term rentals. | Commerce | Tue 1/25 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill prohibits municipalities from adopting ordinances that ban short-term rentals. This bill also allows municipalities to adopt ordinances requiring the owner of a short-term rental to register the name of a person in state who can receive service of process. |
| Oppose | HB1660 | relative to school lunches and establishing the meals for students fund. | Education | Tue 1/25 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires schools to make free or reduced cost breakfast and lunch available to children who meet federal eligibility guidelines and provides for reimbursement to schools for offering meals at no cost to eligible students. The requirement is repealed in 2025. |
| Of Interest | SB238 | relative to special education services in chartered public schools. | Education | Tue 1/25 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill requires chartered public schools to enter into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with a resident district of a student with disabilities who is attending the chartered public school concerning special education services. |
| Oppose | SB426 | relative to the adequate education grants for fiscal year 2023. | Education | Tue 1/25 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill requires the commissioner of education to use highest of the average daily membership in residence for school years 2020, 2021, and 2022 in calculating adequate education grants for fiscal year 2023. |
| Of Interest | SB261 | relative to net metering participation. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 1/25 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill clarifies provisions relative to net energy metering participation and allows customer-generators to receive a payment for negative net energy usage during the subsequent billing cycle in an amount equivalent to certain credits. |
| Of Interest | SB269 | relative to the New Hampshire weatherization program. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 1/25 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill reduces the contractor pre-qualifications for contracts pertaining to the New Hampshire weatherization assistance program and calls for the weatherization of re-purposed buildings such as mill buildings. |
| Support | HB1187 | relative to milk pasteurization. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 1/25 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill allows for the sale of products made with raw milk in certain circumstances. |
| Support | HB1412 | relative to gardening, homesteading, and organic food production. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 1/25 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill provides that any person may cultivate vegetable gardens on their own property, or on the private property of another with the permission of the owner. This bill also adds a deduction from business profits and a credit against the business profits tax paid in the amount of the USDA Organic Certification fee. |
| Oppose | HB1587 | relative to determination of average final compensation under the retirement system and making an appropriation therefor. | Executive Departments and Administration | Tue 1/25 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill modifies the calculation of compensation paid in excess of the full base rate of compensation under the definition of average final compensation in the retirement system for persons hired after July 1, 2011. The actuarial cost of the change is funded from general funds of the current biennium. |
| Of Interest | SB387 | making an appropriation to the body-worn and dashboard camera fund. | Finance | Tue 1/25 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill makes an appropriation to the body-worn and dashboard camera fund and establishes a distribution process. |
| Of Interest | HB1662 | related to privacy obligations of the department of health and human services. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Tue 1/25 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill establishes a data privacy and information technology security governance board within the department of health and human services to oversee data privacy risk calculation and risk mitigation efforts, as well as provides for 2 employees within the department to accomplish these objectives. |
| Support | HB1619 | relative to qualifying conditions for the therapeutic cannabis program. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Tue 1/25 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill adds moderate to severe chronic migraine headaches to the qualifying conditions for the therapeutic cannabis program. |
| Support | HB1455 | relative to state enforcement of federal vaccination mandates. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Tue 1/25 | 3:30 PM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill prohibits state enforcement of any federal law, order, or rule that requires an individual, as a condition of employment or any other activity, to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19 or to submit more than once per month to COVID-19 testing. |
| Oppose | SB344 | relative to the quorum requirements under the right to know law of meetings open to the public. | Judiciary | Tue 1/25 | 2:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill removes the physical presence quorum requirement for meetings under RSA 91-A. |
| Oppose | HB1250 | requiring the public utilities commission to consider climate change in making rate-setting decisions. | Science, Technology and Energy | Tue 1/25 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill requires the public utilities commission to consider climate change when setting rates, fees, or charges. |
| Of Interest | HB1024 | relative to local speed limits in business or urban residence districts. | Transportation | Tue 1/25 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill lowers the possible speed limit for local alterations for speeds limits in business or urban residence districts. |
| Support | HB1138 | exempting the display of a front license plate on certain vehicles. | Transportation | Tue 1/25 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill allows for an application and payment of a fee to exempt the display of a front license plate on certain vehicles. |
| Support | HB1150 | relative to temporary license plates. | Transportation | Tue 1/25 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill permits any New Hampshire resident who purchases a motor vehicle from another individual to display an existing valid New Hampshire license plate registered in their name for a period of 5 days from the date of sale. |
| Oppose | SB449 | relative to the retention of social security numbers by the division of motor vehicles. | Transportation | Tue 1/25 | 1:40 PM | LOB Room 101 | This bill gives an applicant for a driver’s license the opportunity to determine whether to have his or her complete social security number, or only the last 5 digits, retained in the records of the department of safety. This bill also permits the department to transmit the last 4 digits of an individual’s social security number to the department of state for voter identification purposes. |
| Support | HB1445 | relative to the identification of police vehicles. | Transportation | Tue 1/25 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill requires certain law enforcement vehicles to display the agency name, law enforcement license plates, and emergency lights when being used for a valid law enforcement function. |
| Support | HB1636 | relative to prohibitions on carrying a loaded firearm on an OHRV or snowmobile. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 1/26 | 9:00 AM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill creates an exception to the prohibition on carrying a loaded firearm on an OHRV or snowmobile for any person carrying a pistol or revolver who is not prohibited from possessing a firearm by a New Hampshire statute. |
| Oppose | HB1668 | requiring a background check prior to any commercial firearm sale. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 1/26 | 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 | HB1310 | prohibiting the discharge of a firearm in the direction of a building, livestock, or pets. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 1/26 | 10:30 AM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill prohibits the discharge of a firearm in the direction of a building, livestock, or pets that are within eyesight of the person discharging the firearm while hunting. |
| Support | HB1178 | prohibiting 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. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 1/26 | 11:30 AM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill prohibits the state of New Hampshire, a political subdivision of this state, or any person acting under the color of state, county, or municipal law from using any personnel or financial resources to enforce, administer, or cooperate with any law, act, rule, order, or regulation of the United States Government or Executive Order of the President of the United States that is inconsistent with any law of this state regarding the regulation of firearms, ammunition, magazines or the ammunition feeding devices, firearm components, firearms supplies, or knives. |
| Oppose | HB1151 | prohibiting the display of a deadly weapon at a parade, funeral procession, picket line, march, rally, vigil, or demonstration. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 1/26 | 1:30 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill prohibits the open carry or display of a firearm at a parade funeral procession, picket line, march, rally, vigil, demonstration, or other similar event. |
| Oppose | HB1096 | prohibiting open carrying or display of a deadly weapon within 100 feet of a polling place. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 1/26 | 2:15 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill prohibits the open carrying or display of a deadly weapon within 100 feet of a polling place. |
| Support | HB1281 | relative to access to firearms confiscated from a person who is subject to a protective order. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 1/26 | 3:15 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill authorizes a person other than a peace officer to store or dispose of weapons for a person subject to a protective order requiring them to relinquish such weapons. |
| Support | HB1132 | relative to applications for a charter conversion school. | Education | Wed 1/26 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill removes certain vote requirements for conversion of a public school to a chartered public school and adds the requirement for a majority vote of the school district at a regular annual meeting or special meeting. |
| Oppose | SB403 | re-establishing the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Farmers Market Nutrition Program. | Health and Human Services | Wed 1/26 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill re-establishes the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Farmers Market Nutrition Program. |
| Oppose | SB404 | establishing a supplemental nutrition assistance program. | Health and Human Services | Wed 1/26 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill establishes a supplemental nutrition assistance program outreach program. |
| Oppose | SB414 | relative to respite care services for persons caring for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders, and making an appropriation therefor. | Health and Human Services | Wed 1/26 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill revises the definition of ADRD, Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders, and makes a $1 appropriation to the department of health and human services for respite care services for persons caring for individuals with ADRD. |
| Oppose | HB1260 | making immunization status a protected class. | Judiciary | Wed 1/26 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill makes immunization status a protected class. |
| Oppose | HB1490 | relative to equal access to places of public accommodation regardless of vaccination status. | Judiciary | Wed 1/26 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill provides that an individual shall not be denied access to places of public accommodation based on vaccination status or the decision not to use a medical device. |
| Oppose | HB1316 | directing the director of the state police to develop requirements for eFoil and electric hydrofoil surfboard watercraft. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 1/26 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill directs the director of the state police to make rules relative to safety requirements for eFoil and electric hydrofoil surfboard watercraft. |
| Oppose | HB1641 | relative to vessel registration fees. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 1/26 | 11:15 AM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill changes the way vessel registration fees are computed. |
| Of Interest | HB1227 | relative to the definition of prime wetland. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 1/26 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill further defines prime wetland for local protection in fill and dredge permits. |
| Oppose | HB1498 | establishing a safety program for off highway recreational vehicles and snowmobiles. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 1/26 | 2:45 PM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill implements a safety training program for OHRV and snowmobile operation. |
| Of Interest | HB1440 | relative to surface water quality standards for perfluorinated chemicals. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 1/26 | 3:30 PM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill requires the department of environmental services to make rules about perfluorinated chemical limits in surface waters. |
| Oppose | SB441 | relative to the municipal share of fines for motor vehicle speeding offenses. | Ways and Means | Wed 1/26 | 9:15 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill provides for municipalities to receive a portion of fines collected for motor vehicle offenses. |
| Oppose | SB428 | 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 | Thu 1/27 | 1:30 PM | 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 | SB451 | establishing a New Hampshire innovation program in the department of business and economic affairs and making an annual appropriation therefor. | Commerce | Thu 1/27 | 1:45 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes the New Hampshire innovation program and the New Hampshire innovation fund in the department of business and economic affairs. The purpose of the program is to increase funding for research and development intensive start-up companies located in New Hampshire. The bill also makes an annual appropriation of $5,000,000 to the fund. |
| Support | HB1613 | establishing a limited farmers liquor manufacturer license. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Thu 1/27 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill establishes a limited farmers liquor manufacturer license. |
| Support | HB1556 | relative to on-premise and off-premise sales at a beverage manufacturer’s facility. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Thu 1/27 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill allows consumers purchasing beverage samples to drink to also purchase beverages for consumption off premise at the same point of sale in the licensee’s facility. |
| Of Interest | HB1595 | relative to establishing a statewide food truck license. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Thu 1/27 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill establishes a statewide food truck license. |
| Oppose | HB1131 | relative to facial covering policies for schools. | Education | Thu 1/27 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill prohibits school boards and accredited nonpublic schools from adopting, enforcing, or implementing a policy that requires students or members of the public to wear a facial covering. |
| Support | HB1371 | relative to school district policies on facial masks of students in schools. | Education | Thu 1/27 | 11:15 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires school districts to adopt a policy leaving facial mask use to parents of students and not tolerating bullying, harassment, or discrimination. |
| Of Interest | HB1373 | relative to the best interest of the student for a change of school or assignment. | Education | Thu 1/27 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill allows for the consideration of parental concerns in the request for a change of school or assignment of a student. |
| Of Interest | HB1672 | relative to misuse of education freedom account funds. | Education | Thu 1/27 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires the transfer of funds from terminated education freedom accounts to the education trust fund, requires investigation of and ineligibility for misuse of funds, and requires the department of education adopt the rules on policies and procedures for administration of the program. |
| Of Interest | HB1679 | relative to the dissolution and repeal of cooperative school districts. | Education | Thu 1/27 | 2:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires cooperative school districts to review and adopt dissolution plans prior to January 1, 2024, and repeals authority for all cooperative school districts on June 30, 2025. |
| Oppose | SB446 | establishing a child care workforce fund and grant program and making an appropriation therefor. | Health and Human Services | Thu 1/27 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill establishes a child care workforce fund to provide grants to eligible child care programs for child care workforce recruitment and retention bonuses and benefits. The bill makes an appropriation to the fund for the purpose of establishing and administering the grant program. |
| Of Interest | HB1597 | permitting arraignments for felonies and preliminary examinations to be heard in circuit court. | Judiciary | Thu 1/27 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill permits arraignments for felonies and preliminary examinations to be heard in circuit court. |
| Oppose | HB1014 | allowing public meetings to be conducted virtually. | Judiciary | Thu 1/27 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill establishes requirements for remote access to public meetings under RSA 91-A, the right-to-know law. |
| Oppose | HB1088 | relative to employee protections from COVID-19 in the workplace. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Thu 1/27 | 10:30 AM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill establishes COVID-19 related workplace rights for employees. |
| Oppose | HB1210 | relative to exemptions from vaccine mandates. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Thu 1/27 | 11:15 AM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill directs a private employer, postsecondary institution, or clinical site for educational programs to accept requests from employees or students for exemptions from vaccine mandates. The bill also prohibits an employer from requiring any medical treatment that has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration only for emergency or experimental use. |
| Of Interest | HB1351 | prohibiting certain employers from requiring a COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Thu 1/27 | 11:45 AM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill prohibits an employer from requiring an employee to receive the COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment. |
| Oppose | HB1352 | relative to eligibility for workers’ compensation for an adverse reaction to a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Thu 1/27 | 1:00 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill provides that an adverse reaction to an employer-mandated COVID-19 vaccination shall be deemed to be an occupational disease for the purpose of determining eligibility for workers’ compensation. |
| Oppose | HB1358 | requiring public and private employers to establish procedures and exceptions for the use of mandatory intrusive testing as a condition of new or continued employment. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Thu 1/27 | 1:45 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill requires any public or private employer in the state to allow an employee an exemption from intrusive testing requirements. |
| Of Interest | HB1377 | relative to unemployment benefits for employees terminated for refusing to comply with a vaccine mandate. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Thu 1/27 | 2:30 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill establishes rights for employees for noncompliance with an employer-required vaccination mandate. |
| Oppose | HB1538 | requiring prevailing wages on state-funded public works projects. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Thu 1/27 | 3:30 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill requires certain workers employed in the construction of public works in the state of New Hampshire to be paid the prevailing minimum hourly wage and benefits. |
| Oppose | HB1656 | establishing a road usage registration fee and making an appropriation therefor. | Public Works and Highways | Thu 1/27 | 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. |
| Support | HB1468 | relative to the legalization of cannabis. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 1/28 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill legalizes the possession and use of cannabis for persons 18 years of age or older. |
| Support | HB1175 | relative to recording interactions with public officials. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 1/28 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill allows for a person to record interactions with public officials during the performance of their duties. |
| Oppose | HB1433 | relative to penalties for poisoning dogs. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 1/28 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill includes poisoning as a type of cruelty to animals and makes it a felony to purposely poison an animal. |