- These are the most liberty-critical hearings for the week
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Of the 100 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 4 and opposition of 6 with 12 being of interest.
Of the 73 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 18 and opposition of 18 with 11 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Of Interest | HB1457 | relative to chain of custody of ballot boxes after an election. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Mon 4/4 | 1:45 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill modifies the retention policy for ballot boxes. |
| Of Interest | SB326 | (New Title) relative to developing a plan to create the office of early childhood. | Children and Family Law | Tue 4/5 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill directs the commissioner of the department of health and human services, in consultation with the commissioners of the departments of education and administrative services, the office of the child advocate, and the council for thriving children, to develop a plan to create an office of early childhood. |
| Support | HB314 | relative to homestead food operation licensure. | Commerce | Tue 4/5 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill makes an adjustment to the maximum annual gross sales of food by a homestead food operation. |
| Support | HB1282 | relative to the records of communication common carriers. | Commerce | Tue 4/5 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill prohibits a communications common carrier from releasing customer information to a government entity unless requested pursuant to a valid search warrant or an exception to the warrant requirement. |
| Support | HB1089 | (New Title) relative to the unenforceability of noncompete agreements upon termination of an employee for noncompliance with a medical intervention mandate. | Commerce | Tue 4/5 | 9:40 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill provides that a noncompete agreement between an employer and an employee who is terminated for refusing to comply with an employer-mandated medical intervention shall be unenforceable against such employee. |
| Of Interest | HB1367 | relative to civics instruction in schools. | Education | Tue 4/5 | 9:20 AM | LOB Room 101 | 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 | HB1263 | (New Title) relative to prescribed studies on health, physical education, wellness, and personal finance literacy in schools. | Education | Tue 4/5 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill provides for prescribed studies in schools in health, physical education, and wellness, as well as on personal finance literacy. |
| Support | HB1663 | relative to requirements for home education students. | Education | Tue 4/5 | 9:40 AM | LOB Room 101 | The bill clarifies provisions for home education programs concerning notifications required for students moving to a new district, educational evaluations, and termination of home education. |
| Support | HB1187 | relative to milk pasteurization. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 4/5 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill allows for the sale of products made with raw milk in certain circumstances. |
| Of Interest | SB223 | relative to requirements for recovery houses. | Executive Departments and Administration | Tue 4/5 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill modifies the requirements for facility bedroom square-footage in order for recovery houses to be exempted from certain requirements of the state fire code by the state fire marshal. |
| Of Interest | SB397 | (New Title) relative to the mental health counseling compact and the interstate compact for the placement of children. | Executive Departments and Administration | Tue 4/5 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill adopts the mental health counseling compact as well as the 2009 edition of the interstate compact for the placement of children. |
| Of Interest | SB313 | (New Title) relative to the authority of the office of professional licensure and certification to establish fees and establishing a committee to study and make recommendations relative to funding of the office of professional licensure and certification. | Executive Departments and Administration | Tue 4/5 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill clarifies that the executive director of the office of professional licensure and certification has authority to establish fees on behalf of the boards, commissions, and councils administered by the office of professional licensure and certification. The bill also establishes a committee to study and make recommendations relative to the funding of the office of professional licensure and certification. |
| Oppose | SB422 | establishing an adult dental benefit under the state Medicaid program. | Finance | Tue 4/5 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill requires the commissioner of the department of health and human services to solicit information and to contract with dental managed care organizations to provide dental care to persons under the Medicaid managed care program. The bill also appropriates the settlement funds received by the state from its settlement with the Centene Corporation to the department of health and human services for the purpose of funding the non-federal share of the adult dental benefit program and to complete the Medicaid Care Management SFY 20 Risk Corridor calculation. |
| Oppose | SB404 | establishing a supplemental nutrition assistance program. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Tue 4/5 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill establishes a supplemental nutrition assistance program outreach program. |
| Of Interest | HB1518 | relative to the requirements for appointed guardians. | Judiciary | Tue 4/5 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes the requirement for guardians appointed by the court to receive a home visit within 60 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. | Judiciary | Tue 4/5 | 1:15 PM | SH Room 100 | 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. |
| Support | HB1592 | allowing parties in family court cases to create their own recordings of the proceedings. | Judiciary | Tue 4/5 | 1:30 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill permits parties in family court to create their own recordings of the proceedings under certain conditions. |
| Of Interest | HB1612 | (New Title) relative to the confidentiality of reports made to the division for children, youth, and families. | Judiciary | Tue 4/5 | 1:45 PM | SH Room 100 | 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. |
| Of Interest | HB1614 | requiring the recording and storing of digital video in all state-funded juvenile detention facilities. | Judiciary | Tue 4/5 | 2:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill mandates digital video recording of juvenile detention facilities paid for, in whole or in part, with general funds, as well as establishes the system requirements for such digital videos. |
| Support | HB1425 | relative to the taking of real property by eminent domain. | Judiciary | Tue 4/5 | 2:15 PM | SH Room 100 | 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. |
| Support | HB1296 | (New Title) relative to the forfeiture of items used in connection with a drug offense. | Judiciary | Tue 4/5 | 2:30 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes a procedure for the forfeiture of items used in connection with a drug offense. |
| Support | HB1000 | prohibiting motorcycle profiling. | Transportation | Tue 4/5 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 101 | This bill prohibits law enforcement agencies from engaging in motorcycle profiling. |
| Support | SB435 | relative to the net operating loss carryover under the business profits tax. | Ways and Means | Tue 4/5 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill modifies the calculation of net operating loss carryover for determining taxable business profits under the business profits tax. |
| Of Interest | SB293 | (New Title) establishing a committee to clarify the intent of RSA 644:9 relative to violation of privacy. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 4/6 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill establishes a committee to clarify the intent of RSA 644:9 relative to violation of privacy. |
| Support | SB393 | relative to the use of restraints on pregnant women in the custody of a state or county correctional facility. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 4/6 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill establishes procedures for the use of restraints on pregnant women in county or state correctional custody. |
| Oppose | SB294 | relative to the release of a defendant pending trial. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 4/6 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | 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. |
| Of Interest | SB352 | relative to substitute teacher criminal history records check. | Education | Wed 4/6 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill permits substitute teachers who have undergone a criminal records check to work within the same school administrative unit without undergoing an additional records check. |
| Of Interest | HB1530 | (New Title) establishing curricular transfer pathways between the community college system of New Hampshire and the university system of New Hampshire. | Education | Wed 4/6 | 1:10 PM | LOB Room 101 | This bill allows community college students who wish to earn baccalaureate degrees in the state’s public higher education system to pursue curricular transfer pathways to a degree. |
| Oppose | HB1594 | relative to assistance to certain students with disabilities in registering to vote. | Education | Wed 4/6 | 1:20 PM | LOB Room 101 | This bill provides for students with an individualized education program or accommodations under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to discuss including voter registration in the student’s plan. |
| Of Interest | SB410 | (New Title) relative to public comment periods at school district meetings and meetings of the state board of education. | Education | Wed 4/6 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires public comment periods at school board meetings and meetings of the state board of education. |
| Of Interest | SB328 | relative to the date of the state primary election. | Election Law | Wed 4/6 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill changes the date of the state primary election to the first Tuesday in August |
| Of Interest | SB364 | relative to the use of electronic poll books. | Election Law | Wed 4/6 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill extends the time requirement for markup of a backup checklist in the use of electronic poll books. |
| Of Interest | SB366 | requiring an audit of ballots cast in the 2022 primary and general election. | Election Law | Wed 4/6 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill requires an audit of ballots cast in the 2022 state primary and general elections, provided that the secretary of state may forego the general election audit. |
| Support | HB275 | (New Title) relative to the declaration of a state of emergency. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 4/6 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill revises the authority of the governor and general court to declare, renew, or terminate a state of emergency. |
| Of Interest | HB1345 | relative to the release of a teenager’s medical records to a parent or guardian. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/6 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 100 | 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 | HB1487 | relative to the procedure for withdrawal from the vaccine registry. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/6 | 9:40 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill provides that an individual’s request to withdraw from the state immunization registry shall be signed by a current or former health care provider or notarized by an authorized government official. |
| Support | HB1466 | relative to the off-label use of prescription drugs and relative to pharmacy prescriptions. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/6 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill clarifies circumstances under which a physician, physician assistant, and advanced practice registered nurse may prescribe a drug for an off-label indication. The bill also prohibits disciplinary action against a pharmacist for filling a valid prescription for off-label use. |
| Of Interest | HB1439 | relative to hospital visitation policies. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/6 | 10:40 AM | SH Room 100 | 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 | HB1241 | prohibiting a school district from mandating a COVID-19 vaccination for school attendance. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/6 | 11:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill prohibits school districts from mandating that students have a COVID-19 vaccination in order to attend school. |
| Support | HB1495 | (New Title) prohibiting the state from requiring businesses to require vaccine or documentation related to vaccination or immunity status. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/6 | 11:20 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill prohibits the state of New Hampshire and its political subdivisions from requiring any business to require vaccination or documentation of vaccination or immunity, except for state agencies certifying a medical facility or provider which is subject to a Medicare or Medicaid vaccination requirement or under RSA 141-C:20-a, I. |
| Support | HB1035 | relative to exemptions from school vaccine mandates. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/6 | 11:40 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill removes the requirement that a parent’s request for a religious exemption to immunizations required for school attendance be notarized. |
| Support | HB1606 | making the state vaccine registry an opt-in program. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/6 | 12:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill makes the state immunization registry an opt-in program rather than an opt-out program. |
| Support | SB301 | relative to the procedure for violations under the right to know law. | Judiciary | Wed 4/6 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill establishes a procedure on filing complaints under RSA 91-A with the superior court for further relief and investigation. |
| Of Interest | SB217 | relative to eviction notices. | Judiciary | Wed 4/6 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill modifies the circumstances under which a landlord may evict a tenant and modifies the requirements relating to eviction notices. |
| Oppose | SB378 | relative to the disposal of highway or turnpike funded real estate. | Public Works and Highways | Wed 4/6 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 201-203 | 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. |
| Support | HB1221 | (New Title) relative to the rate of the business profits tax. | Ways and Means | Wed 4/6 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill reduces the rate of the business profits tax for tax years ending on or after December 31, 2023. The bill also suspends the levy and collection of the 22.2 cent road toll from May 1 to June 30, 2022.17Mar2022… 0471h2022 SESSION 22-2291 10/05HOUSE BILL 1221-FNAN ACT relative to the rate of the business profits tax.SPONSORS: Rep. Notter, Hills. 21; Rep. Turcotte, Straf. 4; Rep. Osborne, Rock. 4; Rep. Abramson, Rock. 37; Rep. Mooney, Hills. 21; Rep. Hobson, Rock. 35; Rep. Potucek, Rock. 6; Rep. Healey, Hills. 21COMMITTEE: Ways and Means—————————————————————– This bill reduces the rate of the business profits tax for tax years ending on or after December 31, 2023. |
| Support | HB629 | relative to the home cultivation of cannabis plants and the possession of certain cannabis-infused products. | Judiciary | Thu 4/7 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 100 | 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. |
| Of Interest | HB1325 | relative to release of confidential records of a person appointed a guardian. | Judiciary | Thu 4/7 | 1:15 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill provides that a person appointed a guardian shall retain the right to access and consent to the release of his or her confidential records unless the terms of the appointment provide otherwise. The bill also provides that the guardian shall provide records to the ward so that the ward may pursue a termination of guardianship request unless the court determines release of such records would be harmful to the ward. |
| Of Interest | SB239 | relative to noncompliance with municipal audit requirements. | Municipal and County Government | Thu 4/7 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | 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. |
| Support | SB249 | prohibiting planning and zoning ordinances that prohibit short-term rentals. | Municipal and County Government | Thu 4/7 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | 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 | SB273 | relative to broadband infrastructure funding. | Municipal and County Government | Thu 4/7 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill permits all towns to authorize broadband infrastructure bonds at special meetings without court approval. |
| Oppose | SB400 | relative to training and procedures for zoning and planning boards and relative to financial investments and incentives for affordable housing development. | Municipal and County Government | Thu 4/7 | 4:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | 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. |