- These are the most liberty-critical hearings for the week
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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. |