- These are the most liberty-critical hearings for the week
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Of the 156 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 34 and opposition of 29 with 6 being of interest.
Of the 19 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 1 and opposition of 1 with 1 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Of Interest | HB204 | relative to criteria for reporting child support delinquencies to federal agencies. | Children and Family Law | Tue 1/21 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill requires the department of health and human services to ensure that the automated system of reporting child support delinquencies meets, but does not exceed, federal guidelines. The bill also directs the department to provide the amount of the arrearage to the requesting agency. |
| Of Interest | HB243 | relative to the penalty for false reports of suspected abuse and neglect made to the division for children, youth, and families. | Children and Family Law | Tue 1/21 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill provides that reports of suspected abuse and neglect may include the name of the person making the report and that a report made maliciously or with the intent to cause harm may be subject to civil and criminal penalties. The bill also provides that a person who in their professional capacity is a mandatory reporter of suspected abuse and neglect may be subject to civil liability for the failure to report. |
| Support | SB34 | relative to parental consent for student participation in Medicaid to schools program. | Education | Tue 1/21 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill requires schools to obtain parental consent for each new service that is provided to a student under the Medicaid to schools program. The bill also requires certain legislative policy committees to receive reports regarding the Medicaid to schools program. |
| Oppose | HB366 | relative to school building aid for eligible projects. | Education Funding | Tue 1/21 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill increases the amount to be appropriated by the legislature for school building aid construction and renovation projects of school districts. The bill also allocates a portion of funds to be paid for school building projects approved in prior years but which were not funded. |
| Support | HB510 | relative to establishing certain due process rights for students, student organizations, and faculty members facing disciplinary actions by state institutions of higher learning. | Education Funding | Tue 1/21 | 11:15 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill establishes for students, student organizations, and faculty members of publicly funded New Hampshire colleges and universities the right to certain due process protections when disciplinary proceedings are brought against them by such institutions, and addresses the provisions’ applicability to collective bargaining agreements. |
| Oppose | HB550 | modifying the base cost of an adequate education. | Education Funding | Tue 1/21 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill increases the base cost of an adequate education and expands the definition of an adequate education. |
| Oppose | HB215 | requiring a landfill permit applicant to submit a report listing potential harms and benefits of the project. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 1/21 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill requires a landfill permit applicant to submit a report listing potential harms and benefits of the project and requires the department of environmental services to make a determination that the landfill is a net public benefit. |
| Support | HB240 | removing the penalty of forfeiture for non-payment of dog licenses. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 1/21 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill removes the penalty of forfeiture for non-payment of dog licenses. |
| Support | HB60 | relative to the termination of tenancy at the expiration of the tenancy or lease term. | Housing | Tue 1/21 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 305 | This bill adds the expiration of the term of the lease or tenancy if over 6 months as grounds for an eviction. |
| Oppose | HB351 | requiring landlords to give tenants of at-will tenancies at least 60-days notice to evict. | Housing | Tue 1/21 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 305 | This bill requires landlords to give tenants of at-will tenancies at least 60-days notice to evict. |
| Oppose | HB65 | directing landlords to offer tenants the option of reporting rental payments to consumer reporting agencies. | Housing | Tue 1/21 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 305 | This bill provides tenants an option to have rental payments to their landlords reported to nationwide consumer reporting agencies. |
| Oppose | HB309 | relative to making electronic rent payments optional. | Housing | Tue 1/21 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 305 | This bill prohibits landlords from requiring a tenant or prospective tenant to pay by electronic funds transfers. |
| Support | HB296 | relative to issuing building permits along private roads. | Housing | Tue 1/21 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 305 | This bill adds an alternative condition and provides another pathway to authorization for local governing bodies to erect buildings along private roads. |
| Support | HB342 | relative to the approval process for new construction. | Housing | Tue 1/21 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 305 | This bill allows property owners to build on their property without seeking a variance for minimum lot size or lot coverage if the proposed building density conforms to that of the surrounding neighborhood, as verified by the local planning board. |
| Oppose | HB444 | relative to a tenant’s right to notification prior to the sale of a multi-family home. | Housing | Tue 1/21 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 305 | This bill requires the owner of restricted multi-family residential property to provide tenants with notice of sale of the property and an opportunity to make an offer to purchase the property. |
| Oppose | HB69 | requiring businesses to use the federal E-Verify system of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Tue 1/21 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 307 | This bill requires employers to verify employment eligibility through the federal E-Verify system. |
| Oppose | HB225 | relative to the employment of military spouses in the event of involuntary deployment of service member. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Tue 1/21 | 3:15 PM | LOB Room 307 | This bill provides employment protections to the spouses of military service members who are involuntarily mobilized in support of war, national emergency, or contingency operations. |
| Oppose | HB526 | establishing a climate change and damage division in the department of environmental services. | Science, Technology and Energy | Tue 1/21 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill establishes a climate change and damage division within the department of environmental services, establishes a director of the division, and enumerates the duties thereof. |
| Oppose | HB182 | prohibiting electric vehicles in commercial parking garages. | Transportation | Tue 1/21 | 10:40 AM | LOB Room 203 | This bill prohibits parking an electric vehicle in a commercial parking garage. |
| Oppose | HB287 | requiring police departments to provide fire departments with certain motorist personal and insurance information following a motor vehicle incident. | Transportation | Tue 1/21 | 2:20 PM | LOB Room 203 | This bill requires police departments to provide fire departments with certain motorist personal and insurance information following a motor vehicle accident. |
| Oppose | HB326 | prohibiting the operation of antique passenger vehicles, model year 1968 or older, on state or local highways for more than 20 miles unless the vehicle is fitted or retrofitted with seat or safety belts. | Transportation | Tue 1/21 | 3:15 PM | LOB Room 203 | This bill requires drivers and passengers of antique vehicles with model years of 1968 or older to wear seat or safety belts unless participating in a parade or traveling off-road. |
| Oppose | HB83 | increasing the minimum age for sports betting. | Ways and Means | Tue 1/21 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill raises the minimum age for sports betting. |
| Oppose | HB257 | establishing the crime of criminal neglect of a child. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 1/22 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill establishes the crime of criminal neglect of a child and provides penalties for committing the offense. |
| Support | HB446 | relative to parental notice for non-academic surveys in public schools. | Education Policy and Administration | Wed 1/22 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires school districts to email parents copies of non-academic surveys in public schools. |
| Support | HB428 | prohibiting municipal amendments to the state building code. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 1/22 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill prohibits local legislative bodies from making any new changes to the state building codes. |
| Of Interest | HB244 | updating and recodifying the municipal enforcement of the building and fire code. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 1/22 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill reorganizes the state building and fire code by repealing it from certain parts of the RSA and reenacting it with some modifications to another part of the RSA. This bill makes some grammar and spelling corrections. |
| Oppose | HB96 | requiring New Hampshire builders to use the 2021 Energy Building codes or a similar code that achieves equivalent or greater energy savings. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 1/22 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill updates the definition of the state building code to include a more recent version of the international energy conservation code or similar code that achieves equivalent or greater energy savings. |
| Oppose | SB47 | requiring certain health insurance policies of a birth mother to provide coverage for a newly born child from the moment of birth. | Health and Human Services | Wed 1/22 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill makes a birth mother’s health insurance policy the primary policy for a newborn child’s health care unless the mother has no insurance or coverage under an employer-sponsored health plan. This bill is at the request of the insurance department. |
| Support | HB51 | relative to hemp-derived cannabinoids and the definition of cannabis in therapeutic cannabis. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 1/22 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 201 | This bill: I. Eliminates “seeds” from the definition of “cannabis” concerning therapeutic cannabis. II. Permits alternative treatment centers to purchase non-intoxicating hemp cannabinoids for use in products. |
| Support | HB53 | permitting qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 1/22 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 201 | This bill permits qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use. |
| Support | HB54 | allowing alternative treatment centers to operate for-profit. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 1/22 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 201 | This bill allows alternative treatment centers to operate for-profit. |
| Support | HB66 | relative to material subject to disclosure under the right to know law. | Judiciary | Wed 1/22 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill allows any person to invoke the right to know law, includes preliminary drafts of documents that are distributed to a quorum of a body among the materials that must be disclosed, allows persons to request documents in either paper or electronic form, and modifies the manner in which the right to know ombudsman’s ruling may be appealed to superior court. |
| Support | HB80 | allowing a public body member’s presence at a meeting by electronic or other means of communication only if physical presence is unavoidable and providing that physical presence is necessary for voting. | Judiciary | Wed 1/22 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill requires a public body’s member to be physically present at a meeting unless physical presence is unavoidable and provides that physical presence is required for voting. |
| Support | HB164 | relative to local records retention. | Judiciary | Wed 1/22 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill funds and equips the local government record manager with online storage of records that are available for public access. |
| Of Interest | HB265 | requiring that a public body’s meeting minutes include start and end times of the meeting and the printed name and signature of the recording secretary | Judiciary | Wed 1/22 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill requires that public meeting minutes be documented with the start time, end time, and recording secretary’s signature. |
| Support | HB114 | removing fees and charges for governmental records under the right-to-know law and reinstating potential liability for disclosure of information exempt from disclosure. | Judiciary | Wed 1/22 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill removes fees and charges for governmental records under the right-to-know law and reinstates potential liability for disclosure of information exempt from disclosure. |
| Support | HB273 | relative to a parent’s access to their minor child’s library records. | Judiciary | Wed 1/22 | 3:30 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill allows parents to access all of their minor child’s library records. |
| Support | HB238 | prohibiting collective bargaining agreements from requiring employees join or contribute to a labor union. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Wed 1/22 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill prohibits collective bargaining agreements that require employees to join or contribute to a labor union. |
| Oppose | HB334 | relative to the comprehensive state development plan. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 1/22 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 305 | This bill adds provisions to the comprehensive state development plan concerning protecting natural resources and identifying environmental threats. |
| Oppose | HB422 | increasing penalties for violations of the shoreland and water quality protection act. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 1/22 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 305 | This bill increases penalties for violations of the shoreland and water quality protection act. |
| Oppose | HB290 | increasing the taxes on cigarettes and electronic cigarettes and establishing a committee to study taxes on tobacco and other nicotine products. | Ways and Means | Wed 1/22 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill increases the taxes on cigarettes and electronic cigarettes and establishes a committee to study taxes on tobacco and other nicotine products. |
| Support | HB234 | relative to the statewide education property tax and excess revenue from games of chance. | Ways and Means | Wed 1/22 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill annually reduces the state education property tax by the amount of revenue paid to the state through games of chance in excess of the estimated amount paid in the 2023 fiscal year. |
| Of Interest | HB255 | increasing the percentage of revenue deposited in the education trust fund from the business profits tax. | Ways and Means | Wed 1/22 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill increases the percentage of revenue from the business profits tax certified for deposit in the education trust fund. |
| Of Interest | HB318 | relative to the percentage of revenue from the business enterprise tax deposited in the education trust fund. | Ways and Means | Wed 1/22 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill increases the percentage of revenue from the business enterprise tax deposited in the education trust fund. |
| Of Interest | SB55 | providing temporary exemptions from the land use change tax for qualifying housing projects. | Commerce | Thu 1/23 | 10:10 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill provides temporary exemptions from the land use change tax for qualifying housing projects. |
| Oppose | HB167 | prohibiting the sale of ski, boat, and board waxes that contain intentionally added per and polyfluorinated alkyl substances. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Thu 1/23 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill prohibits the sale of ski, boat, and board waxes that contain intentionally added per and polyfluorinated alkyl substances. |
| Support | HB312 | relative to the right of intercollegiate student-athletes to earn compensation through the use of their name, image, or likeness. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Thu 1/23 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill allows collegiate student-athletes to earn compensation for the use of their name, image, or likeness within certain parameters. |
| Oppose | HB427 | relative to amending the uniform commercial code. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Thu 1/23 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill: I. Specifies New Hampshire state law will govern certain UCC transactions. II. Changes the priority of claims among security interests and entitlement holders. |
| Oppose | HB241 | relative to treatment alternatives to opioids. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Thu 1/23 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill requires insurance coverage for certain pain management therapies prescribed as alternatives to treatment with opioids. |
| Support | HB75 | legalizing cannabis for persons 21 years of age or older. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/23 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill legalizes the possession and use of cannabis for persons 21 years of age and older. |
| Support | HB190 | relative to therapeutic cannabis possession limits. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/23 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill increases qualifying patients’ limit on possession of therapeutic cannabis from 2 to 4 ounces, and increases the amount they may obtain in a 10-day period from 2 to 4 ounces. |
| Support | HB196 | relative to annulling, resentencing, or discontinuing prosecution of certain cannabis offenses. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/23 | 12:00 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill allows for additional annulments, resentencings, or discontinuations of prosecutions for certain cannabis offenses. |
| Support | HB198 | relative to legalizing certain quantities of cannabis and establishing penalties for the smoking or vaping of cannabis in public. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/23 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill legalizes the possession of a certain amount of cannabis for persons 21 years or older and prohibits public consumption of cannabis. |
| Support | HB226 | relative to the use of drug checking equipment. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/23 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill amends and adds definitions to the Controlled Drug Act to exclude drug checking equipment from being considered drug paraphernalia and authorizes the use of drug checking equipment. |
| Oppose | HB380 | relative to penalties for criminal violations of the therapeutic use of cannabis. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/23 | 3:30 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill amends the penalty for the unauthorized sale of cannabis by a qualifying patient or designated caregiver. |
| Support | HB90 | relative to the definition of part-time teachers. | Education Policy and Administration | Thu 1/23 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill defines “part-time teacher.” |
| Support | HB235 | relative to amending the educator code of ethics and code of conduct to include responsibility to parents. | Education Policy and Administration | Thu 1/23 | 11:15 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill amends the educator code of conduct to include responsibility to parents. |
| Support | HB349 | relative to the practice of optometry and authorization to perform ophthalmic laser procedures. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 1/23 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill authorizes optometrists who meet criteria established by the board of registration in optometry to perform certain ophthalmic laser procedures. |
| Oppose | HB197 | relative to payment by the state of a portion of retirement system contributions of political subdivision employers. | Finance | Thu 1/23 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill provides that the state shall pay 7.5 percent of contributions of retirement system employers other than the state for group I teachers and group II members. |
| Oppose | HB519 | making an appropriation to the department of health and human services to fund and support the Waypoint youth and young adult shelter. | Finance | Thu 1/23 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services to fund and support the Waypoint youth and young adult shelter. |
| Support | HB63 | relative to the use of nasal spray to treat anaphylaxis. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Thu 1/23 | 12:30 PM | LOB Room 201 | This bill allows authorized entities, including schools, camps, and day care facilities, to possess and administer epinephrine nasal spray to treat anaphylaxis. The law currently permits epinephrine administration through auto-injectors. |
| Oppose | HB347 | relative to protection of employment for members of the general court. | Legislative Administration | Thu 1/23 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 203 | This bill provides members of the general court with employment protections during voting sessions. |
| Support | HB456 | relative to testimony of agency employees in general court hearings. | Legislative Administration | Thu 1/23 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 203 | This bill requires that state agency personnel and state employees shall only provide information to the committee at the committee’s request and shall not take a position in support of or opposition to a matter before the committee. |
| Support | HB173 | relative to maintaining the purpose of a petitioned warrant article. | Municipal and County Government | Thu 1/23 | 10:40 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill prevents warrant articles from being amended to change their purpose. |
| Support | HB348 | relative to eligibility for local assistance. | Municipal and County Government | Thu 1/23 | 11:15 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill provides that municipalities may establish a residency requirement of up to 90 days for local assistance. |
| Support | HB453 | prohibiting municipalities from banning use of grounds maintenance and snow and ice removal equipment with internal combustion engines. | Municipal and County Government | Thu 1/23 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill prohibits municipalities from banning the use of grounds maintenance and snow and ice removal equipment with internal combustion engines. |
| Support | HB291 | removing certain penalties for incorrect application of fertilizers. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 1/24 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill provides that violation of the statute regulating application of fertilizers on urban turf and lawn shall be a violation, rather than subject to the criminal penalties and fines otherwise applicable to the subdivision. |
| Support | HB218 | relative to providing victims of crime with a free police report of the investigation. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 1/24 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill provides victims of crime with a right to a free police report of the investigation following the disposition of the case. |
| Oppose | HB295 | making school building aid program funds nonlapsing. | Education Funding | Fri 1/24 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill makes the funds appropriated to the school building aid program nonlapsing. |
| Support | HB319 | relative to the responsibility of local school districts to provide transportation and meals for pupils in kindergarten. | Education Funding | Fri 1/24 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill removes the requirement that school districts provide transportation and meals to half-day kindergarten students. |
| Oppose | HB549 | relative to the use of education freedom account funds in religious schools and institutions of higher education. | Education Funding | Fri 1/24 | 12:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill prohibits the use of education freedom account funds at religious schools or for religious education or training, and repeals provisions relating to independence of and legal proceedings concerning education freedom account providers. |
| Oppose | HB64 | relative to extending hiring preferences for military members and their spouses to the state and private businesses, and establishing purchase preferences for disabled veterans and military spouses regarding state supply purchases. | State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs | Fri 1/24 | 10:10 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill expands the definition of veteran for purposes of veteran hiring and employment preferences to include a veteran’s spouse and any active duty service member regardless of length of service. This bill also extends employment preferences for veterans or their spouse to include veteran owned suppliers of goods and services in dealings with the state. |