- These are the most liberty-critical hearings for the week
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Of the 139 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 24 and opposition of 25 with 8 being of interest.
Of the 50 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 5 and opposition of 13 with 1 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Of Interest | HB1667 | relative to establishing a department for children, youth, and families. | Children and Family Law | Tue 1/16 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill establishes the department for children, youth and families as a separate state agency responsible for the general supervision and enforcement of all programs and services for children and youths. The bill also transfers all former powers, duties and responsibilities of the department of health and human services, division for children, youth and families and the division of juvenile justice services to the newly established department. |
| Oppose | SB328 | relative to deceptive ticket sale practices. | Commerce | Tue 1/16 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill makes the resale of event tickets by a person who is not the venue or an authorized agent of the venue unlawful if it does not meet certain criteria. |
| Oppose | SB519 | relative to evictions based on the owner’s intent to renovate the property. | Commerce | Tue 1/16 | 9:15 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill adds evidentiary requirements to evictions based upon renovation and permits a discretionary stay of eviction for up to 6 months. |
| Oppose | SB518 | relative to incentivizing landlords to accept housing choice vouchers. | Commerce | Tue 1/16 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes a landlord housing incentive program and fund. This bill makes an appropriation to implement the fund. |
| Oppose | SB366 | relative to restricting the purchase of real property on or around military installations. | Commerce | Tue 1/16 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill prohibits the purchase of real property by the People’s Republic of China on or within 10 miles of any military installations or critical infrastructure facilities. |
| Oppose | SB343 | relative to school based health services. | Education | Tue 1/16 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill allows school districts to contract with a health care provider, health system, or community partner to establish a school based health center for the purpose of providing services to students beyond the scope of school nursing services. |
| Support | SB374 | relative to the licensing of part-time teachers. | Education | Tue 1/16 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill defines “part-time teacher.” |
| Support | HB1402 | establishing a procedure for a high school proficiency exam waiver of mandatory school attendance. | Education | Tue 1/16 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill allows for a student to take and pass a high school proficiency exam so that the student shall no longer be bound by the mandatory school attendance requirements. |
| Oppose | HB1212 | relative to eligibility for free school meals. | Education | Tue 1/16 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill increases the eligibility for free school meals to household incomes up to 350 percent of federal poverty guidelines, and provides funding from the education trust fund for the additional costs. |
| Oppose | HB1153 | relative to mandatory and elective public school curricula. | Education | Tue 1/16 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires mandatory “anti-communist” curricula and establishes elective curricula for public schools. |
| Oppose | SB380 | relative to moving the state primary date. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 1/16 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill moves the state primary date to June. |
| Oppose | SB445 | establishing a voter-owned elections fund for eligible candidates to executive councilor and making an appropriation to the fund. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 1/16 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill establishes a voter owned election fund for eligible candidates to executive councilor and makes an appropriation to the fund. |
| Support | SB446 | allowing voters to vote for multiple candidates for an office. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 1/16 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill allows voters to vote for multiple candidates for an office. |
| Of Interest | SB387 | relative to a state parks pass pilot program for recovery centers and community health centers. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 1/16 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill requires the establishment of a 3-year pilot program for state parks passes for recovery centers and community health centers registered with the department of health and human services. |
| Oppose | HB1184 | relative to making an appropriation to the organic certification program. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 1/16 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill makes an appropriation to the department of agriculture, markets and food for the staffing and funding of the organic certification program. |
| Oppose | HB1618 | mandating a cooperative agreement with USDA for “organic” certification. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 1/16 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill requires the commissioner to hire inspectors and enter into a USDA cooperative agreement. |
| Support | HB1578 | relative to organic food certification and labeling. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 1/16 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill repeals the certification program and the organic processors-handlers certification fund. |
| Oppose | HB1680 | relative to prohibiting the sale of dogs and cats by retail pet shops. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 1/16 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill prohibits the sale of dogs and cats by retail pet shops except in certain cases. |
| Oppose | SB348 | relative to emergency crop relief. | Finance | Tue 1/16 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill makes an appropriation to the department of agriculture, markets, and food to distribute emergency relief to farmers who suffered crop damage in the unseasonable cold and floods. |
| Oppose | SB494 | relative to establishing a farmer assistance fund. | Finance | Tue 1/16 | 1:10 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill establishes the farmer assistance for natural disasters fund and makes an appropriation therefor. |
| Support | HB1127 | relative to the revocation and suspension of drivers’ licenses. | Transportation | Tue 1/16 | 11:20 AM | LOB Room 203 | This bill allows individuals with suspended licenses to mow their lawns without penalty and eliminates the requirement that drivers with suspended licenses surrender their licenses to the department of motor vehicles. |
| Of Interest | HB1118 | relative to the issuance of drivers’ licenses for aliens temporarily residing in New Hampshire. | Transportation | Tue 1/16 | 1:20 PM | LOB Room 203 | This bill allows the director of motor vehicles to require nonresident aliens to submit various certifications for drivers license issuance. |
| Support | SB510 | relative to sale of a vehicle to a Massachusetts resident. | Transportation | Tue 1/16 | 2:15 PM | LOB Room 101 | This bill eliminates the requirement that a retail motor vehicle dealer submit a form notifying the New Hampshire department of motor vehicles of a sale of a vehicle to a Massachusetts resident. |
| Support | HB1422 | relative to the rates of the business profits tax, business enterprise tax, communications service tax, and meals and rooms tax. | Ways and Means | Tue 1/16 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill reduces the rates of the business profits tax, business enterprise tax, and meals and rooms tax. It also reduces and subsequently repeals the communications services tax. |
| Oppose | HB1492 | relative to the rate and exemptions of the interest and dividends tax. | Ways and Means | Tue 1/16 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill reimplements the interest and dividends tax. |
| Support | HB1533 | relative to the safe harbor compensation amount under the business profits tax. | Ways and Means | Tue 1/16 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill increases the amount of the safe harbor provision for compensation under the business profits tax and provides for a biennial increase in future years based on the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index. |
| Support | HB1536 | relative to increasing the amount of the expense deduction allowed against the business profits tax. | Ways and Means | Tue 1/16 | 12:00 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill increases the amount of the section 179 expense deduction permitted against the business profits tax. |
| Of Interest | HB1241 | relative to regulation of money transmitters. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/17 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill revises the regulation and licensure of money transmitters by the banking department. This bill is a request of the banking department. |
| Of Interest | HB1559 | repealing the chapter relative to cash dispensing machines. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/17 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill repeals RSA 399-F relative to cash dispensing machines. This is a request by the banking department. |
| Oppose | HB1538 | relative to credit card late fees and interest. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/17 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill requires that the total of interest and other charges in a consumer credit transaction shall not exceed the consumer’s total original balance from the credit card sale or loan. |
| Support | HB1633 | relative to the legalization and regulation of cannabis and making appropriations therefor. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/17 | 2:45 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill establishes procedures for the legalization, regulation, and taxation of cannabis; the licensing and regulation of cannabis establishments; and makes appropriations therefor. |
| Oppose | HB1678 | establishing a New Hampshire farm to school local food incentive pilot program. | Education | Wed 1/17 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill establishes a New Hampshire farm to school local food incentive pilot program. |
| Support | HB1634 | relative to universal eligibility for the education freedom account program. | Education | Wed 1/17 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill removes the household income criteria from eligibility requirements for the education freedom account program. |
| Support | HB1677 | relative to participation in education freedom accounts based on school or school district proficiency scores. | Education | Wed 1/17 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill extends eligibility for the education freedom account program to students who participated in the program in the preceeding year, students whose enrollment transfer requests were denied, and to students in school districts which performed at 49 percent or below in statewide assessments. |
| Support | HB1665 | relative to student eligibility for the education freedom accounts program. | Education | Wed 1/17 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill changes the annual household income limit to qualify for the education freedom account program. |
| Oppose | HB1112 | relative to establishing a continuing education requirement regarding human trafficking for individuals licensed by the office of professional licensure and certification. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 1/17 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill requires the office of professional licensure and certification to audit compliance by licensees of continuing education requirements and further provides that all boards regulating health professionals shall require each licensee to complete continuing education in human trafficking each renewal cycle. |
| Support | HB1410 | relative to certain professional licenses. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 1/17 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill repeals the chapter on the board of registration of medical technicians as well as the chapter on medical imaging and radiation therapy. This bill further makes changes to the nurse practice act, including amending the licensure of licensed nursing assistants to a registration process and making changes to the board of nursing. |
| Oppose | HB1394 | relative to licensure and regulation of music therapists and making an appropriation therefor. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 1/17 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill establishes the licensure and regulation of music therapists under the office of professional licensure and certification. This bill further establishes a new program assistant II position at the office of professional licensure and certification and makes an appropriation to the office of professional licensure and certification. |
| Oppose | SB352 | establishing an early detection cancer screening pilot program for active and retired firefighters. | Health and Human Services | Wed 1/17 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill establishes an early detection cancer screening pilot program in the department of safety, division of fire standards and training and emergency medical services, for retired and full-time active firefighters New Hampshire. |
| Oppose | SB495 | relative to certification of alcohol and other drug use treatment facilities. | Health and Human Services | Wed 1/17 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill provides for certification of substance use treatment programs by the department of health and human services and establishes an office of the behavioral health ombudsman in the department. |
| Oppose | SB500 | establishing a primary care provider loan repayment program, and making an appropriation therefor. | Health and Human Services | Wed 1/17 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill establishes a primary care provider loan repayment program and fund in the department of health and human services and makes an appropriation to the department for this purpose. |
| Oppose | SB558 | relative to insurance coverage for infertility treatments, protection from discrimination during IVF treatments, parental leave, and adoption. | Health and Human Services | Wed 1/17 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill provides insurance coverage for infertility treatments, protection from discrimination during IVF treatments, parental leave, and adoption. |
| Oppose | HB1002 | relative to fees for records under the right-to-know law. | Judiciary | Wed 1/17 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill establishes parameters for when a public body may charge a fee for records provided under RSA 91-A. |
| Support | HB1105 | relative to application of a local tax cap. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 1/17 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill provides clarification that all recommended appropriations in the warrant are included when determining the estimated amount of local taxes to be raised for the fiscal year under the local tax cap. |
| Oppose | HB1544 | relative to indemnification for municipalities adopting policies to address homelessness. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 1/17 | 11:10 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill allows public property to be used to aid and shelter the homeless and indemnifies the government units in charge. |
| Oppose | HB1641 | relating to requiring large parking lots to have a solar power canopy. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 1/17 | 11:50 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill requires that large parking facilities, whether existing or new, utilize photovoltaic solar canopies over at least 50 percent of the open asphalt surface. |
| Of Interest | HB1124 | relative to limiting conflicts of interest and excessive concentration of power for municipal board and committee members. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 1/17 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill limits conflicts of interest and excessive concentration of power for municipal board and committee members. |
| Support | HB1396 | relative to prohibiting municipal inspections of owner-occupied units of multi-unit housing. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 1/17 | 3:15 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill prohibits municipal inspections of owner-occupied units within residential structures of 4 units or less. |
| Of Interest | HB1049 | relative to the prohibition on overnight mooring of houseboats. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 1/17 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 305 | This bill repeals a general prohibition for the overnight mooring of houseboats otherwise permitted under RSA 270-A. |
| Oppose | HB1103 | relative to revising the penalties of the shoreland protection act. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 1/17 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 305 | This bill revises the penalties of the shoreland protection act. |
| Oppose | HB1113 | relative to shoreland septic systems. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 1/17 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 305 | This bill modifies requirements for site assessment studies of shoreland septic systems. |
| Support | HB1121 | relative to creating certain wetlands permit exemptions after a natural disaster or flooding event. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 1/17 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 305 | This bill exempts certain land owners from requiring wetlands permits after a natural disaster or flooding event. |
| Support | SB514 | relative to the timber tax. | Ways and Means | Wed 1/17 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill increases the amount of wood or wood chips a landowner can use for personal use or for land conservation purposes without being subject to the timber tax. |
| Of Interest | HB1563 | relative to the education property tax and the authority of political subdivisions. | Ways and Means | Wed 1/17 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill replaces the statewide education property tax with a property tax contribution from political subdivisions based on the state education property tax warrant issued for the tax year beginning April 1, 2024. The bill also restores statutory authority for the determination of education grants for municipalities that tuition students to other institutions. |
| Of Interest | HB1551 | relative to distinguishing between C corporations and S corporations for purposes of calculating business profits taxes. | Ways and Means | Wed 1/17 | 12:00 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill directs the state to distinguish between C corporations and S corporations for purposes of calculating the business profits tax and to exclude flow through items on the Schedule K for S corporations from corporate income for purposes of calculating the tax. |
| Oppose | HB1571 | relative to requiring insurance coverage for glucose monitoring devices for people with diabetes. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Thu 1/18 | 11:15 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill requires insurance coverage and Medicaid coverage for glucose monitoring devices for people with diabetes. |
| Oppose | HB1094 | relative to insurance coverage for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Thu 1/18 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill removes the prospective repeal of a reference to treatments for pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders in the requirement for insurance coverage of certain biologically-based mental illnesses. |
| Oppose | HB1296 | relative to insurance coverage for diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Thu 1/18 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill provides that certain insurers that provide diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations shall not impose co-payments, deductibles, or other cost-sharing requirements. |
| Support | HB1017 | relative to duties of county sheriffs and the appointment of special deputy sheriffs. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/18 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill requires county sheriff’s or deputies to have a presence at all federal law enforcement actions in the county. The bill also clarifies the appointment of special deputy sheriffs. |
| Support | HB1026 | relative to resisting arrest. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/18 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill establishes an affirmative defense to the crime of resisting arrest that the arrest was unlawful or constitutional. |
| Support | HB1372 | relative to prohibiting torture. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/18 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill establishes a criminal prohibition against torture, which is defined as an act committed by a person acting under the color of law specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering upon another person within the person’s custody or control, other than the pain or suffering incidental to lawful sanctions. This bill is intended to supplement the federal law located at 18 U.S.C. sections 2340, 2340A, and 2340B, which apply to torture committed outside of the United States. |
| Oppose | HB1570 | relative to administration of school building aid funds by the department of education and making an appropriation therefor. | Education | Thu 1/18 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill transfers moneys from the education trust fund to a new building aid fund. It also directs the department of education to contract with a vendor to conduct a facility assessment of public schools and public chartered schools. |
| Support | HB1546 | relative to government purchasing. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 1/18 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill prohibits any state, county, or local government entity from contracting with or purchasing goods or services from companies that discriminate in hiring, promotion, or job assignment on the basis of sex, race, sexuality, national origin, ethnicity, or ideology, including but not limited to permitting diversity, equity, and inclusion statements. This bill further provides an enforcement mechanism. |
| Oppose | HB1486 | relative to proxy carbon pricing in state procurement. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 1/18 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill requires the department of administrative services to consider proxy carbon pricing in transportation costs and building project costs. |
| Support | HB1278 | relative to qualifying medical conditions for purposes of therapeutic cannabis. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Thu 1/18 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill adds debilitating or terminal medical conditions to the qualifying medical conditions for therapeutic cannabis if a health care provider certifies the potential benefit to the patient. The bill also removes certain limitations on a qualifying visiting patient’s access to cannabis. |
| Support | HB1240 | relative to eating disorders as a qualifying condition for the therapeutic cannabis program. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Thu 1/18 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill adds eating disorders as a qualifying medical condition for the use of therapeutic cannabis. |
| Support | HB1349 | relative to generalized anxiety disorder as a qualifying condition for the therapeutic cannabis program. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Thu 1/18 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill adds generalized anxiety disorder as a qualifying medical condition for the use of therapeutic cannabis. |
| Support | HB1350 | relative to therapeutic cannabis possession limits. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Thu 1/18 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 210-211 | 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 | HB1231 | permitting qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Thu 1/18 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill permits qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use. |
| Support | SB356 | relative to the return of property collected in the course of a police investigation. | Judiciary | Thu 1/18 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill provides for the automatic return of seized property following certain dispositions of criminal cases, subject to certain exceptions. |
| Oppose | HB1072 | relative to prohibiting employers from using polygraph testing. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Thu 1/18 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 307 | This bill prohibits employers from using polygraphs unless the employer is in law enforcement or meets other exceptions. |
| Oppose | HB1110 | relative to requiring certain employers to use the federal E-Verify system of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Thu 1/18 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 307 | This bill requires employers with 25 or more employees to use the federal E-Verify system of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. |
| Oppose | HB1226 | relative to employment protections for freelance employees. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Thu 1/18 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 307 | This bill provides comprehensive rights and responsibilities relative to freelance employees and hiring parties. |
| Support | HB1246 | relative to allowing for payment of wages in gold or silver. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Thu 1/18 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 307 | This bill allows employers to pay the weekly or biweekly wages due to employees in gold or silver. |
| Oppose | HB1217 | relative to an exception to allow the state or a municipality to use video monitoring to identify the cause of damage to historic covered bridges. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 1/19 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill allows the state or a municipality to use video monitoring to identify the cause of damage to historic covered bridges. |
| Oppose | HB1587 | relative to the installation of video surveillance equipment in special education school buses. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 1/19 | 12:00 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill requires video surveillance equipment to be installed and operated on all vehicles provided through services related to a student’s IEP. The bill also requires school districts to develop a privacy policy for resulting recordings. |