- These are the most liberty-critical hearings for the week
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Of the 205 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 11 and opposition of 19 with 22 being of interest.
Of the 77 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 5 and opposition of 7 with 10 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Of Interest | HB1710 | relative to procedures relating to child abduction. | Children and Family Law | Tue 1/20 | 11:00 AM | GP Room 230 | This bill adopts the Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act to govern actions seeking abduction prevention measures. |
| Oppose | SB523 | establishing the registration and oversight of builders. | Commerce | Tue 1/20 | 10:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes a board of builder registration, administratively attached to the department of labor. This bill requires the registration of and sets regulatory requirements for certain builders and general contractors engaged in construction-related business on any residential property. |
| Oppose | SB444 | prohibiting the use of animal testing when other comparable methods are available. | Commerce | Tue 1/20 | 11:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill prohibits the use of animals in certain cosmetic product testing. |
| Of Interest | SB432 | authorizing the application of sunscreen in schools and camps without a doctor’s note or prescription and establishing a skin cancer prevention education program. | Education | Tue 1/20 | 9:30 AM | SL Room Map Room | This bill permits the self-application of sunscreen by children in schools and camps without the requirement of a prescription or a doctor’s note. The bill authorizes specific school and camp personnel to apply sunscreen to a child with permission of the child’s parent or guardian. The bill also establishes a skin cancer prevention education program in public schools. |
| Of Interest | SB578 | extending recess for students from kindergarten to eighth grade and prohibiting the deprivation of recess time as punishment in schools. | Education | Tue 1/20 | 10:15 AM | SL Room Map Room | This bill expands play-based curriculum from kindergarten until third grade and requires recess for all students from kindergarten until the eighth grade. The bill also prohibits withholding students from recess as a means of punishment or as a requirement to complete school work. |
| Of Interest | HB1826 | relative to the cost of an opportunity for an adequate education. | Education Funding | Tue 1/20 | 10:30 AM | GP Room 232 | This bill raises the cost associated with providing an opportunity for an adequate education. |
| Oppose | HB1831 | repealing the education trust fund targeted aid cap. | Education Funding | Tue 1/20 | 11:00 AM | GP Room 232 | This bill repeals the funding cap on targeted aid for purposes of determining education adequacy grants. |
| Of Interest | HB1827 | establishing a grant program to support school districts extraordinary needs and fiscal capacity disparities relative to providing an adequate education. | Education Funding | Tue 1/20 | 1:00 PM | GP Room 232 | This bill establishes a grant program to support school districts extraordinary needs and fiscal capacity disparities relative to providing an adequate education. |
| Oppose | HB1799 | relative to required state funding for providing an opportunity for an adequate education. | Education Funding | Tue 1/20 | 1:30 PM | GP Room 232 | This bill: I. Creates a new set of standards for what the legislature determines as the meaning of a constitutionally adequate education. II. Includes a variety of staffing and personnel roles as pieces of an adequate education that should be funded appropriately. III. Increases the costs associated with funding an adequate education. IV. Requires the state and school districts to establish means and goals of addressing educational outcome disparities. V. Creates a commission to study alternative methods of funding public schools besides property taxes. |
| Support | HB1300 | changing the state’s congressional districts. | Election Law | Tue 1/20 | 10:15 AM | GP Room 158 | This bill establishes new United States house of representative districts. |
| Of Interest | HB1284 | requiring the inclusion of a voter’s year of birth on the voter checklist. | Election Law | Tue 1/20 | 11:00 AM | GP Room 158 | This bill requires the inclusion of a voter’s year of birth on the voter checklist. |
| Of Interest | HB1329 | requiring the secretary of state to add voters’ ages to the voter file. | Election Law | Tue 1/20 | 11:10 AM | GP Room 158 | This bill requires the secretary of state to include voters’ ages in the voter information file available to political parties, political committees, and candidates for office. |
| Of Interest | HB1342 | restricting access to certain information relative to voters subject to the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act. | Election Law | Tue 1/20 | 11:45 AM | GP Room 158 | This bill allows for absentee and UOCAVA voter records to be accessed but prevents certain information relative to UOCAVA voters from being released. |
| Of Interest | HB1600 | requiring the division of motor vehicles to make available the opportunity to register to vote at the time of application for or renewal of a drivers license or nondrivers identification card. | Election Law | Tue 1/20 | 1:20 PM | GP Room 158 | This bill requires the division of motor vehicles to make available the opportunity to register to vote at the time of applying for or renewing a drivers’ license or nondrivers identification card. |
| Of Interest | HB1031 | enabling candidates for state office to use campaign funds to pay for security measures. | Election Law | Tue 1/20 | 1:40 PM | GP Room 158 | This bill enables candidates for state office and state office holders to use up to $3,000 of campaign funds to pay for security measures. |
| Oppose | HB1838 | establishing a voter-owned elections fund and commission and raising vehicle registration fees. | Election Law | Tue 1/20 | 2:45 PM | GP Room 158 | This bill: I. Establishes a voter-owned elections fund. II. Raises motor vehicle registration fees. III. Establishes a private motor vehicle registration fee. IV. Creates a voter-owned elections commission to provide financial support to certain candidates for office. |
| Of Interest | SB489 | requiring the address column to be the first column on the voter checklist. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 1/20 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 122-123 | This bill requires the address column to be the first column on the voter checklist. |
| Support | SB101 | authorizing parents to enroll their children in any public school in the state. | Finance | Tue 1/20 | 2:10 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill allows parents to send their children to public schools outside of their resident district. |
| Support | HB1196 | repealing the state housing champion designation and grant program. | Housing | Tue 1/20 | 9:00 AM | GP Room 231 | This bill repeals the housing champion designation and grant program. |
| Of Interest | HB1523 | relative to disclosure requirements for condominium associations. | Housing | Tue 1/20 | 10:30 AM | GP Room 231 | This bill establishes disclosure requirements for homeowners’ associations. |
| Oppose | HB1732 | relative to housing accessibility and voucher allocation in new multi-unit developments. | Housing | Tue 1/20 | 2:30 PM | GP Room 231 | This bill establishes a requirement that certain new multi-unit housing developments must comply with inclusion and accessibility standards, including reserving a portion of units for individuals eligible under the federal Mainstream Housing Voucher program. |
| Of Interest | SB625 | permitting family members of homicide victims to seek an evidentiary hearing in cases where the department of justice does not file charges in the case. | Judiciary | Tue 1/20 | 1:10 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill permits family members of intentional homicide victims to seek an evidentiary hearing in cases where the department of justice does not file charges in the case or does not seek retrial following a hung jury. |
| Oppose | SB463 | relative to possession of firearms in safe school zones. | Judiciary | Tue 1/20 | 1:55 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill prohibits carrying a firearm in a safe school zone. |
| Support | HB1245 | relative to voluntary portable benefits plans for independent contractors. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Tue 1/20 | 2:30 PM | GP Room 159 | This bill establishes a framework for voluntary portable benefit plans for independent contractors and allows hiring parties to contribute to benefit arrangements without affecting worker classification. |
| Of Interest | HB1759 | relative to the disqualification of a member of a local land use board. | Municipal and County Government | Tue 1/20 | 10:40 AM | GP Room 154 | This bill makes a land use board’s vote on whether a member should be disqualified binding rather than advisory, requiring recusal if a majority finds disqualification is warranted. |
| Of Interest | HB1802 | relative to training, testing, and certification of local land use board members and making an appropriations therefor. | Municipal and County Government | Tue 1/20 | 11:20 AM | GP Room 154 | This bill creates mandatory annual training, competency testing, and certification for members of planning boards and zoning boards of adjustment, establishes reporting requirements for the office of planning and development, sets minimum qualifications for board membership, and appropriates funds for implementation. |
| Support | HB1542 | relative to renewable energy fund compliance payments. | Science, Technology and Energy | Tue 1/20 | 1:00 PM | GP Room 229 | This bill sets the payment cost for the alternative option to the renewable energy fund to $0. |
| Support | HB1721 | relative to limiting new system enrollment and adjusting compliance payments under the renewable portfolio standard program. | Science, Technology and Energy | Tue 1/20 | 2:00 PM | GP Room 229 | This bill: I. Limits renewable energy certificate (REC) eligibility to systems qualified before 2026. II. Caps REC duration at 20 years. III. Requires the department of energy to revise REC standards or halt new enrollments. IV. Mandates annual reductions in alternative compliance payments as eligible systems decline. |
| Support | HB1452 | relative to parent-taught driver education as an alternative to traditional driver education programs. | Transportation | Tue 1/20 | 10:20 AM | GP Room 234 | This bill allows the commissioner to waive the driver education course requirement for youth operator license applicants if a parent, guardian, or other responsible adult provides equivalent instruction and training. |
| Oppose | SB627 | relative to toll rate adjustments, E-Z Pass customer discounts, and the acquisition and improvement of portions of Interstate Route 93 to support the New Hampshire turnpike system and the 2027-2036 ten year transportation plan. | Transportation | Tue 1/20 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 122-123 | This bill: I. Provides for toll rate adjustments at specified turnpike plazas to support projects in the 2027–2036 ten year transportation plan. II. Establishes a frequent customer discount for New Hampshire E-Z Pass users. III. Authorizes the conveyance of a portion of Interstate Route 93 in the city of Concord to the bureau of turnpikes to accommodate improvements to the I-93 Bow-Concord corridor. |
| Oppose | HB1533 | relative to the use of electric bicycles and alternative electric micromobility devices. | Transportation | Tue 1/20 | 1:00 PM | GP Room 234 | This bill: I. Prohibits the operation of any electric bicycle or any alternative electric micromobility device on sidewalks. II. Prohibits the operation of any class 3 electric bicycle or class 3 alternative electric micromobility device on bicycle or multi-use paths. III. Defines alternative electronic micromobility devices and classifies such devices identically to electric bicycle classifications. IV. Establishes a learner’s permitting process for individuals between the ages of 16 and 18 seeking to operate a class 3 electric bicycle or class 3 alternative electric micromobility device. V. Requires that all class 3 electric bicycles and class 3 alternative electric micromobility devices be registered with the division of motor vehicles on an annual basis and that such bicycles and devices possess a speedometer and headlights while in operation. VI. Limits and clarifies the ability of municipalities to issue permits and licenses relative to electric bicycles and alternative electric micromobility devi |
| Oppose | HB1410 | creating a new classification for electric vehicles. | Transportation | Tue 1/20 | 1:20 PM | GP Room 234 | This bill defines out-of-class electric vehicles, establishes disclosure requirements for sellers, restricts public operation unless reclassified, sets equipment and licensing standards, imposes age and safety requirements, and establishes penalties for violations. |
| Of Interest | SB628 | enabling curbside electric-vehicle charging. | Transportation | Tue 1/20 | 1:30 PM | SH Room 122-123 | This bill enables highway authorities to license curbside electric vehicle charging devices in public rights-of-way, establishes procedures for adjacent host property electrical supply and reimbursement, clarifies enforcement and siting standards, and affirms that owners and operators of such charging devices are not public utilities. |
| Oppose | HB1568 | relative to mandatory minimum insurance coverage requirements for motor vehicles. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/21 | 1:30 PM | GP Room 229 | This bill requires owners of registered motor vehicles to maintain liability insurance meeting minimum coverage thresholds, establishes penalties for noncompliance, and authorizes rulemaking for verification procedures. |
| Oppose | HB1558 | requiring proof of insurance or adequate financial responsibility for vehicle registration. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/21 | 2:00 PM | GP Room 229 | This bill establishes a requirement to provide proof of financial responsibility at the time of motor vehicle registration and authorizes immediate suspension of license and registration for failure to produce such proof upon lawful request. |
| Of Interest | HB1361 | relative to the procedure concerning search warrant inventories. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 1/21 | 1:00 PM | GP Room 159 | This bill modifies the process for creating an inventory concerning the execution of a search warrant. This bill is a request of the department of safety. |
| Of Interest | HB1510 | relative to responsibility for the custody or control of persons ordered to a county correctional facility. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 1/21 | 3:00 PM | GP Room 159 | This bill establishes that the county department of corrections shall be responsible for the custody or control of persons ordered to a county correctional facility. |
| Oppose | HB1091 | relative to the penalty for violations of municipal ordinances related to sleeping or camping outside. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 1/21 | 3:30 PM | GP Room 159 | This bill requires municipalities to provide for a nonmonetary penalty that may be elected in lieu of a financial penalty for any ordinance or bylaw prohibiting sleeping or camping outdoors. |
| Of Interest | HB1635 | modifying the requirements of suicide prevention education policies in schools. | Education Policy and Administration | Wed 1/21 | 10:20 AM | GP Room 232 | The bill requires that suicide prevention training occur within 30 days of personnel being hired as well as every 2 years thereafter. |
| Of Interest | HB1830 | requiring firearm safety education in all public schools. | Education Policy and Administration | Wed 1/21 | 1:00 PM | GP Room 232 | This bill requires the department of education to establish a mandatory firearm safety training program to be taught in all public schools. |
| Of Interest | HB1122 | requiring all high school students to learn about hunting, wildlife management, and responsible firearms usage. | Education Policy and Administration | Wed 1/21 | 1:30 PM | GP Room 232 | This bill requires all high school students to learn about hunting, wildlife management, and responsible firearms usage. |
| Oppose | HB1834 | relative to the education freedom account enrollment cap. | Education Policy and Administration | Wed 1/21 | 2:00 PM | GP Room 232 | This bill limits the number of education freedom accounts allowed through 2027. |
| Oppose | HB1716 | relative to the academic accountability of education freedom accounts. | Education Policy and Administration | Wed 1/21 | 2:30 PM | GP Room 232 | This bill requires that records of educational attainment for students participating in the education freedom account program be reported to the department of education. The bill also directs the division of learner support within the department of education to develop a rubric for educational attainment portfolios and to compile data obtained from all records of educational attainment. |
| Oppose | HB1264 | increasing the requirements of the education freedom savings account oversight committee and modifying the purpose of the committee. | Education Policy and Administration | Wed 1/21 | 3:00 PM | GP Room 232 | This bill extends the purpose of the education freedom savings account oversight committee to include the review of student data, eligibility requirements, and EFA expenditures. The bill also requires the committee to meet at a minimum monthly and for such meetings to be live broadcasted as well as recorded on the general court website. |
| Support | SB402 | eliminating certain non-compete agreements for physician associates. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 1/21 | 9:40 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill eliminates certain non-compete agreements for physician associates. |
| Support | SB506 | relative to community engagement and work requirements under the state Medicaid program. | Health and Human Services | Wed 1/21 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill directs the department of health and human services to establish community engagement and work requirements under the New Hampshire granite advantage health care program, or the state’s expanded Medicaid program, pursuant to authorization for such requirements established in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act of 2025, Public Law 119-21. This bill is a request of the department of health and human services. |
| Of Interest | SB476 | relative to consumer health care cost transparency. | Health and Human Services | Wed 1/21 | 1:15 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill: I. Aligns state hospital transparency obligations with federal requirements and provides a good-faith estimate safe harbor. II. Requires health insurers to provide member-specific, pre-service out-of-pocket estimates through their existing federal Transparency in Coverage tools and secure APIs that can be accessed through the state’s HealthCost portal or enrollee-authorized applications. III. Expands authorized uses and governance of the comprehensive health care information system (CHIS/APCD), clarifies voluntary ERISA plan participation, and directs the insurance department to use existing infrastructure without building new state IT systems. IV. Directs the department of health and human services and insurance department to adopt administrative rules regarding implementation and provides for a cure period before enforcement. |
| Of Interest | SB477 | relative to increasing transparency in the 340B Drug Pricing Program. | Health and Human Services | Wed 1/21 | 1:30 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes certain reporting requirements for the department of health and human services, hospitals, and other covered entities participating in the 340B Drug Pricing Program. The bill also directs the department to require claim-level 340B identifiers across? fee-for-service and managed care organization claims and implement exclusion rules to prevent duplicate discounts, consistent with GAO/CMS guidance. |
| Of Interest | CACR13 | relating to registers of probate. Providing that the office of register of probate and all references to such office be eliminated. |
Judiciary | Wed 1/21 | 11:00 AM | GP Room 230 | This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution amends the constitution to delete the position of register of probate and all references to the position of register of probate. |
| Of Interest | CACR25 | relative to the right to marry. Providing that the right to marry is a fundamental civil right and that the state shall protect the right of every individual, regardless of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or race, to marry and to have their marriage legally recognized. |
Judiciary | Wed 1/21 | 11:30 AM | GP Room 230 | This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution would establish marriage as a fundamental civil right and that the state shall protect the right of every individual, regardless of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or race, to marry and to have their marriage legally recognized. |
| Oppose | SB471 | relative to affordable housing investment fees. | Ways and Means | Wed 1/21 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 122-123 | This bill authorizes municipalities to adopt and enforce affordable housing investment fee ordinances as part of their innovative land use controls. |
| Support | HB1546 | repealing the business profits tax. | Ways and Means | Wed 1/21 | 11:00 AM | GP Room 154 | This bill repeals the business profits tax and all references thereto. |
| Support | HB1629 | repealing the business enterprise tax. | Ways and Means | Wed 1/21 | 11:30 AM | GP Room 154 | This bill repeals the business enterprise tax and all references thereto. |
| Support | HB1668 | relative to the application of the Internal Revenue Code to provisions of the business profits tax. | Ways and Means | Wed 1/21 | 1:00 PM | GP Room 154 | This bill updates the effective version of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986 applicable to the business profits tax, subject to certain adjustments. The bill also requires the commissioner of revenue administration to report biennially on changes to the Internal Revenue Code. |
| Of Interest | HB1420 | creating a temporary local newspaper advertisement tax credit. | Ways and Means | Wed 1/21 | 2:30 PM | GP Room 154 | This bill creates a temporary local newspaper advertisement tax credit program. |
| Support | HB1481 | enabling on-premises licensees to sell drinks made with distilled alcohol for take-out. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Thu 1/22 | 10:30 AM | GP Room 229 | This bill enables on-premises licensees to purchase a license that allows the purchase of drinks made with distilled alcohol for take-out. |
| Oppose | HB1679 | establishing a beverage container redemption program. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Thu 1/22 | 11:00 AM | GP Room 229 | This bill establishes a beverage container redemption program in the department of environmental services. |
| Of Interest | HB1570 | relative to governmental budget authority for agreements for law enforcement agencies to participate in federal immigration enforcement. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/22 | 11:00 AM | GP Room 159 | This bill requires local budgetary authority before a law enforcement agency enters into an agreement with the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement to assist in the enforcement of federal immigration law, grants the budgetary authority continuing power to terminate the agreement, and provides for a penalty for failure to comply. |
| Oppose | HB1686 | relative to establishing an intelligent speed assistance program as an alternative to license suspension for certain motor vehicle offenses. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/22 | 1:00 PM | GP Room 159 | This bill establishes a program, administered by the department of safety, requiring intelligent speed assistance devices to be installed on the motor vehicles of drivers found to be habitual traffic offenders or convicted of operating at dangerously excessive speeds. This bill also sets requirements for installation, program length, enforcement, penalties for tampering, and related judicial procedures. |
| Support | SB491 | enabling students to utilize education freedom account funds to pay for certain career and technical education funding. | Education Finance | Thu 1/22 | 10:20 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill enables students to utilize education freedom account funds to pay for certain career and technical education funding. |
| Oppose | SB582 | modifying the base cost of an adequate education. | Education Finance | Thu 1/22 | 10:40 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill increases the base cost of an adequate education and expands the definition of an adequate education. |
| Oppose | SB583 | directing the department of education to create an education funding transparency data and reporting system. | Education Finance | Thu 1/22 | 11:10 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill directs the department of education to create an education funding transparency data and reporting system and makes an appropriation therefor. |
| Support | SB581 | modifying education freedom account (EFA) eligibility and removing priority guidelines and the enrollment cap relative to EFA eligibility. | Education Finance | Thu 1/22 | 11:25 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill repeals the priority guidelines and the enrollment cap for education freedom accounts (EFAs). The bill also removes references to both priority guidelines and the enrollment cap relative to applications for EFAs. |
| Oppose | HB1496 | repealing the cap on residential parking spaces. | Housing | Thu 1/22 | 12:00 PM | GP Room 231 | This bill removes the statutory cap on residential parking requirements, allowing municipalities to require or limit any number of parking space per dwelling unit. |
| Of Interest | SB485 | relative to the licensure, regulation and taxation of hemp-based derivative products. | Judiciary | Thu 1/22 | 1:25 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill: I. Defines hemp-based derivative products. II. Creates a licensing scheme for the sale of hemp-based derivative products within the liquor commission. III. Enables the liquor commission to make rules relative to the regulation of hemp-based derivative products. IV. Levies a tax on wholesale sale of hemp-based derivative products. |
| Of Interest | SB651 | relative to the legalization and regulation of cannabis and making appropriations therefor. | Judiciary | Thu 1/22 | 1:40 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes procedures for the legalization, regulation, and taxation of cannabis; thelicensing and regulation of cannabis establishments; and makes appropriations therefor. |
| Of Interest | SB461 | relative to the definition of hemp. | Judiciary | Thu 1/22 | 2:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill includes the total tetrahydrocannabinol concentration in the definition of hemp. |
| Of Interest | HB1097 | requiring legislative approval of the amendment or permanent removal of historical markers. | Legislative Administration | Thu 1/22 | 1:45 PM | GP Room 234 | This bill requires legislative approval of the amendment or permanent removal of historical markers. |
| Oppose | CACR22 | relating to the compensation of the legislature. Providing that the present compensation per elected term for legislators is hereby abolished. |
Legislative Administration | Thu 1/22 | 2:15 PM | GP Room 234 | This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution amends the constitution to delete the legislative compensation amount per elected term for presiding officers and all other members of the general court. |
| Oppose | HB1749 | reinstating the death penalty for murder offenses. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 1/23 | 10:00 AM | GP Room 159 | This bill allows the death penalty for capital murder and for first degree and second degree murder. The bill further authorizes the court, in cases where the death penalty is not imposed, to sentence the defendant to life in prison or any other term that the court orders. |
| Oppose | HB1413 | reinstituting the death penalty in cases of capital murder. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 1/23 | 11:00 AM | GP Room 159 | This bill reinstitutes the death penalty as a potential sentence for the offense of capital murder. |
| Oppose | HB1737 | relative to reinstating the death penalty for certain offenses against minors under 13 years of age. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 1/23 | 1:00 PM | GP Room 159 | This bill defines capital offenses against a child to include certain homicide and sexual assault offenses against minors under 13 years of age, requires those convicted of such an offense to be sentenced to death, and requires any appeal to be resolved within one year of conviction. |
| Of Interest | HB1417 | enabling municipalities, cities, and towns to adopt a land value tax system and making an appropriation therefor. | Municipal and County Government | Fri 1/23 | 9:00 AM | GP Room 154 | This bill enables municipalities, cities, and towns to adopt a land value tax system and appropriates money to the department of revenue administration to help implement such system. |
| Support | HB1649 | prohibiting certain tax dollars from being donated to non-profit organizations. | Municipal and County Government | Fri 1/23 | 11:00 AM | GP Room 154 | This bill prohibits towns, cities, and villages from donating tax dollars to certain non-profit organizations. |