Thursday • May 22 • 2025
Vol.XVII • No.XXI
Manchester, N.H.
Now normally I wouldn’t be posting private e-mails between myself and an opposing lawyer working on a case I’m working on as I don’t find that generally to be very classy — but I felt it was appropriate to post an e-mail I sent to an Assistant Grafton County Attorney this morning.
The government has unfortunately been showing Rob and I about zero respect. They are not communicating anything about anything… and I’ve been working on this since January.
This is the e-mail I sent this to Assistant Grafton County Attorney Taylor Moult.
Attorney Moult,
I communicate with you as a courtesy as although the County Attorney initially showed an interest in open communication — I have not heard from her in some time. As she has assigned the Mandamus Petition to you I also figure you are the appropriate person to communicate my legal intent in this case.
I want you to know that I personally think Robert Lamontagne was unfairly placed into a 10-year prison sentence… This is why I’ve got his back in this case.
Did Rob actually do it? No doubt he was guilty of some neglect, but sexual abuse? I highly doubt it… but even if he did — his trial was tainted by disclosure violations.
He has been very patient for a very long time hoping to find someone to help him find justice.
As a former New Hampshire police officer who owes allegiance to the New Hampshire Constitution I volunteer my time to try to help people when I think there is some public benefit to donating my time. In this case there is a massive public benefit in finding out just how many people fell victim to Brady violations by the Cheshire County Attorney’s Office.
I wanted to let you know that it is my intention to file a “Motion To Abolish The State of New Hampshire” through the authority granted by Part I, Article 10 of the New Hampshire Constitution if I feel that your organization doesn’t start treating Rob with some dignity for all he has been through. I realize that might seem harsh and outlandish… but this isn’t the first time I’ve encountered systemic corruption in the New Hampshire government.
No government agency or official seems interested in addressing these problems.
Nothing seems to ever change and the average innocent New Hampshire citizen has no idea what is happening behind the scenes.
Using Rob’s case as a catalyst I will work with other victims of the corrupt bullshit that happens in the New Hampshire government clique/club to justify judicially ending the corrupted authority of the Government of the State of New Hampshire.
This, unfortunately, will create a lot of uncomfortable work for you and the NH Department of Justice.
The sheer amount of things that I’ve seen that happen in the New Hampshire government that are against the public interest would absolutely shock the public, if they understood what was actually happening to their trust.
I leave it to you how to proceed. I just wanted to let you know I’m serious about finding justice for Rob and who I believe is a very large group of people who suffered Brady violations.
If your office doesn’t begin communicating openly with Rob and I we will proceed to legally attack the foundations of the New Hampshire government in the Cheshire County Superior Court.
Respectfully,
Bradley
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Of the 4 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 1 with 0 being of interest.
Of the 2 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 2 with 0 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Oppose | HB57 – 2025-2183s | relative to a person’s release from prison for the purpose of participating in certain post-secondary education programs in the community and relative to the standards applicable to bail in criminal matters. | Judiciary | Tue 5/20 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | Hearing on proposed amendment – 2025-2183s This bill adds a provision for the commissioner of corrections to release a person from state prison for the purpose of participating in a post-secondary education program in the community to which they have been accepted and adds additional offenses that trigger specialized bail procedures in criminal cases. |
| Oppose | HB123-2025-2214s | (Second New Title) defining pre-sequestration timber tax revenue, establishing a moratorium on carbon sequestration and establishing a commission to study the effects of carbon sequestration in New Hampshire forests upon state and local tax revenue, effective forest management, and the health of New Hampshire’s logging industry. | Ways and Means | Wed 5/21 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 100 | Hearing on proposed amendment 2025-2214s – I. Defines pre-sequestration timber tax revenue and allows for payment in lieu of taxes on such revenue. II. Establishes a moratorium on carbon sequestration contracts. III. Establishes a commission to study carbon sequestration programs. IV. Formally acknowledges the creation of the Pasquaney School District and grants an exception to tax assessment restrictions for the district. |
| Oppose | SB263 | criminalizing and creating a private right of action for the facilitation, encouragement, offer, solicitation, or recommendation of certain acts or actions through a responsive generative communication to a child. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 5/23 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill criminalizes and creates a private right of action for the facilitation, encouragement, offer, solicitation, or recommendation of certain acts or actions through a responsive generative communication to a child. |
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NHLA would like to thank Senators Tim McGough, Keith Murphy and Victoria Sullivan who courageously broke with the rest of the Senate to oppose the re-refer motion. We also want to thank Senator Tim McGough, who made an excellent floor speech in support of the liberty community on this issue.
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Police officer: Scott Merrell
Gang member Scott Merrell testifies against free stater Alec in trial involving possession of weed
Charge: Non-criminal violation for possession of weed
Video: Watch the full trial video
On May 28th, 2023 at around 12:30AM free stater Alec was pulled over for speeding doing 51 mph in a 40 mph zone. After running Alec’s plate dispatch informed the officer that the vehicle was stolen. Officer Scott Merrell then proceeded to ask Alec to step out of the car based on a false belief the vehicle or registration were stolen.
During the trial the officer testified that “I saw what appeared to be a glass pipe in the operators lap with green vegetative flakes around him” and according to the officer when Alec stepped out of the vehicle the glass pipe fell to the ground.
After further investigation it turned out the vehicle was not stolen.
At trial the prosecutor questioned the officer asking various questions about the stop.
Prosecutor: “Smelled like marijuana, looked like marijuana?”
Officer Scott Merrell: Yes. I estimated the weight to be 0.2 grams.
When the prosecutor was done Alec proceeds to cross examine officer Scott Merrell:
Alec: Are you familiar with CBD flower?
Prosecutor objection: Relevance your honor.
Alec: The relevance is CBD flower is marijuana, but it’s legal.
Judge: I’ll allow him to answer the question if he knows.
Officer Scott Merrell: Vaguely.
Alec: So you don’t know what it is?
Officer Scott Merrell: It pertains to cannabis and its use as herbal medicine is my understanding.
Alec: And do you have any expertise in deciphering whether or not CBD uhh is not in fact a THC illegal cannabis flower?
Prosecutor objection: Calls for speculation.
Judge: If he knows he can answer.
Officer Scott Merrell: I suppose I’d refer to the lab or something.
Alec: Are you aware you can walk into various stores in the state of New Hampshire and purchase what is called CBD flower?
Officer Scott Merrell: From my understanding CBDs are legal in some context.
Alec: So you don’t have any ability to determine whether something is CBD what is illegal here THC above 23%?
Officer Scott Merrell: I guess I’d need a specific instance.
Alec: OK, if there were two pieces of cannabis sitting on a table and one were CBD which is illegal and one was was 23% THC and legal can you tell the difference , based on the odor?
Officer Scott Merrell: Maybe.
Judges verdict: Not guilty
The State Senate released an addendum to Thursday’s Session Calendar. This updated Gold Standard includes 5 additional bills from the Senate Addendum.
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Of the 2 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 0 with 0 being of interest.
Of the 17 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 4 and opposition of 1 with 0 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Support | HB60 | relative to the termination of tenancy at the expiration of the tenancy or lease term. | Commerce | Tue 5/13 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill adds the expiration of the term of the lease or tenancy if over 6 months as grounds for an eviction. |
| Support | HB475 | relative to the reductions from the default budget for official ballot town meetings. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 5/13 | 9:40 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill alters the definition of default budget to include salary and benefit reductions which occur as a result of position turnover. |
| Support | HB613 | relative to enabling local political subdivisions to vote and set a reduced default budget option. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 5/13 | 9:55 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill enables local political subdivisions that have adopted the official ballot referendum form of meeting to adopt provisions for an annual choice for a reduced default budget. |
| Oppose | HB387 | relative to balloons being released into the air. | Judiciary | Tue 5/13 | 1:30 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill prohibits the release of lighter-than-air balloons into the air and establishes penalties for violations of this prohibition. |
| Support | HB376 | specifying that library user information exempted from disclosure in the right-to-know law includes information regarding library cards and library membership status. | Judiciary | Thu 5/15 | 1:40 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill exempts library card and library membership files and information from disclosure under the right-to-know law. |
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After respectfully asking both the Grafton County Attorney and New Hampshire Attorney General to properly designate Robert L. Lamontagne a “victim” of criminal conduct due process violations and receiving literally no response from either Office — we are filing the following PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDAMUS in the Sullivan County Superior Court.
A “writ of mandamus” is a judicial remedy practiced in common law legal systems where a court of equity has the power to order government officials to perform an act that is required by law. I have identified the possibility of multiple crimes committed by government officials in Robs case and have communicated to the authorities the same. They owe Rob a full investigation and the proper designation: a victim of state misconduct.
It is the State of New Hampshire that should be going out of its way to make things right with Robert Lamontagne. We shouldn’t have to chase them around and force them to act through court actions. They should be doing the right thing on their own accord.
I realize they are busy writing checks to YDC victims at the moment… and the last thing they want is a class action group of people who were collectively screwed out of the right to a fair trial by repeated Brady violations forming an alliance and literally bankrupting the entire State of New Hampshire.
Governor Kelly Ayotte should step in to this Cheshire County Brady violation issue and order her Attorney General to conduct a full investigation.
** UPDATE 05/13/25 **
05/12/25 – ORDER from Superior Court Chief Judge Mark E. Howard transferring the case back to Cheshire County Superior Court.
05/13/25 – RESPONSE to the ORDER from Superior Court Chief Judge Mark E. Howard.
Of the 3 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 0 with 0 being of interest.
Of the 25 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 8 and opposition of 1 with 3 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Of Interest | HB464-2025-1807s | (New Title) prohibiting certain candidates for political office from participating in counting ballots, enabling the use of certain personal information for determining voter eligibility, and relative to the reporting of low value campaign donations. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 5/6 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill prohibits certain candidates for political office from participating in counting ballots. |
| Support | HB280 | relative to wage payments. | Commerce | Tue 5/6 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill repeals the weekly or biweekly payment of wage methods and authorizes employers to choose the payment method of their employees. |
| Support | HB467 | defining “social districts” and enabling municipalities to create social districts. | Commerce | Tue 5/6 | 10:10 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill defines “social districts” and enables municipalities to create social districts. |
| Support | HB342 | relative to the approval process for new construction. | Commerce | Tue 5/6 | 10:20 AM | SH Room 100 | 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. |
| Support | HB457 | (New Title) relative to the occupancy of housing units. | Commerce | Tue 5/6 | 10:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill prohibits cities, towns, and municipalities from mandating that occupants of housing units be related by blood or marriage. |
| Support | HB60 | relative to the termination of tenancy at the expiration of the tenancy or lease term. | Commerce | Tue 5/6 | 10:40 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill adds the expiration of the term of the lease or tenancy if over 6 months as grounds for an eviction. |
| Support | HB446 | relative to parental notice for non-academic surveys in public schools. | Education | Tue 5/6 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 101 | The bill requires school districts to email parents copies of non-academic surveys in public schools and removes the exception for the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, requiring parents to opt-in for their children to participate in this survey. |
| Support | HB768 | allowing public schools to contract with any approved private school. | Education | Tue 5/6 | 11:15 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill allows public schools to enter into contracts with any approved private school, including religious schools. |
| Oppose | HB123 | (New Title) relative to yield taxes on property enrolled or registered for the purpose of generating carbon offset credits. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 5/6 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill extends yield taxes to property enrolled in or registered for the purpose of generating carbon offset credits. |
| Of Interest | HB1 | making appropriations for the expenses of certain departments of the state for fiscal years ending June 30, 2026 and June 30, 2027. | Finance | Tue 5/6 | 1:00 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | No analysis needed. |
| Of Interest | HB2 | relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures. | Finance | Tue 5/6 | 1:00 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill: 1. Adds new definitions to the endangered species conservation act. 2. Requires the department of environmental services to adopt rules and review procedures such that actions of state agencies do not jeopardize the existence or habitats of species protected under the endangered species conservation act. 3. Establishes an environmental scientist position within the department of environmental services to ensure that state agencies do not jeopardize the existence or habitats of species protected under the endangered species conservation act. 4. Requires that rules established by the executive director of the fish and game department establish an administrative fee that the executive director may collect from payments made to the threatened and endangered species compensatory mitigation fund. 5. Requires the department of environmental services to adopt rules regarding when mitigation payments to the threatened and endangered species compensatory mitigation fund are required. 6. Modifies the |
| Support | HB148 | permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain circumstances. | Judiciary | Tue 5/6 | 1:50 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill permits classification of individuals based on biological sex in lavatory facilities and locker rooms, sporting competitions, and detention facilities. |
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Of the 4 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 1 with 0 being of interest.
Of the 23 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 7 and opposition of 0 with 1 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Support | HB81 | (NEW TITLE) relative to consumption of beverages or liquor in areas not approved for service by the liquor commission. | Commerce | Tue 4/29 | 10:20 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill removes restrooms from the list of areas not approved for the serving or consumption of beverages or liquor. |
| Support | HB276 | (New Title) establishing a liquor license where beverages, wine, and liquor can be sold without food. | Commerce | Tue 4/29 | 10:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes a tavern license allowing the sale of beverages, wine, and liquor without the sale of food. |
| Support | HB505 | allowing the sale of freeze dried foods produced in homestead food operations. | Commerce | Tue 4/29 | 10:40 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill requires the licensing of homestead food operations processing and selling freeze dried foods. |
| Of Interest | HB310 | (New Title) establishing a commission to study the creation of a regulatory framework for stable tokens, tokenized real-world assets, and blockchain-based trusts in New Hampshire. | Commerce | Tue 4/29 | 10:50 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes a commission to study the creation of a regulatory framework for stable tokens and tokenized real-world assets (“RWAs”) in New Hampshire. |
| Support | HB639 | relative to the use of and disputes over blockchain and digital currencies. | Commerce | Tue 4/29 | 11:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill: I. Creates an act to protect blockchain technology and its users. II. Establishes a blockchain dispute docket to oversee blockchain-related disputes. |
| Support | HB361 | prohibiting mandatory mask policies in schools. | Education | Tue 4/29 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill prohibits school boards and other public education agencies from adopting, enforcing, or implementing a policy that requires students or members of the public to wear a facial covering. |
| Support | HB217 | relative to absentee ballots. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 4/29 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill requires absentee ballot voters to submit information demonstrating citizenship, age, domicile, and identity in order to qualify to vote. |
| Support | HB584 | relative to public health, safety, and state sovereignty. | Judiciary | Tue 4/29 | 1:20 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill: I. Provides that the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum shall have no jurisdiction in New Hampshire. II. Removes a reference to medical schools recognized by the World Health Organization and replaces it with a reference to the World Directory of Medical Schools. III. Creates a cause of action against counties, cities, towns, precincts, water districts, school districts, school administrative units, or quasi-public entities who create and enforce policies based on the claims of the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum. IV. Provides that in a claim against the state or a local government agency for enforcing policies or directives of the World Health Organization, the United Nations, or the World Economic Forum, the limits of awards under RSA 541-B shall apply and shall not be increased by the proceeds of an insurance policy held by such entity. |
| Oppose | SB249 | relative to the uncompensated care and Medicaid fund. | Ways and Means | Tue 4/29 | 10:20 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill revises the funding mechanism for uncompensated care costs under the state Medicaid program, including the distribution of disproportionate share hospital payments. The percentage of funds used for Medicaid payments to hospitals is repealed July 1, 2027. The bill also establishes a committee to study the Medicaid enhancement tax and disproportionate share hospital payments. |
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Of the 56 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 7 and opposition of 2 with 1 being of interest.
Of the 40 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 11 and opposition of 1 with 2 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Of Interest | SB112 | relative to purchased power agreements for electric distribution utilities. | Science, Technology and Energy | Mon 4/21 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill allows the department of energy or the electric distribution utilities, or both, to issue requests for proposals for multi-year agreements for energy, in conjunction with or independent of any attendant environmental attributes from electric energy sources, and coordinate with one or more New England states in issuing this RFP. |
| Support | SB25 | allowing credit union members to pay members of the board of directors for their services as a board member. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Tue 4/22 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill allows credit union members to pay members of the board of directors for their services as a board member. |
| Support | HB115 | relative to universal eligibility for the education freedom account program. | Education | Tue 4/22 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill increases the income eligibility for the EFA program in fiscal year 2026 and removes the income eligibility criteria beginning in fiscal year 2027. |
| Support | SB43 | removing articles of clothing from the definition of electioneering. | Election Law | Tue 4/22 | 11:40 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill allows certain articles of clothing supporting a candidate or measure to be worn by a voter in the process of casting his or her vote. |
| Support | HB138 | relative to tax impact notation on warrant articles with multi-year tax impacts. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 4/22 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill requires a notation stating the estimated tax impact for any special warrant article with a multi-year tax impact in towns that have voted to require a notation stating the estimated tax impact of the annual budget and all special warrant articles. |
| Support | HB284 | requiring tax impact statements on municipal warrant articles. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 4/22 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill requires that municipalities require tax impact statements on budgets and warrant articles and a total tax summary statement. |
| Support | HB200 | relative to the procedure for overriding a local tax cap. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 4/22 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill requires a supermajority vote of the legislative body to override a local tax cap. |
| Support | HB723 | repealing the multi-use energy data platform. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 4/22 | 9:15 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill repeals the multi-use energy data platform. |
| Support | HB240 | (New Title) relative to nonpayment of dog licensing fees. | Judiciary | Tue 4/22 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill changes the law to enable local governing bodies to issue warrants for civil forfeiture of an unlicensed dog for nonpayment of dog license fees. The law currently requires local governing bodies to issue warrants for civil forfeiture of an unlicensed dog for nonpayment of dog license fees. |
| Support | HB616 | (New Title) relative to the confiscation of animals from persons suspected of or charged with abuse of animals and establishing a committee to study the animal cruelty statutes. | Judiciary | Tue 4/22 | 1:30 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill prohibits the confiscation of animals from persons suspected of abuse of animals unless such person is charged with cruelty to animals or the animals require temporary protective custody. This bill also requires the state veterinarian or their designee to accompany an investigating officer when livestock are the subject of a cruelty case in order to set probable cause criteria for the taking of the animal. |
| Of Interest | HB88 | establishing community property trusts. | Judiciary | Tue 4/22 | 1:45 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill allows community property trusts to be formed in New Hampshire. |
| Support | SB40 | relative to safe boater education certificates. | Transportation | Tue 4/22 | 9:50 AM | LOB Room 203 | This bill adds an online examination approved by the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators (NASBLA) to the safe boater education certificate qualification and requires the department of safety to adopt rules relative to its implementation. |
| Oppose | SB150 | defining electric vehicle charging station and charging a fee for annual testing by the division of weights and measures. | Transportation | Tue 4/22 | 11:10 AM | LOB Room 203 | This bill: I. Defines electric vehicle charging station. II. Charges a fee for annual testing by the division of weights and measures. III. Authorizes the department of agriculture, markets, and food to appropriate funds for electric vehicle charging station testing and certification. |
| Support | SB33 | relative to the regulation of public school materials. | Education Policy and Administration | Wed 4/23 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires local school districts to adopt and publicly post policies describing materials authorized for use by students in the district and outlining procedures to address complaints alleging that material is harmful or age-inappropriate for use in the district’s schools. |
| Oppose | SB235 | enabling funds from the Pitman-Robertson Act to be spent by the fish and game department on threatened and endangered species in New Hampshire. | Fish and Game and Marine Resources | Wed 4/23 | 10:50 AM | LOB Room 307 | This bill enables funds from the Pitman-Robertson Act to be spent by the fish and game department on threatened and endangered species in New Hampshire. |
| Support | HB701 | relative to a health care patient’s right to try certain emergency health care treatment options. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/23 | 9:15 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill expands a health care patient’s right to try emerging health care treatment options. |
| Support | SB250 | relative to pharmacist administration of long-acting injectable drugs. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 4/23 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill allows pharmacists to administer certain long-acting controlled drugs pursuant to a prescription. |
| Support | SB252 | relative to criteria for providing certain medical care through telemedicine. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 4/23 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill modifies the requirements for the use of telemedicine to prescribe non-opioids and opioids classified in schedules II through IV, including authorizing physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses to do so. |
| Support | HB302 | relative to enabling the state treasury to invest in precious metals and digital assets. | Ways and Means | Wed 4/23 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill enables the state treasurer to invest state funds into precious metals and digital assets. |
| Of Interest | HB25 | making appropriations for capital improvements. | Capital Budget | Thu 4/24 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill makes appropriations for capital improvements for the biennium and extends certain lapse dates for previous appropriations. |
| Oppose | HB473 | criminalizing multiple forms of exposing children to controlled substances and allowing law enforcement to take a child into protective custody for screening and testing in an instance of suspected or actual criminal exposure to controlled substances. | Children and Family Law | Thu 4/24 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill expands the criminal statute criminalizing exposing children to methamphetamine and allowing for law enforcement to take a child into protective custody for screening or testing for criminal exposure to methamphetamine to cover all controlled substances, except those possessed pursuant to a lawful prescription. |
| Support | HB273 | relative to a parent’s access to their minor child’s library records. | Children and Family Law | Thu 4/24 | 10:20 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill allows parents to access all of their minor child’s library records. |
| Support | SB94 | prohibiting municipal amendments to the state building code. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 4/24 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill prohibits all local legislative bodies from adopting any new regulations that differ from the state building code. |
| Support | HB66 | relative to material subject to disclosure under the right to know law. | Judiciary | Thu 4/24 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill describes who may invoke the right to know law and in what manner, includes preliminary drafts of documents that are distributed to a quorum of a body among the materials that must be disclosed, allows certain 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. |
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On March 31st of this year I requested that Grafton County Attorney Martha Hornick legally identify Robert L. Lamontagne as a “victim” under New Hampshire’s Victim’s Bill of Rights Act for the criminal due process violations we allege he sustained during his trial. Unfortunately CA Hornick has appeared to take no action on this. No disrespect intended to her… but we’re not interested in sitting around waiting for this case to get older. We’re appealing to NH Attorney General John Formella immediately to have his Office designate Rob a legal “victim” of state agent misconduct that seems to have cost him his right to a fair trial.
If Rob went to State Prison for nearly ten years on an established practice of willful due process violations in Cheshire County — other people probably did too. That is an unacceptable disruption in controlling federal constitutional law by state authorities that have no such authority. The American public shouldn’t tolerate this. These national rules exist to protect our people uniformly throughout the land. Defense lawyers have an absolute legal right to know the credibility risks of a witness says the United States Constitution. State law in New Hampshire makes it a crime of various degrees to conceal this required federal information.
This is so serious of a breach in the public trust in my view that people with badges should be investigating this… not a blogger on FreeKeene.com.
Nonetheless, we respectfully appeal to New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella to have Rob designated a “victim” of a criminal due process violations that caused him serious harm.
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Of the 59 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 14 and opposition of 6 with 0 being of interest.
Of the 45 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 20 and opposition of 2 with 2 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Support | HB342 | relative to the approval process for new construction. | Commerce | Tue 1/21 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 210-211 | 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. |
| Support | HB296 | relative to issuing building permits along private roads. | Commerce | Tue 4/15 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill adds an alternative condition and provides another pathway to authorization for local governing bodies to erect buildings along private roads and adds additional requirements for subdivisions creating new lots. |
| Support | HB685 | permitting in all residentially zoned areas by right the construction of manufactured housing. | Commerce | Tue 4/15 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill updates the definition of manufactured housing, and establishes the requirement that manufactured housing must be permitted in all residential zoned areas within every municipality in the state, overriding any local zoning ordinances that prohibit or unreasonably restrict its placement. |
| Support | HB382 | (New Title) relative to authority for municipalities to regulate mandatory on-site parking requirements. | Commerce | Tue 4/15 | 10:05 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill amends the amount of accessory parking that municipalities can require for residential units. |
| Support | HB413 | relative to subdivision regulations on the completion of improvements and the regulation of building permits. | Commerce | Tue 4/15 | 10:35 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill: I. Extends the existing 5-year exemption for subdivision plats to 7 years and increases the preliminary step from 2 years to 3 years. II. Changes the building code and fire code appeals process, limiting the jurisdiction of the local building code board of appeals to hearing decisions made under local amendments to those codes. III. Provides that decisions of the building code review board regarding decisions of the fire marshal and local building code board of appeals may be appealed to superior court or the housing appeals board. |
| Support | HB68 | making best interest placements within the same school district mandatory in the absence of a valid reason to deny the placement. | Education | Tue 4/15 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill requires superintendents to approve student requests for reassignment within the same school district, and requires superintendents to provide written reasons to parents for denials of requests. |
| Support | HB235 | relative to amending the educator code of ethics and code of conduct to include responsibility to parents. | Education | Tue 4/15 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill amends the educator code of conduct to include responsibility to parents. |
| Oppose | SB204 | relative to the responsibility of local school districts to provide meals to students during school hours, reimbursing schools for meals provided to students at no cost, and making an appropriation therefor. | Education Funding | Tue 4/15 | 12:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill authorizes school boards to raise eligibility for free meals, requires the department of education to reimburse schools who raise eligibility, and provides an appropriation therefor. |
| Support | SB295 | (New Title) relative to education freedom accounts. | Education Funding | Tue 4/15 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill: I. Increases the number of students eligible for education freedom accounts by removing household income thresholds. II. Removes certain conditions tied to education freedom account funds. |
| Support | HB340 | relative to electioneering by public employees. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 4/15 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill defines electioneering in relation to public employees |
| Support | HB464 | (New Title) prohibiting certain candidates for political office from participating in counting ballots. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 4/15 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill prohibits certain candidates for political office from participating in counting ballots. |
| Support | HB474 | requiring a second witness at the counting of write-in votes. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 4/15 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill requires a second witness who is another sworn-in election official if a moderator uses a ballot counting device’s printed or digitally displayed images to count write-in votes in place of examining each ballot to obtain the name of the person who received a write-in vote. |
| Oppose | HB171 | establishing a moratorium on the issuance of permits for new landfills. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 4/15 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill establishes a moratorium on the issuance of permits for new landfills. |
| Oppose | HB707 | (New Title) requiring the department of environmental services to revise the rules for proposed new landfills. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 4/15 | 9:15 AM | SH Room 103 | The bill requires the department to modify rules to avoid significant harms to human health and the environment, and changes the enabling statute of the department of environmental services solid waste division to require the department to consider health and the environment when making future rules. |
| Oppose | SB302 | requiring background checks for solid waste facility owners. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 4/15 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill requires background checks for solid waste facility owners including partners and managers. |
| Support | SB229 | relative to the sale of uninspected bison, red deer, and elk meat. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 4/15 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill allows the sale of uninspected bison, red deer, and elk meat and removes the prospective repeal of the provisions governing the sale of uninspected bison, red deer, and elk meat. |
| Support | SB84 | relative to zoning procedures concerning residential housing. | Housing | Tue 4/15 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 305 | This bill sets maximum lot sizes for single-family residential uses based on the type of infrastructure servicing the lot. |
| Support | SB163 | prohibiting local moratoria and limitations on building permits. | Housing | Tue 4/15 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 305 | This bill repeals the authority for a local legislative body to adopt an ordinance establishing a temporary moratoria and limitations on building permits and the approval of subdivisions and site plans. |
| Support | SB281 | prohibiting municipalities from denying building or occupancy permits for property adjacent to class VI roads under certain circumstances. | Housing | Tue 4/15 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 305 | This bill changes the requirements that allow a building to be constructed on a lot adjacent to a class VI roadway. |
| Support | SB282 | relative to stairway requirements in certain residential buildings. | Housing | Tue 4/15 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 305 | This bill allows residential buildings between 6 and 4 floors above grade to have only one stairway under certain conditions. |
| Support | SB170 | (New Title) relative to development and related requirements in cities, towns, and municipalities. | Housing | Tue 4/15 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 305 | This bill: I. Prohibits cities, towns, and municipalities from restricting certain development-related activities. II. Requires cities, towns, and municipalities to allow for septic systems, wells, electric systems, drainage structures, and other utilities to be placed in open spaces or perimeter buffers of subdivisions. III. Prohibits cities, towns, and municipalities from mandating that occupants of housing units be related by blood or marriage. IV. Adopts limits on road frontage requirements and setbacks for lot lines to improve housing density, ensuring these requirements are consistent with existing shoreland protection and environmental standards. |
| Support | HB226 | relative to the use of drug checking equipment. | Judiciary | Tue 4/15 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | 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. |
| Support | HB190 | relative to therapeutic cannabis possession limits. | Judiciary | Tue 4/15 | 1:20 PM | SH Room 100 | 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 | HB380 | relative to penalties for criminal violations of the therapeutic use of cannabis. | Judiciary | Tue 4/15 | 1:30 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill amends the penalty for the unauthorized sale of cannabis by a qualifying patient or designated caregiver. |
| Support | HB198 | relative to legalizing certain quantities of cannabis and establishing penalties for the smoking or vaping of cannabis in public. | Judiciary | Tue 4/15 | 1:40 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill legalizes the possession of a certain amount of cannabis for persons 21 years or older and prohibits public consumption of cannabis. |
| Support | HB528 | (New Title) amending the penalties for the possession and use of psilocybin for persons 18 years of age or older. | Judiciary | Tue 4/15 | 1:50 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill modifies the penalties for a person 18 years of age or older to obtain, purchase, transport, possess, or use psilocybin. |
| Support | SB19 | relative to hotel and motel operations. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 4/16 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill: I. Repeals the requirement that hotel keepers post a notice of rental rates in hotel rooms. II. Repeals the requirement that motel operators place signs displaying rates for rental units. |
| Support | SB24 | allowing students under age 21 to taste wine in educational settings. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 4/16 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill allows students under age 21 to taste wine in certain educational settings. |
| Oppose | SB80 | consolidating licensing, auditing, and enforcement responsibilities for wholesale and retail e-cigarettes sales under the liquor commission. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 4/16 | 2:15 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill consolidates licensing, auditing, and enforcement responsibilities for wholesale and retail e-cigarettes sales under the liquor commission. The bill also provides for tobacco tax certificates to be issued by the department of revenue administration and licenses issued by the liquor commission. |
| Support | SB87 | relative to one day liquor license requirements and making salons and barber shops eligible for on-premise licenses. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 4/16 | 2:45 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill allows for-profit organizations to receive a one day liquor license and makes barber shops, salons, and spas eligible for on-premises licenses. |
| Support | SB89 | enabling non-citizens who are legally authorized to work in the United States to deliver alcohol. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 4/16 | 3:15 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill enables non-citizens who are legally authorized to work in the United States to deliver alcohol. |
| Of Interest | HB598 | establishing a committee to study data sources of all entities operated by all branches of government that are or are potentially made available to the public, identify the data formats of those sources, and recommend legislation to standardize types and formats of data output from all or select governmental entities. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 4/16 | 9:20 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill establishes a committee to study data sources of all entities operated by all three branches of government that are or are potentially made available to the public, identify the data formats of those sources, and recommend legislation to standardize types and formats of data output from all or select governmental entities. |
| Support | HB428 | prohibiting municipal amendments to the state building code. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 4/16 | 9:40 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill prohibits local legislative bodies from making any new changes to the state building codes. |
| Support | HB559 | relative to staffing requirements in emergency medical transport vehicles. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/16 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill provides that not more than one emergency medical care provider shall be required to provide care to a patient during transport in an ambulance or other emergency medical service vehicle. |
| Support | HB548 | relative to licensing requirements for health care facilities that operate on a membership-based business model. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/16 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill exempts direct-pay health care facilities from certain licensing requirements and policies in RSA 151:2-f as well as the moratorium on licensing and bed capacity in RSA 151:2, VI(a) provided that the facility is not a nursing home or skilled nursing facility. The bill also establishes a patient’s bill of right for direct-pay facilities and directs the department of health and human services to study direct-pay models. |
| Of Interest | HB705 | relative to health care cost transparency. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/16 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill requires health plans to disclose specific pricing information regarding covered items and services. The bill is contingent upon finalization of federal guidance under Presidential Executive Order 14221. |
| Oppose | SB243 | relative to the child care scholarship program. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 4/16 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires the commissioner of the department of health and human services to adopt administrative rules regarding payments for child care providers, the child care scholarship presumptive eligibility pilot program, and the child care scholarship application process study. |
| Support | SB141 | extending the time to petition for a new trial in certain cases. | Judiciary | Wed 4/16 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill creates an exception to the 3-year timeframe to petition for a new trial. |
| Support | SB268 | permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances. | Judiciary | Wed 4/16 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill provides a definition for “biological sex” and provides that certain designations by biological sex do not constitute unlawful discrimination. |
| Support | SB27 | relative to dwellings over water. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 4/16 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 305 | This bill allows improvements to certain dwellings over water. |
| Oppose | SB241 | relative to construction of a public pier on Hampton Beach and making an appropriation therefor. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 4/16 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 305 | This bill establishes and makes an appropriation to the Hampton Beach State Park pier fund, a dedicated fund to be administered by the division of parks and recreation for the purpose of siting, permitting, designing, and constructing a public pier at Hampton Beach. |
| Support | HB557 | relative to the information that appears on the school budget ballot. | Education Finance | Thu 4/17 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill requires the printing of certain information on the school budget ballot. |
| Support | HB771 | relative to funding for open enrollment schools. | Education Finance | Thu 4/17 | 1:20 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill: I. Changes how funding for open enrollment schools is sent and received. II. Requires school districts to establish a line item in their operating budgets that reflects expenditures for open enrollment tuition costs. |
| Oppose | SB29 | relative to membership, jurisdiction, and reports of the health care workplace safety commission and relative to health care facility reporting requirements under the workplace violence prevention program. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 4/17 | 11:15 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill adds a representative of Hampstead hospital to the health care workplace safety commission, requires monthly reporting of incidents to the department of labor, repeals an exemption for state operated health care facilities from jurisdiction of the commission, and clarifies that annual reports of the commission are not confidential. The bill is a request of the health care workplace safety commission. |
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