Sunday • November 24 • 2024
Vol.XVI • No.XLVII
Manchester, N.H.
As they do nearly every year, anti-freedom legislators in New Hampshire have once again proposed numerous bills that would restrict the natural right to self-defense and the natural right to privacy. On February 8th, the House Criminal Justice & Public Safety Committee held a hearing for the bills in Representative Hall due to the large turnout. The majority of people who testified on the bills were pro-freedom and opposed the gun control bills.
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It is no secret that politicians and their allies are hellbent on keeping us divided. When we fight each other, we forget that politicians are the true enemies of liberty and individuals. This book explains the many ways the elites attempt to turn us against each other. Some of their attempts fail, and some are very successful. What if we could use their strategy against them?
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Of the 121 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 31 and opposition of 16 with 11 being of interest.
Of the 39 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 0 with 1 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oppose | HB134 | extending the public employees labor relations act to employees of the general court and relative to the duties of the joint committee on legislative facilities. | Legislative Administration | Mon 2/6 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill establishes the legislature as a public employer under the public employee labor relations act and establishes procedures for collective bargaining by nonpartisan employees. |
| Support | HB381 | relative to the system benefits charge. | Science, Technology and Energy | Mon 2/6 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill provides that system benefits charge and local distribution adjustment charge funding levels may only be increased by passage of legislation or authorization by the fiscal committee of the general court. |
| Support | HB257 | relative to telephone carrier of last resort obligations. | Science, Technology and Energy | Mon 2/6 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill allows for an incumbent telephone utility to be relieved of its carrier of last resort obligations. |
| Support | HB491 | relative to prohibiting the use of the prone restraint for minors. | Children and Family Law | Tue 2/7 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill prohibits the use of prone restraint on a child in a school or treatment facility. |
| Support | HB490 | relative to modifying the definition of neglect. | Children and Family Law | Tue 2/7 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill amends the definition of neglected child to exclude a child permitted to engage in certain independent activities. |
| Oppose | SB143 | establishing a scholarship fund for certain small businesses applying for loans from the capital access program administered by the New Hampshire business finance authority. | Commerce | Tue 2/7 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes a scholarship fund in the capital access program of the business finance authority to cover entry costs for socially and/or economically disadvantaged individual small business owners applying for loans from the program. |
| Oppose | SB196 | establishing a minimum amount of uninsured motorist coverage required for vehicles operating as part of transportation network companies in New Hampshire. | Commerce | Tue 2/7 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes a set minimum amount of coverage required for vehicles operating as part of a transportation network company in New Hampshire. |
| Oppose | SB144 | relative to the state minimum hourly rate. | Commerce | Tue 2/7 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill provides for increases in the minimum hourly rate. |
| Of Interest | HB648 | relative to establishing a state bank of New Hampshire. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Tue 2/7 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill establishes a state bank of New Hampshire. |
| Oppose | SB214 | establishing a department of early childhood education and relative to a pre-kindergarten pilot program. | Education | Tue 2/7 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill establishes an executive branch department of early childhood education. The bill also establishes the authority for the department to design, create, and administer a 3-year high quality, community-based, mixed delivery public pre-kindergarten pilot program. |
| Of Interest | HB505 | relative to comprehensive mental health education in schools. | Education | Tue 2/7 | 11:15 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill adds comprehensive mental health education to the public school health education curriculum. |
| Support | HB539 | relative to vaccination clinics at schools. | Education | Tue 2/7 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill prohibits a public elementary or secondary school from conducting a vaccination clinic during school hours. |
| Of Interest | HB179 | relative to the definition of electioneering. | Election Law | Tue 2/7 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill amends the definition of “electioneering” to remove the prohibition against wearing clothing or paraphernalia that a reasonable person would believe explicitly advocates for or against any candidate, political party, or measure being voted. |
| Oppose | SB132 | prohibiting cities and towns from adopting sanctuary policies. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 2/7 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill prohibits any state or local government entity from establishing sanctuary policies. |
| Of Interest | SB155 | relative to the adoption of school administrative unit budgets. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 2/7 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill revises the procedure for the adoption of the annual budget for school administrative units and repeals the alternative budget adoption procedure. |
| Oppose | SB55 | making an appropriation for the Cannon Mountain tramway. | Finance | Tue 2/7 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill appropriates $25 million for the Cannon Mountain tramway from the fiscal year 2023 surplus. |
| Of Interest | HB558 | relative to electric microgrids and electric grid resiliency. | Science, Technology and Energy | Tue 2/7 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill establishes the authority for and procedures for adoption of electric microgrids. |
| Of Interest | HB605 | relative to solar generation under the renewable portfolio standards. | Science, Technology and Energy | Tue 2/7 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill revises the minimum percentages for solar electrical generation included in the renewable portfolio standards for 2024 through 2050 and after. |
| Of Interest | HB616 | relative to administration of the New Hampshire’s renewable portfolio standard. | Science, Technology and Energy | Tue 2/7 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill eliminates the use of the class definitions for renewable electrical generation for compliance with the renewable portfolio standard requirements, and adds Generation IV or later nuclear energy systems as a new class for the renewable energy portfolio standard. |
| Support | HB370 | relative to after market window tinting on motor vehicles for drivers with medical conditions. | Transportation | Tue 2/7 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill authorizes persons with medical conditions to apply for a special permit to waive the prohibition on automobile after market window tinting on the left and right side of the driver. |
| Support | HB537 | permitting vehicles to have front windshield tinting. | Transportation | Tue 2/7 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill removes the prohibition on front windshield tinted glass. |
| Oppose | HB356 | relative to the application of motor vehicle laws to bicycles. | Transportation | Tue 2/7 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill would require bicycles to have 4″ diameter mirrors on each side of the handlebars while operating on public ways with other motor vehicles. |
| Of Interest | HB198 | modifying the new resident drivers’ license transfer requirement. | Transportation | Tue 2/7 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill would require nonresident drivers who establish residency in New Hampshire to notify the department of safety if they then cease to become residents within 60 days, or if their out of state driver’s license expires or is relinquished. |
| Support | HB280 | relative to the sale of freeze-dried food. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 2/8 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill excludes freeze dried fruits and vegetables from the definition of potentially hazardous food. |
| Of Interest | HB645 | relative to the establishment of decentralized autonomous organizations as legal entities within the state. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 2/8 | 2:15 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill establishes decentralized autonomous organizations within the state. |
| Oppose | HB32 | relative to possession or discharge of a firearm in a safe school zone. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/8 | 9:00 AM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill adds a criminal offense for the possession or discharge of a firearm in a safe school zone. |
| Oppose | HB59 | requiring a background check prior to any commercial firearm sale. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/8 | 9:45 AM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill requires commercial firearms sales or transfers in this state to be subject to a criminal background check and provides a criminal penalty for a violation. The bill excludes private, noncommercial sales or transfers between individuals, provided neither individual is prohibited from owning or possessing a firearm under state or federal law. |
| Oppose | HB76 | imposing a waiting period between the purchase and delivery of a firearm. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/8 | 10:30 AM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill establishes a waiting period for the delivery of a firearm. |
| Oppose | HB78 | repealing an act prohibiting the state from enforcing any federal statute, regulation, or Presidential Executive Order that restricts or regulates the right of the people to keep or bear arms. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/8 | 11:15 AM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill repeals the prohibition on the state from enforcing any federal statute, regulation, or Presidential Executive Order that restricts or regulates the right of the people to keep and bear arms. |
| Oppose | HB106 | relative to extreme risk protection orders. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/8 | 1:00 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill establishes a procedure for issuing extreme risk protection orders to protect against persons who pose an immediate risk of harm to themselves or others. |
| Oppose | HB351 | relative to the negligent storage of firearms and relative to firearm safety devices. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/8 | 1:45 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill requires a locking safety device accompany all private and commercial firearms transactions and expands the criminal penalties for negligent storage of firearms. |
| Oppose | HB444 | prohibiting possession of a firearm at a polling place. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/8 | 2:30 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill prohibits possessing a firearm at a polling place and includes certain exceptions. |
| Support | HB474 | relative to enforcement of federal firearms laws and establishing penalties. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/8 | 3:15 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill prohibits the enforcement of any federal law or rule that might impair a person’s natural right to firearm ownership and natural right to self-defense and requires any public official who attempts to enforce such a federal law to be terminated from their position. |
| Oppose | HB623 | establishing a teacher candidate loan forgiveness program. | Education | Wed 2/8 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill establishes a teacher candidate loan forgiveness program administered by the university system for new teachers in critical teacher shortage areas of the state. |
| Support | HB563 | relative to the adoption of school administrative unit budgets. | Education | Wed 2/8 | 11:15 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill revises the procedure for the adoption of the annual budget for school administrative units and repeals the alternative budget adoption procedure. |
| Of Interest | HB354 | relative to chartered public school eligibility for state school building aid. | Education | Wed 2/8 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill adds chartered public schools to the procedures for consideration, approval, plan requirements, and determination of grants for school building aid. |
| Support | HB394 | relative to the organization of cooperative school boards. | Education | Wed 2/8 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires that officers of cooperative school boards and the locations of meetings of the board rotate among the members and their districts. |
| Support | HB632 | relative to the cooperative school district budget committee. | Education | Wed 2/8 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires that the chairperson of the cooperative school district budget committee shall not be from the same pre-existing district in consecutive years. |
| Of Interest | SB1 | (New Title) relative to the closing of the Sununu youth services center and establishing a commission to study the public safety of the secured youth development center and surrounding communities. | Finance | Wed 2/8 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill requires the closure of the Sununu youth services center, and sets out parameters for the contract for a replacement facility. The bill also establishes a commission to study the public safety of the youth development center and surrounding communities. |
| Oppose | SB175 | relative to Medicaid coverage for mothers. | Health and Human Services | Wed 2/8 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill: 1. Mandates that the department of health and human services extend Medicaid coverage for pregnant women to 12 months postpartum, to cover doula services, to cover lactation services, and to cover donor breast milk for eligible infants, and creates appropriations thereof. 2. Establishes minimum workplace supports for nursing mothers. 3. Appropriates money to the department of health and human services to support healthy outcomes for caregivers and children. 4. Establishes a commission to study home visiting programs for all parents of newborns and young children. 5. Mandates the department of health and human services establish a network of early childhood behavioral health supports. |
| Support | HB262 | relative to laboratory testing by licensed naturopaths | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 2/8 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill adds naturopathic doctors to the definition of “licensed medical practitioner” for health facilities authorized for laboratory testing. |
| Support | HB477 | to prohibit municipal inspections of owner-occupied units of multi-unit housing. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 2/8 | 10:50 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill prohibits municipal inspections of owner-occupied units within residential structures of 4 units or less. |
| Oppose | HB467 | relative to public playground accessibility. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 2/8 | 12:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill requires public playgrounds in use on or after January 1, 2024 to have solid rubber or rubber composite surfacing for accessibility to the playground and each piece of equipment. |
| Support | HB423 | relative to accessory dwelling unit uses allowed by right. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 2/8 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill increases the number of accessory dwelling units allowed by right from one to 2, changes the definition of attached unit, and increases the maximum square footage from 750 to 1,000. It also gives towns the right to require one unit to meet the definition for workforce housing. |
| Support | HB135 | prohibiting no-knock warrants. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 2/9 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill prohibits a law enforcement officer from seeking, executing, or participating in the execution of a no-knock search warrant. |
| Support | HB481 | relative to arrest warrants and search warrants. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 2/9 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill requires that the state disclose any prior evidence used to obtain either an arrest warrant or a search warrant, and whether a prior arrest or search warrant was denied based on the evidence being submitted in requesting a new arrest or search warrant. |
| Support | HB593 | relative to the forfeiture of assets in connection with a drug offense. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 2/9 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill establishes a procedure for the forfeiture of items used in connection with a drug offense. |
| Support | HB624 | relative to federal immigration checkpoints. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 2/9 | 3:30 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill requires a law enforcement agency to provide public notice of an immigration checkpoint. |
| Of Interest | HB653 | prohibiting personal recognizance bail for violent crimes. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 2/9 | 4:00 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill lists certain offenses which, if committed by the defendant, create a presumption that a defendant is a danger to the public and shall be detained for up to 36 hours. The bill also provides that a person who commits an offense while on bail shall be detained without bail pending a hearing before a judge. |
| Oppose | HB532 | relative to the licensure and regulation of music therapists. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 2/9 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill establishes the licensure and regulation of music therapists under the allied health professionals. |
| Support | HB507 | relative to unauthorized practice in occupational and professional licensing and certification. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 2/9 | 11:15 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill clarifies that penalties for the unlicensed practice of a profession regulated under the office of professional licensure and certification do not apply so long as the person practicing does not hold themselves out as being licensed or certified and discloses the fact that he or she is not licensed or certified. |
| Support | HB594 | relative to the licensure of out-of-state applicants to boards or commissions organized under the office of professional licensure and certification. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 2/9 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill authorizes the office of professional licensure and certification to issue licenses to out-of-state applicants who are licensed in another state, if the other state’s licensing requirements are substantially similar to those in New Hampshire. |
| Support | HB644 | relative to regulating barbers, cosmetologists, and estheticians. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 2/9 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill makes changes to the regulation of barbers, cosmetologists, and estheticians. |
| Support | HB188 | relative to the duration of physical therapy. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Thu 2/9 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill removes the requirement that a physical therapist refer a patient to a health care provider if there is no documented improvement after 25 days of treatment. |
| Support | HB500 | relative to prescribing opioids via telehealth medicine. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Thu 2/9 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill allows practitioners of telehealth medicine to prescribe opioids. |
| Support | HB611 | relative to eligibility criteria for the therapeutic cannabis program. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Thu 2/9 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill removes the requirement that severe pain be resistant to other treatment options in order to be considered a qualifying medical condition for therapeutic cannabis. |
| Support | HB610 | expanding the definition of providers who can certify patients of the therapeutic cannabis program. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Thu 2/9 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill expands the definition of provider under the therapeutic cannabis program to include any individual licensed in New Hampshire to prescribe drugs to humans who holds an active registration from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration to prescribe controlled substances. The bill also requires, for issuance of a registry identification card to a minor, certification from either a pediatrician or family practice provider. |
| Support | HB431 | permitting qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Thu 2/9 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill permits qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use. |
| Oppose | HB191 | relative to voluntarily surrendered firearms. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 2/10 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill removes the prohibition on a state agency operating a voluntary firearms “surrender and destroy” program and permits a state agency to destroy voluntarily surrendered firearms. |
| Support | HB305 | relative to exceptions for violations related to Presidential Executive Orders governing the keeping or bearing of arms. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 2/10 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill limits the ability of state, local, or county law enforcement officials to aid federal officials in the investigation of criminal violations for federal firearms laws to cases where the state criminal violation is a class A felony only. |
| Support | HB651 | authorizing the department of education and local school districts to contract with transportation network companies to provide school transportation services. | Education | Fri 2/10 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill allows the department of education to contract for buses to transport pupils with transportation network companies. |
| Support | HB275 | relative to schools approved for a school tuition program by a school board. | Education | Fri 2/10 | 11:15 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill allows a pupil’s parents to pay the difference between a receiving school tuition cost and the sending district tuition cap in a school tuition program. |
| Oppose | HB640 | relative to cost recovery for vocational rehabilitation programs. | Education | Fri 2/10 | 12:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill repeals the state’s right to recover the cost of vocational rehabilitation services from an individual who receives a third party settlement or benefit award. |
| Oppose | HB628 | requiring certain non-public schools or education service providers that accept public funds to perform background checks on all employees and volunteers. | Education | Fri 2/10 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires nonpublic schools and education service providers that accept public funds to comply with requirements for criminal history background checks for employees and volunteers. |
| Support | HB427 | relative to public comment and inquiry during school board meetings. | Education | Fri 2/10 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill establishes requirements for public meetings held by a school board to include a designated time period for questions from the public and answers from the board. The bill also allows an attendee of a meeting of the school board to demand which New Hampshire statute or administrative rule gives the school board the authority described in a school policy or operational procedure. |
| Oppose | HB629 | establishing a student bill of rights. | Education | Fri 2/10 | 2:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill establishes a student bill of rights. |
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In California, a physician who expresses a view on COVID-19 that differs from the one held by the governor of that state is guilty of 'professional misconduct' and is subject to losing his license to practice -- depriving him of the opportunity to make a living, and depriving his patients of the benefit of his training, experience, insight, and wisdom.
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In June 2022, Leavitt’s bakery allowed local high school students to paint a colorful mural above its entryway. Depicting various baked goods and a rising sun, the town politicians of Conway decided that the mural is a ‘sign’ for advertising and not a work of art, and is illegal. In true arbitrary fashion, they insist the mural would be allowed were it smaller, or even if it were above the farm stand next door. Just not where it is on the property of the bakery.
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For the past two decades, the progressive left-wing of the united states and the world has been insisting that the globe is warming catastrophically quickly due to human behavior. There is a myriad of hard sources, facts, and figures that disprove this ridiculous claim. Additionally, The Liberty Block published an article in 2021 proving that even the most hardcore progressive elites do not believe the Earth is warming.
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The House Science, Technology and Energy Committee will hold a public hearing tomorrow, February 3rd, for House Bill 92. The legislation was sponsored by 7 Democrats and aims to adopt the California Low Emission/Zero Emission (LEV/ZEV) vehicle standards. The bill, like many others, has a seemingly admirable intention of protecting the environment, but what incentives does it actually provide? Is it even helpful in the first place? Let’s take a look.
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On Saturday, January 28th, the New Hampshire State Republican Committee (NHRSC) resoundingly passed a resolution calling on the Attorney General to investigate the COVID vaccine manufacturers for fraud and wrongdoing. Freshman state representative Jason Gerhard brought the resolution to the floor shortly after Donald Trump addressed the crowd of roughly 500 state committee members.
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Two extremely important bills have been filed by New Hampshire legislators who are dedicated to protecting the natural human right to bear arms. Both bills will have public hearings in the House Criminal Justice & Public Safety Committee on Wednesday, February 8th at 3:15 PM.
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Last week at the state house, liberty activists spoke on various bills in front of the Criminal Justice Committee including:
HB 581 – Finally, after years of compromised legislation trying to slowly scrape away at drug prohibition, one brave state representative, Matt Santonastaso, has put forward a bill that would in one fell swoop, end the entire War on Drugs. Sadly, only Bonnie and I came out to support Rep. Santonastaso and testify in favor of this epic legislation. We need more reps willing to take a risk with their “political capital” and actually put forward principled bills like this. Sure, it has no chance of passing, but the conversation needs to happen, and it needs to keep coming back and growing in its support. We also need bills to do other principled things like end government schooling, abolish the liquor commission, and abolish the state police. Hopefully we’ll see more liberty reps step up to the level of Matt Santonastaso in the coming years. Here is full video of the hearing:
HB 360 – One of several cannabis-related bills in the session this year, HB 360 is probably the best one I’ve seen as it does not contain any provisions to tax or regulate cannabis. It simply removes it from being a prohibited substance, although only for those over 21. It’s overall a great bill and would be awesome if it passed, though another bill that has taxes and regulations has the support of the house minority and majority leaders, so don’t get your hopes up. That said, it’s good to see the ideas discussed. Here’s full video of the hearing:
HB 328 – This straightforward bill creates an exception for people over 21 to be able to possess “hallucinogenic drugs”, which the statute defines as, “psychodysleptic drugs which assert a confusional or disorganizing effect upon mental processes or behavior and mimic acute psychotic disturbances. Exemplary of such drugs are mescaline, peyote, psilocybin and d-lysergic acid diethylamide.” Derek Januszewski of the Pachamama Sanctuary came out to speak the truth about these substances. Here’s full video of the hearing:
HB 470 – Possession of drug testing equipment is currently a crime in New Hampshire, which means people cannot legally have their drugs tested for purity, to ensure they are getting what they think they are buying. Drug testing equipment is harm reduction as it reduces deaths and serious overdoses. Even New Futures, who normally opposes legalization efforts, supported the bill. This is a good bill from the left and should receive the support of the liberty reps. Here’s full video of the hearing:
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Of the 97 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 11 and opposition of 14 with 3 being of interest.
Of the 71 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 2 and opposition of 2 with 1 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oppose | CACR4 | relating to compensation for legislators. Providing that legislators’ biennial salary compensation shall be increased. | Legislative Administration | Mon 1/30 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution increases the biennial compensation for legislators and increases additional compensation for attendance at special sessions, emergency sessions, and veto sessions. |
| Of Interest | HB301 | relative to recusal by members of the general court for conflicts of interest. | Legislative Administration | Mon 1/30 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill defines conflicts of interests relative to legislative ethics and delineates when members of the general court should recuse themselves due to such conflicts of interests. |
| Oppose | HB208 | establishing greenhouse gas emission reduction goals for the state and establishing a climate action plan. | Science, Technology and Energy | Mon 1/30 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill establishes greenhouse gas emission reduction goals for the state and authorizes the department of environmental services to inventory greenhouse gas emissions on an annual basis and to develop and report on a 5-year action plan. |
| Oppose | SB201 | relative to resale of event tickets. | Commerce | Tue 1/31 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill provides a civil penalty for the unauthorized resale of event tickets. |
| Support | HB130 | repealing the drug affordability board. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Tue 1/31 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill repeals the New Hampshire drug affordability board and the fund related to the administration of the board. |
| Oppose | HB249 | establishing regulatory standards for the pet insurance industry. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Tue 1/31 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill establishes regulatory standards for the sale of pet insurance. The bill is a request of the insurance department. |
| Oppose | SB141 | relative to administration of the education freedom accounts program. | Education | Tue 1/31 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill provides for applications to the education freedom account program for a child currently attending a New Hampshire public school, including a chartered public school, for a minimum of one year, or who is entering kindergarten or first grade. This bill requires annual determination of eligibility for awarding of education freedom account funds. The bill also requires an annual report on the number of students participating in the program in each school district. |
| Oppose | SB151 | relative to mental health education. | Education | Tue 1/31 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill expands the adequate education standards to include mental health education and provides rulemaking authority to the department of education to accommodate this change. |
| Oppose | HB324 | relative to campaign contributions and expenditures and making an appropriation therefor. | Election Law | Tue 1/31 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill establishes a fund to provide campaign financing for eligible candidates for governor and executive councilor and makes an appropriation to the fund. |
| Of Interest | HB482 | requiring the use of ballots with embedded security, traceability, and relative to the chain of custody for ballots cast in elections. | Election Law | Tue 1/31 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill: I. Requires the secretary of state to select a supplier to print and deliver ballots for elections. II. Makes certain security requirements of ballots. III. Specifies the chain of custody for ballots during and after an election. IV. Requires photocopied proof of identity and residency when submitting an absentee ballot. |
| Oppose | HB259 | relative to a study about making working at polling places on election day a civic responsibility and legal obligation for citizens. | Election Law | Tue 1/31 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This establishes a committee to study whether to make working at polling places on election day a civic responsibility and legal obligation for citizens |
| Oppose | SB133 | relative to changing the date of the state primary election and creates runoff election for federal primary election. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 1/31 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill changes the date of the state primary election to May and creates a runoff election for the federal primary election. |
| Support | HB119 | relative to homestead food operation licensure. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 1/31 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill increases the maximum annual gross sales of food a homestead food operation may sell and retain an exemption from food licensing provisions. |
| Support | HB122 | relative to microenterprise home kitchen operations. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 1/31 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill defines homestead food operations and provides food service licensing exemptions for them. |
| Support | HB493 | eliminating the state meat inspection program. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 1/31 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill eliminates the state meat inspection program. This bill is a request of the department of agriculture, markets, and food. |
| Support | HB348 | relative to the sale of raw milk and products made with raw milk. | Environment and Agriculture | Tue 1/31 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill increases the amount of raw milk a producer processor can sell or process without a license and removes the requirement that such ice cream and frozen yogurt produced using raw milk be sold in 6 ounce containers. |
| Oppose | SB114 | relative to payment by the state of a portion of retirement system contributions of political subdivision employers. | Finance | Tue 1/31 | 1:55 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill restores the state’s contribution to the retirement liabilities of certain teachers, firefighters, and police officers within the state retirement system. |
| Support | HB646 | eliminating the vehicle inspection mandate for non-commercial vehicles. | Transportation | Tue 1/31 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill exempts vehicles that do not require a commercial driver license to operate from annual equipment inspection to determine whether such vehicles are fit to be driven. |
| Oppose | SB256 | establishing a safety program for off-highway recreational vehicles. | Transportation | Tue 1/31 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 101 | This bill establishes a safety program for off highway recreational vehicles. |
| Support | HB288 | relative to taxation of sole proprietorship businesses. | Ways and Means | Tue 1/31 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill exempts sole proprietorships and single member LLCs from business enterprise and business profits taxes. |
| Support | HB486 | relative to vehicle registrations and reciprocal toll collection enforcement agreements. | Ways and Means | Tue 1/31 | 1:15 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill removes the authority of the commissioner of the department of transportation to suspend the motor vehicle registration of owners in violation of reciprocal toll collection enforcement agreements. |
| Oppose | HB225 | relative to prohibiting the use of currency that could be detrimental to privacy rights. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 2/1 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill prohibits the use of any currency as legal tender that could be detrimental to privacy rights. |
| Of Interest | HB46 | relative to the appointment of magistrates and repealing the statutes governing bail commissioners. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/1 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill authorizes the superior court and circuit court to appoint magistrates and repeals the powers, duties, and authority of bail commissioners. |
| Oppose | HB400 | relative to certain assault offenses, bail eligibility for commission of certain assault offenses, and making a false report to a law enforcement officer. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/1 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill establishes a separate criminal penalty and bail conditions for assaults involving a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or emergency medical services worker. The bill also establishes a criminal penalty for making a false report to a law enforcement officer. |
| Oppose | HB549 | relative to definitions of domestic violence. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 2/1 | 12:30 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill expands the definition of abuse to includes acts of financial abuse and domestic violence. |
| Support | SB206 | prohibiting corporal punishment in child day care agencies. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 2/1 | 10:15 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill expands the definition of endangerment to include corporal punishment as defined by the department of health and human services. |
| Support | HB274 | relative to the administrative rulemaking process. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 2/1 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill makes various changes to the administrative procedures act, including requiring the agency to verify that the rule complies with the underlying statutory authority and legislative intent; expanding the scope of fiscal impact statements; requiring that proposed rules be submitted to the appropriate legislative policy committee for approval; permitting JLCAR to deny adoption of a rule following final objection, and repealing certain exemptions from rulemaking authority. |
| Oppose | HB566 | relative to establishing a fund for child care workers and early childhood educators at state licensed child care centers. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 2/1 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill establishes a child care workforce fund to provide grants to eligible child care employers for child care workforce recruitment and retention bonuses and benefits. |
| Support | SB254 | relative to community-based sentencing alternatives for primary caregivers. | Judiciary | Wed 2/1 | 2:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill adds “dependent child,” “elder,” “person with a disability,” and “primary caretaker of a dependent child” to sentencing definitions. This bill requires sentencing courts make determinations for individually assessed sentences without imprisonment based on community rehabilitation and parent-child or dependent unity and support factors for primary caretakers of dependents. |
| Oppose | HB489 | establishing a county tourism development fund administered by the department of business and economic affairs and making an appropriation therefor. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 2/1 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill establishes a county tourism development fund administered by the department of business and economic affairs and makes an appropriation therefor. The bill also establishes a county tourism grant program funded from tax on meals and rooms income. |
| Oppose | HB226 | enabling municipalities to regulate the distribution and disposal of certain solid waste within landfills. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 2/1 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill allows towns and municipalities to regulate the distribution and disposal of certain solid waste within landfills. |
| Oppose | HB273 | requiring composting and waste recycling to be made available to residents of public housing. | Municipal and County Government | Wed 2/1 | 2:20 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill requires public housing residents to have access to on-site composting and recycling receptacles. |
| Support | HB592 | relative to buffers around wetlands. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 2/1 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill exempts temporary impacts and small impervious surface impacts projects from local over lay districts and permits for construction, excavation, or filling near wetlands. |
| Of Interest | SB191 | relative to road toll registration surcharges for electric vehicles. | Ways and Means | Wed 2/1 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes a registration surcharge for electric vehicles and requires the division of motor vehicles and department of transportation to report annually on the surcharge revenue and use of funds. |
| Oppose | SB261 | relative to the interest and dividends tax rate and threshold. | Ways and Means | Wed 2/1 | 10:15 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill: I. Removes the repeal of the interest and dividends tax rate that was to take place on January 1, 2027. II. Removes the interest and dividends tax rate reductions that were to occur after December 31, 2024. III. Increases the taxable minimum of gross income from interest and dividends. |
| Oppose | SB262 | allowing municipalities to collect an occupancy fee from operators of local room rentals. | Ways and Means | Wed 2/1 | 10:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill enables a municipality to collect an occupancy fee from room rentals for the purpose of establishing a municipal capital fund, revolving fund, or tourism support fund. |
| Oppose | SB168 | relative to participation in a low-moderate income residential customers community solar project. | Energy and Natural Resources | Thu 2/2 | 1:45 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill allows for participation of certain large electrical generators in low-moderate income community solar projects and expands the eligibility of residents to benefit from community solar additions. |
| Oppose | SB149 | relative to nurse agencies. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 2/2 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill establishes a licensing and application process for nurse agencies. |
| Support | HB110 | prohibiting the use of state funds for new passenger rail projects. | Public Works and Highways | Fri 2/3 | 11:45 AM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill prohibits the department of transportation from utilizing state funds for the planning, construction, operation, or management of new passenger rail projects. |
| Oppose | HB511 | relative to requiring the department of transportation to do road maintenance and repairs according to its complete streets program | Public Works and Highways | Fri 2/3 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill requires towns, cities, state departments and state institutions who request maintenance and repair assistance for their roads from the department of transportation to coordinate with the complete streets advisory committee to plan and follow the complete streets program standards of the National Association of City Traffic Officials. |
| Oppose | HB633 | relative to electric distribution company market share, prohibiting certain electric rate increases, and requiring enforcement against Eversource. | Science, Technology and Energy | Fri 2/3 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill requires that electric distribution companies shall not raise electric rates by an amount that exceeds the annual increase in the Consumer Price Index. The bill also prohibits electric distribution companies from having market share greater than 50 percent and requires the attorney general to bring an action against Eversource. |
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As a long-standing Republican volunteer who has held multiple positions in the state party and knows a great deal about the party's history with the multitude of its stakeholders, I am providing the insight I KNOW concerning the NHGOP election on January 28th.
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Sponsored by five Republicans, five Democrats, and the House Majority Leader, House Bill 639 is an excellent bill, especially compared to the poison-pill-packed House Bill 544. The people of New Hampshire have long called for cannabis legalization, and now they finally have a shot.
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Three Democrat legislators have proposed a bill to prohibit “armor piercing ammunition.” As is often the case, the devil is in the details. In this case, the entirety of the new legislation is very short and fairly straightforward.
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Last week at the state house, liberty activists spoke on various bills in front of the Criminal Justice Committee including:
HB 216 – would end the prohibition of dimethyltryptamine aka DMT – filed by heroic 100% liberty rep Matt Santonastaso of Rindge. Though last year the criminal justice committee recommended to kill the psilocybin decrim bill, we once again patiently explained to them the religious use of a different chemical, DMT. Derek Januszewski, founder of the Ayahuasca church based in NH, “Pachamama Sanctuary” spoke in detail about his experience administering the potent hallucinogenic tea to thousands of willing people on a spiritual journey. Other ministers from the Shire Free Church and Church of the Invisible Hand also weighed in. The only person opposing the bill was a goon from the State Police, who trotted out the usual fearmongering about driving while impaired. When questioned by a younger state rep named Wheeler, the statie couldn’t answer to what extent any hallucinogens were involved in traffic accidents. He instead claimed he’d look into it for the state rep. Full video of the hearing:
HB 144 – would restore gun rights to nonviolent ex-felons in NH – filed by newbie liberty rep Jason Gerhard of Northfield. Gerhard spent more than a dozen years in federal prison for bravely standing with tax freedom advocates Ed and Elaine Brown. He never harmed anyone and neither have a ton of people who have been saddled with the “felon” label for the rest of their lives. Gerhard’s bill would restore non-violent ex-felons’ right to bear arms in New Hampshire. Full video of the hearing:
HB 31 – would end prohibition on blackjacks, slung shots, and metallic knuckles – filed by multi-term liberty rep James Spillane of Deerfield. Though knives and guns are legal to openly or concealed carry in New Hampshire, for some reason it’s prohibited to carry or sell 19th century weapons like the blackjack, slung shot, or metallic knuckles. Spillane’s bill would end that ancient prohibition for greater weapons freedom in New Hampshire. Full video of the hearing:
On January 18th, freshman state representative Jason Gerhard brought forth a resolution to the Merrimack County Republican Committee that addressed what many of us have been thinking: It’s time to investigate the COVID vaccine manufacturers for fraud and wrongdoing.
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“A person who operates any motor vehicle on a public way with an animal of any size on their person, or who permits an animal to impede his or her free access to and use of vehicle controls or to obstruct their vision with any animal between the operator and the operators (sic) door is guilty of a violation.”
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Of the 167 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 22 and opposition of 42 with 10 being of interest.
Of the 35 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 0 and opposition of 0 with 3 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oppose | HB633 | relative to electric distribution company market share, prohibiting certain electric rate increases, and requiring enforcement against Eversource. | Science, Technology and Energy | Mon 1/23 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill requires that electric distribution companies shall not raise electric rates by an amount that exceeds the annual increase in the Consumer Price Index. The bill also prohibits electric distribution companies from having market share greater than 50 percent and requires the attorney general to bring an action against Eversource. |
| Of Interest | SB102 | relative to the Jones Act’s effect on New Hampshire’s heating and energy fuel market. | Commerce | Tue 1/24 | 9:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill requires the department of energy to submit a report to the legislature on the impact of the Jones Act on New Hampshire’s heating and energy fuel market. |
| Oppose | HB487 | establishing a New Hampshire farm-to-school reimbursement program. | Education | Tue 1/24 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill establishes a New Hampshire farm to school reimbursement program and makes an appropriation therefor. |
| Oppose | HB334 | relative to determination and cost of state adequate education. | Education | Tue 1/24 | 12:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill changes the calculation for the per pupil amount for grants for the opportunity for an adequate education to be 1/2 of the statewide average cost per pupil. |
| Oppose | HB430 | relative to applications for the education freedom accounts program. | Education | Tue 1/24 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill provides for applications to the education freedom account program for a child currently attending a New Hampshire public school, including a chartered public school, for a minimum of one year, or who is entering kindergarten or first grade. |
| Oppose | HB324 | relative to campaign contributions and expenditures and making an appropriation therefor. | Election Law | Tue 1/24 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill establishes a fund to provide campaign financing for eligible candidates for governor and executive councilor and makes an appropriation to the fund. |
| Of Interest | SB61 | relative to surface water setbacks for landfills. | Energy and Natural Resources | Tue 1/24 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill enables the department of environmental services to adopt rules relative to surface water setbacks for landfills. |
| Oppose | HB332 | relative to school building aid for eligible projects. | Finance | Tue 1/24 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill increases the amount to be appropriated by the legislature for school building aid construction and renovation projects of school districts. The bill also allocates a portion of funds to be paid for school building projects approved in prior years but which were not funded. |
| Oppose | HB541 | relative to school building aid grants and making an appropriation therefor. | Finance | Tue 1/24 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill increases the amount of school building aid grants that may be approved by the department of education per fiscal year. The bill also makes appropriations of $100 million in fiscal years 2024 and 2025 for approved school building aid projects. |
| Oppose | HB546 | relative to the school building aid program. | Finance | Tue 1/24 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill requires a minimum of $50,000,000 per fiscal year to be transferred to the school building aid fund, in addition to any debt service payments, for school building aid grants. |
| Of Interest | SB80 | requiring the recording of custodial interrogations and making an appropriation therefor. | Judiciary | Tue 1/24 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill requires that custodial interrogations be recorded, establishes a fund to make grants to state law enforcement agencies to purchase equipment to enable such recordings, and makes an appropriation therefor. |
| Oppose | SB117 | relative to the definition of a “child” for the purpose of negligent storage of firearms. | Judiciary | Tue 1/24 | 1:35 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill changes the age of a child for the purpose of negligent storage of firearms. |
| Oppose | HB418 | relative to eliminating the rebates distributed by the energy efficiency fund. | Science, Technology and Energy | Tue 1/24 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill eliminates the rebate amount distributed to retail electricity ratepayers and allocates all auction proceeds to support current or future energy efficiency resource standards programs. |
| Oppose | HB92 | requiring the adoption of innovative vehicle emissions standards pursuant to section 177 of the federal Clean Air Act. | Science, Technology and Energy | Tue 1/24 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill requires the adoption of California Low Emission/Zero Emission vehicle standards to protect public health, enable New Hampshire automotive customers to utilize the extended emissions-specific warranty, and to enable New Hampshire automotive dealers to carry Zero Emissions Vehicles in stock. The bill also increases the inspection sticker fee and makes an appropriation to the department of environmental services to fund an additional position. |
| Oppose | HB597 | relative to race and ethnicity data on driver’s licenses, and race and ethnicity data collection. | Transportation | Tue 1/24 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill adds race and ethnicity as optional information that may be included on a driver’s license, commercial driver’s license, and nondriver’s picture identification card and requires law enforcement agencies to collect such data. |
| Support | HB650 | relative to prohibiting suspension of driver’s licenses due to nonpayment of fines or fees. | Transportation | Tue 1/24 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill modifies the circumstances under which a driver’s license may be suspended or revoked for nonpayment of fines, fees, or restitution; removes suspension of a driver’s license or privilege as a sentencing punishment for nonpayment of fines, fees, or restitution; and authorizes the commissioner of safety to expunge the records of individuals covered by this bill. |
| Support | HB388 | relative to number plates for motor vehicles. | Transportation | Tue 1/24 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill would require private passenger vehicles to display only one number plate on the rear of the vehicle. |
| Support | HB393 | permitting a motor vehicle operator to use only a rear license plate. | Transportation | Tue 1/24 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill allows all private passenger vehicles and commercial vehicles to have a single license plate on the rear. |
| Support | HB15 | relative to the rate of the business enterprise tax. | Ways and Means | Tue 1/24 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill reduces the rate of the business enterprise tax for tax years ending on or after December 31, 2024. |
| Support | HB133 | relative to repealing the communications services tax. | Ways and Means | Tue 1/24 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill repeals the communications services tax. |
| Oppose | HB192 | relative to the rate and exemptions of the interest and dividends tax. | Ways and Means | Tue 1/24 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill repeals the previously passed phase out of the interest and dividends tax and changes the rates and exemptions. |
| Support | HB100 | to repeal the interest and dividends tax. | Ways and Means | Tue 1/24 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill changes the effective date of the repeal of the interest and dividends tax. |
| Oppose | HB531 | relative to the taxation of tobacco and nicotine products. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/25 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill directs the commissioner of the department of revenue administration to annually set the tobacco and nicotine tax based on the rates charged by neighboring states, and directs the commissioner to produce a report detailing the uses of such taxes. |
| Oppose | HB279 | increasing the penalty for on-premises licensees overserving alcohol. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/25 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill increases the penalty for on-premises licensees overserving alcohol. |
| Of Interest | HB612 | relative to the fees for New Hampshire wine manufacturers. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/25 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill: I. Allows wine manufacturers to give a bottle as a sample under certain conditions. II. Changes the fee and tax structure on wine sold in state. III. Exempts a certain volume of wine from taxes for home use. |
| Support | HB639 | relative to the legalization and regulation of cannabis and making appropriations therefor. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/25 | 1:15 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. |
| Of Interest | HB544 | legalizing cannabis for retail sale. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Wed 1/25 | 1:20 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill: I. Legalizes the retail sale, possession, and use of cannabis for persons 21 years of age and older. II. Authorizes the liquor commission to regulate and administer the cultivation, manufacture, testing, and retail sale of cannabis statewide, and makes an appropriation therefor. III. Authorizes alternative treatment centers registered to dispense therapeutic cannabis to register, as a separate entity, to manufacture, cultivate, or transport cannabis to the state for retail sale. IV. Authorizes a municipality to enact an ordinance prohibiting or limiting the number and type of cannabis establishments that may be permitted within the municipality and regulating the time, place, and manner of operation of a cannabis establishment permitted within the municipality. V. Establishes the cannabis control fund and requires funds to be distributed to municipalities and the general fund. VI. Makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services to create public media and social media campaigns to address some of the risks of cannabis use. |
| Oppose | HB272 | increasing chartered public school per pupil funding. | Education | Wed 1/25 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill increases the amount of the additional grant for tuition of chartered public school students paid by the state. |
| Oppose | HB626 | requiring the department of education to administer the education freedom account. | Education | Wed 1/25 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill changes the administration of the education freedom account program under RSA 194-F from scholarship organizations to the department of education. |
| Oppose | HB341 | establishing licensure for massage establishments. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 1/25 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill establishes licensure for massage establishments under the regulation of massage therapists by the office of professional licensure and certification. |
| Oppose | HB105 | relative to the registration of medical spas. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 1/25 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill establishes the registration of medical spa facilities. |
| Oppose | HB620 | establishing a department of early childhood education and relative to a pre-kindergarten pilot program. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 1/25 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill establishes an executive branch department of early childhood education. The bill also establishes the authority for the department to design, create, and administer a 3-year high quality, community-based, mixed delivery public pre-kindergarten pilot program. |
| Oppose | HB329 | establishing an ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) registry in New Hampshire. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 1/25 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill establishes an ALS registry administered by the department of health and human services. |
| Oppose | HB112 | relative to tenant’s right to notification prior to the sale of a multifamily home. | Judiciary | Wed 1/25 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill requires the owner of restricted residential property to provide tenants with notice of sale of the property and an opportunity to make an offer to purchase the property. |
| Support | HB117 | relative to the termination of tenancy at the expiration of the tenancy or lease term. | Judiciary | Wed 1/25 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill adds the expiration of the term of the lease or tenancy if over 6 months as grounds for an eviction. |
| Oppose | HB261 | authorizing residential tenants to terminate their lease in instances of domestic violence or following a disabling illness or accident. | Judiciary | Wed 1/25 | 11:15 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill permits residential tenants to terminate their lease in instances of domestic violence or following a disabling illness or accident, and describes the written documentation required. |
| Oppose | HB283 | to limit application fees charged to prospective residential tenants. | Judiciary | Wed 1/25 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill limits the rental application fee and other fees charged by a landlord as part of the rental application process for a residential property. |
| Oppose | HB340 | relative to the transfer of residential property. | Judiciary | Wed 1/25 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill restricts the acquisition of single-family and multi-family housing to natural persons with certain exceptions. The bill requires a nonnatural person that acquires single or multi family housing within one of the specified exceptions to register and file reports with the secretary of state. |
| Oppose | HB379 | requiring that attorneys be appointed to represent indigent tenants during residential eviction proceedings and making an appropriation therefor. | Judiciary | Wed 1/25 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill provides that an indigent tenant shall have the right to counsel at an eviction proceeding, establishes a fund for this purpose, and makes an appropriation therefor. |
| Oppose | HB401 | relative to evictions based on the owner’s intent to renovate the property. | Judiciary | Wed 1/25 | 3:15 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill establishes certain criteria for evictions based on the landlord’s intent to renovate or remove the property from the residential housing market. |
| Support | HB296 | relative to local authority for granting driveway permits. | Public Works and Highways | Wed 1/25 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 201-203 | This bill clarifies that local land use boards and not the state fire code regulate driveway access. |
| Oppose | HB472 | relative to the placement of temporary seasonal docks. | Resources, Recreation and Development | Wed 1/25 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill prohibits a wetlands permitting exception for temporary seasonal docks which impact any wildlife species, threatened species, or endangered species in accordance with the endangered species conservation act. |
| Oppose | HB353 | establishing an interstate compact for universal healthcare. | Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Thu 1/26 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill establishes an interstate compact for universal healthcare to provide payment for providing healthcare for the citizens of New Hampshire and other member states after the date of implementation. |
| Of Interest | HB318 | eliminating bail commissioners, and relative to the release of a defendant pending trial and establishing new circuit court judge positions. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/26 | 9:00 AM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill eliminates bail commissioners; provides that judges shall set bail; amends the procedure for the release of a defendant pending trial; and requires the judicial branch to include in its budget funding for 3 new full-time circuit court judges. |
| Of Interest | HB643 | relative to legalizing marijuana. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/26 | 10:30 AM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill legalizes marijuana for persons 21 years of age and older. |
| Support | HB581 | repealing the controlled drug act and establishing a committee to study the policy and statutory changes necessary to implement the repeal. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/26 | 11:15 AM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill repeals the controlled drug act effective July 1, 2025, and establishes a committee to recommend legislation to make the necessary policy and statutory changes to accompany the repeal. |
| Support | HB473 | relative to penalties for controlled drug violations. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/26 | 12:45 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill changes the penalty for certain schedule I, II, III, and IV drug offenses. |
| Support | HB360 | an act legalizing cannabis for persons 21 years of age or older. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/26 | 1:30 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill legalizes the possession and use of cannabis for persons 21 years of age and older. |
| Support | HB344 | relative to the home cultivation of cannabis plants and the possession of certain cannabis-infused products. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/26 | 2:15 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill permits adults to possess up to 3/4 of an ounce of cannabis, 5 grams of hashish, and certain cannabis-infused products; permits adults to cultivate up to 6 cannabis plants at home in a secure location that is not visible from other properties, and to possess and process the cannabis produced from their plants at the same location; permits adults to give cannabis to other adults, provided it is not more than 3/4 of an ounce of cannabis, 5 grams of hashish, or up to 300 mg of cannabis-infused products, or 3 immature plants; provides that smoking or vaporizing cannabis in public by an adult would be punishable by a $100 fine; provides that violations of the restrictions on cultivation would be a violation punishable by fine of up to $750; penalizes dangerous, volatile extraction; and permits adults to possess, make, and sell cannabis accessories to other adults. |
| Support | HB328 | an act legalizing certain controlled substances for persons 21 years of age or older. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/26 | 3:00 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill legalizes the possession and use of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), mescaline, psilocybin, and peyote for persons 21 years of age and older. |
| Support | HB470 | relative to fentanyl test strips and other drug checking equipment. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Thu 1/26 | 3:45 PM | SH Room Reps Hall | This bill amends the definition of drug paraphernalia to exclude drug checking equipment and authorizes the use of drug checking equipment. |
| Oppose | HB436 | relative to group II retirement under transition provisions in the retirement system. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 1/26 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill adjusts the application of the minimum age, minimum years of service, and annuity multipliers in the transition provisions for group II service retirement adopted in 2011 to be applicable as of January 1, 2014 rather than January 1, 2012. |
| Oppose | HB449 | relative to the calculation of group II retirement benefits in the retirement system. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 1/26 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill increases the service retirement and disability retirement annuity multiplier for the first 20 years of service of group II retirement system members under the transition provisions adopted in 2011. |
| Oppose | HB525 | relative to group II service retirement provisions in the retirement system. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 1/26 | 2:15 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill adjusts the application of the transition provisions for group II service retirement adopted in 2011 to be applicable as of January 1, 2014 rather than January 1, 2012. |
| Oppose | HB579 | eliminating the 2011 transition provision requirements for group II retirement. | Executive Departments and Administration | Thu 1/26 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 306-308 | This bill eliminates the transition provision adopted in 2011 for group II retirement system members that began service before July 1, 2011 but were not yet vested. |
| Oppose | HB506 | relative to the construction of a rail trail box tunnel on Exit 4-A in Derry and making an appropriation therefor. | Finance | Thu 1/26 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill requires the department of transportation to complete the rail trail box tunnel project in Derry, makes an appropriation for the project, and establishes a criminal penalty for any person who fails to complete or impedes the progress of the project. |
| Oppose | HB50 | relative to payment by the state of a portion of retirement system contributions of political subdivision employers. | Finance | Thu 1/26 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill provides that the state shall pay 7.5 percent of contributions of retirement system employers other than the state for group I teachers and group II members. |
| Of Interest | HB555 | appropriating state general fund surplus toward the retirement system unfunded accrued liability. | Finance | Thu 1/26 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 210-211 | This bill requires the transfer of 75 percent of a state biennial surplus to the reduction in the retirement system’s unfunded accrued liability. |
| Oppose | HB469 | prohibiting discrimination against tenants holding certain vouchers for purposes of renting dwellings. | Judiciary | Thu 1/26 | 9:00 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill prohibits discrimination against tenants holding certain vouchers for purposes of renting dwellings. |
| Oppose | HB567 | relative to notice of rent increases in certain residential rental property. | Judiciary | Thu 1/26 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill requires a landlord of certain residential property to provide additional notice of a prospective rent increase. |
| Of Interest | HB533 | relative to public school human rights complaints. | Judiciary | Thu 1/26 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill allows the department of education to bring a complaint on student discriminatory practices to the state commission on human rights. |
| Support | HB647 | relative to causes of action for individual rights. | Judiciary | Thu 1/26 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | This bill establishes a cause of action against the state for violations against individual rights. |
| Oppose | HB182 | prohibiting discharge of volunteer firefighters or volunteer emergency medical technicians from other employment. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Thu 1/26 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill prohibits an employer from discharging or disciplining an employee who is a volunteer firefighter or emergency medical technician and whose failure to report for work was due to such employee responding to an emergency. |
| Support | HB190 | relative to the duration of unemployment benefits. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Thu 1/26 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill specifies the duration of unemployment benefits based on the state’s average unemployment rate. |
| Oppose | HB125 | relative to youth employment during the school year and at night. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Thu 1/26 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 305-307 | This bill clarifies the number of hours a minor is permitted to work when school is in session and limits the evening hours a minor is permitted to work when school is in session. |
| Oppose | HB483 | to remove the duties of county delegations and delegate them to county commissioners. | Municipal and County Government | Thu 1/26 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill transfers the duties of the county delegation to the county commissioners as members of the county convention. |
| Oppose | HB357 | relative to the length of terms for Belknap county officers. | Municipal and County Government | Thu 1/26 | 10:20 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill establishes a 4-year term for the county treasurer, county sheriff, county register of deeds, and county attorney in Belknap county. |
| Support | HB313 | relative to the reductions from the default budget for official ballot town meetings. | Municipal and County Government | Thu 1/26 | 11:30 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill alters the definition of default budget to include salary and benefit reductions which occur as a result of position turnover. |
| Oppose | HB293 | allowing a town to appropriate funds to create a town scholarship fund. | Municipal and County Government | Thu 1/26 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill allows a town to establish a scholarship fund for the benefit of town residents. |
| Of Interest | HB294 | enabling municipalities to adopt a child tax credit. | Municipal and County Government | Thu 1/26 | 2:30 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill allows municipalities to adopt a per-child property tax credit. |
| Support | HB498 | requiring fish and game officers to obtain a warrant to conduct a search and seizure. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 1/27 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill requires conservation officers to obtain a search warrant for conducting certain enforcement operations. |
| Support | HB588 | relative to the criteria for applying for parole. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 1/27 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill allows an eligible incarcerated person to apply for parole upon the completion of 50 percent of such person’s minimum sentence. |
| Oppose | HB158 | relative to armor piercing ammunition. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 1/27 | 2:15 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill creates a criminal penalty for the possession, manufacture, or use of armor-piercing ammunition. |
| Support | HB503 | relative to the rights afforded to a person accused of a crime. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 1/27 | 3:00 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill codifies certain rights of an accused person in the criminal process, increases the penalty assessment in cases involving charges related to an alcohol or controlled drug offense, and requires those penalty assessments to be used by the state crime lab. |
| Of Interest | HB439 | relative to the duty to provide an education and contracts with private schools. | Education | Fri 1/27 | 11:45 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill repeals the authority of a school board to execute a contract with a nonsectarian private school to provide education. The bill also provides that a school board has a duty to provide an education to a pupil until the pupil reaches 22 years of age. |
| Of Interest | HB540 | relative to adequate education grant amounts for pupils receiving special education services. | Education | Fri 1/27 | 12:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill provides for categories of special education services for application to the calculation of differentiated aid in adequate education grant amounts. |
| Of Interest | HB530 | relative to withdrawal from a cooperative school district. | Education | Fri 1/27 | 1:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill clarifies the process for the vote on withdrawal from a cooperative school district. |
| Support | HB466 | relative to water bottle filling stations in schools. | Education | Fri 1/27 | 2:45 PM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill repeals the state board of education’s rulemaking authority to adopt rules pursuant to RSA 541-A relative to requirements for the installation of water bottle filling stations. |
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