Tuesday • April 8 • 2025
Vol.XVII • No.XV
Manchester, N.H.
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Of the 69 hearings in the House, we are recommending support of 12 and opposition of 10 with 1 being of interest.
Of the 69 hearings in the Senate, we are recommending support of 19 and opposition of 4 with 1 being of interest.
| Position | Bill | Title | Committee | Day | Time | Room | State Analysis |
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| Support | SB97 | relative to intra-district public school transfers. | Education Policy and Administration | Mon 4/7 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill authorizes parents to transfer their children to other schools within their resident district as long as such school has the capacity to accommodate the student. |
| Support | SB217 | relative to public notice of historic tax rates and tax impacts of proposed projects. | Municipal and County Government | Mon 4/7 | 10:15 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill requires cities and towns to provide public notice of historical tax rates and proposed building projects. |
| Support | SB78 | relative to the zoning board of adjustments appeal period. | Municipal and County Government | Mon 4/7 | 10:35 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill removes the zoning board of adjustment’s discretion for determining when to take an appeal and replaces it with a non-discretionary 30-day period. |
| Support | SB105 | enabling towns to adopt budget caps. | Municipal and County Government | Mon 4/7 | 10:45 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill enables towns to adopt budget caps. |
| Of Interest | SB108 | relative to the department of energy. | Science, Technology and Energy | Mon 4/7 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 302-304 | This bill transfers specific regulatory and adjudicative responsibilities from the public utilities commission to the department of energy, including prohibiting unauthorized telecommunications service provision, protecting ratepayer communication preferences, and refining net energy metering, assessment, complaint, investigation, and aggregation procedures. |
| Support | HB649 | removing the requirement for physical safety inspections and on-board diagnostic tests for passenger vehicles and eliminating funding for the motor vehicle air pollution abatement fund. | Commerce | Tue 4/8 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill removes the requirement for physical safety inspections and on-board diagnostic tests for passenger vehicles and eliminates funding for the motor vehicle air pollution abatement fund. |
| Oppose | HB406 | relative to the formation of fraudulent businesses. | Commerce | Tue 4/8 | 10:45 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill: I. Establishes a registry of registered agents for New Hampshire businesses. II. Allows corporations to restate their articles of incorporation. III. Enables the secretary of state to verify and prevent fraudulent business formations. IV. Creates penalties for individuals who fraudulently formulate businesses. The bill is a request of the secretary of state. |
| Support | HB319 | (New Title) relative to the responsibility of local school districts to provide transportation for pupils in kindergarten. | Education | Tue 4/8 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill removes the requirement that school districts provide transportation to half-day kindergarten students. |
| Support | HB230 | relative to the adoption of public health ordinances by municipalities. | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 4/8 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill changes when town public health officials may make regulations relating to public health. |
| Of Interest | HB265 | requiring that a public body’s meeting minutes include start and end times of the meeting and the printed name and signature of the recording secretary | Election Law and Municipal Affairs | Tue 4/8 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 103 | This bill requires that public meeting minutes be documented with the start time, end time, and recording secretary’s signature. |
| Support | HB517 | (New Title) repealing certain outreach and marketing requirements under the Granite State paid family leave plan. | Finance | Tue 4/8 | 1:15 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill repeals the requirement that the state engage in certain outreach and marketing activities to increase awareness of the Granite State paid family leave plan. |
| Support | SB91 | allowing one-time special appraisals of residences located in commercial zones. | Housing | Tue 4/8 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 305 | This bill allows owners of a residence in an industrial or commercial zone to file one application for a special appraisal of the residence based on its current use as a residence. |
| Support | SB188 | allowing independent permitting and inspections, and allowing local governments to authorize licensed engineers and architects to perform building code inspections. | Housing | Tue 4/8 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 305 | This bill: I. Allows independent third-parties, hired by the property owner, to inspect land, buildings, and structures to determine compliance with state and local building codes. II. Establishes private providers as an alternative to local enforcement agencies for conducting building code inspections and plan reviews. |
| Support | SB281 | prohibiting municipalities from denying building or occupancy permits for property adjacent to class VI roads under certain circumstances. | Housing | Tue 4/8 | 11:30 AM | 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 4/8 | 1:00 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 | SB283 | relative to the calculation of floor-area-ratios under local building ordinances. | Housing | Tue 4/8 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 305 | This bill requires municipalities to exclude below-grade areas from floor-area-ratio (FAR) calculations and review and adjust height limitations as needed to maximize capacity and height potential for new construction. |
| Support | SB284 | relative to the required maximum number of residential parking spaces. | Housing | Tue 4/8 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 305 | This bill limits residential parking spaces to one per unit, with exceptions for certain workforce housing and multi-family developments. |
| Support | SB170 | (New Title) relative to development and related requirements in cities, towns, and municipalities. | Housing | Tue 4/8 | 2:30 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 | HB522 | relative to the expectation of privacy in personal information maintained by the state. | Judiciary | Tue 4/8 | 1:30 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill establishes an expectation of privacy in personal information maintained by the state. |
| Support | HB146 | relative to the use of body-worn cameras. | Judiciary | Tue 4/8 | 1:40 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill modifies the scenarios requiring retention of body-worn camera recordings to include violation-level cases. |
| Oppose | SB28 | relative to workers’ compensation claims involving emergency responders with acute stress disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Tue 4/8 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 307 | This bill provides that “date of injury” for purposes of workers’ compensation claims by emergency responders with acute stress disorder or post-traumatic stress disorder shall be determined in accordance with the statute governing date of injury for occupational disease or cumulative trauma. |
| Oppose | SB169 | requiring employers to provide certain information regarding cost sharing to employees receiving workers’ compensation benefits. | Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Tue 4/8 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 307 | This bill requires employers who provide supplemental pay to employees receiving workers’ compensation benefits to notify the employee with a breakdown of payments, anticipated financial adjustments, employee costs of withholdings, and method of payment options. |
| Oppose | SB14 | relative to the penalty for certain fentanyl-related offenses. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 4/9 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill adds mandatory minimum sentences for certain fentanyl-related offenses. |
| Oppose | SB15 | relative to establishing a mandatory minimum sentence for the crime of distribution of a controlled drug with death resulting. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 4/9 | 10:30 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill sets a mandatory minimum sentence for the crime of distribution of a controlled drug with death resulting. |
| Oppose | SB54 | relative to refusal of consent to testing to determine alcohol concentration and penalties for aggravated driving while intoxicated. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 4/9 | 11:00 AM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill modifies periods of suspension under different circumstances stemming from a refusal of consent to testing to determine alcohol concentration. This bill further modifies the penalties for aggravated driving while intoxicated. |
| Oppose | SB49 | establishing the crime of and penalties for unlawful use of unmanned aircraft systems. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Wed 4/9 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill establishes the crime of and penalties for unlawful use of small unmanned aircraft systems. This bill is at the request of the department of safety. |
| Support | SB34 | relative to parental consent for student participation in Medicaid to schools program. | Education Policy and Administration | Wed 4/9 | 9:30 AM | LOB Room 205-207 | This bill requires schools to obtain parental consent for each new service that is provided to a student under the Medicaid to schools program. The bill also requires certain legislative policy committees to receive reports regarding the Medicaid to schools program. |
| Support | HB509 | relative to the contents of the attorney general’s annual report detailing state forfeiture information for the preceding fiscal year. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 4/9 | 9:50 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill changes the requirements for the annual report from the attorney general concerning forfeitures of personal property. |
| Support | HB267 | relative to animal chiropractors. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 4/9 | 10:50 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill exempts individuals with degrees in veterinary medicine or chiropractics who have completed a nationally recognized animal chiropractic program, as determined by the executive director of the office of professional licensure and certification, from veterinary licensure requirements. |
| Support | HB233 | (New Title) requiring meetings of the New Hampshire vaccine association to be audio and video recorded and published on its website within 48 hours. | Executive Departments and Administration | Wed 4/9 | 1:20 PM | SH Room 103 | This bill requires meetings of the New Hampshire vaccine association to be audio and video recorded and published on its website within 48 hours. |
| Support | HB679 | relative to immunization requirements. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/9 | 10:00 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill provides that no childhood immunization requirement shall require a vaccine that has not been shown in clinical trials to prevent transmission of any disease. |
| Support | HB357 | relative to the department of health and human services’ rulemaking authority regarding immunization requirements. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/9 | 10:15 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill limits childhood immunization requirements to diseases identified in statute. The bill removes the authority of the commissioner of health and human services to adopt rules requiring immunization for additional childhood diseases. |
| Support | HB358 | relative to exemption from immunization requirements on the basis of religious belief. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/9 | 10:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill provides that a parent or legal guardian may claim an exemption from childhood immunization requirements on the basis of religious belief by providing a signed statement to that effect. The bill removes the statutory reference to a form used for such purpose. |
| Support | HB94 | relative to coverage of circumcision under the state Medicaid plan. | Health and Human Services | Wed 4/9 | 1:45 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill provides that the state Medicaid plan shall not include circumcision unless the child has a specific diagnosis for which the procedure is determined to be medically necessary. |
| Oppose | SB37 | relative to residential care and health facility licensing. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 4/9 | 10:00 AM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill revises residential care and health facility licensing requirements by (1) requiring licensed residential care facilities to have quality assurance programs; (2) requiring the results of investigations and inspections to be posted on the department of health and human services website; (3) removing a redundant reference to administrative fines; (4) changing the term “hospital” to the term “facility;” and (5) removing the word “continuing” from the initial education requirements and replacing the term “ongoing training” with continuing education in the annual training requirement. |
| Oppose | SB119 | relative to Medicaid pharmaceutical services. | Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Wed 4/9 | 1:00 PM | LOB Room 301-303 | This bill directs pharmacists to dispense brand name drugs to Medicaid beneficiaries when the brand name drug is on the department of health and human services preferred drug list. The bill also directs the department to develop a standing order for certain Medicaid-covered, over-the-counter medications, medical supplies, and laboratory tests when deemed medically necessary and cost effective by the department. The bill is a request of the department of health and human services. |
| 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. | Judiciary | Wed 4/9 | 2:00 PM | LOB Room 206-208 | 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. |
| Oppose | HB309 | relative to making electronic rent payments optional. | Commerce | Thu 4/10 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill prohibits landlords from requiring a tenant or prospective tenant to pay by electronic funds transfers. |
| Support | HB631 | (New Title) permitting residential building in commercial zoning. | Commerce | Thu 4/10 | 10:15 AM | SH Room 100 | This bill requires municipalities to permit multi-family residential development on commercially zoned land, with stipulations for infrastructure and exemptions for adaptive reuse. |
| Support | HB90 | relative to the definition of part-time teachers. | Education | Thu 4/10 | 9:15 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill defines “part-time teacher.” |
| Support | HB741 | allowing parents to send their children to any school district they choose. | Education | Thu 4/10 | 9:45 AM | LOB Room 101 | This bill allows parents to send their children to public schools outside of their resident district. |
| Oppose | HB250 | enabling local governing bodies to regulate the muzzling of dogs. | Energy and Natural Resources | Thu 4/10 | 9:00 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill enables local governing bodies to regulate the muzzling of dogs. |
| Oppose | HB355 | relative to the membership of the solid waste working group. | Energy and Natural Resources | Thu 4/10 | 9:30 AM | SH Room 103 | This bill changes a member on the solid waste working group and extends the due dates for interim and final reports. |
| Support | HB207 | relative to repealing the prohibition on the possession or sale of blackjacks, slung shots, and metallic knuckles except by or to minors. | Judiciary | Thu 4/10 | 1:00 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill amends the prohibition against carrying or selling a blackjack, slung shot, or metallic knuckles to prohibit sale to or possession of the said items by those under 18 years of age. |
| Support | HB381 | exempting firearms and firearm accessories manufactured for in-state use only from the National Firearm Act. | Judiciary | Thu 4/10 | 1:30 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill exempts firearms and firearm accessories manufactured for in-state use only from the National Firearm Act. |
| Support | HB551 | repealing the license to sell pistols and revolvers. | Judiciary | Thu 4/10 | 1:45 PM | SH Room 100 | This bill repeals the local licensing requirement for the sale of pistols and revolvers. |
| Oppose | SB267 | relative to the penalty for engaging in prostitution as a patron. | Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Fri 4/11 | 1:30 PM | LOB Room 202-204 | This bill establishes a mandatory $500 fine for engaging in prostitution as a patron, in addition to any other penalty, and directs that the funds are to be forwarded to the department of justice for the purposes of funding the New Hampshire human trafficking collaborative task force. This bill also enhances the penalty for paying, agreeing to pay, or offering to pay another person to engage in sexual contact or penetration with the payor or another person from a misdemeanor to a class A misdemeanor. |
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