Session Year 2022 Bills
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CACR 15
Title: relating to elections. Providing that the age to vote in the primary election be reduced to 17 for those who will be 18 by the general election.
Sponsors: (Prime) Labranche (I), Gallager (D), Laughton (D), Frost (D), Veilleux (D)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: MISCELLANEOUS (Lacking Necessary Three-Fifths Vote 03/16/2022)
Senate Status:
Analysis: (as amended) This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution provides that voters in the state of New Hampshire must be citizens of the United States, citizens of New Hampshire, domiciled in the state, have their primary residence in the state, and vote only in the place where they are domiciled.
 
CACR 17
Title: relating to ballot measures. Providing that upon petition by voters, a question may be placed on the ballot of a statewide election.
Sponsors: (Prime) Adjutant (d), Read (I)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution provides for a means for 5 percent of registered voters in the state to place questions on the ballot of a statewide election that, if passed, will become law within one year of the election in which they passed.
OPPOSE

CACR 18
Title: relating to reproductive medical decisions. Providing that the state shall not infringe or unduly inconvenience the right of reproductive medical decisions.
Sponsors: (Prime) Toll (D), Timothy Smith (D), Frost (D), McWilliams (D), Klein-Knight (D), Stephanie Hyland (d), Query (D), Espitia (D), Grassie (D), Altschiller (D)
Committees: House Committee - Judiciary
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution provides that the right to make reproductive medical decisions is inviolate and prohibits the state and its political subdivisions from infringing upon or unduly inconveniencing this right.
SUPPORT
 
CACR 19
Title: relating to paper ballots. Providing that all elections shall be conducted through paper ballots.
Sponsors: (Prime) Stephen Pearson (R), Milz (R), Steven Smith (R), Notter (R), Rice (R), Birdsell (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: MISCELLANEOUS (Lacking Necessary Three-Fifths Vote 03/16/2022)
Senate Status: 
Analysis: This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution provides that all elections shall be conducted using paper ballots.
 
CACR 20
Title: relating to personal liberty. Providing that adults shall have the right to possess cannabis for personal consumption.
Sponsors: (Prime) Cushing (D), Espitia (D), Grassie (D), Conley (D), Knirk (D), Megan Murray (D), McWilliams (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Reagan (R), Whitley (D)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution establishes the right for all adults to possess cannabis for personal consumption.

CACR 22
Title: relating to elections. Providing that all elections in New Hampshire shall be by ranked-choice voting.
Sponsors: (Prime) Labranche (I), Stephanie Hyland (d), Laughton (D)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution requires all elections in the state of New Hampshire to be conducted using ranked-choice voting, the exact procedure of which to be provided for by the legislature.
 
CACR 32
Title: relating to independence. Providing that the state peaceably declares independence from the United States and proceeds as a sovereign nation.
Sponsors: (Prime) Sylvia (R), Green (R), Santonastaso (R), Dodge (R), Howard (R), Bailey (R), Torosian (R)
Committees: House Committee - State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution declares the state's independence from the United States and moves New Hampshire forward as a sovereign nation.
OPPOSE

CACR 34
Title: relating to the use, sale, or cultivation of cannabis. Providing that the state shall make no law prohibiting the use, sale, or cultivation of cannabis for persons over 18 years of age.
Sponsors: (Prime) Adjutant (d), Frost (D), Espitia (D), Tony Lekas (R), Seaworth (R), Abramson (R), Kenney (D), Conley (D), Egan (D)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution prohibits the legislature from making laws that prohibit the use, sale, or cultivation of cannabis for adults.

CACR 35
Title: relating to cannabis. Providing that all adults have the right to possess, use, and cultivate cannabis, subject to regulation by the legislature.
Sponsors: (Prime) Prout (R), Layon (R), Blasek (R), Yakubovich (R), Cushman (R), Conley (D), White (R), Tony Lekas (R), Nunez (R), Berezhny (R)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This constitutional amendment concurrent resolution establishes the right for all adults to possess, use, and cultivate cannabis, subject to further regulation by the legislature.

HB 50 
Title: apportioning state representative districts.
Sponsors: (Prime) Barbara Griffin (R)
Committees: House Committee - Special Committee on Redistricting | Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs 
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: This bill establishes state representative districts.

HB 52
Title: apportioning congressional districts.
Sponsors: (Prime) Barbara Griffin (R)
Committees: House Committee - Special Committee on Redistricting |
General Status: VETOED BY GOVERNOR VETO STATEMENT
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill establishes new United States House of Representative districts in accordance with the latest federal decennial census.
Note: Congressional redistricting maps which are grossly gerrymandered.

HB 54
Title: apportioning county commissioner districts.
Sponsors: (Prime) Barbara Griffin (R)
Committees: House Committee - Special Committee on Redistricting |
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill establishes new county commissioner districts in accordance with the latest federal decennial census.

HB 60
Title: raising the minimum age of marriage.
Sponsors: (Prime) Levesque (D), Grassie (D), Walz (D), Altschiller (D), Rung (D), Petrigno (D), Denny Ruprecht (D), Wazir (D), Frost (D), Timothy Smith (D)
Committees: House Committee - Children and Family Law |
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE 
Senate Status: 
Analysis: This bill raises the minimum age of marriage from 16 to 18 years of age.

HB 87
Title: relative to the definition of electioneering.
Sponsors: (Prime) Potucek (R), Binford (R), Hough (R), Layon (R), Bershtein (R), Baldasaro (R), Ankarberg (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law | Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: INTERIM STUDY
Analysis: (as amended) This bill amends the definition of "electioneering" by prohibiting only certain election officials from wearing clothing or paraphernalia that a reasonable person would believe explicitly advocates for or against any candidate, political party, or measure being voted.
OPPOSE

HB 103-FN
Title: establishing a dental benefit under the state Medicaid program.
Sponsors: (Prime) Schapiro (D), Stavis (D), McWilliams (D), Wazir (D), Rosenwald (D)
Committees: House Committee – Finance | Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: REPORT FILED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill requires the commissioner of the department of health and human services to solicit information and to contract with dental managed care organizations to provide dental care to persons under the Medicaid managed care program.
SUPPORT

HB 125
Title: relative to post-arrest photo distribution by law enforcement officers.
Sponsors: (Prime) Klein-Knight (D), Bouchard (D), Roy (R)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: INTERIM STUDY
Analysis: This bill prohibits law enforcement from distributing post-arrest photos of suspects except in certain circumstances.

HB 135
Title: requiring parties responsible for pollution of a drinking water supply to be financially responsible for certain consequences of that pollution.
Sponsors: (Prime) Boehm (R), Lascelles (R), Notter (R)
Committees: House Committee - Judiciary | Senate Committee - Energy and Natural Resources
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Analysis: (as amended) This bill requires parties deemed responsible for pollution of a drinking water supply to be financially responsible for certain consequences of that pollution.

HB 144
Title: relative to absentee ballot request forms.
Sponsors: (Prime) Bergeron (D)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law | Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: CONSENT CALENDAR REPORT FILED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill modifies the absentee ballot request forms and absentee ballot envelopes.

HB 196
Title: adding trespass as an exception to the charge of criminal threatening.
Sponsors: (Prime) Yakubovich (R), Binford (R), Roy (R), Tony Lekas (R), Rhodes (R), Aron (R), Piemonte (R), DeSimone (R)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: INTERIM STUDY
Analysis: (as amended) This bill adds an exception to the criminal threatening statute for a person who displays a firearm to warn away a trespasser.

HB 197
Title: relative to the use of deadly force in defense of another.
Sponsors: (Prime) Yakubovich (R), Binford (R), Tony Lekas (R), Ankarberg (R), Aron (R), Rhodes (R), Piemonte (R), Abramson (R)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: INTERIM STUDY
Analysis: This bill permits the use of deadly force against another person in circumstance where deadly force is used in the commission of felony against a person in a vehicle.
Note: This would essentially expand the right to use deadly force to one’s vehicles.

HB 227
Title: relative to termination of tenancy at the expiration of the tenancy or lease term.
Sponsors: (Prime) Lynn (R)
Committees: House Committee – Judiciary | Senate Committee - Commerce
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Analysis: This bill adds the expiration of the term of the lease or tenancy if over 6 months as grounds for an eviction.
Note: This bill would allow landlords to evict tenants for no other reason than that their lease had ended. 

HB 238
Title: prohibiting provocations based on a victim’s actual or perceived gender, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation from being used as a defense in manslaughter cases.
Sponsors: (Prime) Query (D), Levesque (D), Weston (D), Bunker (D), Mullen (D), Tanner (D), Alexander (R), Toll (D), Amanda Bouldin (D), Perkins Kwoka (D)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: REPORT FILED
Analysis: This bill prohibits provocations based on a victim’s actual or perceived gender, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation from being used as a defense in manslaughter cases.
SUPPORT
 
HB 254
Title: relative to the placement of minors in secure settings.
Sponsors: (Prime) Rice (R), Long (D), Wallner (D), Marjorie Smith (D), Carson (R), Hennessey (R), Rosenwald (D)
Committees: House Committee – Finance | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: CONSENT CALENDAR REPORT FILED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill addresses the criteria for secure detention pending adjudication and the circumstances in which a minor may be committed to the department of health and human services for the remainder of his or her minority.

HB 255
Title: relative to limited liability for institutions of higher education and businesses.
Sponsors: (Prime) Ladd (R), Steven Smith (R), Aron (R), Barbara Shaw (D)
Committees: House Committee: Education |
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE 
Senate Status: 
Analysis: This bill establishes a limitation on liability for an institution of higher education or a business, for personal injury resulting from or related to the actual or alleged exposure to coronavirus or COVID-19.
​Note: relative to limited liability for institutions of higher education and businesses. This bill, as amended, would broadly prohibit any requirement that people be vaccinated for COVID-19 at work, at school, or in community gatherings. Tabled in House (Rep. Ladd) 01/06/2022 by a vote of 213-142.

HB 275
Title: (New Title) relative to the declaration of a state of emergency.
Sponsors: (Prime) Binford (R), Verville (R), Hough (R), Yokela (R), Aldrich (R), Abramson (R), Seaworth (R), Harley (R), Greeson (R), Testerman (R)
Committees: House Committee - Executive Departments and Administration | Senate Committee - Executive Departments and Administration
General Status: VETOED BY GOVERNOR VETO STATEMENT
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill revises the authority of the governor and general court to declare, renew, or terminate a state of emergency.
OPPOSE

HB 307
Title: relative to the state preemption of the regulation of firearms and ammunition.
Sponsors: (Prime) Silber (R), Yakubovich (R), Comtois (R), Gould (R)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: This bill provides state preemption of the regulation of firearms, ammunition, ammunition components, knives, and firearms components and accessories.
Note: This bill will expand the right to carry weapons on NH state university and college campuses and municipal property by restricting local rulemaking authority and imposing fines of up to $10,000 for violations of the statute. Democratic senators offered amendments to eliminate the fines, and to remove NH state colleges and universities from the bill, but both failed on party line votes. Because the bill was amended, it will return to the House for a vote.

HB 319
Title: requiring students in the university and community college systems of New Hampshire to pass the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services civics naturalization test.
Sponsors: (Prime) Moffett (R), Pearl (R), Lang (R), Rouillard (R), Barbara Shaw (D), Hobson (R), Giuda (R)
Committees: House Committee – Education | Senate Committee - Education
General Status: VETOED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill requires university system and community college system students, as a requirement for graduation, to pass the 2020 version of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services naturalization test.

HB 359
Title: creating a private cause of action for discrimination based on hairstyles relative to a person's ethnicity.
Sponsors: (Prime) Walz (D)
Committees: House Committee: Judiciary
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status: 
Analysis: This bill creates a private cause of action for discrimination based on hairstyles relative to a person's ethnicity.  This bill also exempts such causes of action from the jurisdiction of the human rights commission.
Note: Tabled in House (Rep. McLean) 01/06/2022.

HB 408
Title: relative to employment restrictions for registered sex offenders.
Sponsors: (Prime) Verville (R), Baldasaro (R), Reagan (R)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: CONSENT CALENDAR REPORT FILED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill prohibits a person convicted of certain sexual assault offenses from hiring or otherwise engaging in any employment or volunteer service which provides direct services to a minor, or supervision or oversight of a minor.
 
HB 427
Title: prohibiting corporal punishment of children in state agency programs.
Sponsors: (Prime) Altschiller (D), Toll (D), Grote (D), Snow (D), Berch (D)
Committees: House Committee - Children and Family Law | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill requires state agencies to provide in their policies and procedures related to children that all forms of corporal punishment are prohibited.

HB 440
Title: (New Title) prohibiting the suspension of civil liberties during a state of emergency.
Sponsors: (Prime) Kofalt (R), Ammon (R), Nunez (R), Avard (R), Homola (R)
Committees: House Committee - Judiciary | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: CONCURRED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: This bill prohibits the suspension of civil liberties during a state of emergency.

HB 473
Title: establishing a renter's insurance notification requirement.
Sponsors: (Prime) Janigian (R), Abbas (R), Edgar (D), Gay (R), McBride (R), Morse (R)
Committees: House Committee - Commerce and Consumer Affairs |
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status: 
​Analysis: This bill requires landlords of residential rental property to include in the rental agreement a statement on the purchase of renter's insurance by the tenant.

HB 503
Title: (Second New Title) codifying the council on housing stability and relative to telehealth and medically assisted treatment for substance use disorder.
Sponsors: (Prime) Long (D), Wilhelm (D)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR 
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: This bill: I) Codifies the council on housing stability initially established by the governor in Executive Order 2020-22; II) Removes certain in-person and physical location requirements for Medicaid reimbursement and under the controlled drug act, the nurse practice act and the physicians and surgeons act to allow for medically assisted treatment for substance use disorder through telemedicine.

HB 514
Title: relative to ballot column rotation.
Sponsors: (Prime) Wells (R), Hill (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law | Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill repeals the requirement that the average deviation from equal rotation for first party column position on ballots be no greater than one percent.
 
HB 543
Title: establishing a commission to study nuclear power and nuclear reactor technology in New Hampshire.
Sponsors: (Prime) Ammon (R), Osborne (R), Vose (R)
Committees: House Committee - Science, Technology and Energy | Senate Committee - Energy and Natural Resources
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: This bill establishes a commission to investigate the implementation of nuclear reactor technology in New Hampshire.
 
HB 549
Title: (New Title) relative to the system benefits charge and the energy efficiency and sustainable energy board.
Sponsors: (Prime) Vose (R), Harrington (R), Ammon (R), Nunez (R), Ruth Ward (R), Gannon (R)
Committees: House Committee - Science, Technology and Energy | Senate Committee - Energy and Natural Resources
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: This bill changes the programs and expenses that system benefits charges may fund, and adjusts the procedure for setting and increasing the rate of the system benefits charge.  The bill also modifies the duties of the energy efficiency and sustainable energy board.

HB 579
Title: requiring notice to the public before immigration checkpoints are conducted.
Sponsors: (Prime) Craig (R), Tony Lekas (R), Amanda Bouldin (D), McWilliams (D), Chretien (D), Andrew Bouldin (D), Labranche (D), Wilhelm (D), Moran (D)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Analysis: This bill requires the chief law enforcement officer to inform local media when he or she is informed by Border Patrol of an immigration checkpoint. 
 
HB 589-FN
Title: requiring workers' compensation to cover prophylactic treatment for critical exposure
Sponsors: (Prime) Cahill (D), Mark Pearson (R), Goley (D), Abrami (R), Simpson (D), Stephen Pearson (R), Reagan (R)
Committees: House Committee - Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Senate Committee - Commerce
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: CONSENT CALENDAR REPORT FILED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill amends the definition of "critical exposure" for the purpose of the workers' compensation law and provides for payment of testing and treatment by a medical provider.
 
HB 607-FN 
Title: establishing local education savings accounts for students.
Sponsors: (Prime) Verville (R), Cordelli (R), Jeudy (D), Alicia Lekas (R), Seaworth (R), Greene (R), Potucek (R), Hill (R), Yokela (R), Cushman (R), Reagan (R)
Committees: House Committee - Education 
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill establishes local education freedom savings accounts for children between 5 and 20 years of age.
Note: In addition to the costly school voucher program passed into law with the state budget, HB 607 would create another, even more dangerous school voucher plan that allocates locally raised school taxes to fund school voucher accounts that can be used to pay for private, religious, or homeschooling. For most NH communities, the majority of the funding needed for their public schools is raised at the local level through local property taxes. HB 607 targets that funding. This bill would have devastating impacts on local communities and public schools.

HB 622-FN
Title: protecting nascent human life as a reasonable and valid state interest.
Sponsors: (Prime) Stapleton (R), Abramson (R), Bill Nelson (R), Mark Pearson (R)
Committees: House Committee – Judiciary |
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill establishes criminal penalties and disciplinary action for persons who perform abortions in this state to terminate the life of a viable fetus, except when by not doing so there is a clear and present danger to the life or health of the mother.
Note: an abortion bill amended to eliminate a section of the Fetal Life Protection Act requiring an invasive ultrasound, was tabled by a vote of 325-23 after the Speaker unexpectedly ruled the amendment non-germane.

HB 624-FN
Title: (New Title) relative to site evaluation committee monitoring and enforcement responsibilities.
Sponsors: (Prime) Vose (R), Thomas (R), Ruth Ward (R), Giuda (R)
Committees: House Committee - Ways and Means | Senate Committee - Energy and Natural Resources
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill requires the site evaluation committee to establish procedures for investigating complaints related to an energy facility certificate.
 
HB 629-FN
Title: relative to the home cultivation of cannabis plants and the possession of certain cannabis-infused products.
Sponsors: (Prime) McGuire (R), True (R), Verville (R), Tony Lekas (R), Sylvia (R), McWilliams (D)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Analysis: 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.
 
HB 1003
Title: prohibiting health care providers from refusing to provide care or services based on patient vaccination status.
Sponsors: (Prime) Cushman (R), Kelsey (R), Blasek (R), Alicia Lekas (R), Roy (R), Pauer (R), Ricciardi (R)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill provides that a patient shall not be denied admission, care, or services based solely on the patient's vaccination status.
OPPOSE

HB 1008
Title: establishing a commission to study the structure and election calendar of New Hampshire municipal government.
Sponsors: (Prime) Sweeney (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill establishes a commission to study the structure and election calendar of New Hampshire municipal government.
 
HB 1009
Title: requiring the date a person registers to vote to be included with other voter information.
Sponsors: (Prime) Sweeney (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law | Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: INTERIM STUDY
Analysis: This bill adds the date a voter registers to the list of information required to be maintained in the checklist.
Note: Registration date is already recorded in the voter role system.
OPPOSE

HB 1010-FN
Title: requiring municipal voter history to be made accessible in the statewide centralized voter registration database.
Sponsors: (Prime) Sweeney (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law | Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill requires municipal voter history to be made accessible in the statewide centralized voter registration database.
SUPPORT

HB 1011
Title: relative to the penalty for criminal mischief.
Sponsors: (Prime) Welch (R), Meuse (D)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: This bill repeals the violation under the criminal mischief statute for vandalizing public property.
 
HB 1014
Title: allowing public meetings to be conducted virtually.
Sponsors: (Prime) Simpson (D), Cushing (D), Cote (D), Weber (D), Ebel (D), Marsh (D), Wilhelm (D)
Committees: House Committee - Judiciary
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill establishes requirements for remote access to public meetings under RSA 91-A, the right-to-know law.
SUPPORT

HB 1015
Title: relative to school district policies regarding objectionable material.
Sponsors: (Prime) Cordelli (R), Osborne (R), Moffett (R), Rice (R), Notter (R), Ammon (R), Hobson (R), Gould (R), Reagan (R), Avard (R)
Committees: House Committee - Education
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill revises the requirements for school district policies providing an alternative to specific course material based on a parent or legal guardian's determination that the material is objectionable.

HB 1017
Title: establishing criminal penalties for harming or threatening to harm an essential worker.
Sponsors: (Prime) Stavis (D), Almy (D), Moran (D), Vann (D), Klee (D), Janice Schmidt (D), Abel (D), Sullivan (D)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill establishes criminal penalties for causing or threatening harm to an essential worker.

HB 1021
Title: prohibiting regulation of religious land use based on the religious nature of the assembly or speech taking place on the land or in the structure.
Sponsors: (Prime) Wuelper (R), Gould (R), Ankarberg (R)
Committees: House Committee – Judiciary | Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: This bill prohibits the regulation of religious land use based on the religious nature of the assembly or speech taking place on the land or in the structure.
OPPOSE
 
HB 1022
Title: permitting pharmacists to dispense the drug ivermectin by means of a standing order.
Sponsors: (Prime) Cushman (R), Kofalt (R), Sheehan (R), Yakubovich (R), Blasek (R), Torosian (R), Harley (R), Tony Lekas (R)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
General Status: VETOED BY GOVERNOR | VETO STATEMENT
House Status: CONCURRED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: This bill allows pharmacists to dispense invermectin pursuant to a standing order entered into by licensed health care providers.
OPPOSE
 
HB 1025
Title: relative to impeding, provoking, or harassing law enforcement officers.
Sponsors: (Prime) Baldasaro (R), Love (R), Sheehan (R), Ulery (R), Stephen Pearson (R), Post (R), Carson (R), Giuda (R)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill makes it a misdemeanor to impede, provoke, or harass a law enforcement officer.

HB 1027
Title: establishing the crime of undermining legislative process by false claim of emergency.
Sponsors: (Prime) Baxter (R), Yokela (R)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill establishes the crime of subversion of the legislative process-treason for any act to subvert the legislative process based on a false claim of emergency caused by COVID-19.

HB 1028-FN
Title: relative to the form of individual health insurance policies.
Sponsors: (Prime) Yakubovich (R), Blasek (R), Ankarberg (R), Layon (R), Cushman (R), Binford (R), Abramson (R), Warden (R)
Committees: House Committee - Commerce and Consumer Affairs
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INTERIM STUDY
Analysis: This bill modifies the form of individual health insurance policies.
Note: This bill would diminish the quality and affordability of health care by allowing unlimited renewals of short-term, low coverage insurance plans.
OPPOSE

HB 1035
Title: relative to exemptions from school vaccine mandates.
Sponsors: (Prime) Lang (R), Pearl (R), Giuda (R), Avard (R), Ricciardi (R)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill removes the requirement that a parent's request for a religious exemption to immunizations required for school attendance be notarized.
OPPOSE

HB 1037
Title: relative to the governor's duties during a state of emergency.
Sponsors: (Prime) Horrigan (D)
Committees: House Committee - Executive Departments and Administration | Senate Committee - Executive Departments and Administration
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill clarifies the governor's duty to provide a list of expenditures in a state of emergency to the executive council.
 
HB 1040
Title: establishing a commission to study revenue alternatives to the road toll for electric-powered and hybrid vehicles for the funding of improvements to the state's highways and bridges and their resulting improvements to the environment.
Sponsors: (Prime) Major (R), Graham (R), Almy (D), Abrami (R), Cloutier (D), McGhee (D), Watters (D), Giuda (R), Reagan (R), Gannon (R)
Committees: House Committee - Public Works and Highways | Senate Committee - Transportation 
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill establishes a commission to study revenue alternatives to the road toll for the funding of the state’s highways and bridges and resulting improvements to the environment.
 
HB 1041
Title: 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.
Sponsors: (Prime) Cushing (D), Schultz (d), Edgar (D)
Committees: House Committee - Legislative Administration
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: 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.
 
HB 1045
Title: (New Title) relative to the composition of the ethics oversight advisory committee.
Sponsors: (Prime) Mark Pearson (R)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Senate Committee - Executive Departments and Administration
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill changes the membership of the ethics oversight advisory committee.

HB 1049
Title: establishing a committee to study landfill siting criteria and methods for reducing pressure on landfill capacity.
Sponsors: (Prime) Aron (R), Bixby (D), Megan Murray (D), Merner (R), McWilliams (D), Watters (D), Hennessey (R)
Committees: House Committee - Environment and Agriculture | Senate Committee - Energy and Natural Resources
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: REPORT FILED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill establishes a committee to study the siting criteria for new landfills and to study solid waste policies as models for methods to reduce pressure on landfill capacity.

HB 1053
Title: relative to the hourly rate paid to an employee for hours worked but not previously scheduled.
Sponsors: (Prime) Adjutant (d), Cloutier (D), Labranche (I)
Committees: House Committee - Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE 
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires an employer to pay an hourly rate of time and a half for hours worked by an employee who is called in to work hours not previously scheduled.
 
HB 1057
Title: relative to the tax exemption for the elderly.
Sponsors: (Prime) Deshaies (R), John MacDonald (R), Crawford (R), Marsh (D)
Committees: House Committee = Municipal and County Government
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE 
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill increases the income eligibility criteria for the elderly property tax exemption and lowers the ages for eligibility, and permits municipalities to phase in the revised eligibility criteria over a 3-year period.

HB 1058
Title: relative to the time allowed for public school students to eat lunch.
Sponsors: (Prime) Deshaies (R), Ham (R), Allard (R), Espitia (D), Simpson (D), Massimilla (D), Suzanne Smith (D)
Committees: House Committee - Education
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires public schools to schedule sufficient seated time for students to eat lunch during the day.
 
HB 1064-FN
Title: requiring the use of hand-marked, durable paper ballots in elections.
Sponsors: (Prime) Alliegro (R), Silber (R), Kofalt (R), Weyler (R), Hough (R), Bernardy (R), Littlefield (R), Greeson (R), Giuda (R), Reagan (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires the use of hand-marked, durable paper ballots in all elections, and prohibits the use of computers, scanners, or other electronic devices to count and tally such ballots.
OPPOSE
 
HB 1067-FN
Title: relative to limitations on prosecution for first degree assault.
Sponsors: (Prime) Abramson (R)
Committee: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Analysis: (as amended) This bill establishes a statute of limitation on actions brought for first degree and second-degree assaults where the victim was under 18 years of age.
OPPOSE
 
HB 1068
Title: relative to building codes for tiny houses.
Sponsors: (Prime) Testerman (R), Maggiore (D)
Committees: House Committee - Municipal and County Government
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill defines tiny houses and provides for the authority and requirements for municipal regulation.
OPPOSE

HB 1070
Title: relative to the default budget in official ballot jurisdictions.
Sponsors: (Prime) Boehm (R)
Committees: House Committee - Municipal and County Government
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill allows for the default budget in an official ballot town or district to be reduced by any reduction to an appropriation the governing body made in the proposed operating budget.

HB 1072
Title: establishing a criminal penalty for denying an elected school district official access to any school district facilities, documents, or events.
Sponsors: (Prime) Stephen Pearson (R), Green (R), Weyler (R), Mark Pearson (R)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill prohibits the denial of access to any school facilities, documents, or school events to persons in elected school district positions.  A violation is a class B misdemeanor.
 
HB 1077
Title: repealing the prohibition on conversion therapy for minors.
Sponsors: (Prime) Testerman (R), Wuelper (R)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill repeals the prohibition on conversion therapy for minors.
OPPOSE

HB 1080
Title: relative to the rights of conscience for medical professionals.
Sponsors: (Prime) Mark Pearson (R), Spillane (R), Notter (R), Edwards (R), Wuelper (R), Gould (R), Giuda (R)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: REPORT FILED
Analysis: This bill provides that health care providers have a right to conscientiously object to participating in providing abortion, sterilization, or artificial contraception services. The bill requires health care institutions to prominently post a notice to this effect and establishes civil remedies, including fines, for its violation.
OPPOSE
 
HB 1082
Title:  prohibiting certain state officers from forming political action committees.
Sponsors: (Prime) Prudhomme-O'Brien (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INTERIM STUDY
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill prohibits certain state officers and candidates for office from forming political committees or political advocacy organizations.
OPPOSE

HB 1084
Title: relative to disclosure of the sources of legislative bill proposals.
Sponsors: (Prime) Read (I), Janice Schmidt (D), Vann (D) 
Committees: House Committee - Legislative Administration
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires the identification of a private organization responsible for distributing a model act used by a legislator to propose legislation.
 
HB 1087
Title: relative to zoning for single family housing lots.
Sponsors: (Prime) Yokela (R), Stavis (D), Oxenham (D), McWilliams (D)
Committees: House Committee - Municipal and County Government
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE 
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill limits the authority of local land use planning boards relating to ordinances governing lot sizes.
 
HB 1088
Title: relative to employee protections from COVID-19 in the workplace.
Sponsors: (Prime) Horrigan (D)
Committees: House Committee - Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill establishes COVID-19 related workplace rights for employees.
 
HB 1090
Title: relative to teaching on discrimination in the public schools.
Sponsors: (Prime) DiLorenzo (D), Langley (D), Cote (D), Simpson (D), Myler (D), Petrigno (D), Harriott-Gathright (D), Mullen (D)
Committees: House Committee - Education
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill provides that no education law of this state shall be construed to bar any school employee from teaching the historical or current experiences of any group that is protected from discrimination. The bill also repeals provisions of the law relating to the right to freedom from discrimination in public workplaces and education.
SUPPORT

HB 1093
Title: relative to the licensure of nonresident aliens temporarily residing in New Hampshire.
Sponsors: (Prime) Sykes (D)
Committees: House Committee - Transportation
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill permits nonresident aliens living in New Hampshire on a temporary basis to obtain a driver's license upon completion of an application for asylum status to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
SUPPORT

HB 1094
Title: relative to employee work schedules and rest periods.
Sponsors: (Prime) Read (I)
Committees: House Committee - Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires employers with 10 or more employees in this state or 2 or more locations in this state to schedule a rest period between certain employment shifts and provide employees with advance notice of the work schedule.

HB 1097
Title: relative to taxation of income of New Hampshire residents when working remotely for an out of state employer.
Sponsors: (Prime) Torosian (R), Janigian (R), Hough (R), Ankarberg (R), Wuelper (R), Blasek (R), True (R), Sylvia (R)
Committees: House Committee - Ways and Means | Senate Committee - Ways and Means
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill declares the position of the state on income earned and received by residents of the state of New Hampshire for services entirely performed within this state.
 
HB 1098
Title: limiting the number of parking spaces required per occupied dwelling.
Sponsors: (Prime) Yokela (R)
Committees: House Committee - Municipal and County Government
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE 
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill prohibits local legislative bodies from adopting zoning regulations requiring more than one parking space per occupied dwelling.
 
HB 1099
Title: prohibiting the department of health and human services from requiring vaccine passports for services.
Sponsors: (Prime) Torosian (R), Littlefield (R), Andrus (R), Jonathan Smith (R), True (R), Green (R), Blasek (R)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: REPORT FILED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill clarifies that no person shall be required to receive a Covid-19 vaccination in order receive benefits or services from the department of health and human services.
 
HB 1100-FN
Title: relative to changing the penalties for driving without a license.
Sponsors: (Prime) Sykes (D)
Committees: House Committee - Transportation
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill changes the penalties for driving without a license to a violation, unless the individual is convicted for second time in a 12-month period.

HB 1101
Title: relative to a forfeiture of personal property.
Sponsors: (Prime) Sylvia (R), Bernardy (R), Spillane (R), Jonathan Smith (R), Silber (R), Tony Lekas (R), Post (R), relative to a forfeiture of personal property.
Committees: House Committee – Judiciary | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: REPORT FILED
Analysis: This bill limits the conditions under which seized property may be transferred to a federal agency.
 
HB 1105
Title: relative to earned time credits.
Sponsors: (Prime) Abbas (R)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INTERIM STUDY
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill amends (reduces) the earned time credits for certain programs in which a prisoner participates and completes.

HB 1113
Title: prohibiting the department of education and the state board of education from directing or limiting school instructional options, such as remote learning.
Sponsors: (Prime) Porter (D), Woodcock (D), Myler (D), Mullen (D), Ellison (D)
Committees: House Committee - Education
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill prohibits the department of education and the state board of education from directing or limiting remote learning options.

HB 1114
Title: relative to education service providers under the education freedom account program.
Sponsors: (Prime) Cornell (D), Mullen (D), Porter (D), Heath (D), Vail (D), Van Houten (D)
Committees: House Committee - Education
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires education freedom account program scholarship organizations to compile a directory of public profiles for education service providers.
 
HB 1115
Title: relative to record of educational attainment under the educational freedom account program.
Sponsors: (Prime) Cornell (D), Cushing (D), Mullen (D), Heath (D), Ellison (D), Myler (D)
Committees: House Committee - Education
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires the statewide student assessment tests for the record of educational attainment under the education freedom accounts program.

HB 1119
Title: relative to the regulation of single-use bags.
Sponsors: (Prime) Klein-Knight (D), Myler (D), Janice Schmidt (D), Bartlett (d), Chretien (D), Stephanie Hyland (d), Meuse (D), Weston (D), McWilliams (D), Rung (D), Whitley (D), Watters (D)
Committees: House Committee - Municipal and County Government
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill allows towns to regulate the use of paper and plastic bags.
 
HB 1120
Title: relative to education service providers under the education freedom accounts program.
Sponsors: (Prime) Mullen (D), Cornell (D), Myler (D), Porter (D), Woodcock (D), Ellison (D), Heath (D), Rombeau (D)
Committees: House Committee - Education
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill adds compliance requirements for education service providers requesting payment from education freedom account funds, including criminal history records checks of employees with direct contact with students.
SUPPORT

HB 1124
Title: requiring businesses to use the federal E-Verify system of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Sponsors: (Prime) Baxter (R), Ankarberg (R), Harley (R), Johnson (R)
Committees: House Committee - Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires employers to verify employment eligibility through the federal E-Verify system.

HB 1125
Title: relative to school emergency plans.
Sponsors: (Prime) Cordelli (R), Cornell (D), Porter (D)
Committees: House Committee – Education | Senate Committee - Education
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill provides for the submission of school emergency response plans to the director of homeland security and emergency management of the department of safety, rather than to the department of education.
 
HB 1126
Title: permitting minors over the age of 16 to obtain a vaccination without parental consent.
Sponsors: (Prime) Amanda Bouldin (D), Marsh (D), Bartlett (d), Shurtleff (d), Knirk (D), Grassie (D), Cannon (D), Chretien (D), Hamer (D), Pantelakos (D), Sherman (D), Watters (D), Donna Soucy (D), Rosenwald (D)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
​Analysis: This bill permits minors over the age of 16 to obtain a vaccination without parental consent.
SUPPORT

HB 1127
Title: relative to posthumous exonerations and annulments.
Sponsors: (Prime) Cushing (D)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INTERIM STUDY
Senate Status:
​Analysis: This bill provides that the legislature may grant a posthumous exoneration and annulment in a case where, over time, the manifest injustice of the law or policy for which the person was convicted becomes evident.  The bill grants a posthumous exoneration and annulment of the convictions of Willard Uphaus and Eunice "Goody" Cole.

HB 1131
Title: relative to facial covering policies for schools.
Sponsors: (Prime) Weyler (R), Blasek (R)
Committees: House Committee – Education | Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: VETOED BY GOVERNOR VETO MESSAGE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: This bill prohibits school boards and other public education agencies from adopting, enforcing, or implementing a policy that requires students or members of the public to wear a facial covering.
OPPOSE
 
HB 1135
Title: requiring a performance audit of the department of education, education freedom account program.
Sponsors: (Prime) Fellows (D), Heath (D), Ames (D), Vail (D), Schamberg (D), Tanner (D), Paige (D), Prentiss (D)
Committees: House Committee - Executive Departments and Administration | Senate Committee - Education
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: CONSENT CALENDAR REPORT FILED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill requires a performance audit of the department of education, education freedom account program.
SUPPORT
 
HB 1141
Title: relative to special education services for children in chartered public schools.
Sponsors: (Prime) Cordelli (R), Renzullo (R), Avard (R), Ruth Ward (R), Ricciardi (R)
Committees: House Committee - Education
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INTERIM STUDY
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill: I) Requires the resident district to fund a free and appropriate education to a child with disabilities attending a chartered public school; II) Requires the resident district of a child with a disability to obtain written consent of the child's parent before changing the nature of the child's services.
 
HB 1143
Title: relative to medical mandates adopted by employers.
Sponsors: (Prime) Alliegro (R)
Committees: House Committee - Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires an employer that implements a medical mandate as a condition of employment to submit the written policy to the state, and provide severance pay to any employee who is terminated as a result of opting out of the medical mandate.
OPPOSE

HB 1144
Title: requiring public schools to teach labor history.
Sponsors: (Prime) Gallager (D), Labranche (D)
Committees: House Committee - Education
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status: 
Analysis: This bill requires middle schools and high schools to include instruction on United States and New Hampshire labor history.

HB 1148
Title: relative to prohibiting government entities subordinate to the state from restricting the types of fuel sources that may be used for energy.
Sponsors: (Prime) Plett (R)
Committees: House Committee - Science, Technology and Energy | Senate Committee - Energy and Natural Resources
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: REPORT FILED
Analysis: his bill prohibits a county or municipality from restricting the types or fuel sources of energy production which may be supplied to customers.
OPPOSE
 
HB 1149
Title: relative to the number of names required for nomination by nomination papers.
Sponsors: (Prime) Craig (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill reduces the number of names of registered voters required to nominate a candidate by nomination papers.

HB 1152
Title: relative to verification of eligible students under the education freedom account program.
Sponsors: (Prime) Ham (R), Deshaies (R), Wolf (R)
Committees: House Committee - Education
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires that eligible students in the education freedom accounts program continue to verify eligibility for free and reduced-price meals.

HB 1153
Title: relative to absentee ballot requests.
Sponsors: (Prime) Torosian (R), Gould (R), Janigian (R), Ankarberg (R), Wuelper (R), Jonathan Smith (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law | Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: INTERIM STUDY
Analysis: This bill clarifies that absentee ballots may not be mailed to absentee voters before an absentee ballot application has been received and approved.
 
HB 1156
Title: requiring certain public servants to receive a copy of a pre-employment background investigation.
Sponsors: (Prime) Trottier (R), Bordes (R)
Committees: House Committee - Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status: 
Analysis: This bill requires a public employer that requires a candidate for employment to undergo a background check to furnish the candidate with a copy of the report used in making the employment decision.

HB 1157
Title: relative to electronic ballot counting devices.
Sponsors: (Prime) Torosian (R), Janigian (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law | Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill prohibits electronic ballot counting devices from being connected to the Internet.

HB 1161-FN-L
Title: relative to ethics obligations of elected local and county officials.
Sponsors: (Prime) Callum (R), Steven Smith (R), Stapleton (R), Baxter (R)
Committees: House Committee - Municipal and County Government
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill prohibits any member of a governing body in the state from having an interest in any business or transaction that is in substantial conflict with the proper discharge of his or her duties in the public interest. This bill also requires the member abstain from any vote that may create a conflict.

HB 1163
Title: relative to over voted ballots.
Sponsors: (Prime) Porter (D), Berch (D), Soti (R), Gerald Ward (D), Santonastaso (R), Donna Soucy (D)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law | Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill requires that ballots which contain more than the allowable number of votes for an office on the ballot be returned to the voter to be hand counted by election officials after the polls close. The bill also requires the number of over voted ballots, as well as the number of overvotes and undervotes, be included in the return for each election.
SUPPORT
 
HB 1165
Title: repealing the Granite State paid family leave plan.
Sponsors: (Prime) Prout (R), Silber (R), Turcotte (R), Verville (R), Berezhny (R), Johnson (R), Warden (R), Layon (R)
Committees: House Committee - Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Senate Committee - Commerce
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: REPORT FILED
Analysis: This bill repeals the Granite State paid family leave plan.
OPPOSE
 
HB 1166
Title: requiring certain voters to declare a party affiliation prior to a state primary election and requiring candidates to be members of political parties for a certain amount of time prior to an election in which such candidates seek office.
Sponsors: (Prime) Love (R), Potucek (R), Yakubovich (R), Thomas (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires any undeclared voter who wishes to vote in a state party primary to declare a party affiliation at least 120 days prior to such primary.  The bill also requires that any person seeking a nomination by primary be a member of the political party for which such candidate seeks a nomination for at least 6 months prior to the primary election.

HB 1167
Title: establishing a maximum contaminant level for perfluorinated chemicals in surface water.
Sponsors: (Prime) Bill Boyd (R), Myler (D), Woodcock (D)
Committees: House Committee - Resources, Recreation and Development
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INTERIM STUDY
Senate Status:
​Analysis: This bill establishes maximum contaminant levels for perfluorinated chemicals in surface water.

HB 1173
Title: proclaiming August 9 as Indigenous People's Day.
Sponsors: (Prime) Ford (R), Edwards (R)
Committees: House Committee - Executive Departments and Administration
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill establishes August 9 as Indigenous People's Day, joining with the United Nations' observance of International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples.

HB 1174
Title: relative to election challengers.
Sponsors: (Prime) Yakubovich (R), Ankarberg (R), Abramson (R), Johnson (R), Love (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law | Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: CONSENT CALENDAR REPORT FILED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill permits election challengers to be permitted within 6 feet of any table where any ballots are hand counted and to maintain a line of sight on any electronic ballot counting device.
OPPOSE
 
HB 1176
Title: relative to reducing the penalty for sex work within one's own home.
Sponsors: (Prime) Abramson (R), Adjutant (D)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill establishes a violation-level offense for engaging in sex work in one's own home.

HB 1177
Title: relative to permissible residential units in a residential zone.
Sponsors: (Prime) Vann (D), Gallager (D), Stavis (D), McWilliams (D), Porter (D), Caplan (D), Conley (D), Booras (D), Mangipudi (D), Read (I), Jeb Bradley (R)
Committees: House Committee - Municipal and County Government
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires that local legislative bodies permit by right certain single-family lots in residential districts to be used for up to 4 residential units.
 
HB 1178
Title: prohibiting 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. 
Sponsors: (Prime) Burt (R), Stapleton (R), Hopper (R), Silber (R), Nunez (R), True (R), Hill (R), Kelsey (R), Folsom (R), Kofalt (R), Avard (R), Ricciardi (R)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: REPORT FILED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill prohibits the state of New Hampshire, a political subdivision of this state, or any person acting under the color of state, county, or municipal law from using any personnel or financial resources to enforce, administer, or cooperate with any law, act, rule, order, or regulation of the United States Government or Executive Order of the President of the United States that is inconsistent with any law of this state regarding the regulation of firearms, ammunition, magazines or the ammunition feeding devices, firearm components, firearms supplies, or knives.
OPPOSE
 
HB 1179
Title: relative to zoning protest petitions.
Sponsors: (Prime) Yokela (R), Lanzara (R)
Committees: House Committee - Municipal and County Government
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill allows for an exception to the majority vote for certain zoning amendments.
 
HB 1180
Title: relative to state recognition of biological sex.
Sponsors: (Prime) Gould (R), Aron (R), Cushman (R), Prudhomme-O'Brien (R)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill clarifies the intent of provisions of vital records and identification card laws pertaining to biological sex.
Note: AFSC-NH opposes this bill as an attack on transgender people.
OPPOSE

HB 1181-FN
Title: allowing the biological father of an unborn child to petition the court for an injunction prohibiting the biological mother from having an abortion.
Sponsors: (Prime) Greeson (R), Stapleton (R)
Committees: House Committee - Judiciary
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INTERIM STUDY
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill allows the biological father of an unborn child to petition the court for an injunction prohibiting the biological mother from having an abortion.
OPPOSE
 
HB 1183
Title: relative to the calculation of property taxes for residents 75 years of age and older.
Sponsors: (Prime) Thompson (R)
Committees: House Committee - Municipal and County Government
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill establishes a education property tax credit for individuals over 75 years of age.

HB 1185
Title: relative to treatment of water contaminated with perfluorinated chemicals.
Sponsors: (Prime) Rung (D), Chretien (D), Cohen (D), Healey (R), Mooney (R), Meuse (D), Weston (D), Bill Boyd (R)
Committees: House Committee - Resources, Recreation and Development
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: REPORT FILED
Analysis: This bill enables wastewater treatment plants to require providers of discharge to test such discharge for PFAS.
SUPPORT

HB 1194
Title: relative to the procedure for overriding a local tax cap.
Sponsors: (Prime) Pauer (R), Berezhny (R), Baxter (R), Silber (R), Yakubovich (R), Avard (R)
Committees: House Committee - Municipal and County Government | Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: CONSENT CALENDAR REPORT FILED
Analysis: This bill requires a supermajority vote of the legislative body to override a local tax cap.
 
HB 1195
Title: (New Title) relative to public comment periods at school board or school administrative unit public meetings.
Sponsors: (Prime) Dolan (R), Ankarberg (R), Thomas (R), Maggiore (D), Cordelli (R), Potucek (R), Deshaies (R), Baldasaro (R), Pauer (R)
Committees: House Committee – Judiciary | Senate Committee - Education
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: REPORT FILED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill requires that all open meetings of school boards or school administrative unit boards have a period designated for public comment.
 
HB 1197
Title: relative to the definition of "party" for election purposes.
Sponsors: (Prime) Craig (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill modifies the definition of "party" for election purposes (by reducing the number of votes required to qualify as a party).
“"Party" shall mean any political organization which at the preceding state general election received at least [4] one percent of the total number of votes cast for any one of the following: the office of governor or the offices of United States senators.”

HB 1199
Title: prohibiting reunification therapy.
Sponsors: (Prime) Gay (R), Stapleton (R), Mark Pearson (R), Wuelper (R), Bernardy (R), Greeson (R), Woods (d), Nutter-Upham (D), Moran (D), Rung (D)
Committees: House Committee - Children and Family Law
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill prohibits the use of reunification therapy in counseling required in parenting plans filed with the court and requires any court-selected counselor to be a participating provider in the parties' health insurance network.

HB 1203-FN
Title: (New Title) relative to domicile residency, voter registration, and investigation of voter verification letters.
Sponsors: (Prime) Horrigan (D), Berch (D), Cohen (D), Frost (D), Kenney (D), Read (I), Spang (D), Wall (D)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law | Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill modifies the definition of domicile for voting purposes, modifies forms and procedures used for voter registration, and removes the requirement that the secretary of state conduct post-election voter registration inquiries.
 
HB 1210
Title: relative to exemptions from vaccine mandates.
Sponsors: (Prime) Lang (R), Pearl (R), Moffett (R), Osborne (R), Edwards (R), Aron (R), Cushman (R), Avard (R), Giuda (R)
Committees: House Committee - Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: REPORT FILED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill requires public employers, private employers, and postsecondary education institutions that receive public funds and mandate a vaccination or other inoculation procedure to accept an employee's or student's request for a medical, religious, or right of conscience exemption.
OPPOSE
 
HB 1215-FN
Title: relative to the definition of "residual amount" in the controlled drug act.
Sponsors: (Prime) Baldasaro (R), French (R)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill amends the definition of "residual amount" of a controlled drug and changes the penalty for such amount.
 
HB 1216-FN
Title: repealing the housing appeals board.
Sponsors: (Prime) Bill Boyd (R), Maggiore (D)
Committees: House Committee - Judiciary
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill repeals the housing appeals board.

HB 1219
Title: relative to parking requirements for religious institution-affiliated housing development projects.
Sponsors: (Prime) Gallager (D)
Committees: House Committee - Municipal and County Government
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE 
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill prevents planning boards from adopting certain parking requirements for religious institution-affiliated housing development projects.
 
HB 1221-FN
Title: (New Title) relative to the rate of the business profits tax.
Sponsors: (Prime) Notter (R), Turcotte (R), Osborne (R), Abramson (R), Mooney (R), Hobson (R), Potucek (R), Healey (R)
Committees: House Committee - Ways and Means | Senate Committee - Ways and Means
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: REPORT FILED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill reduces the rate of the business profits tax for tax years ending on or after December 31, 2023.
 
HB 1223
Title: relative to meeting attendance requirements for elected members of budget committee and school board.
Sponsors: (Prime) Notter (R), Ulery (R), Roy (R)
Committees: House Committee - Municipal and County Government
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INTERIM STUDY
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires in-person attendance by an elected member of a budget committee or a school board except under extenuating circumstances, and provides for a vacancy if an elected member fails to attend 2 or more meetings or 25 percent of such meetings annually.
 
HB 1224-FN
Title: prohibiting state and local governments from adopting certain mandates in response to COVID-19; and prohibiting employers and places of public accommodation from discriminating on the basis of vaccination status.
Sponsors: (Prime) Baldasaro (R), Notter (R), Binford (R), Johnson (R), Wallace (R), Cushman (R), Giuda (R)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INTERIM STUDY
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill: I) Prohibits state or local government agencies from requiring masks or other facial coverings in response to COVID-19 or other infectious disease.  II)  Prohibits state or local government agencies from issuing immunity passports or similar standardized documentation of COVID-19 vaccination status. III)  Prohibits businesses from requiring documentation of COVID-19 vaccination status. IV) Prohibits discrimination on the basis of COVID-19 vaccination status by state agencies, employers, and places of public accommodation.
OPPOSE

HB 1231
Title: relative to failure to make payment of compensation.
Sponsors: (Prime) Abramson (R)
Committees: House Committee - Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill provides for penalties against workers' compensation insurance carriers or self-insured entities which make late benefit payments to injured workers.

HB 1233
Title: prohibiting higher education institutions receiving state funds from requiring face masks and COVID-19 vaccinations for attendance.
Sponsors: (Prime) Torosian (R), Andrus (R), Jonathan Smith (R), Baxter (R), Wallace (R)
Committees: House Committee - Education
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill prohibits higher education institutions from requiring a COVID-19 vaccination or face masks for enrollment or attendance.
OPPOSE

HB 1234
Title: relative to criminal background checks for an applicant for a teaching credential.
Sponsors: (Prime) Mullen (D), Cornell (D), Allard (R), Woodcock (D)
Committees: House Committee – Education | Senate Committee - Education
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill adds human trafficking to crimes for which an application for teacher credentials shall not be granted to a candidate.
SUPPORT
 
HB 1235-FN
Title: relative to compensation paid to a crime victim.
Sponsors: (Prime) Robert Renny Cushing (D), Meuse (D), Walz (d)
Committees: House Committee – Finance | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill increases the maximum recovery per claimant under the victims' assistance fund.
 
HB 1238
Title: relative to zoning powers and the supply of workforce housing.
Sponsors: (Prime) Vose (R), Yokela (R), Berry (R), Littlefield (R)
Committees: House Committee - Municipal and County Government
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill prohibits local proscriptions on workforce housing.

HB 1241
Title: prohibiting a school district from mandating a COVID-19 vaccination for school attendance.
Sponsors: (Prime) Lanzara (R), Littlefield (R)
Committees: House Committee – Education | Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: INTERIM STUDY
Analysis: This bill prohibits school districts from mandating that students have a COVID-19 vaccination in order to attend school.
OPPOSE
 
HB 1242
Title: relative to filing deadlines for candidates seeking election to charter commissions and relative to the dates of such elections.
Sponsors: (Prime) Bergeron (D)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill provides that the local charter commission election ballot shall be available at least 45 days prior to a state primary election where both elections are scheduled to occur on the same date.

HB 1247
Title: relative to folded ballots.
Sponsors: (Prime) Moffett (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires that in any political subdivision that uses electronic ballot counting machines, any ballot that has been folded be held for hand counting after the close of the polls.
 
HB 1248
Title: relative to replacement power for net metering customer-generators.
Sponsors: (Prime) White (R)
Committees: House Committee - Science, Technology and Energy
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INTERIM STUDY
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires certain customer-generators to provide replacement power when they cannot meet their grid-export obligations.

HB 1250
Title: requiring the public utilities commission to consider climate change in making rate-setting decisions.
Sponsors: (Prime) Gallager (D), Oxenham (D)
Committees: House Committee - Science, Technology and Energy
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE 
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires the public utilities commission to consider climate change when setting rates, fees, or charges.
 
HB 1251
Title: prohibiting payment of subminimum wages.
Sponsors: (Prime) Altschiller (D), Schultz (d), Klein-Knight (D), Vail (D), Schuett (D), McWilliams (D), Caplan (D), Donna Soucy (D)
Committees: House Committee - Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE 
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill prohibits the payment of subminimum wages to an employee.
 
HB 1252
Title: relative to political contributions made by certain business entities.
Sponsors: (Prime) Love (R), Potucek (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill prohibits any business organization that receives grants from the state of New Hampshire from making any contribution to any candidate or political committee.

HB 1254
Title: relative to the housing appeals board.
Sponsors: (Prime) Homola (R), Pauer (R), Ammon (R), Avard (R)
Committees: House Committee - Judiciary
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill makes various changes to the housing appeals board.

HB 1255
Title: relative to teachers' loyalty.
Sponsors: (Prime) Alicia Lekas (R), Layon (R), Cordelli (R), Ammon (R), Tony Lekas (R)
Committees: House Committee - Education
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill expands the prohibition on teacher advocacy of subversive doctrines.
Note: From the bill text: “No teacher shall advocate any doctrine or theory promoting a negative account or representation of the founding and history of the United States.... Such prohibition includes but is not limited to teaching that the United States was founded on racism.”
OPPOSE

HB 1258
Title: relative to the implementation of the department of energy.
Sponsors: (Prime) Harrington (R), Vose (R)
Committees: House Committee - Science, Technology and Energy | Senate Committee - Energy and Natural Resources
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: CONSENT CALENDAR REPORT FILED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill makes various changes to amend the powers and duties of the public utilities commission and the department of energy.
 
HB 1259
Title: relative to the election and resignation of members of school boards and elected budget committees.
Sponsors: (Prime) Notter (R), Post (R), Potucek (R), Harley (R)
Committees: House Committee - Municipal and County Government
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill provides for the replacement of elected budget committee members and school board members following a resignation of a member.
OPPOSE

HB 1260
Title: making immunization status a protected class.
Sponsors: (Prime) Harvey-Bolia (R), Blasek (R), Johnson (R), Silber (R), Pauer (R)
Committees: House Committee - Judiciary
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill makes immunization status a protected class.
OPPOSE

HB 1261
Title: prohibiting the use of Native American mascots in public schools, colleges, and universities.
Sponsors: (Prime) Cannon (D), Cushing (D), Vail (D), Tucker (D), Ellis (D), Bartlett (d), Kahn (D), Watters (D)
Committees: House Committee - Education
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Anlaysis: This bill prohibits a public educational institution from using a Native American mascot, except under certain circumstances.

HB 1263
Title: (New Title) relative to prescribed studies on health, physical education, wellness, and personal finance literacy in schools.
Sponsors: (Prime) Knirk (D), Tanner (D), Murphy (D), Marsh (D), Weston (D), Woods (d), Schamberg (D), Watters (D), Sherman (D)
Committees: House Committee – Education | Senate Committee - Education
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill provides for prescribed studies in schools in health, physical education, and wellness, as well as on personal finance literacy.
 
HB 1264
Title: establishing ranked-choice voting for state party primary elections and municipal elections.
Sponsors: (Prime) Read (I), Hamblet (D), Labranche (I), Wilhelm (D), Somssich (D), Veilleux (D), Craig (R), Wolf (R), Tony Lekas (R), Wuelper (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill establishes procedures for ranked-choice voting for which state parties and municipalities may opt in.
 
HB 1266
Title: relative to restrictions on enforcement of federal immigration laws.
Sponsors: (Prime) Piemonte (R), Torosian (R), Potucek (R)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: CONSENT CALENDAR REPORT FILED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill prohibits state, county, municipal, or judicial officials from adopting or enforcing policies restricting enforcement of federal immigration laws.
OPPOSE

HB 1268
Title: limiting the authority for city council bylaws and ordinances.
Sponsors: (Prime) Harvey-Bolia (R), Abramson (R), Potucek (R), Renzullo (R), Yakubovich (R)
Committees: House Committee - Municipal and County Government | Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: INTERIM STUDY
Analysis: (as amended) This bill limits the general authority of city councils to make bylaws and ordinances to the abatement of nuisances that interfere with the use or enjoyment of property.
 
HB 1271
Title: limiting the authority of the department of health and human services to mandate vaccinations; and relative to quarantine costs.
Sponsors: (Prime) Comtois (R), Kofalt (R), Silber (R), Johnson (R)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INTERIM STUDY
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill repeals a statute regarding health facilities' compliance with orders, rules, and directives issued under the state of emergency declared in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Note: The amendment repeals RSA 21-P:42-a, relative to health facilities’ compliance with orders, rules, and directives issued during the state of emergency declared in response to COVID-19.
OPPOSE

HB 1272
Title: limiting the authority of town health officers.
Sponsors: (Prime) Harvey-Bolia (R), Blasek (R), Berezhny (R), Post (R), Renzullo (R), Binford (R), Littlefield (R), Pauer (R)
Committees: House Committee - Municipal and County Government | Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Analysis: (as amended) This bill limits the authority of local health officers in making bylaws or ordinances relating to public health matters.
OPPOSE
 
HB 1280
Title: prohibiting a parent's refusal to vaccinate a child pursuant to an order of the state or federal government to be used as a basis for terminating parental rights.
Sponsors: (Prime) Roy (R)
Committees: House Committee - Children and Family Law | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: REPORT FILED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill prohibits a parent's decision not to have their child vaccinated from being used as grounds to terminate parental rights.
 
HB 1283
Title: relative to liability as taxable income of education freedom account payments.
Sponsors: (Prime) Luneau (D), Ames (D), Marjorie Smith (D)
Committees: House Committee - Education
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill repeals the statement that education freedom account funds shall not constitute taxable income to the parent of the education freedom account student.
 
HB 1291
Title: prohibiting discrimination against tenants holding certain vouchers for purposes of renting dwellings.
Sponsors: (Prime) Kenney (D), Chase (D), Horrigan (D), Marjorie Smith (D), Timothy Smith (D), Wilhelm (D), Grossman (D), Rosenwald (D), Watters (D), Donna Soucy (D)
Committees: House Committee: Judiciary
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill prohibits discrimination against tenants holding certain vouchers for purposes of renting dwellings.

HB 1293
Title: relative to the design of sewage or waste disposal systems for a person's own domicile.
Sponsors: (Prime) McConkey (R)
Committees: House Committee - Municipal and County Government
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: CONSENT CALENDAR REPORT FILED
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill repeals the exemption allowing any person who desires to submit plans and specifications for a sewage or waste disposal system for the person's own domicile to do so without a permit.
SUPPORT
 
HB 1296
Title: (New Title) relative to the forfeiture of items used in connection with a drug offense.
Sponsors: (Prime) Sylvia (R), True (R), Silber (R), Bailey (R)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: INTERIM STUDY
Analysis: (as amended) This bill establishes a procedure for the forfeiture of items used in connection with a drug offense.
 
HB 1298-FN
Title: relative to eligibility for the education tax credit.
Sponsors: (Prime) Cordelli (R), Hill (R), Moffett (R), McGuire (R), Piemonte (R), Alicia Lekas (R), Hobson (R), Osborne (R)
Committees: House Committee – Education | Senate Committee - Education
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Analysis: This bill increases the household income level to qualify as an eligible student under the education tax credit program.
 
HB 1304
Title: establishing a committee to study the impacts of outdoor working conditions in heat and cold.
Sponsors: (Prime) Perez (D)
Committees: House Committee - Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill a establishes a committee to study the impacts of outdoor working conditions in New Hampshire’s heat and cold.
 
HB 1307
Title: modifying the authority and duties of the housing appeals board.
Sponsors: (Prime) Barbara Griffin (R)
Committees: House Committee - Municipal and County Government | Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: CONSENT CALENDAR REPORT FILED
Analysis: This bill modifies the authority and duties of the housing appeals board.
Housing Action opposes this bill.
 
HB 1309
Title: establishing a committee to study revising house rules to assure that all sections of the budget trailer bill receive an adequate public hearing.
Sponsors: (Prime) Wolf (R), Deshaies (R), Allard (R), Rouillard (R), Ebel (D), Gordon (R)
Committees: House Committee - Legislative Administration
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill establishes a committee to study revising house rules to assure that all sections of the budget trailer bill receive an adequate public hearing.

HB 1311
Title: (New Title) prohibiting persons charged with or convicted of certain assault or controlled drug possession violations from employment in a public school or being granted teaching credentials.
Sponsors: (Prime) Mullen (D), Tanner (D), Rombeau (D)
Committees: House Committee – Education | Senate Committee - Education
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: CONSENT CALENDAR REPORT FILED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill adds the prohibition of persons convicted of first-degree assault or possession of a controlled drug with the intent to sell from employment in a public school and from being granted a teaching credential.
 
HB 1321
Title: relative to the governor's power to declare a state of emergency.
Sponsors: (Prime) Horrigan (D)
Committees: House Committee - Executive Departments and Administration
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill removes certain restrictions on the governor's power to declare a state of emergency.

HB 1324
Title: establishing a formula to allocate presidential electors to presidential nominees.
Sponsors: (Prime) Abramson (R), Ankarberg (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill establishes a formula to allocate presidential electors to presidential nominees.
OPPOSE 

HB 1326
Title: relative to permissible campaign contributions by business organizations and labor unions.
Sponsors: (Prime) Read (I), Knirk (D), DiLorenzo (D), Frost (D), Watters (D)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires business organizations and labor unions to make political contributions through segregated funds.
 
HB 1332
Title: excepting public universities and colleges from requirements under medical freedom in immunizations.
Sponsors: (Prime) Schapiro (D), Horrigan (D), Woods (d), Merchant (D), Welkowitz (D), Marsh (D), Meuse (D), Marjorie Smith (D), Spang (D), Kahn (D), Rosenwald (D)
Committees: House Committee - Education
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
​Analysis: This bill exempts the university system and the community college system from the statute pertaining to medical freedom in immunizations.
SUPPORT

HB 1335-FN
Title: relative to the parole board and the procedure for medical parole of prisoners.
Sponsors: (Prime) Murphy (D), Marsh (D), Carson (R), Sherman (D), Rosenwald (D)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill revises the criteria necessary for determining if an inmate qualifies for medical parole and revises the membership of the adult parole board.  The bill also renames the position of "executive assistant to the parole board" as the "parole board director of operations."
SUPPORT
 
HB 1337
Title: relative to the duration of unemployment benefits.
Sponsors: (Prime) Turcotte (R), Doucette (R), Notter (R), Renzullo (R)
Committees: House Committee - Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Senate Committee - Executive Departments and Administration
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Analysis: (as amended) This bill specifies the duration of unemployment benefits based on the state's average unemployment rate.
 
HB 1338
Title: establishing a committee to study imposing a tax on manufacturers based on the cost to dispose of single-use products and product packaging materials.
Sponsors: (Prime) Read (I), Frost (D), Labranche (D)
Committees: House Committee - Ways and Means
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill establishes a committee to study imposing a tax on manufacturers based on the cost to dispose of single use products and product packaging materials.
 
HB 1340
Title: relative to the definition of "domestic violence" and relative to criminal convictions for domestic violence.
Sponsors: (Prime) Abramson (R)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill inserts a definition of "domestic violence" that is based on the federal definition of domestic violence, and requires convictions for certain violent crimes that are based on the federal definition shall be annotated to indicate that they are domestic violence-related offenses.

HB 1342
Title: relative to municipal charter provisions for tax caps.
Sponsors: (Prime) Vail (D), Moran (D), Dutzy (D), Harriott-Gathright (D), Janice Schmidt (D), Espitia (D), Jack (D), Mangipudi (D), Telerski (D), Pedersen (D)
Committees: House Committee - Municipal and County Government
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill clarifies the interpretation of override provisions for tax or spending caps in certain town and city charters.

HB 1348-FN
Title: relative to the legalization of a certain amount of cannabis.
Sponsors: (Prime) Egan (D), Adjutant (d), McGuire (R), Klein-Knight (D), Weston (D), Knirk (D), Toll (D)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE 
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill permits adults to possess up to one ounce of cannabis, 5 grams of hashish, and certain cannabis-infused products; permits adults to cultivate up to 2 mature 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 one ounce of cannabis, 5 grams of hashish; provides that smoking or vaporizing cannabis in public by an adult would be punishable by a fine; provides that violations of the restrictions on cultivation would be a violation punishable by fine; penalizes dangerous, volatile extraction; and permits adults to possess, make, and sell cannabis accessories to other adults.
 
HB 1351
Title: prohibiting certain employers from requiring a COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment.
Sponsors: (Prime) Silber (R)
Committees: House Committee - Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill prohibits an employer from requiring an employee to receive the COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment.
 
HB 1352-FN
Title: relative to eligibility for workers' compensation for an adverse reaction to a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination.
Sponsors: (Prime) Hough (R), Aron (R), Binford (R), Andrus (R), Love (R), Sylvia (R)
Committees: House Committee - Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill provides that an adverse reaction to an employer-mandated COVID-19 vaccination shall be deemed to be an occupational disease for the purpose of determining eligibility for workers' compensation.
 
HB 1355
Title: requiring the scholarship organization to refer suspected cases of misuse of funds or fraud in the education freedom account program to the attorney general.
Sponsors: (Prime) Luneau (D)
Committees: House Committee - Education
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires a scholarship organization to refer suspected misuse of EFA funds to the attorney general for investigation.

HB 1357
Title: relative to land acknowledgment.
Sponsors: (Prime) Cushing (D), Espitia (D), DiLorenzo (D), Cote (D), Vail (D), Amanda Bouldin (D), Kenney (D), Piedra (D), Sherman (D)
Committees: House Committee - Executive Departments and Administration
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill formally acknowledges the native land on which the state of New Hampshire is located.
Note: This bill recognizes that NH is located on N'dakinna, which is the traditional ancestral homeland of the Pennacook, Abenaki, and Wabanaki Peoples past and present. New Hampshire acknowledges and honors with gratitude the spiritual and physical connection to the aki (land), nebi (water), lolakwikah (flora), and awwaasak (fauna) of the alnobak (people) who have stewarded N'dakinna throughout the generations and who continue to carry forward the traditions of their ancestors.
SUPPORT

HB 1358
Title: requiring public and private employers to establish procedures and exceptions for the use of mandatory intrusive testing as a condition of new or continued employment.
Sponsors: (Prime) Foster (R), Rollins (R), Comtois (R), Sylvia (R), Johnson (R), Silber (R), Ulery (R), Alliegro (R), Notter (R), Greeson (R)
Committees: House Committee - Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires any public or private employer in the state to allow an employee an exemption from intrusive testing requirements.
 
HB 1359
Title: relative to the election-day duties of incumbent election officials who also appear on the ballot.
Sponsors: (Prime) Rhodes (R), Hough (R), Potucek (R), Binford (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill clarifies what duties certain election officials may perform on election day when such officials also appear on the ballot.
OPPOSE

HB 1360-FN
Title: relative to penalties for controlled drug violations.
Sponsors: (Prime) Roy (R), Bordenet (D)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: INTERIM STUDY
Analysis: (as amended) This bill changes the penalty for certain schedule I, II, III, and IV drug offenses.
 
HB 1367
Title: relative to civics instruction in schools.
Sponsors: (Prime) Hobson (R), Hough (R), Moffett (R)
Committees: House Committee – Education | Senate Committee - Education
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill requires a competency assessment in government and civics instruction in schools.  The bill modifies the provisions enacted in 2021, 157 effective July 1, 2023.
 
HB 1368
Title: relative to recusal by members of the general court for conflicts of interest.
Sponsors: (Prime) Gordon (R), Wall (D)
Committees: House Committee - Legislative Administration
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INTERIM STUDY
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires a legislator to recuse himself or herself from participation in a legislative activity when the legislator or the legislator's household member has a conflict of interest in an official legislative activity.  The bill also amends certain applicable definitions.

HB 1369
Title: relative to COVID-19 health and safety policies at New Hampshire performing arts venues.
Sponsors: (Prime) Wilhelm (D), Marsh (D), Knirk (D), Sherman (D)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill provides that performing arts venues in New Hampshire have the authority to establish their own COVID health and safety policies.

HB 1370
Title: establishing a committee to study childcare options for New Hampshire state legislators.
Sponsors: (Prime) Wilhelm (D), Megan Murray (D), Conley (D), Wallner (d), Toll (D), McWilliams (D), Whitley (D)
Committees: House Committee -Legislative Administration
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill establishes a committee to study childcare options for New Hampshire state legislators.

HB 1371
Title: relative to school district policies on facial masks of students in schools.
Sponsors: (Prime) Foster (R), Berezhny (R), Torosian (R), Piemonte (R), Littlefield (R), Roy (R), Wuelper (R), Silber (R), Tony Lekas (R), Layon (R)
Committees: House Committee - Education
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires school districts to adopt a policy leaving facial mask use to parents of students and not tolerating bullying, harassment, or discrimination.
OPPOSE
 
HB 1374
Title: relative to the membership of local land use boards.
Sponsors: (Prime) Somssich (D)
Committees: House Committee - Municipal and County Government
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires that all voting members of local land use boards shall be residents of the municipalities in which they serve.

HB 1376
Title: relative to participation in the education freedom accounts program by students with disabilities.
Sponsors: (Prime) Cornell (D), Cushing (D), Heath (D), Mullen (D), Ellison (D), Porter (D)
Committees: House Committee - Education
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill clarifies the responsibility of a scholarship organization under the education freedom accounts program for explaining rights under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

HB 1377
Title: relative to unemployment benefits for employees terminated for refusing to comply with a vaccine mandate.
Sponsors: (Prime) Comtois (R), Littlefield (R), Kofalt (R), Ammon (R)
Committees: House Committee - Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill establishes rights for employees for noncompliance with an employer-required vaccination mandate.
 
HB 1379
Title: relative to the department of health and human services' rulemaking authority regarding immunization requirements.
Sponsors: (Prime) Kofalt (R), Blasek (R), Nunez (R), Bernardy (R), Hough (R), True (R), Love (R), Spillane (R), Avard (R)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: INTERIM STUDY
Analysis: (as amended) This bill limits immunization requirements to those diseases identified in statute.  The bill also provides the commissioner of health and human services with limited authority to include an additional immunization requirement with the approval of the oversight committee on health and human services.
OPPOSE
 
HB 1381
Title: relative to student school board members.
Sponsors: (Prime) Labranche (i), Laughton (D), Mullen (D), Gallager (D), Ellison (D), Welkowitz (D)
Committees: House Committee – Education | Senate Committee - Education
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: This bill allows for at least one student member on the school board from each public high school in the district.
 
HB 1382
Title: relative to the presumption of shared parenting in the determination of parental rights and responsibilities.
Sponsors: (Prime) Kofalt (R), Abrami (R), Post (R), Yakubovich (R), Yokela (R), Homola (R), Love (R), Spillane (R), Bernardy (R), Avard (R), Ruth Ward (R), Daniels (R)
Committees: House Committee - Children and Family Law | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: CONSENT CALENDAR REPORT FILED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill defines shared parenting and establishes a presumption that shared parenting is in the best interests of the child.
 
HB 1383
Title: relative to electronic copies of absentee ballot lists.
Sponsors: (Prime) Berry (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status: 
Analysis: This bill requires that absentee ballot lists be provided to requesting parties within one business day.

HB 1385
Title: prohibiting the use of credit history in employment decisions.
Sponsors: (Prime) Read (I), Bouchard (D), Toomey (D)
Committees: House Committee: Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill prohibits an employer from using an employee's or prospective employee's credit history as a criterion for making certain employment decisions.

HB 1386
Title: establishing a committee to study the effects of heat and high temperature on employee working conditions.
Sponsors: (Prime) Read (I), Toomey (D), Bouchard (D)
Committees: House Committee - Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill establishes a committee to study the effects of heat and high temperature on employee working conditions.
 
HB 1388
Title: relative to the unsolicited disclosure of an intimate image.
Sponsors: (Prime) Nutting-Wong (D), Abbas (R), Rhodes (R)
Committees: House Committee: Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Senate Committee – Judiciary
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED 
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: This bill establishes a criminal penalty for the unsolicited disclosure of an intimate image.

HB 1390
Title: relative to access to language translation services in telemedicine.
Sponsors: (Prime) Megan Murray (D), Espitia (D), Query (D), Wazir (D), Grossman (D), Marsh (D), Knirk (D), Kahn (D), Prentiss (D)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill requires language access services for limited-English proficient speakers and deaf or heard of hearing individuals when healthcare services are provided through telemedicine.
 
HB 1393
Title: relative to the adoption of school district budget caps.
Sponsors: (Prime) Pauer (R), Ammon (R), Greene (R), Hill (R), Hobson (R), Post (R), Silber (R), Andrus (R), Gannon (R)
Committees: House Committee - Municipal and County Government | Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Analysis: This bill establishes the requirements for and procedure for the adoption of a school district budget cap.
OPPOSE
 
HB 1394
Title: relative to the reporting of certain campaign contributions and relative to political contributions made by limited liability companies.
Sponsors: (Prime) Labranche (I), Laughton (D), Veilleux (D), McGhee (D)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires the reporting of certain political contributions.  This bill also requires that a political contribution by a limited liability company be allocated to members for purposes of determining whether a member has exceeded the contribution limits.
 
HB 1398
Title: establishing a committee to study the feasibility of centralized criminal history records checks in education.
Sponsors: (Prime) McGuire (R), Allard (R), Reagan (R)
Committees: House Committee – Education | Senate Committee - Education
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: This bill establishes a committee to study the feasibility of centralized criminal history records checks in education.
 
HB 1400
Title: prohibiting law enforcement from using the scent of marijuana as probable cause for a search.
Sponsors: (Prime) Amanda Bouldin (D)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill prohibits law enforcement from using the scent of marijuana as probable cause for a search.

HB 1403
Title: establishing a commission relative to the minimum wage.
Sponsors: (Prime) Labranche (D), Laughton (D), Caplan (D)
Committees: House Committee - Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill establishes a minimum hourly rate commission which shall set and adjust the minimum hourly rate for all employees in New Hampshire.
SUPPORT

HB 1407
Title: including the promotion of affordable housing under the land and community heritage investment program.
Sponsors: (Prime) Klein-Knight (D), Caplan (D), Vann (D), Bouchard (D)
Committees: House Committee - Ways and Means
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status: 
Analysis: This bill includes the promotion of affordable housing under the land and community heritage investment program and requires an annual transfer from the real estate transfer tax revenue to the land and community heritage investment program trust fund.
Housing Action NH opposes this bill.

HB 1409
Title: relative to the age at which a minor may receive mental health treatment without parental consent.
Sponsors: (Prime) Klein-Knight (D), Moran (D), Espitia (D), Rogers (D), Marsh (D), Burroughs (D), Megan Murray (D), Toll (D), Watters (D)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill allows a minor 16 years of age or older to consent to mental health treatment without parental consent.  The bill also allows for reimbursement of such services from the uncompensated care and Medicaid fund.

HB 1416
Title: relative to consent for mental health treatment in parenting cases with shared decision-making responsibility.
Sponsors: (Prime) Amanda Bouldin (D), Nutting-Wong (D), Andrew Bouldin (D), Snow (D), Query (D)
Committees: House Committee - Children and Family Law | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: CONSENT CALENDAR REPORT FILED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill provides that in parenting cases with shared decision-making responsibility, either parent may consent to mental health treatment for the child provided that the parent notifies the other parent of the decision.
 
HB 1417-FN-L
Title: relative to payment by the state of a portion of retirement system contributions of political subdivision employers.
Sponsors: (Prime) Robert Renny Cushing (D), Cote (D), Edgar (D), Rosenwald (D)
Committees: House Committee – Finance | Senate Committee - Executive Departments and Administration
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: LAID ON TABLE
Analysis: 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.
 
HB 1420-FN
Title: prohibiting the issuance of new landfill permits until the state's solid waste plan is updated.
Sponsors: (Prime) Massimilla (D), Thompson (R), Burroughs (D), Theberge (R), Hennessey (R)
Committees: House Committee - Environment and Agriculture | Senate Committee - Energy and Natural Resources
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill prohibits the issuance of new landfill permits under the state's solid waste plan is updated. This bill also prospectively repeals the prohibition when the final updated solid waste plan is published.
 
HB 1421-FN
Title: relative to lead in school drinking water.
Sponsors: (Prime) Grassie (D), Bill Nelson (R), Woods (d), Meuse (D), Langley (D), Marsh (D), Knirk (D), Rung (D), Watters (D)
Committees: House Committee – Education | Senate Committee - Education
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT 
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill requires schools and licensed child care facilities to submit lead test results to the department of environmental services data base and to notify parents of tests with high lead levels.
SUPPORT
 
HB 1423-FN-A
Title: relative to campaign contributions and expenditures, and making an appropriation therefor.
Sponsors: (Prime) Porter (D), Muirhead (D), Sullivan (D), Guthrie (R), Vann (D), Marjorie Smith (D)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill establishes a fund to provide campaign financing for eligible candidates for governor and councilor and makes an appropriation to the fund. Candidates qualify for financing by collecting a requisite number of qualifying contributions, limiting the size of private contributions, and complying with other provisions of the public financing law. The bill also establishes a voter-owned elections commission to administer the fund.

HB 1430-FN-A
Title: repealing the tax on rentals of motor vehicles under the meals and rooms tax.
Sponsors: (Prime) Hunt (R)
Committees: House Committee - Ways and Means
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill repeals the application of the meals and rooms tax to the rentals of motor vehicles, and the distribution of the revenues from the motor vehicles rental tax to the education trust fund.

HB 1431-FN-L
Title: establishing the parental bill of rights.
Sponsors: (Prime) Terry (R), Greeson (R), Potucek (R), Littlefield (R), Hough (R), Alliegro (R), Ankarberg (R), Johnson (R), Silber (R), Blasek (R), Giuda (R)
Committees: House Committee - Children and Family Law | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: IN COMMITTEE
Analysis: (as amended) This bill establishes a parental bill of rights, a framework for notice of, and to report violations of, such rights, and consequences for affirmative findings of violations.
Note: This bill would remove community protections for children. It would give a parent the final word on their child's health, education, and welfare -- even if it meant the child was put at risk or danger. It is based in ALEC Model legislation and is part of a nationwide effort by the far-right to further target public schools, undermine an honest education, and target diversity, equity, and inclusion justice.
OPPOSE
 
HB 1432
Title: prohibiting the use of state funds for new passenger rail projects.
Sponsors: (Prime) Ankarberg (R), Alicia Lekas (R), Warden (R), Layon (R), Binford (R), Yakubovich (R), Nunez (R), Edwards (R), Turcotte (R), Daniels (R)
Committees: House Committee - Public Works and Highways | Senate Committee - Transportation
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: This bill prohibits the department of transportation from utilizing state funds for the planning, construction, operation, or management of new passenger rail projects.
OPPOSE
 
HB 1434
Title: relative to the availability of school curriculum materials.
Sponsors: (Prime) Prudhomme-O'Brien (R), Love (R), Cordelli (R), Moffett (R), Ruth Ward (R), Ricciardi (R), Giuda (R)
Committees: House Committee – Education | Senate Committee - Education
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: INTERIM STUDY
Analysis: (as amended) This bill requires that curriculum course materials taught to pupils in public schools and public academies be available to the public.
OPPOSE

HB 1440
Title: relative to surface water quality standards for perfluorinated chemicals.
Sponsors: (Prime) Cushing (D), Grassie (D), Rung (D), Andrew Bouldin (D), Meuse (D), Tucker (D), Paige (D)
Committees: House Committee - Resources, Recreation and Development
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INTERIM STUDY
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires the department of environmental services to make rules about perfluorinated chemical limits in surface waters.

HB1442-FN
Title: relative to access to election and voter information.
Sponsors: (Prime) Espitia (D)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires that election and voter information be made available in multiple languages.
 
HB 1447
Title: prohibiting state agencies from using face recognition technology.
Sponsors: (Prime) McGuire (R), Yokela (R), Hough (R), Peter Schmidt (D), Hopper (R), Reagan (R)
Committees: House Committee - Transportation
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INTERIM STUDY
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill prohibits state agencies from using face recognition technology.
 
HB 1454-FN
Title: relative to permits for the siting of new landfills.
Sponsors: (Prime) Tucker (D), Thompson (R), Massimilla (D), Egan (D), Hatch (D), Merner (R), Laflamme (D), Myler (D), Deshaies (R), Hennessey (R), Sherman (D)
Committees: House Committee - Environment and Agriculture | Senate Committee - Energy and Natural Resources
General Status: VETOED BY GOVERNOR | VETO STATEMENT
House Status: CONCURRED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill establishes a formula for determining the distance for which a new landfill shall be located from a perennial river, lake, or coastal water.
 
HB 1455
Title: relative to state enforcement of federal vaccination mandates.
Sponsors: (Prime) Packard (R), Rice (R), Tony Lekas (R), Layon (R), Blasek (R), Prout (R)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: REPORT FILED
Analysis: This bill prohibits state enforcement of any federal law, order, or rule that requires an individual, as a condition of employment or any other activity, to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19 or to submit more than once per month to COVID-19 testing.
OPPOSE
 
HB 1457-FN
Title: relative to chain of custody of ballot boxes after an election.
Sponsors: (Prime) Yakubovich (R), Layon (R), Gorski (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law | Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill modifies the retention policy for ballot boxes.
 
HB 1463
Title: relative to drivers' licenses issued in accordance with the Real ID Act of 2005.
Sponsors: (Prime) Sykes (D), Berch (D), Telerski (D), Watters (D)
Committees: House Committee - Transportation
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill modifies the requirements needed to obtain a driver's license that complies with the REAL ID Act of 2005, Public Law 109-13.

HB 1467-FN
Title: (New Title) relative to recounts of state representative races during a general election.
Sponsors: (Prime) Yakubovich (R), Sheehan (R), Aron (R), Stephen Boyd (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law | Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
​Analysis: This bill requires a partial audit of additional offices on ballots involved in recounts of state representative races in a general election, and creates parameters around such audits.
OPPOSE
 
HB 1470-FN
Title: requiring that all ballot counting devices show the number of overvotes for each race on the ballot.
Sponsors: (Prime) Moffett (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires that all ballot counting devices show the number of overvotes for each race on the ballot.
 
HB 1472
Title: prohibiting anti-union activities by employers.
Sponsors: (Prime) Labranche (I), Gallager (D), Laughton (D), Adjutant (d), Ellison (D), Grassie (D), Bouchard (D)
Committees: House Committee - Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill prohibits an employer from engaging in anti-union activities.
SUPPORT

HB 1473-FN
Title: authorizing a forensic audit of the November 3, 2020 election results in Merrimack county for president, governor, and United States senate races.
Sponsors: (Prime) Abrami (R), Aron (R), Abramson (R), Homola (R), Lanzara (R), Ankarberg (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED (Refer for Interim Study (Vote 20-0; CC))
Senate Status:
​Analysis: This bill requires a third party forensic audit of the November 3, 2020 election results for president, governor, and senate races in Merrimack county.
OPPOSE

HB 1476-FN
Title: relative to persons arrested while out on bail.
Sponsors: (Prime) Berry (R), Barbara Shaw (D), Alexander (R), Ankarberg (R), Hamer (D), Burt (R), Long (D), McLean (R)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: IN COMMITTEE
Analysis: (as amended) This bill provides that a person who commits an offense while on bail shall be detained without bail pending a hearing before a judge.
(See ACLU-NH talking points on HB 1476 here.)

HB 1477-FN
Title: prohibiting abortions after detection of fetal heartbeat.
Sponsors: (Prime) Testerman (R), Stapleton (R), Baldasaro (R), Gail Sanborn (R), Roy (R), Greeson (R)
Committees: House Committee - Judiciary
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill prohibits abortions after detection of a fetal heartbeat.
OPPOSE 
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HB 1478-FN-A
Title: relative to the business profits tax applicable to certain large, low-wage employers.
Sponsors: (Prime) Adjutant (D), Stephanie Hyland (D), Bouchard (D), Dontonville (D), Cloutier (D), Gomarlo (D), Labranche (D), Frost (D), Mark King (D)
Committees: House Committee - Ways and Means
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill increases the rate of the business profits tax applicable to business organizations with more than 100 employees who pay wages below a specified amount (less than $15 per hour).

HB 1481
Title: repealing the statute relative to medical freedom in immunizations.
Sponsors: (Prime) Horrigan (D), Marjorie Smith (D), Spang (D)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill repeals the statute pertaining to medical freedom in immunizations.
SUPPORT
 
HB 1482-FN
Title: relative to ranked-choice voting.
Sponsors: (Prime) Read (I), Hamblet (D), Labranche (D), Wilhelm (D), Meuse (D), Somssich (D), Vann (D), Knirk (D), Frost (D), Telerski (D)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill establishes procedures for ranked-choice voting for federal and state offices.

HB 1484-FN
Title: requiring a forensic audit of the 2020 election results.
Sponsors: (Prime) Baxter (R), Ankarberg (R), Johnson (R), Littlefield (R), Abrami (R), Abramson (R), Callum (R), Sheehan (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: ​This bill requires a forensic audit of the 2020 general election and establishes a fund to cover the costs of conducting such an audit.
OPPOSE

HB 1485
Title: relative to direct recall elections.
Sponsors: (Prime) Sweeney (R), Alexander (R), Berry (R) 
Committees: House Committee - Election Law
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill provides a procedure for the direct recall of any local elected official serving a 3-year term.

HB 1486
Title: relative to an income-based public assistance stipend for legislators.
Sponsors: (Prime) Read (I), Levesque (D), Frost (D)
Committees: House Committee - Legislative Administration
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill directs the department of health and human services to determine eligibility for and administer a stipend provided to members of the general court where members receive such stipend from any program for public assistance.

HB 1487
Title: relative to the procedure for withdrawal from the vaccine registry.
Sponsors: (Prime) Prout (R), Blasek (R), Binford (R), Johnson (R), Tony Lekas (R)
Committees: House Committee: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: This bill provides that a health care provider's signature shall not be required for withdrawal from the state immunization/vaccination registry.
OPPOSE
 
HB 1488
Title: expanding the prohibition against discrimination based on an individual's election not to participate in the state vaccine registry.
Sponsors: (Prime) Prout (R), Blasek (R), Binford (R), Johnson (R), Tony Lekas (R)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill expands the prohibition against discrimination based on an individual's election not to participate in the state immunization/vaccination registry to include schools, child care agencies, and government health agencies.
OPPOSE

HB 1490-FN
Title: relative to equal access to places of public accommodation regardless of vaccination status.
Sponsors: (Prime) Comtois (R), Kofalt (R), Hough (R)
Committees: House Committee - Judiciary
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill provides that an individual shall not be denied access to places of public accommodation based on vaccination status or the decision not to use a medical device.
OPPOSE

HB 1491-FN-L
Title: relative to natural gas transmission pipeline safety.
Sponsors: (Prime) Alexander (R)
Committees: House Committee - Science, Technology and Energy | Senate Committee - Energy and Natural Resources
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill requires developers to notify the operator of a natural gas transmission pipeline prior to approval of an application for a development project that is within 1,000 feet of the pipeline.
 
HB 1493
Title: relative to the drug forfeiture fund.
Sponsors: (Prime) Sylvia (R)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill requires the attorney general to include the drug forfeiture fund in an annual report.
 
HB 1495-FN
Title: (New Title) prohibiting the state from requiring businesses to require vaccine or documentation related to vaccination or immunity status.
Sponsors: (Prime) Lanzara (R), Blasek (R), Aron (R), Foster (R), Tony Lekas (R), Turcotte (R), Kofalt (R), Harvey-Bolia (R)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill prohibits the state of New Hampshire and its political subdivisions from requiring any business to require vaccination or documentation of vaccination or immunity, except for state agencies certifying a medical facility or provider which is subject to a Medicare or Medicaid vaccination requirement or under RSA 141-C:20-a, I.
OPPOSE
 
HB 1496-FN
Title: requiring political subdivisions to make voter checklists available in spreadsheet form to any resident.
Sponsors: (Prime) Love (R)
Committees: House Committee - Finance
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill allows voter checklists to be requested once a month by a resident of the city or town in electronic format.
 
HB 1512-FN
Title: relative to the parole of certain prisoners.
Sponsors: (Prime) Abramson (R), Adjutant (D)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill changes the eligibility for parole for certain prisoners.

HB 1516
Title: relative to the source of funds for education freedom accounts.
Sponsors: (Prime) Porter (D), Marjorie Smith (D), Myler (D), Mullen (D), Ellison (D), Berch (D), Tanner (D), Heath (D), Cornell (D), Woodcock (D), Kahn (D), Prentiss (D)
Committees: House Committee - Education
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires that the education trust funds used for funding education freedom account grants or transfers exclude any revenues collected and locally retained from the state education tax or local school taxes.
 
HB 1519
Title: defining "religious belief" and protecting it from discrimination.
Sponsors: (Prime) Foster (R), Pauer (R), Gail Sanborn (R), Deshaies (R), Spillane (R), Ammon (R), Edwards (R), Tony Lekas (R), Rollins (R)
Committees: House Committee: Judiciary
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill defines "religious belief" and protects it from discrimination.
OPPOSE

HB 1522-FN
Title: requiring the use of ballots with embedded security and relative to chain of custody of absentee ballots.
Sponsors: (Prime) Abrami (R), Aron (R), Abramson (R), Lanzara (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires that elections are conducted using ballots with embedded security. The bill also specifies the chain of custody for ballots during and after an election.
 
HB 1523-FN
Title: establishing a New Hampshire child care fund.
Sponsors: (Prime) McWilliams (D), Toll (D), Whitley (D), Perkins Kwoka (D)
Committees: House Committee - Commerce and Consumer Affairs
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill establishes the New Hampshire child care fund and its operational requirements under the department of health and human services.

HB 1524-FN
Title: establishing a national service alumni attraction and retention fund.
Sponsors: (Prime) Wilhelm (D), Myler (D), Heath (D), Luneau (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Cavanaugh (D)
Committees: House Committee - Ways and Means
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status: 
Analysis: This bill establishes a national service alumni attraction and retention fund.
 
HB 1526-FN
Title: relative to income eligibility for in and out medical assistance.
Sponsors: (Prime) Snow (D), Schapiro (D), McMahon (R), Marsh (D), Langley (D), Wallner (d), Rosenwald (D), Sherman (D)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: CONCURRED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: This bill repeals the suspension for the biennium ending June 30, 2023, of 2020, 39:1, which required the department of health and human services to amend the income eligibility standard for the "in and out medical assistance" policy.  The bill also makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services to implement the revised income eligibility standard.

HB 1527-FN
Title: relative to the storage of total vote counts produced by electronic ballot counting devices.
Sponsors: (Prime) Yakubovich (R), Ankarberg (R), Verville (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill requires local election officials to photograph or scan the receipts of total vote counts produced by electronic ballot counting devices, and requires the secretary of state to publish such photographs or scans on its website.
 
HB 1529-FN
Title: requiring prospective employees and volunteers of public libraries to obtain a background check prior to commencing employment or volunteer service.
Sponsors: (Prime) Love (R), Roy (R), Potucek (R)
Committees: House Committee - Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill establishes procedures for library trustees of public libraries to require a background investigation and a criminal history records check on any candidate for librarian or other employment, including candidates for volunteer service.

HB 1530
Title: (New Title) establishing curricular transfer pathways between the community college system of New Hampshire and the university system of New Hampshire.
Sponsors: (Prime) Ford (R)
Committees: House Committee – Education | Senate Committee - Education
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill allows community college students who wish to earn baccalaureate degrees in the state's public higher education system to pursue curricular transfer pathways to a degree.
 
HB 1533
Title: relative to health education curriculum in schools.
Sponsors: (Prime) Toll (D), Perez (D), Labranche (I), Stephanie Hyland (d), Schapiro (D), Welkowitz (D), Massimilla (D), Megan Murray (D), Query (D), Altschiller (D), Kahn (D)
Committees: House Committee - Education
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE 
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires that health education instruction in schools include the meaning of consent, respect for personal boundaries, and sexual violence prevention.
 
HB 1535-FN
Title: relative to cost-of-living adjustments for retirees in the state retirement system.
Sponsors: (Prime) Merner (R), Deshaies (R), Guthrie (R), Bordes (R)
Committees: House Committee - Finance
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: REPORT FILED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill establishes a cost-of-living adjustment in 2022 to be paid by the retirement system on the first $30,000 of a retired member's or beneficiary's allowance.  The cost of this supplemental allowance is paid from the state general fund.
 
HB 1536-FN
Title: relative to expanding Medicaid to include certain postpartum health care services.
Sponsors: (Prime) Megan Murray (D), McWilliams (D), Wazir (D), Wilhelm (D), Chretien (D), Marsh (D), Toll (D), Simpson (D), Whitley (D), Perkins Kwoka (D)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill directs the department of health and human services to submit a state plan amendment to expand postpartum coverage under Medicaid.  The bill also establishes a quarterly reporting requirement.

HB 1539
Title: relative to the removal of certain information from the New Hampshire state police website.
Sponsors: (Prime) Infantine (R)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires the state police to remove certain arrest records from the New Hampshire state police website.
 
HB 1540-FN
Title: relative to recording custodial interrogations.
Sponsors: (Prime) Welch (R), Wall (D), Burt (R)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: INTERIM STUDY
Analysis: This bill requires the recording of custodial interrogations.
The ACLU supports this bill.

HB 1541
Title: establishing a deferral from the business profits tax and the business enterprise tax for qualified limited liability startups.
Sponsors: (Prime) Abramson (R)
Committees: House Committee - Ways and Means
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill establishes a 5-year deferral from the business profits tax and the business enterprise tax for qualifying limited liability startups.  The bill also establishes a committee to study the formation and structure of limited liability companies in New Hampshire.
 
HB 1542-FN
Title: relative to documentation required to prove a voter's eligibility to vote.
Sponsors: (Prime) Abramson (R), Ankarberg (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires voters to show certain documentation in order to cast a vote.
 
HB 1543-FN
Title: relative to the voter registration process.
Sponsors: (Prime) Gail Sanborn (R), Greeson (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill modifies the voter registration forms and establishes a provisional ballot system.
OPPOSE

HB 1546-FN
Title: (New Title) defining PFAS and enabling the commissioner of the department of environmental services to adopt rules relative to airborne PFAS in certain circumstances.
Sponsors: (Prime) Bill Boyd (R)
Committees: House Committee - Science, Technology and Energy | Senate Committee - Energy and Natural Resources
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill defines PFAS and allows the commissioner of the department of environmental services to adopt rules about airborne PFAS in certain circumstances.
 
HB 1547-FN
Title: setting maximum contaminant levels for perfluorochemicals in the soil.
Sponsors: (Prime) Mooney (R), Healey (R), Rung (D), Notter (R)
Committees: House Committee - Finance
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: REPORT FILED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill requires the commissioner of the department of environmental services to adopt rules relative to perfluorinated chemical remediation in the soil. This bill clarifies language describing certification requirements for certain hazardous waste generators.
 
HB 1565-FN
Title: relative to the opioid abatement trust fund.
Sponsors: (Prime) Aron (R), Rollins (R), Stapleton (R), Acton (R), Mark Pearson (R), Depalma IV (R), Massimilla (D)
Committees: House Committee - Ways and Means
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INTERIM STUDY
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill revises the distribution formula for the opioid abatement trust fund and clarifies the annual reporting process for the fund.
 
HB 1566
Title: relative to the New Hampshire prescription drug affordability board.
Sponsors: (Prime) Murphy (D), Marsh (D), Merchant (D), Weston (D), Sherman (D), Carson (R)
Committees: House Committee - Executive Departments and Administration
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INTERIM STUDY
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill changes the New Hampshire prescription drug affordability board executive director position from a classified to an unclassified position and establishes a dedicated fund to support the board.

HB 1567-FN
Title: (New Title) relative to consequences resulting from election official misconduct.
Sponsors: (Prime) Alliegro (R), Silber (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill allows the attorney general to seek a civil penalty against the local government entity in which an election official was found to have negligently engaged in misconduct.
Note: final bill drastically different than the language introduced by rep. Alliegro
OPPOSE

HB 1576-FN
Title: repealing the law relative to certain discrimination in public workplaces and education.
Sponsors: (Prime) Espitia (D), Cushing (D), Query (D), Myler (D), Cote (D), Mangipudi (D), Harriott-Gathright (D), DiLorenzo (D), Piedra (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Whitley (D), Kahn (D), Donna Soucy (D), Rosenwald (D)
Committees: House Committee - Education
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill repeals provisions of the law relating to the right to freedom from discrimination in public workplaces and education and the prohibition on teaching discrimination.
SUPPORT

HB 1577-FN
Title: relative to exemptions from prosecution for victims of human trafficking.
Sponsors: (Prime) Abbas (R), Steven Smith (R), Bordenet (D), Rhodes (R), Ruth Ward (R)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill establishes exemptions from prosecution for victims of human trafficking, and establishes procedures to protect the privacy of court records relating to human trafficking and for vacating convictions and juvenile adjudications in human trafficking cases.
 
HB 1578-FN
Title: relative to including certain children and pregnant people in Medicaid and the children's health insurance program.
Sponsors: (Prime) Schapiro (D), Marsh (D), Espitia (D), Sykes (D), Berch (D), Knirk (D), Mangipudi (D), Wazir (D), Perez (D), Toll (D), Rosenwald (D)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill directs the department of health and human services to submit state plan amendments under Medicaid and CHIP to provide coverage to children and pregnant people lawfully residing in the United States.

HB 1582-FN
Title: repealing the granite state paid family leave plan.
Sponsors: (Prime) Torosian (R), Silber (R), Ankarberg (R), Turcotte (R), Andrus (R), Layon (R)
Committees: House Committee - Commerce and Consumer Affairs
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INTERIM STUDY
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill repeals the paid family and medical leave plan.
OPPOSE
 
HB 1586
Title: relative to a likeness of Wentworth Cheswill at the state house.
Sponsors: (Prime) DiLorenzo (D), Marjorie Smith (D), Cushing (D), Read (I), Horrigan (D), Simpson (D), Cahill (D), Perkins Kwoka (D).
Committees: House Committee - Legislative Administration | Senate Committee - Executive Departments and Administration
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill directs the joint legislative historical committee to accept and display a commemorative plaque of Wentworth Cheswill in the state house.
Note: Cheswill, from Newmarket, is considered the first African American elected to public office in the U.S.

HB 1587-FN-A
Title: relative to determination of average final compensation under the retirement system and making an appropriation therefor.
Sponsors: (Prime) Pratt (R), Deshaies (R), Bordes (R), Trottier (R)
Committees: House Committee – Finance | Senate Committee - Executive Departments and Administration
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: REPORT FILED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill modifies the calculation of compensation paid in excess of the full base rate of compensation under the definition of average final compensation in the retirement system for group II persons hired before July 1, 2011 who did not vest before January 1, 2012.  The bill makes an appropriation to the retirement system for funding the cost of the change.
 
HB 1588-FN
Title: relative to students attending public schools that mandate the wearing of face masks without an emergency order in place.
Sponsors: (Prime) Love (R)
Committees: House Committee - Education
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill allows students in a school that has mandated face masks to transfer to a school or program in another school district and have the costs for such transfer paid by the resident district.
OPPOSE

HB 1589
Title: prohibiting the sale of products containing intentionally-added PFAS.
Sponsors: (Prime) Bill Boyd (R)
Committees: House Committee - Commerce and Consumer Affairs
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INTERIM STUDY
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill prohibiting the sale of products containing intentionally-added PFAS.
 
HB 1591-FN
Title: eliminating the enforcement division of the liquor commission.
Sponsors: (Prime) Leishman (D), Emerick (R), Gerald Griffin (R), Marjorie Smith (D), Hatch (D), Walz (d)
Committees: House Committee - Commerce and Consumer Affairs
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INTERIM STUDY
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill eliminates the enforcement division of the liquor commission.
 
HB 1594
Title: relative to assistance to certain students with disabilities in registering to vote.
Sponsors: (Prime) Paige (D), Wolf (R), Myler (D), Porter (D), Mullen (D), Mark Pearson (R), Deshaies (R), Maggiore (D)
Committees: House Committee – Education | Senate Committee - Education
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill provides for students with an individualized education program or accommodations under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to discuss including voter registration in the student's plan.

HB 1596-FN
Title: relative to net energy metering limits for individual and business customers.
Sponsors: (Prime) McWilliams (D), Oxenham (D), Wolf (R), Rosenwald (D), Watters (D)
Committees: House Committee - Science, Technology and Energy
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill increases the electric generating capacity of customer generators who may participate in net energy metering and modifies the transition of tariffs applicable to certain customer-generators.  The bill also clarifies the definition of eligible customer-generator for purposes of the utility property tax.

HB 1598-FN
Title: legalizing the possession and use of cannabis.
Sponsors: (Prime) Abbas (R), Doucette (R), Espitia (D), Rhodes (R), Osborne (R), Roy (R), Conley (D), McGuire (R), Nunez (R)
Committees: House Committee - Ways and Means | Senate Committee - Ways and Means
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT 
Senate Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Analysis: (as amended 2nd) This bill: I) Legalizes the 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 the department of health and human services, bureau of drug and alcohol services, for education tax relief, public safety agency training purposes, and children's behavioral health services; 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. (See the ACLU-NH fact sheet here.)
 
HB 1599-FN
Title: relative to customer generators who sell renewable energy certificates.
Sponsors: (Prime) Vose (R), Notter (R)
Committees: House Committee - Science, Technology and Energy | Senate Committee - Energy and Natural Resources
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: This bill establishes deductions from the monetary credit for certain exports to the electric grid until the public utilities commission adopts alternative tariffs.

HB 1602-FN
Title: relative to perfluorinated chemicals in drinking water.
Sponsors: (Prime) Grassie (D), Cohen (D), Meuse (D), Woods (d), Bill Boyd (R), Marsh (D), Vail (D), Langley (D), Watters (D)
Committees: House Committee - Resources, Recreation and Development
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INTERIM STUDY
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires testing for PFAS in drinking water of child care facilities and schools.
 
HB 1603-FN
Title: defining certain school information as governmental records under the right to know law.
Sponsors: (Prime) Yokela (R), Testerman (R), Yakubovich (R), Abrami (R), Stapleton (R), Santonastaso (R)
Committees: House Committee - Judiciary
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill provides for the inclusion of certain records of schools and school administrative units under the right-to-know law, RSA 91-A.

HB 1604-FN
Title: including state medical facilities in the statute providing medical freedom in immunizations.
Sponsors: (Prime) Cushman (R), Blasek (R), Roy (R), Pauer (R), Torosian (R)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: CONCURRED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: This bill repeals the exemption of county nursing homes, the state hospital, and any other medical facility or provider operated by the state or a political subdivision from the statute pertaining to medical freedom in immunizations.
OPPOSE

HB 1606
Title: making the state vaccine registry an opt-in program.
Sponsors: (Prime) Lang (R), Nunez (R), Rice (R), Binford (R), Harvey-Bolia (R), Notter (R), Tony Lekas (R), Bordes (R), Pauer (R), McLean (R), Avard (R), Giuda (R), Ricciardi (R)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: CONCURRED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill makes the state immunization registry an opt-in program rather than an opt-out program.
OPPOSE
 
HB 1607-FN
Title: prohibiting unlawful discrimination in public and nonpublic schools.
Sponsors: (Prime) Tanner (D), Frost (D), Cushing (D), Query (D), Mullen (D), Woodcock (D), Wilhelm (D), Burroughs (D), Weston (D)
Committees: House Committee - Education
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires the state board of education to ensure there is no unlawful discrimination in any approved school tuition program, public school, nonpublic school, or educational service that receives public funds.
SUPPORT
 
HB 1608-FN
Title: requiring the department of health and human services to contact certain individuals whose information was included in the state immunization registry.
Sponsors: (Prime) Prout (R), Blasek (R), Tony Lekas (R), Lanzara (R)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill requires the department of health and human services to contact individuals who, pursuant to emergency order #76, were not given an opportunity to opt out of having COVID-19 vaccination information included in the state immunization registry.

HB 1609-FN
Title: (NEW TITLE) relative to certain provisions of the fetal life protection act requiring an ultrasound examination.
Sponsors: (Prime) Wolf (R), Deshaies (R), Allard (R), Graham (R), Ham (R), Depalma IV (R)
Committees: House Committee – Finance | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill provides an exception from the prohibition on abortion after 24 weeks in cases of fetal abnormalities incompatible with life and construes the ultrasound requirement for purposes of determining the gestational age of the fetus.
 
HB 1611
Title: relative to rules of the site evaluation committee.
Sponsors: (Prime) Harrington (R)
Committees: House Committee - Science, Technology and Energy
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires the site evaluation committee to amend certain adopted rules.
 
HB 1614-FN
Title: requiring the recording and storing of digital video in all state-funded juvenile detention facilities.
Sponsors: (Prime) Edwards (R), Rice (R)
Committees: House Committee - Children and Family Law | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill mandates digital video recording of juvenile detention facilities paid for, in whole or in part, with general funds, as well as establishes the system requirements for such digital videos.
 
HB 1617
Title: relative to housing projects of the community development finance authority and establishing a committee to prevent state subsidies for housing development that is not income-sensitive.
Sponsors: (Prime) Adjutant (d)
Committees: House Committee - Municipal and County Government
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status: 
Analysis: This bill provides that the community development finance authority block grant program may be used for affordable housing projects.  The bill also establishes a committee to prevent state subsidies for housing development that is not income sensitive.
 
HB 1618-FN
Title: adding several perfluorinated chemicals to the list of per and polyfluoroalkyl substances with maximum contaminant levels and establishes a cumulative total for the maximum contaminant level of per and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
Sponsors: (Prime) Bill Boyd (R)
Committees: House Committee - Resources, Recreation and Development
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INTERIM STUDY
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill adds several perfluorinated chemicals to the list of per and polyfluoroalkly substances with maximum contaminant levels and establishes a cumulative total for the maxium contaminant level of per and polyfluoroalkyl substances.

HB 1622-FN
Title: relative to mental health parity.
Sponsors: (Prime) Luneau (D), Bartlett (D), Knirk (D), Ladd (R), Whitley (D), Sherman (D)
Committees: House Committee - Commerce and Consumer Affairs
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill requires contracts between health care providers and carriers to include a provision that the provider notify the carrier when the provider is no longer accepting new patients.  The bill also requires coverage for biologically-based mental illness to meet the access standards in RSA 420-J:7.
 
HB 1624-FN-A
Title: relative to students with disabilities participating in co-curricular activities and making an appropriation therefor.
Sponsors: (Prime) Lang (R), Moffett (R), Pearl (R), Alicia Lekas (R), Read (I), Mullen (D), Jeb Bradley (R)
Committees: House Committee – Finance | Senate Committee - Education
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: IN COMMITTEE
Analysis: (as amended) This bill requires the department of education to review the consolidated state plan to ensure that school districts establish unified co-curricular activities and makes an appropriation for the purposes of the bill.
 
HB 1625
Title: repealing the prohibition on entering or remaining on a public way or sidewalk adjacent to a reproductive health care facility.
Sponsors: (Prime) Kelsey (R), Nunez (R), Baxter (R), Gould (R), Stapleton (R), Mooney (R), Notter (R), Mark Pearson (R), Sheehan (R), Ricciardi (R), Daniels (R), Avard (R)
Committees: House Committee – Judiciary | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: VETOED BY GOVERNOR VETO STATEMENT
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED 
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill repeals the prohibition on entering or remaining on a public way or sidewalk adjacent to a reproductive health care facility.
OPPOSE
 
HB 1627-FN-A
Title: (NEW TITLE) establishing an education freedom account program administrator in the department of education and making an appropriation therefor, and relative to the school meals direct certification with Medicaid program.
Sponsors: (Prime) Hill (R), Cordelli (R), Ladd (R), Weyler (R)
Committees: House Committee – Finance | Senate Committee - Education
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: REPORT FILED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill establishes the position of education freedom account administrator in the department of education, division of learner support, and makes an appropriation to the department for the position.  The bill also requires the department of education to seek participation in the Medicaid direct certification methodology for school meals program.
 
HB 1629-FN
Title: relative to default service for net metering.
Sponsors: (Prime) Berezhny (R), Lang (R), Nunez (R)
Committees: House Committee - Science, Technology and Energy | Senate Committee - Energy and Natural
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Analysis: This bill clarifies the meaning of default generation supply service from the distribution utility for purposes of net energy metering.
 
HB 1632
Title: relative to civil rights education in public elementary and secondary schools.
Sponsors: (Prime) Ulery (R), Alicia Lekas (R), Wuelper (R), Bernardy (R), Lekas (R), Stapleton (R)
Committees: House Committee - Education
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill adds instructional requirements for civil rights and acts of discriminatory injustice to the course of instruction in schools concerning national and state history and government.

HB 1633-FN
Title: relative to requiring COVID-19 vaccination for school attendance.
Sponsors: (Prime) Marsh (D), Knirk (D), Woods (D), Murphy (D), Schapiro (D), Paige (D), Rung (D), Allard (R), Rosenwald (D), Sherman (D), Kahn (D)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires covid-19 vaccination for school attendance, expands the definition of school to include postsecondary institutions, and limits the scope of the Covid-19 vaccination requirement to those individuals whose age exceeds the minimum for a vaccine fully approved by the FDA.
SUPPORT

HB 1635-FN
Title: relative to the purchase of output of limited electrical energy producers and including qualifying storage system.
Sponsors: (Prime) McGhee (D), Stapleton (R), Wolf (R), Allard (R), Merner (R)
Committees: House Committee - Science, Technology and Energy
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INTERIM STUDY
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill expands the authority of a limited producer of electrical energy to sell its output to retail electricity customers located within the same New Hampshire electric distribution utility franchise area as the limited producer, and includes qualifying electrical energy storage relative to the purchase of output of limited electrical energy producers and including qualifying storage system.
This bill is supported by 350NH

HB 1636
Title: relative to prohibitions on carrying a loaded firearm on an OHRV or snowmobile.
Sponsors: (Prime) Burt (R), Stapleton (R), Hopper (R), Silber (R), True (R), Nunez (R), Hill (R), Kelsey (R), Folsom (R), Kofalt (R), Giuda (R), French (R), Avard (R)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Senate Committee - Transportation
General Status: PASSED
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill creates an exception to the prohibition on carrying a loaded firearm on an OHRV or snowmobile for any person carrying a pistol or revolver who is not prohibited from possessing a firearm by a New Hampshire statute.
OPPOSE
 
HB 1638
Title: relative to grievances under the right to freedom from discrimination in public workplaces and education.
Sponsors: (Prime) DiLorenzo (D), Marjorie Smith (D), Cote (D), Simpson (D), Petrigno (D), Mangipudi (D), Langley (D), Perkins Kwoka (D)
Committees: House Committee - Education
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill modifies the procedure for grievances for certain violations of discrimination in the workplace or education.

HB 1639
Title: relative to the youth risk behavior survey in schools.
Sponsors: (Prime) Boehm (R), Cordelli (R)
Committees: House Committee – Education | Senate Committee - Education
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: CONSENT CALENDAR REPORT FILED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill requires a school board to annually approve the youth risk behavior survey developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before administering the survey to students, and requires a parent or legal guardian to opt in to participation in the survey.
 
HB 1642-FN
Title: relative to lead testing in children.
Sponsors: (Prime) Grassie (D), Knirk (D), Langley (D), Woods (D), Watters (D), Chretien (D), Meuse (D)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: (as amended) This bill establishes a blood lead level testing requirement for children entering day care and public schools.

HB 1645-FN
Title: requiring notification to renewable energy customer-generators of issues related to renewable energy credits.
Sponsors: (Prime) Oxenham (D), McWilliams (D), Pimentel (D), Merner (R), Prentiss (D), Watters (D), McGhee (D)
Committees: House Committee - Science, Technology and Energy
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires the department of energy to provide an annual written notice to customer-generators whose production has been credited to providers of electricity, unless those customer-generators obtained certification to be issued class I or class II certificates.
 
HB 1647-FN
Title: relative to the calculation of child support.
Sponsors: (Prime) Abrami (R), Yokela (R), Kofalt (R)
Committees: House Committee – Finance | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: INTERIM STUDY
Analysis: (as amended) This bill revises the child support guideline percentages, defines a shared parenting plan, establishes a new formula for the calculation of child support in cases involving shared parenting plans, and permits the court to modify the presumptive child support amount as justice and the best interest of the child may require.
 
HB 1651-FN
Title: adding sexual reassignment to the definition of child abuse.
Sponsors: (Prime) Testerman (R)
Committees: House Committee - Children and Family Law
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill adds sexual reassignment to the definition of an abused child in RSA 169-C, the child protection act.
OPPOSE

HB 1652
Title: relative to the recycling of beverage containers.
Sponsors: (Prime) Egan (D), McGhee (D), Tucker (D), Massimilla (D)
Committees: House Committee - Environment and Agriculture
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INTERIM STUDY
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill establishes the beverage container deposit recycling program and directs the proceeds of such program to the general fund and to the state recycling fund.

HB 1654-FN
Title: relative to termination of pregnancy statistics.
Sponsors: (Prime) Stapleton (R), Wuelper (R), Notter (R), Spillane (R), Gould (R), Gay (R), Birdsell (R)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires the department of health and human services to publish an annual report consisting of an aggregate statistical summary of all induced terminations of pregnancy performed in New Hampshire.
OPPOSE

HB 1663
Title: relative to requirements for home education students.
Sponsors: (Prime) Layon (R), Rice (R), Moffett (R), Nunez (R), Alicia Lekas (R), Notter (R), Cordelli (R)
Committees: House Committee – Education | Senate Committee - Education
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: CONSENT CALENDAR REPORT FILED
Analysis: (as amended) The bill clarifies provisions for home education programs concerning notifications required for students moving to a new district, educational evaluations, and termination of home education.
 
HB 1666-FN
Title: relative to the application process for driver's licenses and the privacy of motor vehicle records.
Sponsors: (Prime) Sykes (D), Stavis (D), Berch (D), Telerski (D), Watters (D)
Committees: House Committee - Transportation
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill: I) Prohibits the department of transportation from disclosing any record that identifies whether the type of driver's license that a person holds meets federal standards for identification. II) Prohibits motor vehicle information from being shared with federal immigration enforcement agencies conducting civil investigations. III) Amends which information is required for driver's license applications.

HB 1670-L
Title: relative to funds of the education freedom account program after termination of a student's participation and responsibilities of the scholarship organization.
Sponsors: (Prime) Ham (R), Deshaies (R), Wolf (R)
Committees: House Committee - Education
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill requires that upon enrolling in a public school an education freedom account program student's participation and funding are terminated.  The bill also requires audits by the scholarship organization and investigation of misuses of funds.

HB 1671-L
Title: relative to the content of an adequate education.
Sponsors: (Prime) Ladd (R), Cordelli (R), Boehm (R), Hobson (R), Allard (R), Moffett (R), Reagan (R), Ruth Ward (R)
Committees: House Committee – Education | Senate Committee - Education
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill revises the requirements for the content of an adequate public education, and adds definitions.
 
HB 1673-FN
Title: (New Title) relative to the scope of the fetal life protection act.
Sponsors: (Prime) Marjorie Smith (D), Robert Renny Cushing (D), Simpson (D), Altschiller (D), Toll (D), Kenney (D), Amanda Bouldin (D), Rogers (D), Kate Murray (D), Rosenwald (D), Whitley (D), Sherman (D)
Committees: House Committee – Judiciary | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill construes the obstetric ultrasound examination requirement to determine probable gestational age prior to an abortion. “This subdivision shall be construed to require the performance of an ultrasound only if the provider either knows that the fetus has a gestational age of at least 24 weeks or is conscious of a substantial risk that the fetus has a gestational age of at least 24 weeks.”
SUPPORT
 
HB 1674
Title: relative to reproductive rights.
Sponsors: (Prime) Simpson (D), Megan Murray (D), Weber (D), Paige (D), Marjorie Smith (D), Knirk (D), Hakken-Phillips (D), Chretien (D), Ebel (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Whitley (D), Prentiss (D)
Committees: House Committee - Judiciary
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill provides that the state shall not restrict a woman's exercise of her private decision to terminate a pregnancy except as provided in RSA 329:44 and RSA 132:32 - 132:36.
SUPPORT
 
HB 1677-FN
Title: relative to the administration and settlement of claims of abuse at the youth development center and making an appropriation therefor.
Sponsors: (Prime) Umberger (R), Wallner (D), Rice (R), Long (D), Jeb Bradley (R)
Committees: House Committee – Finance | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill: I) Establishes a procedure for the administration and resolution of claims of abuse which may have occurred at the youth development center; II) Creates the youth development center (YDC) settlement fund and makes an appropriation to the fund for the settlement of founded abuse claims; III) Creates an exemption from the right-to-know law for all records related to the administration and settlement of abuse claims at the youth development center.
 
HB 1678
Title: relative to the administration of the education freedom accounts program.
Sponsors: (Prime) Layon (R), Nunez (R), Moffett (R), Alicia Lekas (R), 
Committees: House Committee - Education
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill clarifies certain provisions of the education freedom accounts program and the responsibilities of scholarship organizations and public schools.
OPPOSE


HB 1682-FN-A
Title: establishing the law enforcement conduct review committee in the New Hampshire police standards and training council and making an appropriation therefor.
Sponsors: (Prime) Welch (R)
Committees: House Committee – Finance | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill establishes the law enforcement conduct review committee in the New Hampshire police standards and training council and makes an appropriation therefor.
 
HB 1683-FN-L
Title: repealing the education freedom account program.
Sponsors: (Prime) Luneau (D), Myler (D), Horrigan (D), Lane (D)
Committees: House Committee - Education
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This bill repeals the provisions of the education freedom account program and reverts the unused funds to be deposited to the education trust fund.
SUPPORT
 
HB 2022
Title: relative to the 10-year transportation plan.
Sponsors: (Prime) Graham (R)
Committees: House Committee - Public Works and Highways | Senate Committee - Transportation
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill adopts the ten-year transportation plan for 2023-2032.
 
HCR 7
Title: reaffirming support for the nation of Israel and the location of the embassy of the United States therein.
Sponsors: (Prime) Spillane (R), Silber (R), Blasek (R), Verville (R), Bershtein (R), Aron (R), Yakubovich (R), Johnson (R), Binford (R), Notter (R)
Committees: House Committee - State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status:
Analysis: This concurrent resolution reaffirms the general court's support for the nation of Israel and the location of the embassy of the United States therein.

HR 17
Title: opposing all federal and state efforts to establish a carbon tax on fuels for electricity and transportation.
Sponsors: (Prime) Bernardy (R), Notter (R), White (R), Cambrils (R)
Committees: House Committee - State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status:
Analysis: This resolution opposes the establishment of a carbon tax on fuels for electricity and transportation.
OPPOSE

HR 18
Title: urging Congress to remove the exception from the 13th Amendment: "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted."
Sponsors: (Prime) Amanda Bouldin (D), Andrew Bouldin (D), Hyland (D), Spillane (R), Klein-Knight (D), Peter Schmidt (D), Almy (D), Janice Schmidt (D), Read (I), Knirk (D), Watters (D)
Committees: House Committee - State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status:
Analysis: This resolution urges Congress to remove the exception from the 13th Amendment:  "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted."
Note: Section 1 of the 13th Amendment reads: Section 1
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
SUPPORT

SB 39
Title: exempting information and records contained in law enforcement personnel files from disclosure under the right-to-know law.
Sponsors: (Prime) Carson (R)
Committees: Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SENATE
House Status:
Senate Status: INTERIM STUDY
Analysis: This bill exempts information and records contained in personnel files, internal investigations, and pre-employment background investigations of any state or local law enforcement officer from public access or disclosure under the right-to-know law.
Note: exempting information and records contained in law enforcement personnel files from disclosure under the right-to-know law. Referred for IS 01/05/2022.


SB 63
Title: relative to business liability protection for exposure to coronavirus and COVID-19.
Sponsors: (Prime) Giuda (R), Hennessey (R), Carson (R), Gannon (R), Morse (R), Lynne Ober (R), Weyler (R), Edwards (R), Stapleton (R)
General Status: SENATE
Committees: Senate Committee – Commerce
House Status:
Senate Status: INTERIM STUDY
Analysis: This bill limits the liability of business organizations for claims based on exposure to COVID-19.
Note: relative to business liability protection for exposure to coronavirus and COVID-19. Referred for IS in Senate 01/05/2022.


SB 68
Title: requiring an employer to provide reasonable accommodations for pregnant employees.
Sponsors: (Prime) Hennessey (R), Gannon (R), Watters (D), D'Allesandro (D), Sherman (D), Ricciardi (R), Rosenwald (D), Reagan (R), Whitley (D), Carson (R), Perkins Kwoka (D), Jeb Bradley (R), Gray (R), Prentiss (D), Marsh (D), Deshaies (R), DeSimone (R), Birdsell (R)
Committees: House Committee - Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Senate Committee - Commerce
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INTERIM STUDY
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill requires an employer to provide reasonable accommodations to an employee related to the employee's pregnancy or childbirth and makes the failure to provide such accommodations an unlawful discriminatory practice.
Note: requiring an employer to provide reasonable accommodations for pregnant employees. Voted Refer for Interim Study’ (IS) 01/05/2022 in House, which means the committee wants to keep working in it.

SB 69-FN
Title: requiring employers to provide access to a sufficient space for nursing mothers and reasonable break time.
Sponsors: (Prime) Whitley (D), Hennessey (R), Perkins Kwoka (D), Jeb Bradley (R), Cavanaugh (D), Donna Soucy (D), McWilliams (D), Wazir (D), Marsh (D), Abel (D)
Committees: House Committee - Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Senate Committee - Commerce
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE 
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill requires certain employers to provide access to a sufficient space and a reasonable break period for nursing mothers to express milk during working hours.
Note: requiring employers to provide access to a sufficient space for nursing mothers and reasonable break time. Tabled in House (Rep. Hunt) 01/05/2022.

SB 75
Title: relative to school district information on the COVID-19 dashboard maintained by the department of health and human services.
Sponsors: (Prime) Prentiss (D), Whitley (D), Murphy (D)
Committees: Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: SENATE
House Status:
Senate Status: INTERIM STUDY
Analysis: This bill requires the department of health and human services to update the COVID-19 dashboard daily as it pertains to school districts and education.
Note: relative to school district information on the COVID-19 dashboard maintained by the department of health and human services. Referred for IS.

SB 92-FN
Title: relative to increasing the penalty for criminal mischief, the release of a defendant pending trial, and requiring law enforcement candidate background checks.
Sponsors: (Prime) Jeb Bradley (R), Avard (R), Carson (R), Hennessey (R), D'Allesandro (D), Ricciardi (R), Giuda (R), Cavanaugh (D)
Committees: House Committee: Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Senate Committee: Judiciary
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill increases the penalty for criminal mischief involving vandalizing public property; amends the statute governing bail and pre-trial release to include provisions for pre-trial detention for commission of certain offenses that would create a presumption that the defendant is a danger to the public; and requires an employer to release information upon request by a law enforcement agency conducting a background check on a candidate for a position as a law enforcement officer.
Note: Senate Roll Call taken on 3/19/2021 Ought to Pass w/Amendment - Motion Passed (18-6); Lay on Table in House (Rep. Abbas) 01/06/2022. 

SB 121
Title: relative to a state-based health exchange.
Sponsors: (Prime) Rosenwald (D), Jeb Bradley (R), Sherman (D), Marsh (D), Bartlett (D), Weber (D), Hunt (R)
Committees: House Committee - Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INTERIM STUDY
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill requires the insurance department to examine the implementation of a state-based health exchange and implement such an exchange upon approval of the governor, the oversight committee on health and human services, and the fiscal committee.
 
SB 144-FN
Title: relative to child care scholarships.
Sponsors: (Prime) Whitley (D), Rosenwald (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Watters (D), Hennessey (R), Prentiss (D), D'Allesandro (D), Donna Soucy (D), Sherman (D), McWilliams (D), Nordgren (D), Wallner (D)
Committees: House Committee - Children and Family Law | Senate Committee - Finance
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill establishes a child care scholarship pilot program to provide enrollment-based reimbursement to child care providers.
 
SB 151-FN
Title: relative to renewable energy procurement.
Sponsors: (Prime) Watters (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Sherman (D), Rosenwald (D), Donna Soucy (D), Cushing (D)
Committees: Senate Committee - Finance
General Status: SENATE
House Status:
Senate Status: INTERIM STUDY
Analysis: (as amended) This bill establishes a program for the procurement of renewable energy and the financing of offshore wind energy generation resources in New Hampshire, upon recommendation of the renewable energy procurement commission established in the bill, through the solicitation and development of contracts with distribution companies by the public utilities commission.
Note: relative to renewable energy procurement. Referred for IS 01/05/2022.
 
SB 156
Title: relative to management of the secure psychiatric unit facility at New Hampshire hospital.
Sponsors: (Prime) French (R), Giuda (R), Gray (R), Carson (R), D'Allesandro (D), Birdsell (R), Sherman (D)
Committees: Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: SENATE
House Status: 
Senate Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Analysis: This bill declares that the management of the new secure psychiatric unit facility shall be the responsibility of the department of health and human services.  Under this bill, the department shall not enter into a contract for the construction or operation of the facility with a private for profit prison construction or management company.
Note: relative to management of the secure psychiatric unit facility at New Hampshire hospital. Voted ITL BILL KILLED 01/05/2022.

SB 203
Title: relative to the state minimum hourly rate.
Sponsors: (Prime) Donna Soucy (D), Whitley (D), Rosenwald (D), Watters (D), Sherman (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Cavanaugh (D), Prentiss (D), D'Allesandro (D), Kahn (D), Schultz (d), Timothy Soucy (d), Sullivan (D)
Committees: Senate Committee - Commerce
General Status: SENATE
House Status:
Senate Status: INTERIM STUDY
Analysis: This bill provides for increases in the minimum hourly rate.
SUPPORT

SB 210
Title: relative to the sale of manufactured housing parks.
Sponsors: (Prime) Jeb Bradley (R), Hennessey (R), Birdsell (R), Gray (R), Gannon (R), Avard (R), Giuda (R), Carson (R), Daniels (R), Donna Soucy (D), Osborne (R), Doucette (R), Laurie Sanborn (R), Potucek (R)
Committees: House Committee - Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Senate Committee - Commerce
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill clarifies the notification requirements imposed upon manufactured housing park owners prior to selling manufactured housing parks.
 
SB 216
Title: establishing a commission to study the landlord and tenant mediation program in circuit courts.
Sponsors: (Prime) Perkins Kwoka (D), Watters (D), Whitley (D), Rosenwald (D), Donna Soucy (D), Sherman (D), Cavanaugh (D), Prentiss (D), Kahn (D), D'Allesandro (D), DiLorenzo (D), Espitia (D), Conley (D), Vann (D)
Committees: House Committee – Judiciary | Senate Committee - Commerce
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill establishes a commission to study the landlord and tenant mediation program in circuit courts.
 
SB 217
Title: relative to eviction notices.
Sponsors: (Prime) Perkins Kwoka (D), Whitley (D), Watters (D), Cavanaugh (D), Prentiss (D), Sherman (D), Vann (D), DiLorenzo (D), Espitia (D)
Committees: House Committee – Judiciary | Senate Committee - Commerce
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill modifies the circumstances under which a landlord may evict a tenant and modifies the requirements relating to eviction notices.
 
SB 223
Title: relative to requirements for recovery houses.
Sponsors: (Prime) D'Allesandro (D), Watters (D), Donna Soucy (D), Goley (D)
Committees: House Committee - Executive Departments and Administration | Senate Committee - Executive Departments and Administration
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill modifies the requirements for facility bedroom square-footage in order for recovery houses to be exempted from certain requirements of the state fire code by the state fire marshal.
 
SB 227-FN
Title: relative to death benefits for first responders who die from suicide.
Sponsors: (Prime) Birdsell (R), Prentiss (D), Carson (R), Cavanaugh (D), Stephen Pearson (R)
Committees: House Committee – Finance | Senate Committee - Executive Departments and Administration
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill includes suicide under the definition of "killed in the line of duty" when considering eligibility for death benefits of first responders. The bill also includes corrections officers in the list of first responders.
 
SB 234
Title: requiring student identification cards to include the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
Sponsors: (Prime) Ruth Ward (R), Hennessey (R), Alexander (R)
Committees: House Committee – Education | Senate Committee - Education
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill requires student identification cards for public schools and institutions of higher education include the telephone number for the suicide prevention lifeline.
 
SB 235
Title: relative to the authority to offer multiple education instruction options.
Sponsors: (Prime) Kahn (D), Watters (D), Rosenwald (D), Donna Soucy (D), Sherman (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Prentiss (D), Heath (D), Myler (D), Luneau (D), Wolf (R), Ames (D)
Committees: Senate Committee - Education
General Status: SENATE
House Status: 
Senate Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Analysis: This bill allows a local school board to offer students multiple instructional options, including traditional classroom, distance education, or hybrid instruction models using a combination of classroom and distance learning.

SB 236
Title: establishing a committee to study New Hampshire teacher shortages and recruitment incentives.
Sponsors: (Prime) Kahn (D), Ruth Ward (R), Prentiss (D), Watters (D), Myler (D), Heath (D)
Committees: House Committee – Education | Senate Committee - Education
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: CONCURRED
Analysis: This bill establishes a committee to study New Hampshire teacher shortages and recruitment incentives.

SB 237-FN
Title: relative to participation in the education freedom account program.
Sponsors: (Prime) Sherman (D), Rosenwald (D), Watters (D), Whitley (D), Donna Soucy (D), Kahn (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Prentiss (D), Cavanaugh (D), D'Allesandro (D), Marjorie Smith (D), Luneau (D), Myler (D)
Committees: Senate Committee - Education
General Status: SENATE
House Status:
Senate Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Analysis: This bill requires annual determination of eligibility and requires ineligibility for certain periods upon a determination of misstatements or misuse.

SB 240
Title: apportioning state senate districts.
Sponsors: (Prime) Gray (R), Jeb Bradley (R), Avard (R), Morse (R), Ruth Ward (R), Carson (R), Birdsell (R), Daniels (R), Wayne MacDonald (R)
Committees: House Committee - Special Committee on Redistricting | Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill establishes new state senate districts in accordance with the latest federal decennial census.
OPPOSE
 
SB 241
Title: apportioning executive council districts.
Sponsors: (Prime) Gray (R), Jeb Bradley (R), Avard (R), Morse (R), Carson (R), Ruth Ward (R), Birdsell (R), Daniels (R), Wayne MacDonald (R)
Committees: House Committee - Special Committee on Redistricting | Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill establishes new councilor districts based on the latest federal decennial census.
OPPOSE
 
SB 248
Title: relative to political contributions made by limited liability companies
Sponsors: (Prime) Sherman (D), Rosenwald (D), Watters (D), Whitley (D), Donna Soucy (D), Kahn (D), Marjorie Smith (D)
Committees: Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs
General Status: SENATE
House Status: 
Senate Status: INTERIM STUDY
Analysis: This bill requires that a political contribution by a limited liability company be allocated to members for purposes of determining whether a member has exceeded the contribution limits.
 
SB 249
Title: prohibiting planning and zoning ordinances that prohibit short-term rentals.
Sponsors: (Prime) French (R), Hennessey (R), Gannon (R), Cavanaugh (D), Giuda (R), Donna Soucy (D), Reagan (R), D'Allesandro (D), Jeb Bradley (R), Prentiss (D), Hunt (R), Potucek (R), DiSilvestro (D)
Committees: House Committee - Municipal and County Government | Senate Committee - Commerce
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill prohibits municipalities from adopting ordinances that ban short-term rentals.  This bill also allows municipalities to adopt ordinances requiring the owner of a short-term rental to register the name of a person in state who can receive service of process.
 
SB 251
Title: relative to the advisory board of a tax increment financing district.
Sponsors: (Prime) Birdsell (R), Gray (R)
Committees: House Committee - Municipal and County Government | Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill requires members of an advisory board for a tax increment financing district to be owners or occupants of real property within the community and requires at least one member to be an owner or occupant of real property within the district.
 
SB 255
Title: establishing redistricting criteria.
Sponsors: (Prime) Perkins Kwoka (D), Watters (D), Rosenwald (D), Donna Soucy (D), Whitley (D), Cavanaugh (D), Sherman (D), Prentiss (D), D'Allesandro (D), Kahn (D)
Committees: Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs
General Status: SENATE
House Status:
Senate Status: INTERIM STUDY
Analysis: This bill establishes redistricting criteria.
SUPPORT
 
SB 258-FN-L
Title: relative to the graves of African Americans alive during the period of American enslavement.
Sponsors: (Prime) Watters (D), D'Allesandro (D), Gannon (R), Sherman (D), Cavanaugh (D), Carson (R), Jeb Bradley (R), Rosenwald (D), Whitley (D), Prentiss (D), Hennessey (R), Perkins Kwoka (D), Kahn (D), DiLorenzo (D), Harriott-Gathright (D)
Committees: House Committee - Resources, Recreation and Development | Senate Committee - Energy and Natural Resources
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill establishes protections and procedures for handling African American graves from the time period of American enslavement, as well as working with the relevant descendants and descendant communities.
Note: New Hampshire Bulletin article Bill aims to preserve gravesites of African Americans ‘whose humanity was denied’
 
SB 259
Title: relative to the definition of "municipal host" for purposes of limited electrical energy producers.
Sponsors: (Prime) Avard (R), Watters (D), Jeb Bradley (R), Sherman (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Whitley (D), Rosenwald (D), Hennessey (R), Giuda (R), Prentiss (D), Donna Soucy (D), Egan (D), Berry (R)
Committees: House Committee - Science, Technology and Energy | Senate Committee - Energy and Natural Resources
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill amends the definition of "political subdivision," as used in the definition of a "municipal host."
 
SB 261-FN
Title: relative to net metering participation.
Sponsors: (Prime) Gray (R), Avard (R), Giuda (R)
Committees: House Committee - Science, Technology and Energy | Senate Committee - Finance
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: CONCURRED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill requires utilities to pay a customer-generator at least quarterly for the customer-generator's excess generation, if the customer-generator has elected the payment option.
 
SB 262
Title: relative to customer generators of electric energy.
Sponsors: (Prime) Avard (R), Watters (D), Jeb Bradley (R), Gray (R), Giuda (R), McGhee (D), Lang (R), Pearl (R)
Committees: House Committee - Science, Technology and Energy | Senate Committee - Energy and Natural Resources
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill modifies the definition of an eligible customer generator of electric energy under the limited electrical energy producers act, changes the apportionment of net energy metering capacity eligibility, requires electric utilities to publish on their websites a hosting capacity map, and requires the department of energy to investigate and report on customer-generator interconnection procedures.
 
SB 264
Title: (New Title) relative to certain references to the department of energy and transferring authority over the low-income electricity assistance program to the department of energy.
Sponsors: (Prime) Watters (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Gray (R), Avard (R), Sherman (D), Birdsell (R), Jeb Bradley (R), Donna Soucy (D), Cali-Pitts (D), Peter Schmidt (D), McGuire (R)
Committees: House Committee - Science, Technology and Energy | Senate Committee - Energy and Natural Resources
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill changes references from the public utility commission to the department of energy in certain energy-related statutes.  This bill also transfers authority over the low-income electricity assistance program to the department of energy.
 
SB 268-FN
Title: relative to the approval of power purchase agreements for offshore wind energy resources from the Gulf of Maine.
Sponsors: (Prime) Watters (D), Avard (R), Kahn (D), Rosenwald (D), Whitley (D), Donna Soucy (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Sherman (D), Cavanaugh (D), D'Allesandro (D), Prentiss (D), Somssich (D), Wall (D), Robert Renny Cushing (D)
Committees: House Committee - Science, Technology and Energy | Senate Committee - Finance
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill directs the public utilities commission to ensure that certain requirements relative to impact and use studies are met prior to approving power purchase agreements for energy derived from the Gulf of Maine.
 
SB 269-FN
Title: (New Title) establishing a commission to study energy saving weatherization programs.
Sponsors: (Prime) Avard (R), Jeb Bradley (R), Carson (R), Perkins Kwoka (D), Watters (D), Rosenwald (D), Donna Soucy (D), Prentiss (D)
Committees: Senate Committee - Energy and Natural Resources
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: This bill establishes a commission to study methods of participation for maintaining an energy saving weatherization program to assist in lowering the overall energy consumption for New Hampshire families.
 
SB 270
Title: (New Title) establishing a low-moderate income community solar program.
Sponsors: (Prime) Watters (D), Avard (R), Perkins Kwoka (D), D'Allesandro (D), Jeb Bradley (R), Hennessey (R), Whitley (D), Rosenwald (D), Donna Soucy (D), Gannon (R), Sherman (D), Giuda (R), Cali-Pitts (D), McGhee (D)
Committees: House Committee - Science, Technology and Energy | Senate Committee - Energy and Natural Resources
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill establishes a program for low-moderate income electric customers to participate in qualifying community solar projects.
 
SB 273-A
Title: relative to broadband infrastructure funding.
Sponsors: (Prime) Jeb Bradley (R), Birdsell (R), Gray (R), Ruth Ward (R), Kahn (D), Donna Soucy (D), Dolan (R), Egan (D), Thompson (R), Gordon (R), Maggiore (D)
Committees: House Committee - Municipal and County Government | Senate Committee - Finance
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill permits all towns to authorize broadband infrastructure bonds at special meetings without court approval.
SUPPORT

SB 275
Title: relative to the opioid abatement trust fund.
Sponsors: (Prime) Rosenwald (D), Donna Soucy (D), Acton (R)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Senate Committee - Finance
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: CONCURRED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill provides that disbursement from the opioid abatement trust fund shall be based on the most recent decennial census.  The bill also revises the membership and duties of the opioid abatement advisory commission.
 
SB 279
Title: establishing a study committee on harm reduction and overdose prevention programs.
Sponsors: (Prime) Watters (D), Sherman (D), Jeb Bradley (R), Rosenwald (D), Birdsell (R), Whitley (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Carson (R), Marsh (D), Mark Pearson (R), Knirk (D), Woods (d)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill establishes a committee to study harm reduction and overdose prevention programs.

SB 287
Title: relative to balance billing for certain health care services.
Sponsors: (Prime) Jeb Bradley (R), Sherman (D), Bartlett (D)
Committees: House Committee - Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INTERIM STUDY
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill modifies insurance coverage to reflect changes in federal law and clarifies coverage related to emergency services.
 
SB 288
Title: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the listing of immunizations for children.
Sponsors: (Prime) Avard (R), Reagan (R), French (R), Gannon (R), Ladd (R), Hill (R), Homola (R), Ammon (R)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill establishes a committee to study the listing of immunizations for children.
OPPOSE
 
SB 292
Title: requiring notice of arrest to a probation and parole officer.
Sponsors: (Prime) Reagan (R), Gray (R), Hennessey (R), Gannon (R), D'Allesandro (D), Avard (R), French (R), Carson (R), Birdsell (R), Prentiss (D), Donna Soucy (D), McGuire (R), Spillane (R), Verville (R)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INTERIM STUDY
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill requires the superintendent of a county correctional facility to notify the probation and parole officer of a probationer or parolee who has been arrested and is being detained at such facility.
 
SB 294-FN
Title: relative to the release of a defendant pending trial.
Sponsors: (Prime) Jeb Bradley (R), Hennessey (R), Ricciardi (R), Carson (R), Deshaies (R), Barbara Shaw (D), Abbas (R)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill amends the statute governing bail and pre-trial release to include provisions for pre-trial detention for commission of certain offenses that would create a presumption that the defendant is a danger to the public.
Note: ACLU - Don’t Needlessly Incarcerate Thousands of Granite Staters and do so at a Staggering Financial Cost
OPPOSE
 
SB 296
Title: relative to complaint procedures in cases before the commission for human rights.
Sponsors: (Prime) French (R), Hennessey (R), Avard (R), Donna Soucy (D), Jeb Bradley (R), Whitley (D), Kahn (D)
Committees: House Committee – Judiciary | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill provides that only the complainant can remove a case from the state commission for human rights to court.
 
SB 298
Title: repealing the law relative to certain discrimination in public workplaces and education.
Sponsors: (Prime) Watters (D), Rosenwald (D), Whitley (D), D'Allesandro (D), Sherman (D), Prentiss (D), Donna Soucy (D), Kahn (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Cavanaugh (D), Cushing (D), Espitia (D)
Committees: Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SENATE
House Status:
Senate Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Analysis: This bill repeals the law relative to certain discrimination in public workplaces and education.
“The following are repealed: I. RSA 354-A:29 through RSA 354-A:34, relative to the right to freedom from discrimination in public workplaces and education.
II.  RSA 193:40, relative to the prohibition on teaching discrimination.”

SB 300
Title: relative to the state commission for human rights.
Sponsors: (Prime) Avard (R), Giuda (R), Ammon (R), Homola (R), Hill (R)
Committees: Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SENATE
House Status: 
Senate Status: INTERIM STUDY
Analysis: This bill defines and includes the refusal of an experimental drug in the protections provided under the state commission for human rights.
Note: This is an anti-vaccine bill.

SB 301-FN-L
Title: relative to the procedure for violations under the right to know law.
Sponsors: (Prime) French (R), Avard (R), Gannon (R)
Committees: House Committee – Judiciary | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill establishes a procedure on filing complaints under RSA 91-A with the superior court for further relief and investigation.
 
SB 302-FN
Title: establishing the personal privacy protection act.
Sponsors: (Prime) Birdsell (R), Gannon (R), Daniels (R), Ruth Ward (R), French (R), Giuda (R), Lynn (R), DiLorenzo (D), McLean (R)
Committees: House Committee – Judiciary | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill prohibits public agencies and public bodies from releasing any list, record, register, registry, roll, roster or other compilation of data of any kind that directly or indirectly identifies a person as a member, supporter, volunteer, or donor of any entity exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code except in specific circumstances, as well as penalties for the unlawful release of such information.
OPPOSE
 
SB 306-FN
Title: relative to the penalties for various motor vehicle violations.
Sponsors: (Prime) Reagan (R), Avard (R), French (R), Watters (D), Gannon (R)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Senate Committee - Transportation
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: This bill provides for enhanced penalties for certain driving offenses where the offense was also based on facts involving the prohibited use of a mobile electronic device.
 
SB 308
Title: relative to driver's licenses for certain visa holders.
Sponsors: (Prime) Watters (D), Birdsell (R), Kahn (D), Cavanaugh (D), Sykes (D), Sullivan (D), McWilliams (D)
Committees: House Committee - Transportation | Senate Committee - Transportation
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: ​REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill prohibits a nonresident employed in New Hampshire through the federal H-2A temporary agricultural worker program from operating a motor vehicle unless they possess a license issued by another U.S. jurisdiction or meet other listed requirements.
 
SB 209
Title: relative to electronic wage payments.
Sponsors: (Prime) Carson (R), Gannon (R), Renzullo (R), Osborne (R)
Committees: House Committee - Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Senate Committee - Commerce
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill amends the provisions related to payment of an employee's wages by direct deposit.
 
SB 252
Title: relative to information on property tax bills.
Sponsors: (Prime) Donna Soucy (D), Whitley (D), Rosenwald (D), Watters (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Cavanaugh (D), Sherman (D), Prentiss (D), Cote (D), Heath (D), Egan (D)
Committees: Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs
General Status: SENATE
Senate Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Analysis: This bill requires property tax bills to include information regarding the amount disbursed from the education trust fund in the prior fiscal year and the amount the municipality's education grant aid will be reduced under RSA 189:41 as a result of the education freedom account program under RSA 194-F:2.
SUPPORT
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SB 315
Title: directing that a portion of revenue distributions from the meals and rooms municipal revenue fund be used by municipalities to reduce the local property tax rate.
Sponsors: (Prime) D'Allesandro (D), Sherman (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Watters (D), Prentiss (D), Wall (D), Wallner (d), Leishman (D)
Committees: Senate Committee - Ways and Means
General Status: SENATE
House Status: 
Senate Status: LAID ON TABLE
Analysis: This bill requires that a portion of revenues distributed to municipalities from the meals and rooms municipal revenue fund, which exceed fiscal year 2021 amounts received, shall be used to reduce the local property tax rate.
 
SB 319-FN
Title: relative to vaccination status and wellness incentives.
Sponsors: (Prime) Rosenwald (D), Prentiss (D), Watters (D), Whitley (D), Donna Soucy (D), Sherman (D), D'Allesandro (D), Cavanaugh (D), Kahn (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Weber (D), Marsh (D), Woods (d), Knirk (D), Allard (R)
Committees: House Committee - Commerce and Consumer Affairs | Senate Committee - Finance
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill provides that health coverage offered by health carriers to employers may provide a wellness financial incentive to insured persons when voluntarily supplied with sufficient evidence the insured is currently fully vaccinated for Covid-19 at the time of enrollment. The bill repeals this requirement in 2023.
 
SB 321
Title: relative to the purchase of output of limited electrical energy producers in intrastate commerce and including qualifying storage systems.
Sponsors: (Prime) Watters (D), Jeb Bradley (R), Sherman (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Cali-Pitts (D), McWilliams (D)
Committees: House Committee - Science, Technology and Energy | Senate Committee - Energy and Natural Resources
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill amends the definition of a limited electrical energy producer and permits the public utilities commission to approve certain pilot programs.
 
SB 326-FN
Title: (New Title) relative to developing a plan to create the office of early childhood.
Sponsors: (Prime) Whitley (D), Hennessey (R), Watters (D), Donna Soucy (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Cavanaugh (D), Sherman (D), Prentiss (D), Myler (D), Mullen (D), McWilliams (D), Luneau (D)
Committees: House Committee - Children and Family Law | Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended 2nd) This bill establishes a child care scholarship pilot program to provide enrollment-based reimbursement to child care providers.
 
SB 328
Title: relative to the date of the state primary election.
Sponsors: (Prime) Gray (R), Avard (R), Ruth Ward (R), Sherman (D), Osborne (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law | Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: This bill changes the date of the state primary election to the first Tuesday in August
 
SB 329
Title: establishing a commission to study barriers to housing development in New Hampshire, including workforce and middle-income housing.
Sponsors: (Prime) Perkins Kwoka (D), Hennessey (R), Jeb Bradley (R), Whitley (D), Rosenwald (D), Watters (D), Donna Soucy (D), Kahn (D), Sherman (D), Cavanaugh (D), Prentiss (D), D'Allesandro (D), Espitia (D), DiLorenzo (D)
Committees: House Committee - Municipal and County Government | Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: SENATE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill establishes a commission to study barriers to housing development in New Hampshire, including workforce and middle-income housing.
 
SB 332
Title: relative to the retention of long-term care workers and other front-line employees.
Sponsors: (Prime) Cavanaugh (D), Watters (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Whitley (D), Sherman (D), Rosenwald (D), Prentiss (D), D'Allesandro (D), Kahn (D), Donna Soucy (D)
Committees: Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: SENATE
House Status:
Senate Status: INTERIM STUDY
Analysis: This bill establishes the long-term care retention stabilization program of 2022 for services provided by frontline workers employed by certain Medicaid providers, and contracted entities through the developmental services system. The program provides temporary stabilization funding to incentivize frontline workers to remain in or rejoin this workforce during the COVID-19 emergency. The program is repealed on January 1, 2023.
SUPPORT
 
SB 335
Title: relative to collaborative pharmacy practice agreements.
Sponsors: (Prime) Prentiss (D), Watters (D), Hennessey (R), Rosenwald (D), Avard (R), Carson (R), Gannon (R), Whitley (D), Cavanaugh (D), Sherman (D), Murphy (D), Peter Schmidt (D), Merchant (D)
Committees: Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill provides that a collaborative pharmacy practice agreement is an agreement between a pharmacist and attending practitioner.
SUPPORT
 
SB 341-L
Title: relative to treatment of PFAS contaminants in the drinking water of the Merrimack Village Water District.
Sponsors: (Prime) Daniels (R), Mooney (R), Rung (D), Notter (R), Healey (R)
Committees: Senate Committee - Energy and Natural Resources
General Status: SENATE
House Status:
Senate Status: LAID ON TABLE
Analysis: This bill requires Saint Gobain Performance Plastics to pay for the remediation of water in certain wells in Merrimack that it contaminated.

SB 344
Title: (New Title) relative to the electronic participation requirements of meetings open to the public under the right to know law.
Sponsors: (Prime) Daniels (R), Hennessey (R), Cavanaugh (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Long (D), Eaton (D), Egan (D)
Committees: House Committee – Judiciary | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill establishes requirements for electronic participation in meetings of a public body under RSA 91-A.
 
SB 345
Title: relative to youth employment.
Sponsors: (Prime) Hennessey (R), Giuda (R)
Committees: House Committee - Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services | Senate Committee - Commerce
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) his bill makes certain changes to the laws governing youth employment.
Note: Reduces minimum age of employment from 15 to 14 and increases maximum work hours from 30 to 35.
 
SB 348
Title: relative to political expenditures and contributions.
Sponsors: (Prime) Gray (R), Ruth Ward (R), Birdsell (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law | Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill modifies political contribution limits.
 
SB 351
Title: relative to annual performance and financial reporting by private and religious schools that receive public funds.
Sponsors: (Prime) Kahn (D), Prentiss (D), Cavanaugh (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Sherman (D), Watters (D), Whitley (D), Rosenwald (D), D'Allesandro (D), Donna Soucy (D)
Committees: Senate Committee - Education
General Status: SENATE
House Status: 
Senate Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Analysis: This bill requires the department of education to annually make available on its website performance measures and financial accounting reports for all private and religious schools receiving public funds from the state or through education freedom accounts (EFA) under RSA 194-F.
 
SB 353
Title: relative to the education professional standards board.
Sponsors: (Prime) Kahn (D), Ruth Ward (R), Hennessey (R), Prentiss (D), Ricciardi (R)
Committees: House Committee – Education | Senate Committee - Education
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill adds instructional specialists to person who may be appointed to the professional standards board, allows for 3 consecutive terms of appointees, and requires reports to be maintained for 25 years.
 
SB 356-FN
Title: relative to medical benefits payments by state retirees.
Sponsors: (Prime) D'Allesandro (D), Jeb Bradley (R), Sherman (D), Hennessey (R), Rosenwald (D), Watters (D), Whitley (D), Birdsell (R), Carson (R), Gannon (R), Cavanaugh (D), Prentiss (D), Donna Soucy (D), Kahn (D)
Committees: House Committee - Executive Departments and Administration | Senate Committee - Executive Departments and Administration
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill clarifies the procedure for the notice, payment, termination, and reenrollment for medical benefits payments of retired state employees. This bill is a request of the department of administrative services.
 
SB 357-FN
Title: relative to mental health training for first responders.
Sponsors: (Prime) Birdsell (R), Carson (R), Watters (D), Cavanaugh (D), Timothy Soucy (d), Prentiss (D), Stephen Pearson (R)
Committees: House Committee - Executive Departments and Administration | Senate Committee - Executive Departments and Administration
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill reestablishes the commission to study incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder in first responders and ensures that mental health training is available for first responders.
Analysis: This bill reestablishes the commission to study incidence of post-traumatic stress disorder in first responders and ensures that mental health training is available for first responders.
 
SB 364
Title: relative to the use of electronic poll books.
Sponsors: (Prime) Perkins Kwoka (D), Watters (D), Sherman (D), Rosenwald (D), Whitley (D), Donna Soucy (D), Kahn (D), Cavanaugh (D), Prentiss (D), Hamblet (D)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law | Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill extends the time requirement for markup of a backup checklist in the use of electronic poll books.
 
SB 365
Title: relative to absentee ballot outer envelopes.
Sponsors: (Prime) Gray (R), Ruth Ward (R), Birdsell (R), Donna Soucy (D)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law | Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill removes the requirement that absentee ballots be placed in outer envelopes unless such ballots are mailed to town or city clerks. The bill also allows clerks to open outer envelopes to allow applicants time to cure defects.
 
SB 366-FN
Title: requiring an audit of ballots cast in the 2022 primary and general election.
Sponsors: (Prime) Gray (R), Donna Soucy (D), Birdsell (R), Baroody (D)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law | Senate Committee - Finance
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill requires an audit of ballots cast in the 2022 state primary and general elections, provided that the secretary of state may forego the general election audit.
 
SB 367
Title: relative to the regulatory status of advanced recycling and manufacturing facilities.
Sponsors: (Prime) Avard (R), Watters (D), Hennessey (R), Jeb Bradley (R), Donna Soucy (D), French (R), Cavanaugh (D), Pearl (R), Potucek (R)
Committees: House Committee - Environment and Agriculture | Senate Committee - Energy and Natural Resources
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill regulates advanced recycling and manufacturing facilities.
 
SB 371-FN-A
Title: making an appropriation to the lead paint hazard remediation fund.
Sponsors: (Prime) Rosenwald (D), Hennessey (R), D'Allesandro (D), Avard (R), Stapleton (R), Wilhelm (D), Espitia (D), Amanda Bouldin (D), Nordgren (D)
Committees: House Committee – Finance | Senate Committee - Finance
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill makes an appropriation to the lead paint hazard remediation fund for use by the housing finance authority.
 
SB 373
Title: relative to coverage for certain mental illnesses.
Sponsors: (Prime) Jeb Bradley (R), Potucek (R)
Committees: Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: SENATE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: This bill requires submission of the federal comparative analysis for certain mental illnesses and removes the mandate for rules to regulate this type of specific insurance coverage.

SB 374-FN
Title: relative to the SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations.
Sponsors: (Prime) French (R), Avard (R), Hill (R), Hough (R), Silber (R)
Committees: Senate Committee - Health and Human
General Status: SENATE
House Status:
Senate Status: INTERIM STUDY
Analysis: This bill prohibits a person from requiring that an individual who had COVID-19 or who is under the age of 18 receive a vaccination against the virus as a condition for employment, education, or access to businesses or entities open to the public. The bill also establishes an exemption as a matter of conscience against a vaccination mandate.  The bill establishes a criminal penalty and a private right of action for enforcement.
OPPOSE

SB 376-FN
Title: (New Title) relative to creating a board to review police incidents involving citizens affected by mental health issues.
Sponsors: (Prime) Giuda (R), Rosenwald (D), Hennessey (R), Birdsell (R), Carson (R), Gannon (R), Mark Pearson (R), Lang (R), Lynn (R), Gordon (R)
Committees: House Committee – Finance | Senate Committee - Finance
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill establishes a committee to study the creation of a board to review police incidents involving citizens affected by mental health issues.
 
SB 379-FN
Title: (New Title) establishing the solid waste management fund and grant program.
Sponsors: (Prime) Watters (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Whitley (D), Hennessey (R), D'Allesandro (D), Sherman (D), Kahn (D), Prentiss (D), Avard (R), Ebel (D), Suzanne Smith (D), Grassie (D)
Committees: House Committee - Environment and Agriculture | Senate Committee - Finance
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill: I) Establishes the solid waste management fund; II) Repeals the existing surcharge on out-of-state waste.
 
SB 380-FN
Title: relative to solid waste rules and landfill containment tests.
Sponsors: (Prime) Hennessey (R), Watters (D), Jeb Bradley (R), Prentiss (D), Sherman (D), Ricciardi (R), Birdsell (R), Gannon (R), Whitley (D), Egan (D), Suzanne Smith (D), Massimilla (D), Tucker (D), Merner (R)
Committees: House Committee - Environment and Agriculture | Senate Committee - Energy and Natural Resources
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill adds duties to the solid waste working group relative to solid waste plans and disposal sites.
 
SB 381-FN-A
Title: establishing an office of the advocate for special education.
Sponsors: (Prime) Reagan (R), Hennessey (R), Jeb Bradley (R), Watters (D), Avard (R), Ruth Ward (R), Rosenwald (D), Gannon (R), Sherman (D), Spillane (R)
Committees: House Committee – Education | Senate Committee - Finance
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill establishes and independent office of the advocate for special education and makes an appropriation therefor.
 
SB 386
Title: relative to the determination of state adequate education grants and chartered public school tuition amounts.
Sponsors: (Prime) Hennessey (R), Kahn (D), Ruth Ward (R), Ladd (R), Umberger (R)
Committees: House Committee – Education | Senate Committee - Education
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill makes technical changes to the determination of tuition amounts paid to chartered public schools and to the determination of adequate education grants to municipalities.
 
SB 390
Title: relative to telemedicine and telehealth.
Sponsors: (Prime) Avard (R), Reagan (R), Hennessey (R), Carson (R), Peter Schmidt (D), Rice (R), Knirk (D), Mark Pearson (R), Stephen Pearson (R)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill revises the definition of telemedicine and telehealth in the context of the practitioner patient relationship.
SUPPORT
 
SB 391
Title: relative to the operation of a state forensic psychiatric hospital.
Sponsors: (Prime) Rosenwald (D), Jeb Bradley (R), Sherman (D), Avard (R), Whitley (D), Wallner (D), Umberger (R), Robert Renny Cushing (D)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Senate Committee - Health and Human
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill provides that the department of health and human services shall operate and manage the state's forensic psychiatric hospital.

SB 392
Title: (New Title) establishing a commission to study insanity and restoration of competency.
Sponsors: (Prime) Sherman (D), Prentiss (D)
Committees: House Committee – Judiciary | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill establishes a commission to study insanity and restoration of competency.
 
SB 393-FN
Title: relative to the use of restraints on pregnant women in the custody of a state or county correctional facility.
Sponsors: (Prime) Whitley (D), Watters (D), Rosenwald (D), Hennessey (R), Kahn (D), Sherman (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Prentiss (D), Wazir (D), Myler (D), Wallner (D)
Committees: House Committee - Criminal Justice and Public Safety | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill establishes procedures for the use of restraints on pregnant women in county or state correctional custody.
 
SB 394-FN
Title: relative to the definition of a child with a disability under special education laws.
Sponsors: (Prime) Kahn (D), Ruth Ward (R), Sherman (D), Whitley (D), Prentiss (D), Watters (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Donna Soucy (D)
Committees: House Committee – Education | Senate Committee - Finance
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill modifies the definition of "child with a disability" to include persons to 21 years of age and for the school year during which they turn 21.
 
SB 395
Title: relative to the broadband matching grant initiative.
Sponsors: (Prime) Kahn (D), Jeb Bradley (R), Sherman (D), Whitley (D), Watters (D), Cavanaugh (D), Prentiss (D), Rosenwald (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Hennessey (R), Maneval (d), Weber (D), Buco (D), Porter (D)
Committees: House Committee - Science, Technology and Energy | Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill allows municipalities and cell phone service providers to apply for broadband matching grant funds to upgrade local cell phone service.
 
SB 396-FN
Title: relative to solid waste management.
Sponsors: (Prime) Cavanaugh (D), Rosenwald (D), Watters (D), Hennessey (R), Sherman (D), Donna Soucy (D), Amanda Bouldin (D), Andrew Bouldin (D), Bixby (D), Merner (R), Egan (D)
Committees: House:  - Environment and Agriculture | Senate Committee - Finance
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill requires the department of environmental services to contract with an engineer or hydrogeologist when evaluating a permit for a landfill.
 
SB 399-FN
Title: (New Title) relative to certain provisions of the fetal life protection act requiring an ultrasound examination.
Sponsors: (Prime) Rosenwald (D), Watters (D), Cavanaugh (D), D'Allesandro (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Whitley (D), Sherman (D), Prentiss (D), Donna Soucy (D), Kahn (D), Marjorie Smith (D), Simpson (D), Amanda Bouldin (D), Rogers (D), Robert Renny Cushing (D)
Committees: House Committee – Judiciary | Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill construes the obstetric ultrasound examination requirement to determine probable gestational age prior to an abortion.
 
SB 400-FN
Title: relative to training and procedures for zoning and planning boards and relative to financial investments and incentives for affordable housing development.
Sponsors: (Prime) Jeb Bradley (R), Whitley (D), Hennessey (R), D'Allesandro (D), Watters (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Rosenwald (D), Avard (R), Cavanaugh (D), Sherman (D), Prentiss (D), Donna Soucy (D), Kahn (D), DiLorenzo (D), Umberger (R), Alexander (R), Sweeney (R), Porter (D)
Committees: House Committee - Municipal and County Government | Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill makes changes to the training and procedures for zoning and planning boards offered by the office of planning and development. This bill creates incentives and establishes requirements for workforce housing and affordable housing development.  The bill also revises the time frames for planning board consideration of applications, and establishes the New Hampshire housing champion certification program.
 
SB 403-FN-A
Title: re-establishing the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Farmers Market Nutrition Program.
Sponsors: (Prime) Whitley (D), Jeb Bradley (R), Rosenwald (D), Hennessey (R), Donna Soucy (D), Birdsell (R), Sherman (D), Gannon (R), Perkins Kwoka (D), Watters (D), Kahn (D), Cavanaugh (D), Prentiss (D), Myler (D), Wazir (D), Luneau (D), Deshaies (R)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill re-establishes the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Farmers Market Nutrition Program.
 
SB 404-FN
Title: establishing a supplemental nutrition assistance program.
Sponsors: (Prime) Whitley (D), Hennessey (R), Rosenwald (D), D'Allesandro (D), Watters (D), Jeb Bradley (R), Perkins Kwoka (D), Donna Soucy (D), Sherman (D), Gannon (R), Cavanaugh (D), Prentiss (D), Edwards (R), Rice (R), Wallner (D), Luneau (D), Deshaies (R)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill establishes a supplemental nutrition assistance program outreach program.
NH Fiscal Policy Institute (NHFPI) has this issue brief about the value of the program.

SB 405-FN
Title: relative to fines and penalties for election law violations.
Sponsors: (Prime) Giuda (R), Avard (R), Birdsell (R), John MacDonald (R), Lang (R)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law | Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill modifies penalties for certain offenses related to elections.
 
SB 407-FN
Title: relative to expanding Medicaid to include certain postpartum health care services and making an appropriation therefor.
Sponsors: (Prime) Prentiss (D), Jeb Bradley (R), Rosenwald (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Whitley (D), Hennessey (R), Watters (D), Kahn (D), Megan Murray (D), Cavanaugh (D), Sherman (D), Gannon (R), D'Allesandro (D), Donna Soucy (D), Nordgren (D)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill directs the department of health and human services to submit a state plan amendment to expand postpartum coverage under Medicaid, establishes a quarterly reporting requirement, and makes an appropriation to the department for the purpose of funding the postpartum health care services.

SB 410
Title: (New Title) relative to public comment periods at school district meetings and meetings of the state board of education.
Sponsors: (Prime) Carson (R), Jeb Bradley (R), Avard (R), Ruth Ward (R), Birdsell (R), French (R), Gannon (R), Morse (R), Gray (R), Giuda (R), Osborne (R), Rice (R)
Committees: House Committee – Education | Senate Committee - Education
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill requires public comment periods at school board meetings and meetings of the state board of education.
 
SB 412-FN-A
Title: making an appropriation to the department of health and human services for nursing home reimbursement rates.
Sponsors: (Prime) Rosenwald (D), D'Allesandro (D), Hennessey (R), Jeb Bradley (R), Kahn (D), Giuda (R), Reagan (R), Wallner (d), Nordgren (D), Rogers (D)
Committees: House Committee - Finance | Senate Committee - Finance
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill directs the department of health and human services to increase nursing home reimbursement rates and makes a contingent appropriation to the department in the event that existing budgeted appropriations are insufficient to fund the revised rates.
 
SB 417-FN
Title: establishing an electric school bus pilot program.
Sponsors: (Prime) Watters (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Whitley (D), D'Allesandro (D), Sherman (D), Hennessey (R), Prentiss (D), Rosenwald (D), Avard (R), Donna Soucy (D), Carson (R), Cavanaugh (D), Kahn (D), Telerski (D), Steven Smith (R)
Committees: House Committee – Transportation | Senate Committee - Finance
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill establishes an electric school bus pilot program within the department of environmental services.
 
SB 418-FN
Title: relative to verification of voter affidavits.
Sponsors: (Prime) Giuda (R), Jeb Bradley (R), French (R), Gannon (R), Howard (R)
Committees: House Committee – Finance | Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill provides for verification of voter affidavits by establishing affidavit balloting.
OPPOSE

SB 419
Title: (New Title) establishing a commission to study the delivery of public health services in New Hampshire through regional public health networks.
Sponsors: (Prime) Prentiss (D), Rosenwald (D), Donna Soucy (D), Carson (R), Perkins Kwoka (D), Whitley (D), Watters (D), Kahn (D), Cavanaugh (D), Sherman (D), D'Allesandro (D), Murphy (D), Marsh (D)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs  | Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: CONCURRED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill establishes a commission to study the delivery of public health services in New Hampshire through regional public health networks and continued development of coordinated responses to public health incidents and emergencies in New Hampshire.
SUPPORT

SB 420-FN-A-L
Title: establishing an extraordinary need grant for schools.
Sponsors: (Prime) Hennessey (R), Birdsell (R), Jeb Bradley (R), Watters (D), Giuda (R), Ricciardi (R), Avard (R), Carson (R), Morse (R), Barbara Shaw (D)
Committees: House Committee – Education | Senate Committee - Finance
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill establishes an extraordinary need grant for schools in addition to regular adequate education grants and relief grants.  This bill also provides for categories of special education services which apply to the calculation of adequate education grant amounts.
 
SB 422-FN
Title: establishing an adult dental benefit under the state Medicaid program.
Sponsors: (Prime) Rosenwald (D), Sherman (D), Hennessey (R), Donna Soucy (D), Gannon (R), Reagan (R), D'Allesandro (D), Whitley (D), Avard (R), Cavanaugh (D), Jeb Bradley (R), Ruth Ward (R), Watters (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Kahn (D), Prentiss (D), Giuda (R), McMahon (R), Nordgren (D), Wallner (D), Marsh (D), Espitia (D)
Committees: House Committee – Finance | Senate Committee - Finance
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill requires the commissioner of the department of health and human services to solicit information and to contract with dental managed care organizations to provide dental care to persons under the Medicaid managed care program.  The bill also appropriates the settlement funds received by the state from its settlement with the Centene Corporation to the department of health and human services for the purpose of funding the non-federal share of the adult dental benefit program and to complete the Medicaid Care Management SFY 20 Risk Corridor calculation.
SUPPORT

SB 424-FN
Title: relative to renewable energy and natural gas.
Sponsors: (Prime) Jeb Bradley (R), Watters (D), Avard (R), Sherman (D), Giuda (R), Somssich (D), Vose (R), Deshaies (R)
Committees: Senate Committee - Energy and Natural Resources
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill authorizes the recovery of costs related to a utility's procurement of natural gas, and other qualified investments, upon approval of the public utilities commission.
 
SB 425-FN
Title: relative to the establishment of an election information portal.
Sponsors: (Prime) Gray (R), Jeb Bradley (R), Daniels (R), Avard (R), Ruth Ward (R), Birdsell (R), French (R), Perkins Kwoka (D), Donna Soucy (D), Watters (D), Sherman (D)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law | Senate Committee - Finance
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill authorizes the secretary of state to develop an election information portal.
 
SB 427-FN
Title: modifying the absentee voter registration process, absentee ballot application, and absentee ballot voting process.
Sponsors: (Prime) Donna Soucy (D), Whitley (D), Rosenwald (D), Watters (D), Sherman (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Cavanaugh (D), Prentiss (D), D'Allesandro (D), Kahn (D), Cote (D)
Committees: House Committee - Election Law | Senate Committee - Election Law and Municipal Affairs
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill permits absentee voting due to illness or other medical conditions.
SUPPORT
 
SB 429-FN
Title: relative to the site evaluation committee.
Sponsors: (Prime) Giuda (R), Watters (D), Ruth Ward (R), Harrington (R), Vose (R), Leishman (D)
Committees: House Committee - Science, Technology and Energy | Senate Committee - Energy and Natural Resources
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill: I) Modifies the site evaluation committee to allow for agency designees, a quorum of 5 members, and expanded training; II) Requires an adequate public notice of all committee proceedings pursuant to RSA 91-A; III) Updates various fees to reflect changes previously approved by the fiscal committee; IV) Clarifies that subsequent certificate holders remain responsible for associated costs; V) Authorizes the committee to impose a fine for preliminary determinations of violations of any certificate issued within RSA 162-H; VI)  Provides for funding of all operating costs out of the site evaluation committee fund and allows the chair of the committee to seek additional funding.
 
SB 430-FN-A
Title: relative to health and human services.
Sponsors: (Prime) Jeb Bradley (R)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Senate Committee - Finance
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill: I) Establishes a special fund for administration of opioid treatment programs; II) Establishes a pilot program for individuals with developmental disabilities; III) Permits a physician licensed in another state to provide consultation services or follow up care via telemedicine to an existing patient; IV) Revises the department’s authority to recover unauthorized payments by the state; V) Repeals certain reporting requirements; VI) Allows for alternative service of process under RSA 169-C when a child’s parent cannot be located; VII) Creates a separate category of foster care license for kinship care homes; VIII) Grants the department guardianship of a child following surrender of parental rights under RSA 170-B; IX) Expands the state Medicaid plan to include preventative health care benefits; X) Removes the requirement that the department charge premiums for medical assistance provided under MEAD and MOAD; XI) Allows the department to address the court in guardianship and spousal support cases involving Medicaid recipients or suspected victims of abuse or exploitation; XII) Directs the department to submit a Medicaid state plan amendment to allow certain family caregivers or legally responsible persons of Medicaid recipients to serve as personal care attendants and makes an appropriation for this purpose; XIII) Revises the “look back” period for Medicaid eligibility for long term care; XIV) Removes the criminal background check requirement for designated caregivers in the therapeutic cannabis program and modifies the criminal background check requirement for alternative treatment center agents; XV) Modifies the blood test requirement for purposes of lead paint poisoning prevention and control; XVI) Clarifies the food service licensure exemption for recreational camps; XVII) Revises childcare license definitions; XVIII) Revises certain department of health and human services employee position titles; XIX) Provides shift differential payments to clinical staff at New Hampshire hospital and the Glencliff home and makes an appropriation for this purpose; XX) Establishes new positions for inpatient treatment of children’s behavioral health; XXI) Permits salary adjustments for recruitment or retention of classified clinical positions at New Hampshire hospital and the Glencliff home; XXII) Removes references to the Anna Philbrook center, Laconia state school, and Laconia developmental services; XXIII) Appropriates a portion of the funds received by the state from the Centene settlement to the department of health and human services for the purpose of completing the Medicaid Care Management SFY 2020 Risk Corridor calculation
 
SB 431-FN
Title: relative to child support in cases with equal or approximately equal parenting schedules.
Sponsors: (Prime) Carson (R), Whitley (D), Gannon (R), Rice (R), Gordon (R), Long (D)
Committees: House Committee - Children and Family Law | Senate Committee - Finance
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill establishes methods for adjustment of child support for equal or approximately equal parenting residential responsibilities.
 
SB 432-FN-L
Title: repealing the education freedom account program.
Sponsors: (Prime) Kahn (D), D'Allesandro (D), Sherman (D), Watters (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Whitley (D), Cavanaugh (D), Rosenwald (D), Prentiss (D), Donna Soucy (D)
Committees: Senate Committee - Education
General Status: SENATE
House Status:
Senate Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Analysis: This bill repeals the provisions of the education freedom account program
SUPPORT

SB 435-FN
Title: relative to the net operating loss carryover under the business profits tax.
Sponsors: (Prime) Giuda (R), Jeb Bradley (R), Hennessey (R), Avard (R), Gannon (R), Edwards (R), Lang (R)
Committees: House Committee - Ways and Means | Senate Committee - Ways and
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill modifies the calculation of net operating loss carryover for determining taxable business profits under the business profits tax.
 
SB 436
Title: relative to access to abortion care.
Sponsors: (Prime) Perkins Kwoka (D), Rosenwald (D), D'Allesandro (D), Watters (D), Whitley (D), Donna Soucy (D), Sherman (D), Cavanaugh (D), Kahn (D), Prentiss (D), Simpson (D), Knirk (D), Weber (D), Ebel (D), Megan Murray (D)
Committees: Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: SENATE
House Status:
Senate Status: LAID ON TABLE
Analysis: This bill establishes the state policy regarding access to abortion care.
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SB 438-FN-L
Title: (New Title) establishing state procurement policies intended to promote the use of American materials.
Sponsors: (Prime) Sherman (D), Hennessey (R), Ricciardi (R), Birdsell (R), Donna Soucy (D), Watters (D), Avard (R), D'Allesandro (D), Carson (R), Perkins Kwoka (D), Creighton (R), Hamblet (D), Malloy (D), Potucek (R)
Committees: House Committee – Finance | Senate Committee - Finance
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill establishes the requirement, as well as waiver and fraud processes, for the use of American made steel products in all public works projects where the state administers the contract and the contract involves at least $1,000,000 state dollars.
 
SB 440-FN
Title: (New Title) relative to the office of offshore wind industry development.
Sponsors: (Prime) Watters (D), Sherman (D), D'Allesandro (D), Avard (R), Rosenwald (D), Whitley (D), Donna Soucy (D), Cavanaugh (D), Prentiss (D), Cali-Pitts (D), McGhee (D), Wall (D)
Committees: House Committee - Science, Technology and Energy | Senate Committee - Finance
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill directs the office of offshore wind industry development to advise on the development of clean energy resources in the Gulf of Maine and the purchase of power by New Hampshire public utilities from these resources.  This bill also requires the office to generate a report relative to the same.
 
SB 444-FN
Title: relative to childhood adverse experiences treatment and prevention.
Sponsors: (Prime) Whitley (D), Watters (D), Hennessey (R), Carson (R), Cavanaugh (D), Sherman (D), Rosenwald (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Prentiss (D), Kahn (D), Donna Soucy (D), D'Allesandro (D), Wallner (d), Altschiller (D), Wazir (D), Luneau (D)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended 2nd) This bill directs the department of health and human services to establish a pilot program for children who have experienced adverse childhood events.  The bill also makes appropriations to the department of health and human services for child parent psychotherapy (CPP) services for children who have experienced emotional trauma and for family resource centers.
 
SB 445-FN
Title: (New Title) relative to the broadband matching grant initiative.
Sponsors: (Prime) Hennessey (R), Jeb Bradley (R), Watters (D), Whitley (D), Daniels (R), Avard (R), Birdsell (R), Carson (R), Cavanaugh (D), Sherman (D), Prentiss (D), Giuda (R), Gray (R)
Committees: House Committee – Finance | Senate Committee - Finance
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Senate Status: CONCURRED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill transfers funding to the broadband matching grant fund and makes various changes to the broadband matching grant initiative's guidelines.
 
SB 446-FN-A
Title: (New Title) directing the department of health and human services to develop a plan relative to fostering sustainable childcare opportunities for working families and businesses.
Sponsors: (Prime) Whitley (D), Hennessey (R), Rosenwald (D), Donna Soucy (D), Watters (D), Carson (R), Kahn (D), Cavanaugh (D), Sherman (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Prentiss (D), D'Allesandro (D), Wallner (D), McWilliams (D), Rombeau (D)
Committees: House Committee - Children and Family Law | Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
House Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill directs the department of health and human services, in consultation with the child care advisory council, to submit a plan to the governor, the speaker of the house, the senate president, and the governor's office for economic relief and recovery relative to fostering sustainable childcare opportunities within the state.
 
SB 447-FN
Title: establishing the electric vehicle and infrastructure fund.
Sponsors: (Prime) Watters (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Hennessey (R), Whitley (D), Sherman (D), Rosenwald (D), Prentiss (D), Donna Soucy (D), Telerski (D), Sykes (D), Wall (D)
Committees: House Committee – Transportation | Senate Committee – Finance (previously Transportation)
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: IN COMMITTEE
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill establishes the electric vehicle and infrastructure fund within the department of transportation.
SUPPORT
 
SB 448-FN
Title: requiring the reduction of fossil fuel use across state facilities and establishing a state government energy committee.
Sponsors: (Prime) Watters (D), Avard (R), Whitley (D), Kahn (D), Sherman (D), Rosenwald (D), Perkins Kwoka (D), Prentiss (D), Meuse (D), Peter Schmidt (D)
Committees: House Committee - Science, Technology and Energy | Senate Committee - Finance
General Status: HOUSE
House Status:  REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill requires a reduction in fossil fuel emissions by state owned facilities and encourages the use of electric vehicles by state agencies.
SUPPORT
 
SB 449
Title: relative to the retention of social security numbers by the division of motor vehicles.
Sponsors: (Prime) Gray (R), Ruth Ward (R), Birdsell (R)
Committees: House Committee – Transportation | Senate Committee - Transportation
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill gives an applicant for a driver's license the opportunity to determine whether to have his or her complete social security number, or only the last 5 digits, retained in the records of the department of safety.  This bill also permits the department to transmit the last 4 digits of an individual's social security number to the department of state for voter identification purposes.
 
SB 450
Title: relative to the prescription drug affordability board.
Sponsors: (Prime) Sherman (D), Rosenwald (D), Watters (D), Carson (R), Gannon (R), Perkins Kwoka (D), Prentiss (D), Merchant (D), Marsh (D), Murphy (D)
Committees: House Committee - Executive Departments and Administration | Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status:  PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill clarifies the definition of manufacturer and pricing unit for purposes of the prescription drug affordability board; expands the ability of alternates to sit on the prescription drug affordability board; changes the executive director position from a classified to unclassified position; clarifies the board's authority to assess fees; establishes a dedicated fund to support the board; and establishes a criminal penalty for violation of confidentiality requirements.
 
SB 452-FN
Title: relative to lead in drinking water in schools and licensed child care facilities.
Sponsors: (Prime) D'Allesandro (D), Watters (D), Rosenwald (D), Donna Soucy (D), Whitley (D), Cavanaugh (D), Sherman (D), Prentiss (D), Perkins Kwoka (D)
Committees: Senate Committee - Energy and Natural Resources
Committees: House Committee - Resources, Recreation and Development | Senate Committee - Finance
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended 2nd) This bill requires schools and licensed child care facilities to test drinking water for lead and to notify parents of tests with high lead levels.
SUPPORT
 
SB 453-FN-A-L
Title: relative to statewide pre-kindergarten funding.
Sponsors: (Prime) Sherman (D)
Committees: Senate Committee - Education
General Status: SENATE
House Status:
Senate Status: INTERIM STUDY
Analysis: This bill establishes the requirement for school districts to provide pre-kindergarten (pre-K) education to pupils in the district and for state funding of the cost of pre-K education programs.

SB 455
Title: requiring the commissioner of the department of environmental services to adopt ambient groundwater quality standards for certain per and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
Sponsors: (Prime) Watters (D), Rung (D), Bill Boyd (R)
Committees: Senate Committee - Energy and Natural Resources
General Status: SENATE
House Status:
Senate Status: INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE
Analysis: This bill requires the commissioner of the department of environmental services to adopt ambient groundwater quality standards for certain per and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
 
SB 456-FN-A
Title: establishing a law enforcement conduct review committee in the police standards and training council and making an appropriation therefor.
Sponsors: (Prime) Carson (R)
Committees: Senate Committee - Judiciary
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: LAID ON TABLE
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill establishes the law enforcement conduct review committee in the New Hampshire police standards and training council and makes an appropriation therefor.
 
SB 457
Title: establishing a committee to study nonprofit organizations contracting with the department of health and human services for children's services.
Sponsors: (Prime) Carson (R)
Committees: House Committee - Children and Family Law | Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: This bill establishes a committee to study the feasibility of extending limited liability to nonprofits contracting with the department of health and human services for children's services.
 
SB 458-FN
Title: relative to the Sununu youth services center and operation of a replacement secure facility.
Sponsors: (Prime) Daniels (R), Rice (R)
Committees: Senate Committee - Health and Human Services
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED WITH AMENDMENT
Analysis: (as amended) This bill closes and dispenses of the control of the facility known as the Sununu youth services center, as well as sets out parameters for the contract for a replacement facility.

SB 459-FN
Title: relative to a health care facility workplace violence prevention program.
Sponsors: (Prime) Gray (R), Rosenwald (D), Sherman (D), Greene (R), McMahon (R)
Committees: House Committee - Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs | Senate Committee - Finance
General Status: HOUSE
House Status: REPORT FILED
Senate Status: PASSED/ADOPTED
Analysis: (as amended) This bill requires health care facilities to implement and maintain workplace violence prevention programs and establishes the health care workplace safety commission. This bill also permits law enforcement to arrest an individual without a warrant in certain circumstances related to health care workplaces.

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