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Monday, April 27

Oversight Commission on Children's Services10:00 AMStatutory Committee
Public Higher Education Study Committee10:00 AMStatutory CommitteeSH Room 100
House Ways and Means10:00 AM–10:30 AM(1 bill)Full Committee Work SessionExecutive SessionGP 159

10:00 AMFull Committee Work Session

10:30 AMExecutive Session

House Calendar 16 (PDF)

This meeting on the House Ways and Means page

House Finance1:00 PM(5 bills)Executive SessionGP 230
  • SB 481relative to the sale of the Sununu youth services center property.
  • SB 592enabling regional, conservation, and energy resource planning for habitat strongholds and wildlife corridors and creating a commission to study transferring ownership of the Winnipesaukee River Basin program to an alternative authority.
  • SB 600requiring the governor to submit and present a quarterly fiscal year budget report about the general and education trust funds to the general court fiscal committee.
  • SB 603relative to the funding of the SNAP program by the department of health and human services.
  • SB 663creating a Medicaid methodology working group within the department of health and human services.

House Calendar 16 (PDF)House Calendar 17 (PDF)

This meeting on the House Finance page

Tuesday, April 28

Senate Election Law and Municipal Affairs9:15 AM–10:15 AM(5 bills)Public HearingSH 122-123

9:15 AMPublic Hearing

  • HB 1234identifying certain school district offices as incompatible for purposes of school district elections.

9:30 AMPublic Hearing

  • HB 1300establishing a school district local tax cap question for the state general elections of 2026 and 2028 and related limitations on central office administrative expenses in school districts.

9:45 AMPublic Hearing

  • HB 1319enabling towns, village districts, or school districts to adopt or rescind a local fiscal accountability committee for towns and schools.

10:00 AMPublic Hearing

  • HB 1331enabling the Derry town council to incorporate the Derry Cooperative School District as a department of the town through a charter amendment.

10:15 AMPublic Hearing

  • HB 1355relative to eliminating the default budget from the official ballot referenda.

Senate Calendar 16 (PDF)

This meeting on the Senate Election Law and Municipal Affairs page

House Commerce and Consumer Affairs10:00 AM(9 bills)Subcommittee Work SessionGP 229
  • SB 444prohibiting the use of animal testing when other comparable methods are available.
  • SB 498relative to children's mental health services for persons 18 years of age and younger.
  • SB 524relative to the sale of tobacco products, e-cigarettes, devices, e-liquids, or alternative nicotine products and relative to the licensure and sale of certain liquor products.
  • SB 544relative to managed care laws.
  • SB 550relative to insurance coverage for services provided by naturopathy providers.
  • SB 573establishing certification standards for certified public safety comfort dogs.
  • SB 606relative to insurance coverage for biomarker testing.
  • SB 614establishing multiple-caregiver self-insured risk coverage arrangements for nonprofit and for-profit providers and servicers.
  • SB 665relative to pharmacy benefits managers, managed care laws, notice of drug pricing options and pharmacy benefit manager business practices.

House Calendar 17 (PDF)

This meeting on the House Commerce and Consumer Affairs page

House Environment and Agriculture10:00 AM(6 bills)Full Committee Work SessionGP 153
  • SB 418prohibiting municipalities from requiring licenses, restrictions, or exclusions for the production and sale of homestead food products.
  • SB 442relative to pet transfers.
  • SB 445relative to adjudicative proceedings where there is a council or board with jurisdiction.
  • SB 475relative to pet vendor foster homes, defining pet vendor foster facility, and relative to cruelty to livestock.
  • SB 535defining residential breeder and imported animal for the purposes of animal transfers and removing references to commercial kennels.
  • SB 644requiring background checks for solid waste and hazardous waste facility owners.

House Calendar 17 (PDF)

This meeting on the House Environment and Agriculture page

House Education Funding11:15 AM(3 bills)Executive SessionGP 232
  • SB 491enabling students to utilize education freedom account funds to pay for certain career and technical education funding and removing references to "curriculum frameworks" as they relate to the substantive educational content of an adequate education.
  • SB 513relative to the hiring of an owner's project manager (OPM) for construction or renovation projects which utilize school building aid.
  • SB 531establishing a task force to study the feasibility of the creation of cosmetology related programming in Coos County and requiring the reporting of student meal debt by school districts and public chartered schools to the department of education.

House Calendar 17 (PDF)

This meeting on the House Education Funding page

Senate Judiciary1:00 PM–1:40 PM(5 bills)Public HearingSH 100

1:00 PMPublic Hearing

  • HB 1384relative to prohibiting foreign adversary persons or foreign entities of concern from financing lawsuits, prohibiting foreign principals from registering as lobbyists, and requires certain disclosures for persons acting on behalf of foreign principals.

1:10 PMPublic Hearing

  • HB 1419establishing a committee to study whether a court with specialized jurisdiction over corporate, commercial, and equitable matters should be established.

1:20 PMPublic Hearing

  • HB 1637relative to the scheduling of hearings on certain motions to modify or revoke bail.

1:30 PMPublic Hearing

  • HB 1665relative to the issuance of subpoenas in administrative proceedings.

1:40 PMPublic Hearing

  • HB 1416establishing a committee to study what legal protections currently exist for the freedom of expression of pregnancy resource centers and whether further First Amendment protections are needed.

Senate Calendar 16A (PDF)

This meeting on the Senate Judiciary page

Wednesday, April 29

Assessing Standards Board9:30 AMStatutory CommitteeTraining Room, Department of Revenue Administration, 109 Pleasant Street, Concord
House Commerce and Consumer Affairs10:00 AM(22 bills)Executive SessionGP 229
  • SB 256establishing safety and care requirements for clinician-administered drugs.
  • SB 444prohibiting the use of animal testing when other comparable methods are available.
  • SB 455relative to coverage for GLP-1 medication under the state Medicaid plan.
  • SB 480limiting certain prior authorization requirements for physical therapy, occupational therapy, and similar rehabilitative services.
  • SB 487allowing credit union members to pay members of the board of directors for their services as a board member.
  • SB 496relative to supervision and registration requirements for associates of broker-dealers.
  • SB 498relative to children's mental health services for persons 18 years of age and younger.
  • SB 524relative to the sale of tobacco products, e-cigarettes, devices, e-liquids, or alternative nicotine products and relative to the licensure and sale of certain liquor products.
  • SB 525raising the maximum amount of state guarantees in force.
  • SB 544relative to managed care laws.
  • SB 550relative to insurance coverage for services provided by naturopathy providers.
  • SB 562relative to a home damage mitigation and resiliency program.
  • SB 565requiring the commissioner of the insurance department to prepare and publish a report regarding fortified home and commercial standards, and other mitigation and resiliency programs.
  • SB 573establishing certification standards for certified public safety comfort dogs.
  • SB 606relative to insurance coverage for biomarker testing.
  • SB 607relative to short-term, limited duration health insurance policies
  • SB 614establishing multiple-caregiver self-insured risk coverage arrangements for nonprofit and for-profit providers and servicers.
  • SB 639establishing a committee to study the health and safety impacts of Red Dye 40 and other food additives in food and beverages sold in New Hampshire.
  • SB 646relative to mental health standards of care.
  • SB 647authorizing the department of insurance to participate in a cooperative procurement group via an intergovernmental agreement for a prescription drug discount program.
  • SB 648requiring age verification by commercial entities to allow access to pornographic material.
  • SB 665relative to pharmacy benefits managers, managed care laws, notice of drug pricing options and pharmacy benefit manager business practices.

House Calendar 17 (PDF)

This meeting on the House Commerce and Consumer Affairs page

House Executive Departments and Administration10:00 AM–1:00 PM(8 bills)Executive SessionFull Committee Work SessionGP 231

10:00 AMExecutive Session

  • SB 298relative to the scope of review of state agency interpretations, prohibiting the use of scented products in public areas of state buildings, and establishing a committee to study the implementation and effectiveness of the mandatory statewide certification process and operational standards for recovery residences.
  • SB 486relative to the administrative procedure act.
  • SB 488enabling the governor to declare a state of emergency due to the failure of the legislature to pass a budget or continuing resolution to fund the New Hampshire state government by July 1 of the first year of a biennium.
  • SB 504relative to the practice of pharmacy and the dispensing of certain medications by pharmacists, authorizing the establishment of experimental treatment centers, and permitting treatment of certain severe illness under the right to try act.
  • SB 567relative to the composition of the board of dental examiners and relative to the practice of dentistry and when radiographic examinations are required.
  • SB 569relative to the qualifications for hearings officers within the department of labor.
  • SB 572relative to New Hampshire hospital real estate.

1:00 PMFull Committee Work Session

  • SB 640relative to the use of artificial intelligence to provide services requiring a professional license.

House Calendar 16 (PDF)House Calendar 17 (PDF)

This meeting on the House Executive Departments and Administration page

Thursday, April 30

Committee of conference on HB 22110:00 AM(1 bill)Committee of ConferenceGP 229
  • HB 221enabling electric utilities to own, operate, and offer advanced nuclear resources, and relative to purchased power agreements for electric distribution utilities and limitations on community customer generators.
House Criminal Justice and Public Safety10:00 AM–10:30 AM(2 bills)Executive SessionPublic HearingGP 159

10:00 AMExecutive Session

  • SB 617relative to the regulation and appeal of motor vehicle towing from public highways and relative to the removal of abandoned vehicles by law enforcement.

10:00 AMPublic Hearing

  • SB 617relative to the regulation and appeal of motor vehicle towing from public highways and relative to the removal of abandoned vehicles by law enforcement.

10:30 AMPublic Hearing

  • SB 624restricting access to certain hemp-derived products and establishing the offenses of criminal adulteration and distribution of adulterated controlled substances.

This meeting on the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety page

Friday, May 1

Advisory Committee on the Human Rights Commission1:00 PMStudy CommitteeGP Room 234

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