The House took up 133 bills: 56 together on the consent calendar, then 78 one by one, listed below by bill.
Journal
House Journal 39
Votes Taken
9 roll calls, 4 divisions67 voice votes
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The journal is on record from 1997, so this day carries the vote record without the debate.
On the Consent Calendar
Adopt the Consent Calendar (Decide these bills together without debate)
Motion Passed
Show the 56 billsPassed 34Killed 21Adopted 1
Passed 34
HB 161authorizing the executive director of fish and game to issue complimentary fishing permits to certain persons.
HB 204exempting hospitals licensed by the state from certain provisions of the New Hampshire pharmacists and pharmacies statutes.
HB 244relative to refund anticipation loans and authorizing fees for such loans.
HB 246requiring life insurance companies to review their records and notify beneficiaries in the event a policy becomes payable.
HB 252requiring health insurers to provide coverage for nonprescription enteral formulas and food products when medically necessary for the treatment of malabsorption and inherited diseases of amino acids and organic acids.
HB 328-FNrelative to reconstruction, or repair of boathouses which are suitable for use as dwellings.
HB 341changing the procedure for the release of a security interest in a motor vehicle and establishing a committee to assess the feasibility of a paperless title system for motor vehicles.
HB 387relative to the rulemaking authority of commissioners of state departments, relative to certificates of competency for explosives, and relative to the definition of employee leasing company.
HB 393-LOCALrelative to the approval by the division of water supply and pollution control of plans for sewage disposal systems.
HB 395relative to the jurisdiction of the zoning board of adjustment and the appeal of land use decisions.
HB 398-LOCALrelative to the membership and certain duties of heritage commissions, historic district commissions, and conservation commissions.
HB 401establishing a committee to study payments in lieu of taxes for university system properties and certain state government operations which function as businesses open to the public and establishing a university system study committee.
HB 406relative to community service under workers' compensation.
HB 434prohibiting advance collection of interest on open-end consumer credit transactions and redefining certain loans.
HB 435relative to first mortgage bankers and brokers.
HB 438establishing a committee to study early voting in New Hampshire.
HB 440relative to same day voter registration at city, town, school district, and village district elections.
HB 454relative to the membership of the state board of auctioneers.
HB 455relative to marking a straight ticket ballot.
HB 490-FN-LOCALrequiring tax collectors to provide notice to a mortgagee prior to extermination of its rights in property by issuance of a tax deed.
HB 511-FNclarifying the department of labor's authority over third party administrators for workers' compensation.
HB 572-FN-Arelative to the exemption for hospitals under the meals and rooms tax and setting the tax rate under the medicaid enhancement tax for the biennium ending June 30, 1997.
HB 596-FN-LOCALrelative to the use of compensatory time for municipal employees.
HB 613-FNrelative to protection and control of certain highways.
HB 645prohibiting contracts between certain types of insurers and physicians from containing clauses limiting the liability of such insurers for actions of the physician for which the insurers might otherwise have liability.
HB 653allowing the board of manufactured housing to adopt interim rules.
Killed 21
HB 112clarifying the administrative powers of the department of environmental services relative to dams, mills and flowage.
HB 122increasing the penalties for simple assault against a family or household member or intimate partner.
HB 240declaring English as the primary language of the state.
HB 272requiring health insurance companies to provide coverage to insureds, who themselves are required through settlement or court decree to provide coverage, for an ex-spouse with a pre-existing condition residing in New Hampshire.
HB 343relative to reporting receipts and expenditures by candidates.
HB 374relative to the information required for nomination papers to place a candidate on the ballot.
HB 385relative to the adjustment and focus of automobile and truck headlights.
HB 396requiring voters to bring identification showing their current domocile to the polls.
HB 452establishing a study committee to examine the issue of tuition waivers for certain students within the university system of New Hampshire.
HB 460establishing a procedure to be used in the absence of a living will if the wishes of the terminally ill or permanently unconscious patient were known to other persons.
HB 461-LOCALrelative to requirements for manual and computer assisted property tax revaluations.
HB 476-FNrelative to adding statements of original intent to bills and resolutions.
HB 479-FN-LOCALrequiring that the hours of polling in a town be determined at the town meeting held prior to each state election.
HB 500providing for additional members and extending the reporting date for the committee to study suicide among young people established by 1994, 352:4-8.
HB 504-FN-LOCALauthorizing the department of revenue administration to return funds to the level recommended by a local budget committee or governing body for mandatory obligations which were reduced or eliminated by the local legislative body.
HB 554-FN-LOCALrelative to health insurance for workers' compensation recipients.
HB 621-FNrelative to the acquisition of electric service by the Pease development authority.
HB 635-LOCALrelative to expenditures by local land use boards.
HB 640-LOCALestablishing procedures to provide voters an opportunity to establish a budget committee by ballot vote at the general election.
HCR 2urging the governor to reopen negotiations on the agreement between the state and Northeast Utilities.
Adopted 1
HJR 4urging the United States Congress and the United States Environmental Protection Agency to make certain changes in the Clean Air Act amendments which would enable states to better comply with the law.
What the House Did That Day
The record does not say what order these came in: the journal page is cited on only a few of them, so they are listed by bill.
permitting emergency interception of oral communications without prior court authorization under certain circumstances involving immediate danger of death or serious bodily injury.
allowing the New Hampshire technical institute and technical colleges to apply for accreditation other than as a technical institute or technical college, renaming the department, the institute and colleges, and making administrative revisions
permitting one-party consent recording of communications under certain circumstances by presumed victims of criminal offenses, abuse or sexual harassment.
establishing a study committee on the functions and responsibilities of the wetlands board and extending the reporting date for the convention center study committee.
establishing a recall procedure for those legislators found in violation in ethics rules by the legislative ethics committee and reconstituting the legislative ethics committee.
relative to surplus campaign contributions and reporting by political committees, and relative to increasing political expenditure limitations for candidates for the office of governor.
granting municipalities the option to change the interest rate on delinquent property taxes, property redemptions, subsequent property taxes, and certain other delinquent local taxes.
relative to the bank commissioner's supervision of New Hampshire bank holding companies and out-of-state bank holding companies doing business in New Hampshire.
extending the temporary rates for the meals and rooms tax, telecommunications tax and real estate transfer tax through the biennium ending June 30, 1997.
requiring all eligible persons resident of the state of voting age and otherwise empowered to vote to report to their polling place on election day or pay a fine.
requesting the supreme court and the attorney general to release all confidential and nonconfidential materials relative to former Judge John C. Fairbanks.
relative to repealing laws providing for straight ticket voting, repealing laws that give preferential ballot position to the incumbent majority party, and prohibiting a candidate from being the nominee of more than one party.
extending the date for the submission of a river basin planning and assessment program by the department of environmental services and making an appropriation therefor and relative to the Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Regional Planning Commission.
allowing criminal action after a juvenile offender's nineteenth birthday in certain circumstances, and making technical changes to the juvenile delinquency provisions.
requesting Congress to adopt as part of the Contract with America procedures for instituting a constitutional amendment prohibiting desecration of the United States flag.