The Senate took up 51 bills: 15 together on the consent calendar, then 36 one by one, listed below by bill.
Journal
Senate Journal 17
Votes Taken
12 roll calls32 voice votes
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The Senate journal does not record who spoke for or against a motion, so this is the vote record without the debate.
Excused for the Day
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The journal records 1 senator as excused by the Senate for the day, that is, permission to be away. A senator excused for the day may still have voted on part of it, and the roll call record does not always agree with the journal about who was excused.
Adopt the Consent Calendar (Decide these bills together without debate)
Motion Passed
Show the 15 billsPassed 8Sent Back to Committee 5Killed 2
Passed 8
HB 113relative to qualifications for and exceptions from licensure for mental health practice.
HB 156establishing a commission to study the establishment of a state department of energy.
HB 162repealing the requirement for the inspection of timber.
HB 189-FNestablishing an exemption from criminal penalties for child sex trafficking victims.
HB 464relative to the definitions of solar energy systems and wind-powered energy systems for assessed value of real estate exemptions and enabling municipalities to adopt a property tax exemption for electric energy storage systems.
HB 593relative to updating official voter checklists and expanding the voter information exemption under the right to know law.
HB 657relative to prescription drugs under the managed care law.
Sent Back to Committee 5
HB 153relative to circumstances under which police officer disciplinary records shall be public documents.
HB 155relative to procedures for determining and disclosing exculpatory evidence in a police officer's personnel file.
HB 479-FNrelative to eligibility for the low and moderate income homeowners property tax relief.
HB 496relative to the definition of antique snowmobiles, relative to water quality rules, and relative to the disposition of administrative fines for asbestos management violations.
HB 717-FNprohibiting prescription drug manufacturers from offering coupons or discounts to cover insurance copayments or deductibles.
Killed 2
HB 166relative to funding energy efficiency programs.
HB 413relative to membership of the energy efficiency and sustainable energy board.
What the Senate 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.
establishing a committee to study the applications of microgrids in New Hampshire and changes in law necessary to allow for microgrids in electrical supply, and relative to baseload renewable generation credits for biomass energy facilities.
In the record: Reconsider the following action taken by this Body: Rescind Order to Third Reading, and Reconsider the Vote on Ought to Pass with Amendment
Ought to Pass with Amendment (OTPA, Pass the bill with changes) 2019-1883s, 2019-1980s
Motion Passed: Bill Passed with Changes21–2 on a roll call
In the record: Ought to Pass with Amendment s 2019-1883s, and 2019-1980s
defining hemp, relative to its growth and use in New Hampshire, establishing a committee to study the federal guidelines on growing hemp, and relative to costs of care for animals seized in animal cruelty cases and prohibiting the future ownership of animals in certain animal cruelty cases.
relative to the inclusion of attendance stipends and certain additional pay for instructional activities as earnable compensation in the retirement system.
relative to criminal penalties for possession, transfer, or manufacture of animal fighting paraphernalia with the intent to be present at, aiding in, or contributing to such fighting.