As provided by the Speaker’s Office, we publish the schedule of hearings, meetings and events in the New Hampshire House of Representatives on February 2, 2016. ~ Melanie
PRESS CONFERENCE, Legislative Office Building, Lobby
9:30 a.m. Stark Research Analytics LLC
RE: Medicaid Expansion
CHILDREN AND FAMILY LAW, Room 206, LOB
10:00 a.m. Executive session on HB 1434-FN, relative to out-of-home placements under the child protection act; HB 1117, establishing a child support maximum under the guidelines based on the parents’ combined income; HB 1238, relative to income for purposes of child support.
1:00 p.m. HB 1279, relative to grounds for termination of parental rights.
2:00 p.m. HB 1118, relative to the determination of parental rights and responsibilities and establishing a presumption in favor of shared residential responsibility.
Executive session on pending legislation may be held throughout the day, time permitting, from the time the committee is initially convened.
COMMERCE, Room 302, LOB
10:00 a.m. Subcommittee work session on HB 1159-FN, relative to sale of tobacco products; HB 1182-FN, relative to fees for sales of wine by manufacturers;HB 1444-FN-A, relative to the rate of the insurance premium tax; HB 1495-FN-L, relative to insurance incentives to lower costs of health care; HB 1590-FN-A-L, relative to the regulation and taxation of short-term rental businesses; HB 1647-FN, repealing laws regulating hawkers and peddlers and itinerant vendors; HB 1685-FN, relative to mortgage bankers, brokers, and services.
1:15 p.m. Executive session on HB 1685-FN, relative to mortgage bankers, brokers, and services.
HB 1444-FN-A, relative to the rate of the insurance premium tax; HB 1590-FN-A-L, relative to the regulation and taxation of short-term rental businesses; HB 1647-FN, repealing laws regulating hawkers and peddlers and itinerant vendors; HB 1495-FN-L, relative to insurance incentives to lower costs of health care; HB 1182-FN, relative to fees for sales of wine by manufacturers; HB 1184-FN, relative to license fees for domestic wine manufacturers; HB 1207-FN, exempting wine sample fees from the meals and rooms tax; HB 1159-FN, relative to sale of tobacco products; HB 1368-FN, requiring firearms owners to have liability insurance.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY, Room 204, LOB
10:00 a.m. HB 1628-FN, relative to human trafficking involving persons under 18 years of age.
11:00 a.m. HB 1314, limiting the authority of state entities to regulate the sale, use, and possession of firearms.
1:00 p.m. HB 1654-FN, relative to flying drones near correctional facilities.
2:00 p.m. HB 1657-FN, prohibiting firearms in certain public places.
3:00 p.m. HB 1327, relative to the statute of limitations for continuing violations of trespass.
Executive session on pending legislation may be held throughout the day, time permitting, from the time the committee is initially convened.
EDUCATION, Room 207, LOB
10:00 a.m. Continued executive session on HB 1652-FN-A, establishing a teacher preparation for mathematics education scholarship program.
Executive session on HB 1485, relative to private rights of action under the pupil safety and violence prevention act; HB 1638-FN-L, relative to the allocation of lottery revenues to schools; HB 1604-FN-A-L, relative to exceptional student education programs and providing funding therefor; HB 1630-FN-L, relative to calculating the base cost of an adequate education.
1:00 p.m. HB 1225, permitting high school students who are members of the armed forces to wear their uniforms at graduation.
1:20 p.m. HB 1612-FN, relative to the age for purposes of compulsory education.
2:00 p.m. HB 1283, relative to school notification of a change in placement.
2:25 p.m. HB 1232, relative to visits to schools by non-academic government or private organizations.
2:45 p.m. HB 1300, relative to the content of patriotic exercises in public schools.
3:00 p.m. HB 1145, establishing a committee to study suspensions and expulsions in licensed preschools and in kindergarten through grade 3.
ELECTION LAW, Room 308, LOB
12:45 p.m. HCACR 23, relating to the warning of biennial meetings. Providing that the selectmen are not required to be present to receive the votes.
1:30 p.m. Subcommittee work session on HB 1378, relative to disabled voters requiring assistance.
Executive session on pending legislation may be held throughout the day, time permitting, from the time the committee is initially convened.
ENVIRONMENT AND AGRICULTURE, Room 303, LOB
10:00 a.m. HB 1571-FN, prohibiting the possession, purchase, or sale of equipment used for animal fighting.
11:00 a.m. HB 1499-FN, relative to certificates for rabies vaccination of dogs, cats, or ferrets.
Executive session on pending legislation may be held throughout the day, time permitting, from the time the committee is initially convened.
1:00 p.m. Executive session on HB 1292, relative to the use of abandoned agricultural property.
1:30 p.m. Executive session on HB 1141, defining “agritourism.”
2:00 p.m. Executive session on HB 1674-FN, requiring the labeling of genetically engineered foods.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND ADMINISTRATION, Room 306, LOB
9:00 a.m. Subcommittee work session on HB 1580-FN, removing the real estate commission from the office of professional licensure and certification.
10:00 a.m. HB 1658-FN, establishing one-stop business permitting.
10:15 a.m. HB 1282, relative to the state building code.
10:30 a.m. HB 1639-FN, relative to bonds for public employees.
10:45 a.m. HB 1255, designating May 19 as a Day of Compassion.
Executive session on pending legislation may be held throughout the day, time permitting, from the time the committee is initially convened.
FINANCE – DIVISION I, Room 212, LOB
10:00 a.m. Work session on SB 238-FN, relative to the workers’ compensation appeals board.
10:45 a.m. Work session on SB 155-FN-A, (New Title) establishing the Financial Resources Mortgage (FRM) victims’ contribution recovery fund for victims of the FRM fraud and continually appropriating a special fund.
11:30 a.m. Work session on HB 1428-FN-A-L, making appropriations to the department of environmental services for the purpose of funding eligible and completed drinking water and wastewater projects under the state aid grant program.
1:00 p.m. Work session on HB 1591-FN-A, relative to the health care premium contribution for retired state employees who are over 65 years of age, relative to funding of retiree health benefits, and making an appropriation to the department of administrative services; HB 1592-FN, relative to the health care premium contribution for retired state employees who are over 65 years of age, relative to funding of retiree health benefits, and making an appropriation to the department of administrative services.
HEALTH, HUMAN SERVICES AND ELDERLY AFFAIRS, Room 205, LOB
8:00 a.m. Subcommittee work session on HB 1695-FN, establishing an office of health services planning and review within the department of health and human services.
Room 207, LOB
8:00 a.m. Subcommittee work session on HB 1557-FN, relative to alcohol and drug treatment programs.
Room 205, LOB
9:00 a.m. Full committee work session on pending legislation including HB 1696-FN, requesting a modification of the New Hampshire health protection program.
1:15 p.m. HB 1464-FN, relative to monitoring visits to child day care agencies.
2:15 p.m. HB 1661-FN, relative to conversion therapy seeking to change a person’s sexual orientation.
Executive session on pending legislation may be held throughout the day, time permitting, from the time the committee is initially convened.
JUDICIARY, Room 208, LOB
10:00 a.m. Executive session on HB 1574-FN-A, relative to the penalty assessment fund and requiring payment into the penalty assessment for persons performing court-mandated community service; HB 1581-FN-A, establishing a special marriage officiant license; HB 1611-FN-L, allowing a public body or agency to charge a fee for costs of retrieving public records under the right-to-know law; HB 1560-FN, relative to abortion procedures; HB 1627-FN, relative to the protection of infants born alive; HCACR 13, relating to the administrative head of the courts. Providing that the chief justice of the supreme court shall make rules governing employees of the courts and the practice and procedure to be followed in the courts; HB 1607-FN, relative to entering dismissals of cases by nolle prosequi.
LABOR, INDUSTRIAL AND REHABILITATIVE SERVICES, Room 307, LOB
10:00 a.m. HB 1108, relative to inquiries by employers into the criminal history of applicants for employment.
11:00 a.m. HB 1535-FN, relative to liability for payment of criminal record background checks and drug tests.
1:00 p.m. HB 1512, relative to the definition of “employee” for the purposes of workers’ compensation and unemployment compensation.
2:00 p.m. HB 1633-FN, relative to the use of the Family and Medical Leave Act time as it applies to workers’ compensation.
Executive session on pending legislation may be held throughout the day, time permitting, from the time the committee is initially convened.
MUNICIPAL AND COUNTY GOVERNMENT, Room 301, LOB
10:00 a.m. HB 1112, relative to subdivision of land.
10:15 a.m. HB 1202, relative to applications submitted to a planning board.
10:30 a.m. HB 1203, relative to voting on variances.
10:45 a.m. HB 1244-L, relative to municipal cemeteries.
11:00 a.m. HB 1259, relative to liability for third party review of site plans.
11:15 a.m. HB 1390, relative to municipal authority to restrict where registered sex offenders live.
1:00 p.m. Executive session on HB 1190, relative to a grant of land to Dartmouth College; HB 1518, relative to village district members of budget committees; HB 1683-FN-L, relative to lowering the interest rate and costs for the redemption and repurchase of property subject to a tax lien or tax deed; HB 1678-FN, relative to the information statement contained on a property tax bill.
PUBLIC WORKS AND HIGHWAYS, Room 201, LOB
10:00 a.m. Executive session on HB 1602-FN-A-L, establishing a road usage fee and making an appropriation therefor; HB 1568-FN-A, relative to prepaid road tolls for certain alternative energy vehicles; HB 1397, establishing a committee to study improvements to the Hannah Duston Memorial; HB 1200-L, relative to the use of recycled glass.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ENERGY, Room 304, LOB
10:00 a.m. Continued public hearing on HB 1502, establishing a committee to study odor emissions from landfills.
11:00 a.m. HB 1659, relative to the implementation of the clean power state implementation plan.
1:00 p.m. HB 1374, relative to rebates to ratepayers from the renewable energy fund.
STATE-FEDERAL RELATIONS AND VETERANS AFFAIRS, Room 209, LOB
10:00 a.m. Full committee work session on HB 1130, requiring school districts to permit placement of a memorial honoring those who have died during military service.
TRANSPORTATION, Room 203, LOB
10:00 a.m. HB 1102, relative to travel on ways with 3 or more lanes.
10:30 a.m. HB 1186, repealing the law prohibiting coasting of vehicles.
11:00 a.m. HB 1271, making certain length and width exemptions concerning commercial vehicles.
1:00 p.m. HB 1162, relative to eligibility for utility dealer registration.
1:30 p.m. HB 1452, relative to motor vehicle laws applicable to diplomats and certain officials.
Executive session on pending legislation may be held throughout the day, time permitting, from the time the committee is initially convened.
2:00 p.m. Executive session on HB 1616-FN, relative to drivers’ licenses and identification cards that are compliant with federal identification law; HB 1649-FN, relative to state inspection of new motor vehicles; HB 1154-FN, authorizing and regulating the use of license plate scanning devices; HB 1445-FN, relative to tinted windows on motor vehicles; HB 1421-FN, relative to exemptions from certificate of title for a vehicle; HCACR 24, relating to the right to travel. Providing that all people have the right to travel within the state in their choice of privately owned conveyance.
WAYS AND MEANS, Room 202, LOB
10:00 a.m. Continued hearing on HB 1101, prohibiting charges to New Hampshire residents for the construction of high pressure gas pipelines.
11:30 a.m. Executive session on HB 1391, relative to the price of bingo cards at senior bingo and bingo at private campgrounds and hotels; HB 1199, allowing adults to play children’s bingo at private campgrounds or hotels; HB 1498, repealing the prohibition on certain gambling; HB 1488, establishing a commission to review and make recommendations for the recodification of RSA 284 and RSA 287-D.
1:00 p.m. HB 586-FN-L, relative to registration of automobile utility trailers.
1:30 p.m. Work session on HB 1443-FN, relative to the reasonable compensation deduction from gross business profits under the business profits tax and requiring the department of revenue administration to prepare draft rules relative to auditing; HB 1538-FN-A, relative to revising the business enterprise tax as a business flat tax, reducing the rate of the interest and dividends tax, repealing certain taxes, and establishing a commission to recommend statutory changes for the implementation of this new tax structure; HB 1544-FN-A-L, establishing a tax on revenues from natural gas transmission; HB 1360-FN, establishing a credit against business profits taxes for media production expenditures in New Hampshire.
Executive session on pending legislation may be held throughout the day, time permitting, from the time the committee is initially convened.
