We continued voting on Senate bills.
| Bill | Motion | Type of vote | My vote | Result of vote | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB 551 | Concur | Roll call | Nay | Concur 200-161 | Motion to reconsider failed on division vote 161-204; I voted Yea |
| SB 267-FN | OTPA | Roll call | Yea | OTPA 292-72 | Motion to table failed on roll call vote 110-253; I voted Nay |
| SB 294-FN | Table | Voice | Yea | Table | |
| SB 97-FN | OTPA | Roll call | Nay | OTPA 199-165 | |
| SB 102-FN | OTP | Voice | Yea | OTP | |
| SB 37 | ITL | Division | Yea | ITL 195-164 | |
| SB 119-FN | OTPA | Voice | Nay | OTPA | |
| SB 130-FN | ITL | Division | Nay | ITL 184-178 | |
| SB 243-FN | Table | Division | Yea | Table 277-83 | |
| SB 257 | ITL | Division | Nay | ITL 199-164 | |
| SB 148-FN | OTPA | Voice | Yea | OTPA | |
| SB 13-FN | OTPA | Roll call | Nay | OTPA 192-164 | |
| SB 157-FN | OTPA | Voice | Yea | OTPA | |
| SB 272-FN | ITL | Roll call | Nay | ITL 195-163 | |
| SB 30 | OTPA | Voice | Yea | OTPA | |
| SB 170 | Table | Voice | Yea | Table | |
| SB 174 | Table | Division | Yea | Table 239-120 | See discussion below |
| SB 188 | OTPA | Division | Yea | OTPA 276-82 | |
| SB 291 | OTPA | Voice | Yea | OTPA |
Repeals the local licensing requirement for selling pistols and revolvers. The Senate amended the bill to limit liability for firearm manufacturers, specific to the situation of Sig Sauer, which I am told has had problems with one of their weapons firing mistakenly.
Adds a $500 fine for soliciting prostitution, with the fine going into funding the New Hampshire human trafficking collaborative task force.
Allows students to change schools within the school district, for any reason, to any public school, public academy, or private school. It can make planning within a school district a nightmare.
Requires a wide variety of health care facilities to have a QA plan and to post results of investigations by DHHS. The RSA that defines the health care facilities that would be subject to this bill lists facilities that are patient-facing, but also ones that are not patient-facing, such as labs. I felt that this bill was a little too broad, and so I voted against my caucus’s recommendation and voted for the ITL motion.
The underlying bill is fine: a cost-saving way that allows Medicaid to fill prescriptions with the brand-name drug when it costs less than the generic. But the Republicans added an amendment that also allows any prescriber to issue a standing order for Ivermectin. Because some people still think that it treats COVID. (Hint: it doesn’t.)
A bipartisan “slayer bill” that says that a murderer cannot profit from the crime.
Invalidates out-of-state driver’s licenses issued to undocumented immigrants whose licenses are marked as such (which for now, is done only by Connecticut). The problem here is that is someone is here seeking asylum, they’re in a purgatory where they’re not documented yet, but they are temporarily here legally. This bill would make it illegal for them to drive in New Hampshire, which makes it difficult to find work even though they are here legally.
Would have allowed municipalities to establish a fund for EV charging stations, and also allowed parking spaces to be marked for EV charging only with penalties for parking there when not charging. It failed on almost a strict party-line vote.
This bill would prohibit planning boards from considering the number of bedrooms that a given unit or development has as part of the approval process. The idea is that, allegedly, some communities use the number of bedrooms as a proxy to exclude families with children. Several Democrats were concerned that this bill is a back door to allow more Free Staters to move to New Hampshire. We all agree that we need more housing, but enough people were against this particular proposal that the OTPA motion failed by seven votes, with 42 Democrats joining the majority of the Republicans to defeat the motion. That occurred after a motion to table failed by one vote. After the OTPA motion failed, a voice vote tabled the bill.