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Bill Tracker	click here for the Legislative Hearing Schedule

House Bills
Bill No. (link to text)	An Act...	NEA-NH Position	Status (link to dates)
HB 533-FN-LOCAL Amended	establishing a cap on the amount of school building aid grants distributed in each fiscal year.		Senate Education Committee
HB 1167 Amended	repealing the 180 day school year requirement. relative to the calculation of days in the school year.	Oppose	Senate Education Committee
HB 1206 Amended	prohibiting the state from withholding union dues from the wages of state employees. relative to continuing obligations under expired public employee labor agreements.	Oppose Take Action	Senate Executive Departments and Administration Committee (Roll Calls)
HB 1325 Amended	relative to school attendance by children of divorced parents. relative to legal residency requirements for purposes of school attendance for children of divorced parents and children whose parents share decision making responsibility pursuant to a parenting plan.		Senate Education Committee
HB 1360 Amended	relative to the rulemaking authority of the state board of education.	Oppose	Senate Education Committee (Roll Calls)
HB 1377 Amended	requiring postsecondary education institutions to compile and submit reports on remedial education courses.	Oppose	Senate Education Committee
HB 1383 Amended	relative to residency status for the purpose of receiving in-state tuition status within the university system of New Hampshire.	Oppose	Senate Education Committee (Roll Calls)
HB 1403 Amended	allowing a parent or guardian to withdraw a child from a school district which adopts the international baccalaureate program. relative to providing pupils with curriculum and instruction regarding state and national sovereignty and establishing a committee to study the implementation of the International Baccalaureate program in New Hampshire.	Oppose	Senate Education Committee (Roll Calls)
HB 1433 Amended	relative to instruction for pupils on the issues of HIV, AIDS, and sexually transmitted diseases.	Oppose	Senate Education Committee
HB 1456	relative to school district policies on health and sex education.	Oppose	Senate Education Committee
HB 1460 Amended	establishing a committee to study additional public employee pension reforms. establishing a defined contribution retirement plan for public employees.	Oppose Statement	Senate Executive Departments and Administration Committee (Roll Calls)
HB 1461 Amended	requiring school officials to notify parents of a class or event involving an outside speaker and allowing parents to opt for their child not to participate in the class or event.	Oppose	Senate Education Committee
HB 1483-FN Amended	repealing the retirement system special account.	Oppose	Senate Executive Departments and Administration Committee (Roll Calls)
HB 1574 Amended	relative to an employee's lunch or eating period.	Oppose	Senate Commerce Committee (Roll Calls)
HB 1583	relative to immunity for school personnel using reasonable force to protect a minor.	Support	Senate Education Committee
HB 1607-FN-LOCAL Amended	establishing an education credit against the business profits tax. establishing an education tax credit.	Oppose Take Action	Senate Education Committee (Roll Calls)
HB 1645-FN Amended	prohibiting all public employees from participating in collective bargaining. relative to decertification of a bargaining unit.	Oppose	Senate Commerce Committee (Roll Calls)
Senate Bills
Bill No. (link to text)	An Act...	NEA-NH Position	Status (link to dates)
SB 228-FN-LOCAL	repealing the assessments for excess benefits paid by employers in the retirement system.	Support	House Special Committee on Public Employee Pensions Reform
SB 229-FN Amended	establishing a defined contribution retirement plan for public employees. establishing a commission to make recommendations on whether the New Hampshire retirement system should be replaced with a defined contribution plan for all new hires and to study the impact such change would have on the retirement system.	Oppose	House Special Committee on Public Employee Pensions Reform
SB 230-FN	relative to the calculation of average final compensation for certain retirement system members.	Oppose	House Special Committee on Public Employee Pensions Reform
SB 244-FN Amended	relative to the administration of the New Hampshire retirement system.	Oppose	House Special Committee on Public Employee Pensions Reform
SB 372-FN-LOCAL Amended	establishing an education credit against the business profits tax. establishing an education tax credit.	Oppose Take Action	House Ways and Means Committee (Roll Calls)
Constitutional Amendment Concurrent Resolutions
CACR No. (link to text)	Providing That...	NEA-NH Position	Status (link to dates)
CACR 6 Amended	a 3/5 vote is required to pass legislation imposing new or increased taxes or license fees, or to authorize the issuance of state bonds and providing that the general court shall appropriate funds for payment of interest and installments of principle of all state bonds. no budget bill containing an increase over the budget of the previous biennium greater than the rate of inflation shall become law without 3/5 approval of each house of the legislature.	Oppose Take Action Research Research	Senate Committee of Conference
CACR 12 Amended	the general court shall have the authority to define standards for public education, establish standards of accountability, mitigate local disparities in educational opportunity and fiscal capacity, and have full discretion to determine the amount of state funding for education. the legislature shall have the full power and authority and the responsibility to define standards for public education, establish standards of accountability, mitigate local disparities in educational opportunity and fiscal capacity, and have full power and authority to determine the amount of state funding for public education.	Oppose Take Action  Policy Brief	Senate Committee of Conference (Roll Calls)
Bills With Disposition
Legislation No. (link to text)	An Act...	Disposition	Status
HB 334	relative to the state's authority to prohibit or regulate firearms, firearms components, ammunition, or firearms supplies.	Interim Study in Senate	Senate Judiciary Study Committee   (Roll Calls)
HB 542-FN (2011 session)	relative to exceptions for objectionable material in public school courses.	Law	Veto Overridden   (Roll Calls)
HB 1146	requiring pupils to stand during the pledge of allegiance.	Killed in House	House Constitutional Review & Statutory Recodification Committee
HB 1148	requiring the teaching of evolution as a theory in public schools.	Killed in House	House Education Committee
HB 1162	establishing a committee to study the effects of compulsory school attendance on children and families.	Killed in House	House Education Committee
HB 1163 Amendment	relative to withholding union dues from wages. relative to disclosure of collective bargaining agency fees.	Killed in House	House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Committee
HB 1268-FN	requiring the department of education to reimburse the community colleges for the costs of providing remedial courses.	Killed in House	House Education Committee
HB 1269	relative to immunity from civil liability for sports officials.	Killed in House	House Judiciary Committee
HB 1292	requiring a 2/3 majority for borrowing by official ballot towns and school districts.	Killed in House	House Municipal and County Government Committee
HB 1323	requiring employers who offer benefits to full-time employees to offer benefits on a pro-rated basis to part-time employees.	Killed in House	House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Committee
HB 1344	prohibiting public employees from being candidates for certain offices.	Killed in House	House Constitutional Review & Statutory Recodification Committee
HB 1382	including parents in the approval process for alternative learning plans and requiring a truant officer to obtain a warrant or permission of a parent prior to returning a child to school.	Killed in House	House Education Committee
HB 1413-FN	directing New Hampshire to withdraw from the No Child Left Behind Act.	Tabled in House	House Education Committee
HB 1424-FN	relative to a parent's conscientious objection to a school, school program, or school curriculum.	Killed in House	House Educaion Committee
HB 1427	relative to declaring that private contracting of governmental operations shall not be deemed an unfair labor practice.	Killed in House	House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Committee
HB 1426-LOCAL	relative to employer negotiations for health care coverage.	Killed in House	House Municipal and County Government Committee
HB 1457	relative to scientific inquiry in the public schools.	Killed in House	House Education Committee
HB 1467	relative to educational requirements for teacher certification.	Interim Study in House	House Education Committee
HB 1473-FN-LOCAL	relative to the calculation and distribution of adequate education grants.	Interim Study in House	House Special Committee on Education Funding Reform
HB 1485-FN-LOCAL	relative to funding for chartered public schools established by the state board of education.	Killed in House	House Education Committee
HB 1506-FN	relative to the right-to-know exemption for public employee personnel files.	Killed in House	House Judiciary Committee
HB 1513-FN	changing the membership of the public employee labor relations board.	Killed in House	House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Committee
HB 1516-FN-LOCAL	relative to the instruction of English and mathematics for pupils in kindergarten through grade 3.	Killed in House	House Education Committee
HB 1517-FN-LOCAL	prohibiting the state and any political subdivision from entering any agreement implementing any provision of the No Child Left Behind Act without prior approval of the general court.	Tabled in House	House Education Committee
HB 1544-FN	adding state and local government part-time and public employees to employees eligible to participate in the state group insurance coverage.	Interim Study in House	House Executive Departments and Administration Committee
HB 1570	relative to the duty of a public employee labor organization to represent employees who elect not to join or to pay dues or fees to the employee organization.	Killed in House	House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Committee
HB 1575	relative to alternative course selections for certain pupils.	Killed in House	House Education Committee
HB 1637-LOCAL	authorizing a school district which uses official ballot voting to conduct a special meeting necessitated by changes in adequate education funding.	Interim Study in House	House Education Committee
HB 1663-FN-L	relative to payment of union fees by non-members.	Interim Study in House	House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Committee
HB 1677-FN	relative to choice as to whether to join a labor union and eliminating the duty of a public employee labor organization to represent employees who elect not to join or to pay dues or fees to the employee organization.	Tabled in Senate Just the FACTS	Senate Commerce Committee (Roll Calls)
HB 1685-FN-LOCAL Amendment	relative to collective bargaining under the public employee labor relations statutes. relative to public employee opt-outs from labor organization membership and dues payments.	Tabled in House	House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Committee
HB 1713-FN	abolishing the department of education and transferring all functions, duties, and responsibilities to the commissioner of education and the state board of education.	Killed in House	House Education Committee
SB 246-FN	relative to the calculation of employer assessments for excess retirement system benefits.	Killed in Senate	Senate Executive Departments and Administration Committee
CACR 8	the legislature shall have the power to authorize schools.	Tabled in House	House Education Committee (Roll Calls)
CACR 31	parents have the natural right to control the health, education, and welfare of their children.	Killed in House	House Children and Family Law Committee (Roll Calls)

 

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