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Legislation No. (link to text)	Legislative Description and Explanation	NEA-NH Position	Status
HB 124-FN	AN ACT relative to the determination of gainful occupation for a group II member receiving an accidental disability retirement allowance from the retirement system. This bill reinserts a provision which removes the application of the gainful occupation reductions to retirement allowances of group II accidental disability beneficiaries who have years of service plus years of accidental disability retirement which total at least 20 and who have attained the age of 45.	Support	House Executive Departments and Administration Committee
HB 142 Amended	AN ACT relative to teacher evaluation systems. This bill provides that the school board shall be responsible for the development and implementation of a teacher evaluation system.	Support Testimony	Senate Health, Education and Human Services Committee
HB 161	AN ACT relative to school district policies on health and sex education. This bill requires a school district to adopt a policy allowing an exception to a particular unit of health or sex education whenever a parent or legal guardian requests the exception.	Oppose	Senate Health, Education & Human Services Committee
HB 178-FN-L	AN ACT relative to binding arbitration in public labor relations disputes. This bill requires binding arbitration in labor relations disputes.	Support	Senate Public and Municipal Affairs Committee
HB 187	AN ACT relative to deliberative sessions in towns that have adopted official ballot voting. This bill provides that the dollar amount agreed to in a collective bargaining agreement between a public employer and an employee organization shall not be modified by the legislative body of the public employer.	Support	Senate Public and Municipal Affairs Committee
HB 200	AN ACT relative to an employer's burden of proof in unemployment compensation hearings. This bill requires employers to provide corroborating testimony, documentation, or physical evidence of misconduct when alleging an employee was dismissed for misconduct.	Support	Senate Commerce Committee
HB 260-FN	AN ACT relative to voluntary services provided by the department of health and human services to children in need. This bill authorizes the department of health and human services to provide voluntary services to a child who would otherwise be found to be a child in need of services under RSA 169-D. Such services are subject to available funding.	Support Testimony	Senate Health, Education & Human Services Committee
HB 364	AN ACT requiring New Hampshire retirement system employers to notify prospective part-time employees who are retired members of the limitations on part-time employment. This bill requires New Hampshire retirement system employers to notify prospective part-time employees who are retired members in the retirement system of the annual limitations on hours for part-time employment.	Support	Senate Executive Departments and Administration Committee
HB 370-FN	AN ACT repealing the education tax credit program. This bill would repeal the education credit against the business profits tax (BPT) and/or the business enterprise tax (BET) for business organizations that contribute to scholarship organizations which awards scholarships to be used by students to defray education expenses of attending an independent school.	Support Take Action	Senate Health, Education & Human Services Committee
NEA-NH Watch List
Bills we are tracking	Legislative Description		Status
HB 1-A	AN ACT making appropriations for the expenses of certain departments of the state for fiscal years ending June 30, 2014 and June 30, 2015.		Senate Finance Committee
HB 2-FN-A-L	AN ACT relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures.		Senate Finance Committee
HB 115	AN ACT relative to the procedure for filling a vacancy on a cooperative school district budget committee.		Senate Public and Municipal Affairs Committee
HB 160	AN ACT relative to a school district's transportation responsibility for pupils of divorced parents with joint decision making responsibility.		Senate Health, Education & Human Services Committee
SB 152-FN-A-L	AN ACT relative to video lottery and table gaming.		House
Bills With Disposition
Legislation No. (link to text)	Legislative Description	Disposition	Status
HB 122	AN ACT relative to limitation of appropriations in official ballot municipalities.	Killed in House	House Municipal and County Government Committee
HB 127-FN-L	AN ACT relative to the state minimum hourly rate. I. Adds a state minimum hourly wage. II. Requires the commissioner of the department of labor to calculate the minimum wage in a manner that reflects the cost of living. III. Requires a majority vote of the general court to approve such adjustment.	Killed in House	House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
HB 201	AN ACT relative to school district policies on health and sex education. This bill requires school district policies regarding exceptions to health and sex education to include a provision allowing an exception for moral beliefs.	Killed in House	House Education Committee
HB 251	AN ACT relative to the legislative members of the home education advisory council. This bill makes the legislative members of the home education advisory council voting members.	Killed in Senate	Senate Health, Education and Human Services Committee
HB 270-FN-A	AN ACT making an appropriation to the department of education to fund career and technical student organizations. This bill appropriates $125,000 to the department of education to fund career and technical student organizations.	Killed in House	House Finance Committee
HB 323-FN	AN ACT establishing the Franklin Partin right-to-work act. This bill prohibits collective bargaining agreements that require employees to join a labor union.	Killed in House	House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Committee Roll Call
HB 384	AN ACT requiring parental consent prior to a mental health examination in public schools. This bill requires school personnel to obtain parental consent prior to conducting a mental health examination of any child enrolled in a public elementary or secondary school in this state.	Killed in House	House Education Committee
HB 609	AN ACT relative to possession of a firearm on school property. This bill provides that a school district shall vote to require the school board to establish policies and procedures relative to licensed school employees carrying a firearm while on school property.	Killed in House Take Action Gun Violence Facts Background Check Facts	House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee
HB 620-FN-L	AN ACT relative to the adjustment of member and employer contribution rates in the retirement system. This bill provides that contribution rates for members in the retirement system and employers shall be calculated by assigning one half of the biennial change to the liabilities of the system to each.	Killed in House	House Executive Departments and Administration
SB 23	AN ACT directing the school administrative unit legislative oversight committee to study the consolidation of school administrative units. This bill requires the school administrative unit legislative oversight committee to study the advantages, disadvantages, and costs associated with consolidating school administrative units statewide into one school administrative unit in each county, except for Hillsborough and Rockingham counties which would have 2 school administrative units each.	Killed in Senate	Senate Health, Education & Human Services Committee
SB 37	AN ACT relative to management rights under collective bargaining. This bill expands the definition of "terms and conditions of employment" as it relates to public employee labor relations.	Killed in Senate	Senate Executive Dept. & Admin. Committee
SB 40-FN-L	AN ACT relative to distribution of education funds for fiscal year 2013. This bill provides funds for certain municipalities for the 2013 fiscal year.	Chapter Law 4	Roll Call
SB 53	AN ACT relative to school district policies regarding a parent's determination that certain course material is objectionable. This bill repeals the requirement that a school district adopt a policy allowing an exception to specific course material based on a parent's determination that such material is objectionable.	Killed in Senate Testimony	Senate Health, Education and Human Services Committee
SB 73	AN ACT prohibiting an immediate family member of a school board member from being employed by the school district.	Killed in Senate	Senate Public & Municipal Affairs Committee
CACR 1	Relating to taxation. Providing that 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 principal of all state bonds.	Killed in House	House Ways and Means Committee
CACR 2	Relating to taxation. Providing that taxes imposed by the state of New Hampshire or its subdivisions may be graduated.	Killed in House	House Ways and Means Committee
CACR 3	Relating to parental rights. Providing that parents have the natural right to control the health, education, and welfare of their children.	Killed in House	House Children and Family Law Committee
RETAINED BILLS WILL REMAIN IN COMMITTEE FOR FURTHER STUDY AND ACTION IN THE 2014 LEGISLATIVE SESSION
2013 Retained Bills	Legislative Description
HB 125	AN ACT requiring the reporting of certain felony offenses by postsecondary educational institutions.
HB 299-FN	AN ACT relative to tuition payments for chartered public school pupils. This bill amends the statute governing tuition payments to chartered public schools.
HB 435-FN	AN ACT relative to funding for chartered public school pupils. This bill provides that funding for chartered public school pupils shall be based on 50 percent of the most recently available statewide average cost per pupil for public school pupils.
HB 341-FN	AN ACT relative to the cost of fiscal analysis of legislation relating to the retirement system. This bill requires that the administrative and professional cost of the fiscal analysis of proposed legislation done by the retirement system not be paid from retirement system assets or charged as an expense of administration.

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TUESDAY, MAY 21
EDUCATION, Room 207, LOB
10:00 a.m.	Executive session on *SB 27-FN,* relative to monitoring by the department of education of pro- grams for children with disabilities, *SB 48,* relative to school performance and accountability and continued executives session and continued executive session on *SB 82,* establishing a commission to identify strategies needed for developing and implementing a competency-based public education system, *SB 97,* relative to high school equivalency and relative to illiteracy.

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