N.H. State Senate
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Erin.Hennessey@leg.state.nh.us
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Suzanne.Prentiss@leg.state.nh.us
James.Gray@leg.state.nh.us
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Denise.Ricciardi@leg.state.nh.us
Jay.Kahn@leg.state.nh.us
Gary.Daniels@leg.state.nh.us
Kevin.Avard@leg.state.nh.us
Cindy.Rosenwald@leg.state.nh.us
Sharon.Carson@leg.state.nh.us
Becky.Whitley@leg.state.nh.us
Kevin.Cavanaugh@leg.state.nh.us
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Regina.Birdsell@leg.state.nh.us
Lou.Dallesandro@leg.state.nh.us
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Chuck.Morse@leg.state.nh.us
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Tom.Sherman@leg.state.nh.us

As written, the State of Emergency would end. You may also use the “Find Your Reps” button to get a phone number to call your own Senator.

Talking points to consider using in your calls and emails:

The House budget contains comprehensive State of Emergency reforms that the governor promised us last fall, but has since said he won’t sign. Let’s hold the governor to his word and restore the Constitutional balance of powers to the Legislature by including these reforms in the final budget.

The emergency powers reforms in no way impede the governor’s ability to issue emergency orders during a State of Emergency, but they do create legislative oversight to the extension of State of Emergency declarations to prevent abuses of power.

The State of Emergency is intricately tied into the budget because the budget defines spending policy for the state and the executive branch is spending our tax dollars to implement its emergency powers, so it is perfectly appropriate for State of Emergency reforms to be in the budget.

It is imperative the Senate pass the budget so that the Legislature can have a say in the budget process. The Legislature, not the governor, should be creating state laws and setting state spending policy.

The State of Emergency is over and citizens need to have some normalcy restored so the economy and culture can recover. It’s going to take time, but we cannot let this biennium go by without a return to the Constitutional balance of powers. Passing these reforms in the budget is our best chance we have to restore our government to its intended form.

(details provided by ReopenNH)

This bill will start reigning in the power of the DHHS commissioner during a state of emergency. The Commissioner should not have the power to restrict the practice and prescribing of a licensed practitioner.

The bill, which is a beautifully written masterpiece, responds to the Binford decision of the N.H.
Superior Court and clarifies that a State of Emergency does not give the governor or state bureaucrats the authority to suspend law or the Constitution due to a State of Emergency. Reading this bill as amended will make you smile, or perhaps even bring tears of joy. Please ask your representatives to support this bill as amended with emphasis.

Allowing parents to once again teach their own children the rules of the road and practical driving.

Drivers education, due to the increasing costs (now $600-750), has become a huge disadvantage and hurdle to the middle and lower class families.

Increasing the economic distance between the haves and the have nots.

DMV will still do a written and practical tests to weed out the kids who don’t know the rules of the road or can’t drive. So there is no safety issue.”

Currently, the information is added automatically by medical offices unless the patient takes some as yet unspecified action to remove his or her data. Unfortunately, this important bill did not get a favorable report out of the House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee. We need people to contact their reps to support this bill on the floor.

Not clear whose responsibility to provide a picture. Each pet already has an ID number associated with rabies vaccination. Not needed. Notes courtesy of Laura Condon NH Director of Advocacy for NVIC

• DHHS and university system of NH shall maintain a COVID-19 dashboard website/information clearinghouse
tracks schools and local communities, nursing homes, prisons, and congregate living settings
track vaccination metrics by age, race, town, and eligibility
• allows for cross-referencing of geographic location, age, race, and eligibility
• updated daily and available to the public 24-hours a day, 7 days a week
• establishes a Legislative Committee to study health disparities
• committee will be four representatives (2 minority) and two senators (1 minority)
• committee shall report its findings and any recommendations for proposed legislation to the speaker of the house of representatives, the president of the senate, the house clerk, the senate clerk, the governor, and the state library on or before November 1, 2021
• effective upon its passage

This bill will not provide vaccines for you if you are age 65 or older, and covered by Medicare. Your doctor and pharmacist will still have to purchase their own vaccines for you.

This bill will not provide vaccines to the poor, on Medicaid. Your doctor and pharmacist will still have to purchase their own vaccines for you.

This bill will not provide vaccines for you if you are uninsured. Your doctor and pharmacists will still have to purchase their own vaccine inventory for you.

Yet this bill will add a minimum of $848,000 the first year to fund 9 new DHHS staff and to pay for the State Vaccine Registry. This amount can be increased at any time by DHHS.

The board of the NH Vaccine Association, of which DHHS has 3 seats, may vote itself any amount of “start up money for the next two years” above and beyond the $848,000.

Doctors and pharmacists would be required to maintain two separate inventories of vaccines with separate refrigerators and freezers to keep separate the “free” supply of vaccines from DHHS from the vaccines they have purchased themselves. There is no mechanism or program to maintain or monitor separate inventories and to protect the “free” supply from theft and misuse in the vast number of adults not covered by this program.

This bill would create abuse of the federal Vaccines for Children (VFC) contract, a contract intended only for the purchase of vaccines for needy children, based on Section 1928 of the federal Social Security Act that limits this vaccine purchase program to pediatric vaccines only. This violation of federal law would put the NH child vaccine program in jeopardy.

This bill would strip you of your right to legal and financial recourse that you are currently entited to for disability, blindness, and death that may result from a dangerous or defective vaccine.

This bill is likely to increase the costs of vaccines to doctors and pharmacists as it will hurt their ability to maintain volume discount purchase programs. No one is currently paying market prices for vaccine inventory.

Doctors and pharmacists may be less likely to provide vaccines for those age 65 and older when existing discounts are lost. As a result, less people will be vaccinated.

While good intentioned, this bill is truly a solution in search of a problem as private industry (doctors, hospitals, and pharmacists) are already purchasing vaccines cost effectively without adding over a million dollars in administrative costs every year and vaccines are readily available for adults at the doctors, at the hospital, at clinics, at corner drug stores, and even at the grocery store!

This bill was not a request of DHHS or the NH Vaccine Association. In this time of the COVID pandemic with DHHS staff working around the clock for months, it is unreasonable and unfair to even ask them to take on a program of this type at this time.

Talking points from Laura Condon NH Director of Advocacy for NVIC