2021 PROPOSED LEGISLATION — Here are the bills we’re tracking; pressing activity starts at the top.
Bill | Title | Status/Action_Needed/Committee | Notes |
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HB1 & HB2 HB2 -FNAL SUPPORT! | expense appropriation; state fees, funds, revenues, expenditures | CONTACT ALL 24 SENATORS PASSED HOUSE 4.7 CONTACT SENATE:N.H. State Senate | PLEASE CONTACT ALL 24 SENATORS TO SUPPORT THE BUDGET TO INCLUDE EMERGENCY POWERS REFORMmore..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. |
HB220 SUPPORT! | establishing medical freedom in immunizations | EXEC SESSION PENDING contact your senator contact committee: Senate HHS ---------- PASSED HOUSE 4.7 | “Every person has the natural, essential, and inherent right to bodily integrity, free from any threat or compulsion that the person accepts any medical intervention, including immunization." more..No person may be compelled to receive an unwanted medical intervention, including immunization.” There are several exceptions that were added by amendment, but this bill is the first step toward a Health Freedom Constitutional Amendment. |
HB417 SUPPORT! | powers of governor during a renewal of SOE | SENATE HEARING 5.5 9:30A contact committee: SENATE EXEC DEPTS & ADMIN ---------- PASSED HOUSE 4.7 | As amended, is a different approach from the language in the budget to amend emergency powers law in RSA 4:45. |
HB350 SUPPORT! | medical cannabis home cultivation | EXEC SESSION TBD contact committee: Senate HHS ---------- House OTP 2.24 | AN ACT permitting qualifying patients and designated caregivers to cultivate cannabis for therapeutic use. |
HB572 NEUTRAL | pharmacist/tech administration of vaccines | SENATE HEARING TBD contact committee: Senate HHS ---------- HOUSE OTP 4.7 | As amended, improvements include limiting pharmacy vaccines to adults, specified which vaccines allowed, requiring a record to be sent to PCP upon request, & vaccine registry only with customer consent. |
HB146 SUPPORT! | furnish ingredient list for injectable medicines. | SENATE HEARING TBD contact committee: Senate HHS ---------- HHSEA OTP PASSED HOUSE 4.7 | AN ACT requiring health care providers to furnish upon request a list of ingredients contained in an injectable medication that is recommended or administered.more..HB 146 requiring health care providers to furnish upon request a list of ingredients contained in an injectable medication that is recommended or administered |
HB187 SUPPORT! | emergency powers of the commissioner | SENATE HEARING TBD contact committee: Senate HHS ---------- PASSED HOUSE 4.7 | DHHS Emergency Powers Reform bill, clarifies previous law to ensure that, even during an emergency, “an individual may refuse treatment or immunization” for an infectious disease.more..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. |
SB155 -FN WATCH | codifying provisions of emergency orders | HOUSE HEARING TBD contact committee: HOUSE EXEC DEPT & ADMIN ---------- Full Senate OTP Senate Exec Depts & Admin OTP-A | This bill would codify emergency orders into state law, remove legislative oversight, and make these runaway powers and emergency orders permanent.more..There have been amendments proposed that have changed the nature of this bill. We have removed our opposition suggestion and downgraded to neutral at this time. |
HB440 -A SUPPORT! | civil liberties during SOE | SENATE HEARING TBD contact committee: SENATE JUDICIARY ---------- PASSED HOUSE 4.9 | As amended, has been rewritten as an amazing bill to prohibit the suspension of civil liberties during a State of Emergency.more..The bill, which is a beautifully written masterpiece, responds to the Binford decision of the N.H. |
HB542 SUPPORT! | religious freedom | SENATE HEARING TBD contact committee: SENATE JUDICIARY ---------- PASSED HOUSE 4.9 | As amended, has been rewritten as an amazing religious freedom bill that would have prevented many of the abuses of power during the State of Emergencymore..that affected churches, synagogues, mosques and other religious assemblies. Please ask your representatives to support this bill as amended with emphasis. |
HB402 SUPPORT! | commercial private property | HOUSE ITL 4.9 ---------- House 2.24 OTP-A 333:6 | Adds protections to the governor's emergency power to take commercial private property by requiring a supermajority vote of the Legislature and the Executive Council before such a property could be taken by warrant. |
HB433 | limiting renewal of states of emergency | HOUSE ITL 4.7 House Exec Depts & Admin: ITL 18-0 | This bill permits the governor to renew a state of emergency only once, after which time, with limited exception, it must be renewed by a concurrent resolution passed by the legislature. |
HB277 | termination of a state of emergency by the legislature | House Leg Admin ITL 15-0 | This bill provides that either chamber of the legislature, acting separately, may terminate a state of emergency order by petition. |
HB559 | relative to state of emergency declarations | House Leg Admin ITL 15-0 | This bill requires the legislature to renew a state of emergency beyond the initial 21-day period. |
HB300 SUPPORT! | re drivers education | HOUSE SESSION TBD contact your reps ---------- House Transportation ITL | Bill Sponsor Rep Lang says: “This bill restores Parental rights, and removes the State Mandate for Driver’s Education. more..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.” |
HB131 OPPOSE! | reporting health care associated infections | HOUSE SESSION TBD contact your reps ---------- | “It’s intended to make the tracking of vaccination mandatory, starting with influenza vaccination. “Measures” is new language intended to include vaccinations as an infection control “measure”.more..This is a bill aimed at mandating the “tracking and reporting” of vaccination starting with healthcare workers and patients/residents, reporting this information and data as determined by federal government agencies for federal metrics. This is not a bill that serves a local/NH need. This bill should be STRONGLY OPPOSED.” — Laura Condon, NH Director of Advocacy for NVIC |
HB221 SUPPORT! | the state vaccine registry an opt-in program | ON THE TABLE FOR 2022 ---------- House HHSEA ITL 14-7 Full House did not address in April 2021 as planned. | The Vaccine Registry Opt-in bill, would require that the state modify vaccine registry procedures to require that patients take affirmative action to have their data added to state registry.more..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. |
HB506 SUPPORT! | access to public accommodation | ON TABLE FOR 2022 ---------- House HHSEA ITL 15-6 Full House did not address April 2021 as planned. | No individual shall be denied the benefit of the rights afforded by this section because they have declined a medical treatment, medical test, or vaccination or because they refuse to use a medical device."more..It would protect the individual right to bodily autonomy by |
HB157 WATCHING! | health assessment/improvement council | HOUSE SESSION TBD contact your reps ---------- | Repealing the state health assessment and state health improvement plan council. |
HB387 OPPOSE! | relative to rabies vaccinations for dogs | HOUSE SESSION TBD contact your reps ---------- ITL 19-0 | The bill requires a rabies antibody test 30 days post vaccination for the initial rabies shot. This burdens pet owners with a second vet visit and lab test. Likely most pets will show positive titers at 30 days. The testing is unnecessary.more..
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HB322 OPPOSE! | photo on rabies vaccination certificate | HOUSE SESSION TBD contact your reps ---------- ITL 19-0 | OPPOSE as burdensome and unnecessary. There would be added costs for re-doing rabies certificates to accomodate a picture.more..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 |
HB290-A SUPPORT! | health facilities and special health care service licenses | HOUSE SESSION TBD contact your reps ---------- ITL 18-3 | Exempts certain health facilities that exclusively provide services to persons making direct payment from requirements on written policies for providing services. |
HB381FN SUPPORT! | relative to laboratory testing | HOUSE SESSION TBD contact your state reps ---------- HHSEA OTP 14-7 | talking points coming soon |
HB493 OPPOSE! | criminal penalty for failure to mask or vaccinate | HOUSE ITL 4.7 ---------- failed committee | Establishing a criminal penalty for an assault [or simply for not-complying] committed against a person who is conveying public health or safety guidance or requirements during a declared state of emergency. |
HB492 OPPOSE! | covid dash board | FULL HOUSE ITL 4.7 ---------- ITL 19-0, consent calendar ITL FULL HOUSE 4.7 | Vaccination is a private medical procedure that should not be made public in charts by age, race, town and eligibility category.more..
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HB592 SUPPORT! | bond from vaccine makers | RETAINED IN COMMITTEE for work & amendment House Commerce & Consumer Affairs Watch for a committee vote on this bill this summer or fall with a full House vote in January 2022. | This bill establishes a requirement for pharmaceutical companies providing vaccines for administration in the state to post a bond for the reimbursement or payment of the costs related to illness and death due to the vaccine.more..The disbursements shall be made by the commissioner of the department of health and human services pursuant to a claim filed by a physician on behalf of a victim. |
HB604FN OPPOSE! | expanding NHVA to include adult vaccines | RETAINED IN COMMITTEE for work & amendment House HHSEA Action Required: Watch for a committee vote on this bill this summer or fall with a full House vote in January 2022. | This bill has an amendment (2021-0032h) that will more than double the cost of the original bill, calls for a report of a fake cost analysis, prohibits doctors and pharmacists from opting out of this government program, and calls for an unworkable effective date.more..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. |
SIGNED INTO LAW SB43 -A SUPPORT! | audit Rockingham district 7 state rep race | SIGNED INTO LAW ---------- SIGNED BY GOV 4.12 PASSED SENATE 4.8 PASSED HOUSE 4.7 | We need to be able to count on fair and accurate elections. The Gardner amendment addresses many of the concerns and questions that have been raised. |