The 159th Session of the New Hampshire State Legislature has come to a close. This special edition of The Blue Sheet is a summary of outcomes for the bills pertaining to disabilities that were followed by the Commission. For more information on any of these bills, including bill and amendment text, you can access the NH Legislature's website at www.gencourt.state.nh.us/ie/, click on "Quick Search" and enter the bill number or title. You can also call us here at the Commission at 1-800-852-3405.
CHAPTERED LAW: The following bills have been passed by both the House and Senate and have become Chaptered Law:
| Bill # |
Chapter # |
Title |
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| HB656 | 0302 |
Relative to medical decision making for those adults without capacity to make health care decisions for themselves and establishing procedures for Do Not Resuscitate Orders |
| HB1118 | 0023 |
Requiring paper ballots at all elections. |
| HB1185 | 0055 |
Relative to Volunteer NH |
| HB1201 | 0142 |
Relative to child passenger restraints |
| HB1214 | 0170 |
Establishing a committee to study certain educational and social service issues |
| HB1231 | 0197 |
Relative to the penalty for assaulting a firefighter, emergency medical technician, or law enforcement officer |
| HB1241 | 0198 |
Extending the kindergarten construction aid program |
| HB1265 | 0199 |
Extending the final report date of the commission to study the relationship between public health and the environment |
| HB1331 | 0325 |
AN ACT relative to the New Hampshire Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program and making an appropriation therefore |
| HB1346 | 0328 |
Requiring certain persons to keep the contents of prescriptions confidential |
| HB1427 | 0229 |
Relative to the principles for developmentally disabled services |
| HB1435 | 0230 |
Relative to the emergency plan for service animals and establishing a commission to study the evacuation and housing of animals during an emergency |
| HB1452 | 0187 |
Requiring insurance to cover the cost of testing for bone marrow donation |
| HB1461 | 0247 |
AN ACT establishing a task force to study Temporary Need to Needy Families (TANF) |
| HB1465 | 0085 |
Relative to food stamp overpayment |
| HB1611 | 0132 |
Relative to reimbursement for personal care services |
| HB1626 | 0258 |
AN ACT relative to appropriations for the expenses of certain departments of the state and establishing a quality early learning opportunity initiative and making an appropriation therefore |
| HB1662 | 0105 |
Relative to the reduction of mercury emissions |
| HB1709 | 0106 |
Establishing an autism registry in the department of Health and Human Services |
| HB1722 | 0179 |
Relative to the New Hampshire council on developmental disabilities |
| HB1741 | 0292 |
Relative to reporting requirements concerning infections in hospitals |
| HB1744 | 0311 |
Authorizing the pari-mutual commission to regulate games of chance conducted by charitable organizations and relative tournaments conducted by charitable organizations where chips have no monetary face value |
| HB1745 | 0135 |
Relative to methamphetamine-related crimes involving children and incapacitated adults |
| SB231 | 0212 |
Relative to residency requirements to qualify for the elderly property tax exemption |
| SB233 | 0174 |
Relative to motorcycle rider education |
| SB234 | 0122 |
Including the International Residential Code in the definition of the state building code |
| SB250 | 0314 |
Relative to lead paint poisoning prevention |
| SB252 | 0268 |
Relative to certification of speech-language assistants for purposes of speech language pathology practice |
| SB273 | 0181 |
Relative to reasonable accommodations for employees with disabilities |
| SB281 | 0216 |
Establishing an organ and tissue donor registry |
| SB289 | 0184 |
Relative to the brain and spinal cord advisory council |
| SB296 | 0045 |
Relative to the recovery of public assistance |
| SB300 | 0219 |
Exempting certain transfers of real estate between charitable organizations from the real estate transfer tax |
| SB358 | 0297 |
Relative to an advanced registered nurse practitioners duty to warn of violent acts of patients |
| SB369 | 0125 |
Relative to the portability, availability, and renew ability of health coverage |
| SB370 | 0118 |
Relative to multidisciplinary child protection teams |
| SB374 | 0299 |
Relative to the state children's health insurance program |
| SB403 | 0300 |
Relative to verification of identity when a person registers or attempts to vote |
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| INEXPEDIENT TO LEGISLATE (ITL): The following bills have been found ITL in either the House or the Senate: |
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| HB1123 | Requiring equestrian helmets for first time riders |
| HB1136 | Establishing a commission to study the care needs of medically fragile students in the school system |
| HB1145 | Permitting vehicles to proceed straight through an intersection after stopping for a red light |
| HB1158 | Relative to the eligibility for the property tax exemption for the disabled |
| HB1160 | Establishing a committee to study the effects of willful, habitual misconduct by individuals on their subsequent well-being which may impose a burden on public funds |
| HB1354 | Relative to physical force in defense of a person |
| HB1366 | Relative to a planning board's authority to require public access to open space as a condition of subdivision approval |
| HB1489 | Relative to school emergency response plans |
| HB1563 | Establishing a committee to study immigration |
| SB241 | Allowing municipalities to exclude certain retirement assets from consideration in qualifying for the elderly property tax exemption |
| SB242 | Prohibiting a person charged with unlawfully killing a decedent from taking a decedent's estate |
| SB361 | Relative to school district contingency funds |
| SCR6 | Urging Congress to support stem cell research |
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| LAID ON TABLE (LOT): The following bills have been LOT in either the House or Senate: |
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| HB1166 | Relative to electronic ballot counting machines |
| HB1198 | Establishing a committee to study highway rest areas |
| HB1209 | Relative to notification requirements for criminal offenders |
| HB1220 | Establishing a committee to study a statewide review of all unanticipated fatalities and serious injury involving incapacitated adults or individuals 60 or older |
| HB1221 | Relative to the recovery of medical assistance |
| HB1409 | Relative to organ and tissue donation |
| HB1506 | Requiring children 12 and under to wear personal floatation devices |
| HB1539 | Establishing a committee to study the shortage in speech and language services and the criteria for certification as a speech language specialist |
| HB1555 | Establishing a commission to investigate cost drivers in providing health care |
| HB1570 | Relative to health insurance coverage for part-time college students |
| HB1578 | To provide enhanced awareness of and education on methamphetamine to the citizens of New Hampshire |
| HB1597 | Relative to municipal obligations for indigent medical expenses |
| HJR20 | Supporting stem cell research |
| HJR24 | Supporting efforts for commuter rail in New Hampshire |
| SB243 | Establishing a commission to study rural transit in NH |
| SB316 | Requiring interpretation services upon request for persons receiving medical treatment |
| SB338 | Relative to insurance coverage for children's early intervention therapy services |
| SB360 | Establishing a surcharge on real estate transfers for deposit in the family stability fund and renaming the homeless prevention program the family stability program |
| SB401 | Relative to the Hanover-Lebanon District Court |
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| INTERIM STUDY: The following bills have been placed in Interim Study Committees |
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| HB1186 | Relative to the location of the Cheshire County Superior Court |
| HB1384 | Relative to standardizing the format for special education budgets |
| HB1415 | Establishing the office of corrections ombudsman |
| HB1476 | Relative to electronic tracking and monitoring of sexual offenders |
| HB1511 | Relative to business replacement costs resulting from government program displacement |
| HB1532 | Revising the special education statutes |
| HB1549 | Excluding certain acts based on bona fide economic and public safety considerations from the prohibition against age discrimination in public accommodations |
| HB1601 | Relative to the funding of catastrophic special education aid and making an appropriation to the department of education to support the Laurent Clerc Academy |
| HB1621 | Prohibiting the overpricing of commodities during a declared state of emergency or a market emergency |
| HB1680 | Requiring law enforcement and corrections officers to complete training in appropriate techniques for dealing with persons with mental health conditions |
| SB268 | Raising the age of required attendance of children in school and establishing a 2-year pilot program for increasing vocational education opportunities in the Manchester and Nashua school districts and making an appropriation therefore |
