This week, Governor Kelly Ayotte signed the following bills into law:

• HB 62 – Relative to protection of persons from domestic violence and military protective orders.
• HB 76 – Relative to tracking special education complaints.
• HB 108 – Relative to bullying and cyberbullying across multiple school districts.
• HB 168 – Relative to including municipal public works facilities as eligible capital facilities for the assessment of impact fees.
• HB 227 – Relative to licensure for psychotherapy activities or services.
• HB 230 – Relative to the adoption of public health ordinances by municipalities.
• HB 272 – Exempting certain agricultural practices from municipal noise regulation.
• HB 288 – Limiting how far in advance of an election an absentee ballot may be requested.
• HB 405 – Establishing a commission to study human trafficking within illicit massagebusinesses and relative to prostitution and related offenses.
• HB 440 – Relative to educator licensing.
• HB 474 – Requiring a second witness at the counting of write-in votes.
• HB 494 – Relative to the math learning communities program.
• HB 538 – Reallocating positions in the liquor commission.
• HB 552 – Relative to coverage of children under the state retiree insurance plan.
• HB 569 – Relative to the establishment of county-wide communication districts.
• HB 571 – Including Constitution Day in patriotic exercises required of public schools.
• HB 602 – Requiring certain offenders to participate in a victim impact program.
• HB 753 – Relative to expedited due process hearings to enforce special education rights.
• HB 754 – Establishing automatic discovery in due process hearings for actions seeking toenforce special education rights.

Governor Ayotte also vetoed the following bill this week:

• HB 319 – Relative to the responsibility of local school districts to provide transportation for pupils in kindergarten.

The Governor’s veto statement for HB 319 is below:

“Half-day kindergarten helps provide New Hampshire children with an educational foundation that sets them up for a lifetime of success. To no longer require transportation for these children to and from these schools would place an undue burden on working families. It could force working families to choose between providing themselves or not having their children attended kindergarten at all. While school districts throughout New Hampshire should be actively looking for ways to effectively utilize their funding, this is a step in the wrong direction.”