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At the Joint Legislative Fiscal Committee meeting Friday, lawmakers questioned if the 18-bed facility would be large enough as the current census at the Sununu Youth Services Center, formerly YDC, has been steady at 18 youths for five of the last six months.
A bill to remove obscene or harmful sexual materials from school curriculum and libraries drew a crowd with conflicting opinions Thursday before the House Education Committee.
The bills range from removing any salary cap from the program to students who were denied a manifest hardship the previous years. Another bill would increase the salary cap to 500 percent of the federal poverty level.
House Bill 1153 would require a very specific high school curriculum of anti-communism or anti-socialism in much the same manner as current anti-fascist and anti-Nazism curriculum according to the bill’s prime sponsor, Rep. Mike Belcher, R-Wakefield.
A bill to require the Children’s Scholarship Fund to incorporate in New Hampshire to continue administering the Education Tax Credit and Education Freedom Account programs created a firestorm before the House Education Committee Tuesday.
If you transported a typical New Hampshire resident from the turn of the century into a Legislative committee hearing today, that person would not think it was in the same state.
At a public hearing on CACR 20 before the House State and Federal Relations Committee Friday, supporters said inflation, the national debt, undeclared wars, a broken federal government, and government violations of their individual rights are reasons to seek independence from the union.
The state needs to step up and begin addressing recent and past court decisions on its unconstitutional education funding system, the House Education Committee was told Wednesday.
A new version of a “bottle bill” would transfer responsibility for redeeming bottles and cans to their producers, help municipalities and reduce litter.