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Once again, the House gave initial approval to a bill legalizing the recreational use of marijuana that many hope will cross the “t”s and dot the “i”s to eventually make it into law.
The state’s school building aid program would be overhauled and opened to state approved charter schools under a bill passed by the Senate Wednesday.
Rep. Angela Brennan, D-Bow, touts the state joining the Electronic Registration Information Center, at a hearing on House Bill 1557 Tuesday before the House Election Law Committee.
The judge who issued the latest education funding orders last year dropped two bombshells Tuesday in denying the state’s request to stay the orders until they can be appealed to the state Supreme Court.
The Joint Legislative Fiscal Committee acted on requests to spend about $32 million of the funds that were reallocated from earlier projects where the money was not needed.
Down party lines, the Joint Legislative Fiscal Committee approved Gov. Chris Sununu’s request to spend $850,000 of state money to send National Guard troops to Texas.
The bill’s prime sponsor, Rep. Glenn Cordelli, R-Tuftonboro, read two graphic pieces he said were available to middle school students, one dealing with rape and the other sexual intercourse that brought howls from some House members and several rebukes from House Speaker Sherman Packard.
The House went back and forth Thursday on whether to expand eligibility for free and reduced lunches before initially approving the proposal.
A plan by a former Dartmouth computer science professor to regulate state agencies’ use of artificial intelligence met opposition from the head of the state information technology department saying more flexibility is needed.