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The House Wednesday overturned its House Executive Departments and Administration Committee and approved May 3 as the day to memorialize the “Old Stone Face” that graced the side of Cannon Mountain but crashed down May 3 20 years ago.
The House failed to reach the needed threshold to send a proposed constitutional amendment to the Senate that would allow state tax dollars to be used for religious schools.
The House twice failed to pass two versions of a parental bill of rights, which is still barely alive and could be reconsidered later.
Doubling the money for the Education Freedom Account program could cost Democratic support of the proposed biennial budget House members will vote on in two weeks.
The public has not given the lawmakers a mandate to turn New Hampshire into a Libertarian Shangri-La but that is what is happening.
Utilities and fossil fuels did well Thursday in the House while renewable energy and preventing climate change did not.
The House put off debate —maybe for the rest of the session — on two of the most controversial bills before the House Thursday, book banning and limiting bathroom use by a person’s gender at birth.
Last week supporters of a bill to do away with the Site Evaluation Committee and move its authority to the Public Utilities Commission had their say, but Monday opponents turned out to denounce the lack of public input in the new proposal.
Thursday’s regular House calendar has 15, yes 15 bills, that will come to the floor without a committee recommendation meaning the committee split 10-10 or 12-12 or some other evenly divided party line vote.