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A bill which would have repealed the state law requiring employers pay employees at least two hours of work if they are called in and then were released for the day failed in the State Senate, Thursday.
Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte lashed out at a vote by a House committee Wednesday to send to interim study a bill that she said would allow insurance companies to shirk their responsibility to cover children’s mental health needs.
With the Corrections Department worker vacancy rate at 51 percent and a reduction in staff due to the current budget cutting 54 positions, the Executive Council approved $12 million to cover overtime pay at the Department of Corrections.
Despite contentions that the state Department of Motor Vehicles is not doing enough to get access for those who want non-voter identification to vote, and that the bill itself could disenfranchise the rural poor among others, the House Election Law Committee voted 10-8 Tuesday to recommend Senate Bill 223 https://gc.nh.gov/bill_status/billinfo.aspx?id=591&inflect=2 which restricts student identification for voting.
The House Ways and Means Committee voted 11-9 along partisan lines to recommend it study the bill SB 627-FN, for at least the next six months, despite Democrats who supported the measure and want to see it pass.
A public input meeting to address concerns about the state’s long backlog in human rights complaints was held Friday, but no one came to speak.
After Gov. Kelly Ayotte said she would have the attorney general investigate Vail Resorts over its decision to tax skiing in New Hampshire with its EPIC pass, the Colorado-based company said Friday it will provide a tax-free option to pass holders who only plan to ski at Granite State resorts this coming winter.
Though they could not find anything “nefarious,” a state Department of Justice and
Department of Administrative Services review of how a state agency replied to a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement request for information on a now-scrubbed detention facility in Merrimack, they did find the governor was not informed.
While Democrats said there is no need to study it, and prolonging it might lead students to go to other schools, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 4-2 on Thursday to recommend a campus weapons carry bill to a study committee.