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While Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte has said she opposes increasing highway toll rates across the state, the Senate voted Thursday to increase rates for out-of-state license plate holders.
New Hampshire’s citizen soldiers in the National Guard have been called up following the United States and Israel’s attack on Iran five days ago, Gov. Kelly Ayotte confirmed Wednesday.
The state’s Executive Council approved a new chair to the Public Utilities Commission and tabled almost $700 million in contracts for a new rural health initiative at its meeting Wednesday.
Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s pick to serve as New Hampshire’s Child Advocate has withdrawn her nomination.
The Republican leadership in the New Hampshire House of Representatives is calling on the attorney general to investigate actions by the state’s contractor for auto emissions administration which sued the state and got a federal court order to keep the inspection program going.
Republican senators passed what Democrats call a “book ban” bill and another that requires teachers to notify parents within 10 days upon written questions about their child’s behavior and activities in school.
As hard as they tried, Democrats could not get a single Republican vote in the Senate to pass a number of initiatives offered, including bills to help support infrastructure development for new housing, allow for redistricting maps to be developed before public hearings, and a number of bills that would better monitor oversight of Education Funding Accounts.
Hospital executives in Coos County would have their pay frozen with no bonuses or increases for 18 months if they lay off 10 or more workers in a department under a bill heard Wednesday by the state Senate Health and Human Services Committee.
A bill that would hold that parents have equal rights with equal time was heard by the House Children and Family Law Committee Tuesday along with another bill that would prohibit criminal matters from being adjudicated in family court.