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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.
A proposed change to civil rights law was opposed as potentially weakening the state statute at a public Feb. 12 before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Restoring the structure of the selection of the Youth Development Center child abuse claims administrator to the state’s Supreme Court was supported by all who testified Thursday, including several victims and their lawyers.
Within 90 days, all law enforcement in the state will have real-time bail information at their fingertips, thanks in part to a contract approved Wednesday and the lessons the state learned following the murder of a 25-year-old Berlin woman last summer.
Superior Court Judge Daniel E. Will, 59, of Loudon was confirmed to the New Hampshire Supreme Court, replacing the retiring Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi who retired at the age of 70.