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The Senate voted unanimously Thursday to allow opioids to be prescribed by telehealth appointment just as the federal health emergency ends.
Whether a “drug-free oasis” or an “island of prohibition,” the Live Free or Die state will not legalize marijuana for adults this session after the state Senate voted to kill House Bill 639 FN-A on a vote of 14-10.
There will be no committee recommendation to the House on the length of time for extending the Granite Advantage expanded Medicaid Program.
None of the bills related to cannabis from legalizing recreational use in adults to allowing people to grow it for therapeutic reasons are going to the Senate with a recommendation to pass.
– Healthcare, business, and elder affairs leaders across the state spoke strongly in favor of a permanent expanded Medicaid program without a sunset clause saying it will save the state money in the end and help with better health outcomes for residents.
In a strong show of bipartisan unity, the House voted 356-6 to support New Hampshire’s role of holding the first-in-the-nation, as it is under attack by the Democratic National Committee.
Gov. Chris Sununu is “enthusiastically” supporting the Twin States Clean Energy Link, a proposed 1,200-megawatt power transmission project which would run hydropower through Vermont and New Hampshire underground in the North Country, to add to the region’s power grid.
Associate Attorney General Anne M. Edwards Parker said she has hoped to be a judge since becoming a lawyer in the 1980s and was inspired to pursue the law to help the people of New Hampshire as a way of giving back.
A bill declaring May 3 Old Man of the Mountain Day in New Hampshire was signed by Gov. Chris Sununu in a ceremony that included original music, the unveiling of a crystal etching, and a prayer.