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Higher education leaders went to the Senate Finance Committee Friday to request budget funding be restored to the governor’s recommended level for the next two years and that they reject the 30 percent cut by the House calling it “unsustainable.”
Maunsell claims that she was raped dozens of times by Youth Development Services Unit staffer Victor Malavet starting in 2001 when she was 15.
The aim of Senate Bill 268, according to its primary sponsor, Sen. Kevin Avard, R-Nashua, is to allow schools, businesses, sports facilities, prisons and other institutional settings to protect “women’s spaces” and privacy from trans girls and women, whom he described as “biological males,” without being sued for discrimination.
New Hampshire cannot afford two school systems the Senate Education Committee was told at a public hearing on a bill that would remove any salary cap from the Education Freedom Account program Tuesday.
Four ACLU affiliates and law firm Shaheen & Gordon filed a federal class action lawsuit on Friday seeking to represent over 100 students in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island, and Puerto Rico who had their F-1 student immigration status unlawfully and abruptly terminated with no specified reason as to why.
Despite pleas from Democrats that the poor who qualify for therapeutic cannabis should be able to grow up to eight ounces at home, Senate Republicans voted to table House Bill 53 on Thursday.
How do you “vet” whether someone is transgender? How do you decide who can use a women’s or a men’s bathroom and who can’t? How do you ensure fairness in women’s sports?
Senate Democrats, however, announced a public listening session on the budget will be held on Wednesday, April 23 at 6:30 p.m. at Winnacunnet High School, 1 Alumni Drive in Hampton.
Little support was shown for the Senate’s proposal for expanding the Education Freedom Account program to eliminate any income requirement Tuesday.