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After a breakfast meeting at the Council on Housing Stability, the Executive Council approved a number of contracts focused on helping people with their housing needs.
“We urge the full Senate, and their colleagues in the House of Representatives, to support the Access to Abortion-care Act and ensure that the people of New Hampshire have the right to make personal, private health care decisions without government interference.”
DHHS is contacting Claremont clients with in-person meetings scheduled for February 6th to provide alternative services. DHHS staff based in Claremont will continue to manage cases, process applications and perform other client-related business from other locations.
A new coalition has formed in the state legislature to represent mothers called the New Hampshire MomsCaucus.
Gov. Chris Sununu and state emergency management officials urged residents to prepare now for what is predicted to be brutally cold and windy weather that could threaten power for the next two days throughout the state.
A bill that would affirmatively protect in law the right to an abortion before 24 weeks of pregnancy was heard Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Please note, because COVID-19 has become endemic, the State continues the transition to manage it as with as other infectious diseases such as influenza.
House Majority Leader Rep. Jason Osborne, R-Auburn, and House Minority Leader Rep. Matt Wilhelm, D-Manchester, are co-sponsors of House Bill 639.
With the closing of the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester, formerly known as YDC, required in just five weeks, lawmakers are now scrambling to pass a new bill to create a new facility and extend the closure date.