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N.H. Senate Passes Exception To Abortion Ban
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The New Hampshire State Senate passed HB 1609, providing an exception to the state’s abortion ban for fatal fetal diagnoses.
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The New Hampshire State Senate passed HB 1609, providing an exception to the state’s abortion ban for fatal fetal diagnoses.
A bill to reduce the Business Profits Tax rate and send money to local communities prompted an extended discussion on the floor of the state Senate on Thursday, with Republicans and Democrats sharing alternate perspectives on why state revenues are doing so well.
Redistricting maps for the five-member Executive Council districts and 24-member state Senate districts passed the Republican-controlled House of Representatives Thursday despite Democratic contention that the maps represent gerrymandering.
The House has voted with the Senate to support an election law change related to identification for same-day voters, but it may face an uncertain future with Gov. Chris Sununu.
Members of the Gunstock Area Commission say they want to move beyond their failed lawsuit against the Belknap County Convention, but their decision to hire an attorney to review the record and determine how the dispute started means that the political intrigue surrounding the operation of Gunstock Mountain Resort is not abating.
What could become the campus of a new veterans housing and retreat center along the rural banks of the Merrimack River at the former Daniel Webster homestead was toured by the state’s Executive Council and Gov. Chris Sununu Wednesday morning.
Gov. Chris Sununu addressed an upcoming vote related to the state’s new abortion ban, congressional map redistricting, and COVID-19 numbers, which he said are not accurate in a meeting with the media in his office Wednesday.
The Senate House Ways and Means Committee took up HB1598 on Wednesday and looked at the proposal brought to the legislature for a state-run liquor store model to sell adult-use cannabis by Rep. Daryl Abbas, R-Salem.
Gov. Chris Sununu’s plan to create a rapid, statewide, $100 million fund to develop low- and moderate-income housing and another plan to address the state’s mental health crisis with a new hospital at Hampstead for children, both using federal one-time dollars, were tabled by the Executive Council Wednesday.