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Bill To Require School Boards Offer Regular Public Comment
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CONCORD – A bill was heard Tuesday by the Senate Education Committee that would require a thirty-minute public comment period at the beginning of all school board meetings.
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CONCORD – A bill was heard Tuesday by the Senate Education Committee that would require a thirty-minute public comment period at the beginning of all school board meetings.
CONCORD – On Thursday, Senate Republicans voted to repeal the state’s new law mandating ultrasounds for abortion but preserved the remaining provisions of a new state law that bans abortion after 24 weeks gestation without exceptions for rape, incest, or fatal fetal diagnoses.
CONCORD – Education Freedom Accounts and mandatory masking and vaccinations at public colleges and universities were the subject of multiple bills heard during a day-long House Education Committee meeting on Wednesday.
David Watters, D-Dover, appeared before the Senate Ways and Means Committee to discuss his bill, which would establish a solid waste fund supported by a waste disposal surcharge.
A proposed constitutional amendment would require a person to be a resident of the state to vote in elections, not just domiciled here.
CONCORD — The Education Freedom Account program would be forced to live within its budget this fiscal year and next under a bill heard Wednesday.
MANCHESTER — Unanimously, the House approved a bill, 343-0, that some called flawed, but would rescue the state’s energy efficiency program eliminated by the Public Utilities Commission ruling last year.
By a two-to-one margin, the House Thursday approved a bill that would prohibit using the “gay panic defense” to seek a lesser charge of manslaughter instead of murder.
When the public hearing ended, however, the executive committee made it all-but-impossible to follow their discussions.