David Bettencourt

2012 (64 bills sponsored; 21 bills enacted)

1. CACR12 CACR12: (New Title) relating to public education. Providing that the general court shall have the authority to define standards for public education, establish standards of accountability, mitigate local disparities in educational opportunity and fiscal capacity, and have full discretion to determine the amount of state funding for education. Senate · HOUSE Committee of Conference
2. CACR13 CACR13: (New Title) Relating to prohibiting an assessment, rate, or tax on personal income. Providing that no assessment, rate, or tax on income earned by a natural person shall be levied by the state of New Hampshire except taxes in effect on January 1, 2012 and adjustments to the rate of such taxes. Passed · HOUSE Committee of Conference
3. HB564 HB564: (New Title) relative to the adoption of forms by the department of revenue administration for the filing of taxes and removing the requirement for electronic tax payments. Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
4. HB611 HB611: relative to determination of the reasonable compensation deduction under the business profits tax. House · HOUSE Ways and Means
5. HB624 HB624: (2nd New Title) establishing a committee to study the rulemaking authority of state agencies to establish fees. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
6. HB655 HB655: (New Title) repealing a prospective repeal regarding certain authority of the secretary of state relative to pooled risk management programs. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
7. HB1134 HB1134: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the construction of a permanent memorial to Governor John Gilbert Winant on state property other than the state house grounds. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
8. HB1138 HB1138: naming a bridge in Pelham in honor of Sergeant Daniel R. Gionet. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Transportation
9. HB1209 HB1209: establishing a committee to study administration of the business profits tax and the business enterprise tax. Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
10. HB1221 HB1221: relative to the credit for the business enterprise tax against the business profits tax. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
11. HB1222 HB1222: relative to protected shoreland permitting fees. House · HOUSE Ways and Means
12. HB1229 HB1229: declaring March 30 as Welcome Home Veterans Day to honor veterans of Vietnam. Senate · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
13. HB1256 HB1256: establishing a New Hampshire state register of historic places. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS
14. HB1269 HB1269: relative to immunity from civil liability for sports officials. House · HOUSE Judiciary
15. HB1288 HB1288: relative to protection of private property from the use of eminent domain. House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
16. HB1302 HB1302: relative to underpayment of estimated taxes and equalization of valuations administered by the department of revenue administration. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Ways and Means
17. HB1305 HB1305: reestablishing the exemption from property taxation for telecommunications poles and conduits and establishing a committee to study how utilities are taxed by the state and municipalities. House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
18. HB1329 HB1329: relative to the default budget in certain towns. Senate · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
19. HB1354 HB1354: (New Title) relative to voter affidavits. Enacted Law without signature · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
20. HB1371 HB1371: relative to conflicts of interest of county government officials. Senate · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
21. HB1417 HB1417: relative to a student's freedom of association. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Education
22. HB1418 HB1418: (2nd New Title) increasing the threshold amounts for taxation under the business enterprise tax and extending the commission to study business taxes; excluding charges for Internet access from the communications services tax and requiring the transfer of insurance premium tax revenue to the department of health and human services; and relative to section 179 expense deductions under the business profits tax. Enacted Law without signature · HOUSE Committee of Conference
23. HB1437 HB1437: relative to display of certain historical items in the state house. House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
24. HB1476 HB1476: prohibiting the enforcement of out-of-state laws, rules, codes, and fess not approved by the New Hampshire legislature. House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
25. HB1478 HB1478: relative to the definitions of resident for motor vehicle law purposes and domicile for voting purposes and relative to vehicle registration and driver's license requirements. Senate · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
26. HB1487 HB1487: (3rd New Title) relative to low carbon fuel standards programs. Enacted Law without signature · HOUSE Committee of Conference
27. HB1504 HB1504: reinstating the Maine-New Hampshire Interstate Bridge Authority. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Transportation
28. HB1532 HB1532: relative to trespass on land which is not posted. Senate · SENATE Judiciary
29. HB1551 HB1551: (3rd New Title) clarifying the liability of landowners, lessees, and occupants of premises who allow other persons to use the premises for hunting, fishing, and other recreational purposes or to remove fuel wood, and relative to the losing claimant’s payment of the prevailing party’s costs in actions against such landowners, lessees, and occupants barred by liability immunity provisions. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary
30. HB1560 HB1560: relative to the interstate Health Care Compact. Senate · SENATE Health and Human Services
31. HB1607 HB1607: (New Title) establishing an education tax credit. Vetoed by Governor · SENATE Finance
32. HB1642 HB1642: (New Title) relative to destination specialty hospitals. Senate · SENATE Health and Human Services
33. HB1662 HB1662: relative to preparation of fiscal notes. Senate · SENATE Finance
34. HB1677 HB1677: relative to choice as to whether to join a labor union and eliminating the duty of a public employee labor organization to represent employees who elect not to join or to pay dues or fees to the employee organization. Senate · SENATE Commerce
35. HB1692 HB1692: making changes to the administration of the university system of New Hampshire. Senate · SENATE Finance
36. HB1709 HB1709: establishing a criminal offense for failure to report a missing or deceased child. House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
37. HB1724 HB1724: requiring certain engine coolants and antifreeze to include an aversive agent so that they are rendered unpalatable. House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
38. HB1725 HB1725: prohibiting health care practitioner self-referrals for medical devices. Senate · SENATE Health and Human Services
39. HR29 HR29: urging the United States Department of Health and Human Services to rescind its rule requiring health plans to provide sterilizations and contraceptives. House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
40. SB4 SB4: requiring legislative approval of cost items for state employee contract negotiations. Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
41. SB132 SB132: establishing exemptions from the real estate transfer tax. Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
42. SB167 SB167: establishing a production jobs creation credit under the business enterprise tax and making changes affecting small business to the business profits tax, the business enterprise tax, and the meals and rooms tax. Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
43. SB181 SB181: relative to distribution of funds for education. Senate · SENATE Finance
44. SB203 SB203: (New Title) relative to limited liability companies and relative to meetings of a certain legislative study commission by open blogging. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Ways and Means
45. SB217 SB217: relative to management of Cannon mountain by the department of resources and economic development. House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
46. SB229 SB229: (2nd New Title) establishing a commission to make recommendations on whether the New Hampshire retirement system should be replaced with a defined contribution plan for all new hires and to study the impact such change would have on the retirement system. House
47. SB264 SB264: relative to energy facility site evaluations. Senate · SENATE Energy and Natural Resources
48. SB278 SB278: limiting the recovery of health care expenses in personal injury actions and removing "probable duration of life but for the injury" as an element that may be considered in determining damages in a wrongful death action. Senate · SENATE Judiciary
49. SB287 SB287: relative to confidential prescription data. House · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
50. SB292 SB292: relative to property taxation of certain manufactured housing. Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
51. SB293 SB293: relative to notice requirements and payment of interest by the department of revenue administration for overpayments and underpayments of tax. Senate · SENATE Finance
52. SB294 SB294: relative to dedicated funds administered by the department of labor, department of environmental services, banking department, and secretary of state. Senate · SENATE Finance
53. SB295 SB295: increasing the research and development tax credit against the business profits tax. House · HOUSE Finance
54. SB304 SB304: relative to the waiver of state fees associated with historic preservation. Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
55. SB311 SB311: (3rd New Title) relative to weights and measures. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
56. SB326 SB326: (3rd New Title) relative to state reimbursement of towns and relative to taxation of trusts under the interest and dividends tax. Enacted Veto overridden
57. SB344 SB344: allowing the department of resources and economic development to cut vegetation in shoreland areas where public safety is of concern. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
58. SB345 SB345: relative to the sale of mortgages. Senate · SENATE Commerce
59. SB358 SB358: (New Title) relative to eligibility for free admission to the state park system for members of the armed forces. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
60. SB370 SB370: (2nd New Title) relative to the powers of the state veterinarian. Enacted Signed by Governor
61. SB372 SB372: (New Title) establishing an education tax credit. Enacted Veto overridden · HOUSE Ways and Means
62. SB392 SB392: relative to road salt applicators. House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
63. SB406 SB406: (2nd New Title) relative to establishing an early offer alternative in medical injury claims, relative to confidentiality of police personnel files, and establishing a committee to study the referral of patients for use of implantable medical devices. Enacted Veto overridden
64. SCR2 SCR2: regarding the White Mountain National Forest. Passed · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy

2011 (26 bills sponsored; 12 bills enacted)

1. HB89 HB89: (New Title) requiring the attorney general to join the lawsuit challenging the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Senate · SENATE Commerce
2. HB147 HB147: making the commission of certain offenses punishable under the capital murder statute. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary
3. HB178 HB178: establishing a committee to study issues regarding Financial Resources Mortgage, Inc. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
4. HB337 HB337: (New Title) amending the calculation and distribution of adequate education grants, repealing fiscal capacity disparity aid, and providing stabilization grants to certain municipalities. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
5. HB341 HB341: relative to local spending caps. Senate · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
6. HB594 HB594: relative to the application of procedures for discharge or suspension from county employment. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
7. HCR27 HCR27: honoring the members of the military and intelligence community who carried out the mission that killed Osama bin Laden, and for other purposes. Passed · SENATE NO COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT
8. HR11 HR11: affirming revenue estimates for fiscal years 2011, 2012, and 2013. Passed · HOUSE No Committee Assignment
9. HR12 HR12: affirming revenue estimates for fiscal years 2011, 2012, and 2013. Passed · HOUSE No Committee Assignment
10. HR13 HR13: repudiating Opinion of the Justices, 162 N.H. 160 (2011), and urging the senate to remove from the table and pass 2011 HB 89. Passed · HOUSE CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW & STATUTORY RECODIFICATION
11. SB3 SB3: (2nd New Title) making comprehensive changes to the state retirement system. Vetoed by Governor
12. SB55 SB55: requiring certain engine coolants and antifreeze to include an aversive agent so that they are rendered unpalatable. House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
13. SB76 SB76: relative to the authority of the department of revenue administration to adopt rules and to administer state tax laws. House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
14. SB78 SB78: relative to motor vehicle registration fees. House · HOUSE Finance
15. SB80 SB80: exempting certain rental income from the meals and rooms tax. Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
16. SB86 SB86: requiring the department of labor to warn employers of certain violations prior to imposing a fine. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
17. SB92 SB92: (New Title) establishing an economic strategic commission to review the relationship between business and government. Enacted Signed by Governor
18. SB120 SB120: relative to alcoholic beverage advertising restrictions. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Commerce and Consumer Affairs
19. SB125 SB125: (New Title) relative to the standards and burden of proof with respect to the business profits tax deduction for reasonable compensation attributable to owners of partnerships, limited liability companies, and sole proprietorships. Enacted Law without signature · HOUSE Ways and Means
20. SB126 SB126: relative to net operating loss carryovers under the business profits tax. Senate · SENATE Finance
21. SB151 SB151: relative to contracts of the department of health and human services. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
22. SB154 SB154: (New Title) reforming and renaming the comprehensive shoreland protection act and repealing New Hampshire’s regional greenhouse gas initiative cap and trade program for controlling carbon dioxide emissions. Vetoed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
23. SB156 SB156: authorizing retail vehicle dealers to act as agents of the division of motor vehicles for vehicle registrations and title applications. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Commerce and Consumer Affairs
24. SB170 SB170: relative to the New Hampshire Medical Malpractice Joint Underwriting Association. Enacted Law without signature · HOUSE Ways and Means
25. SB187 SB187: relative to fair debt collection. Senate · SENATE Commerce
26. SB196 SB196: (2nd New Title) relative to the renomination or reelection of teachers and grievance procedures. Enacted Law without signature

2010 (16 bills sponsored; 8 bills enacted)

1. CACR26 CACR26: relating to taxation. Providing that there shall be no broad-based taxes in New Hampshire. House · HOUSE Ways and Means
2. HB268 HB268: relative to transfers from the judicial branch to the executive or legislative branches of state government. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
3. HB1128 HB1128: relative to the distribution of meals and rooms tax revenues to cities and towns. Senate · HOUSE Committee of Conference
4. HB1186 HB1186: prohibiting smoking within certain areas of New Hampshire state parks and historic sites. House · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
5. HB1195 HB1195: relative to height, length, width, and weight limits for trucks. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE TRANSPORTATION AND INTERSTATE COOPERATION
6. HB1219 HB1219: repealing the wartime registration of aliens laws. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary
7. HB1310 HB1310: (New Title) allowing towns to hire health care workers. Senate · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
8. HB1378 HB1378: (New Title) establishing an adopt-a-state park program in the state park system and establishing an adopt-a-forest fire tower program in the division of forests and lands. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
9. HB1379 HB1379: relative to promotion of the state parks. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
10. HB1410 HB1410: prohibiting lobbyists from serving on judicial branch commissions, committees, boards, or similar government entities. House · HOUSE Judiciary
11. HB1417 HB1417: (New Title) allowing the companion dogs of restaurant owners in certain areas of restaurants. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
12. HB1522 HB1522: relative to local spending caps. House · HOUSE LOCAL AND REGULATED REVENUES
13. HB1563 HB1563: (New Title) naming a bridge in Salem in honor of Corporal Nicholas Arvanitis, Staff Sergeant Edmond L. Lo, and Marine Lance Corporal Robert L. Moscillo. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE TRANSPORTATION AND INTERSTATE COOPERATION
14. HB1634 HB1634: relative to assault by strangulation. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary
15. HB1644 HB1644: including "unborn child" in the definition of "another" for the purpose of first and second degree murder, manslaughter, and negligent homicide. House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
16. HB1670 HB1670: establishing a searchable budget database for state spending. House · HOUSE Finance

2009 (9 bills sponsored; 5 bills enacted)

1. HB41 HB41: allowing the executive director of fish and game to donate certain hunting and fishing permits to the wildlife heritage foundation of New Hampshire. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
2. HB61 HB61: relative to a definition of "sustainable energy." Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
3. HB225 HB225: relative to room and board scholarships for children of firefighters and police officers. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Education
4. HB243 HB243: authorizing the designation of special assistant attorneys general. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary
5. HB298 HB298: excluding the value of a view from determination of market value for property tax assessments. House · HOUSE LOCAL AND REGULATED REVENUES
6. HB369 HB369: establishing a spending cap on state budget requests. House · HOUSE Finance
7. HB475 HB475: prohibiting the investment of state funds in the energy sectors of countries that have been identified by the United States Department of State as state sponsors of terrorism. House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
8. HB524 HB524: establishing a permanent state defense force. House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
9. SB57 SB57: relative to the commission to study the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury suffered by New Hampshire soldiers and veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

2008 (22 bills sponsored; 13 bills enacted)

1. CACR24 CACR24: relating to prohibiting any new tax on personal income. Providing that no new tax on personal income shall be levied by the state of New Hampshire. House · HOUSE Ways and Means
2. HA1 HA1: for the removal of Patricia C. Coffey, superior court justice, from office. House · HOUSE SPECIAL COMMITTEE
3. HB603 HB603: establishing a task force on mental health costs and requiring the commissioner of the department of corrections to enroll any person being released from a correctional facility in any available free or reduced cost drug program. House · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
4. HB1143 HB1143: (New Title) relative to shelter for dogs and the authority of law enforcement officers to take abused and neglected dogs into custody. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
5. HB1163 HB1163: relative to town or district bonds or notes. House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
6. HB1239 HB1239: relative to the legislative youth advisory council. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ELECTION LAW AND INTERNAL AFFAIRS
7. HB1282 HB1282: amending the pre-engineering technology curriculum. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Education
8. HB1335 HB1335: establishing a commission to study the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury suffered by New Hampshire soldiers and veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
9. HB1336 HB1336: requiring the department of education to develop a plan to educate school personnel to recognize stress-related issues in children whose parents have served in Iraq or Afghanistan. House · HOUSE Education
10. HB1370 HB1370: establishing a pilot program for an integrated juvenile justice information sharing system. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary
11. HB1391 HB1391: prohibiting the investment of state funds in the energy sectors of countries that have been identified by the United States Department of State as state sponsors of terrorism. House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
12. HB1453 HB1453: relative to civil liability for damage to protective barriers. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary
13. HB1467 HB1467: establishing a commission to study the feasibility of constructing a state hospital facility to treat certain youths addicted to heroin or cocaine. House · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
14. SB63 SB63: authorizing the commissioner of revenue administration to extend tax filing deadlines for certain members of the armed forces. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Ways and Means
15. SB102 SB102: relative to the powers of state government in the event of an incident or outbreak of communicable disease. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
16. SB158 SB158: relative to review of activities affecting surface waters. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
17. SB300 SB300: relative to death benefits for corrections officers killed in the line of duty. House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
18. SB303 SB303: relative to special number plates. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Transportation
19. SB323 SB323: (New Title) repealing a provision relative to the calculation of multiple concurrent or consecutive sentences of imprisonment. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
20. SB328 SB328: relative to civil forfeitures for certain waste disposal violations. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Ways and Means
21. SB366 SB366: relative to the operation of the state suggestion and extraordinary service award program. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
22. SB419 SB419: relative to the duties of the energy planning and advisory board and restructuring policy principles. House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy

2007 (14 bills sponsored; 4 bills enacted)

1. HB161 HB161: renaming the Veterans Administration Hospital the Styles Bridges Veterans Administration Hospital. House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
2. HB327 HB327: (New Title) allowing collaborative pharmacy practice agreements to include pharmacy locations during declared emergencies. Senate · SENATE Health and Human Services
3. HB372 HB372: exempting motor vehicles equipped and used for transporting disabled persons from the tax on rental of motor vehicles. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Ways and Means
4. HB476 HB476: relative to membership on the public utilities commission. House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
5. HB515 HB515: relative to combat veteran stickers on number plates. House · HOUSE Transportation
6. HB558 HB558: (New Title) repealing the education trust fund. Senate · SENATE Education
7. HB565 HB565: prohibiting the use of leghold traps and conibear traps. House · HOUSE FISH AND GAME
8. HB619 HB619: establishing an additional exemption from the interest and dividends tax for individuals who are 70 years of age or older. House · HOUSE Ways and Means
9. HB704 HB704: (New Title) relative to the commission on the status of men and relative to appropriations to the STARC armory and making appropriations for state matching funds for federal emergency management agency disaster assistance grants and energy expense shortfalls. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
10. HB758 HB758: establishing a new state defined contribution retirement plan for new state employees and establishing a committee to study the transition of current employees into the new plan and administration of the new plan. House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
11. HB793 HB793: establishing an exemption from the interest and dividends tax for individuals who are 62 years of age or older. House · HOUSE Ways and Means
12. HB926 HB926: relative to the regulation of pharmacies and pharmacists. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Health and Human Services
13. HR8 HR8: requesting an opinion from the New Hampshire supreme court on certain questions regarding education funding. House · HOUSE Judiciary
14. SB221 SB221: establishing a commission to organize events in celebration of the Abraham Lincoln bicentennial. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

2006 (10 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

1. HA1 HA1: an ADDRESS for the removal of Kenneth R. McHugh, superior court justice, from office. House · HOUSE SPECIAL COMMITTEE
2. HB1153 HB1153: establishing a commission to study the laws and rules relating to subpoenas, summonses and complaints. Senate · SENATE Judiciary
3. HB1292 HB1292: relative to the application of the capital murder statute. House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
4. HB1319 HB1319: decreasing the rate of the tobacco tax. House · HOUSE Ways and Means
5. HB1417 HB1417: (New Title) establishing gold star number plates and relative to special number plates for veterans. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE TRANSPORTATION AND INTERSTATE COOPERATION
6. HB1625 HB1625: (2nd New Title) establishing penalties for guardians ad litem who fail to file reports. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary
7. HB1649 HB1649: including "unborn child" in the definition of "another" for the purpose of first and second degree murder, manslaughter, and negligent homicide. House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
8. HB1669 HB1669: increasing the penalties for littering. House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
9. HJR21 HJR21: urging the university of New Hampshire to restore intercollegiate baseball and softball. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Education
10. HJR26 HJR26: urging Congress to reevaluate Title IX. House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

2005 (5 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB88 HB88: establishing a committee to study voter registration affidavits. House · HOUSE Election Law
2. HB149 HB149: prohibiting the use or installation of radar scrambler devices in motor vehicles. House · HOUSE Transportation
3. HB215 HB215: (New Title) relative to water management and relative to the membership of the exotic aquatic weeds and species committee. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
4. HB497 HB497: relative to stolen checks. House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
5. HB555 HB555: establishing February 6 as Ronald Reagan Day. House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration

HOUSE Commerce and Consumer Affairs (2 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

2011 (2 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. SB120 SB120: relative to alcoholic beverage advertising restrictions. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Commerce and Consumer Affairs
2. SB156 SB156: authorizing retail vehicle dealers to act as agents of the division of motor vehicles for vehicle registrations and title applications. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Commerce and Consumer Affairs

HOUSE Committee of Conference (11 bills sponsored; 8 bills enacted)

2012 (6 bills sponsored; 4 bills enacted)

1. CACR12 CACR12: (New Title) relating to public education. Providing that the general court shall have the authority to define standards for public education, establish standards of accountability, mitigate local disparities in educational opportunity and fiscal capacity, and have full discretion to determine the amount of state funding for education. Senate · HOUSE Committee of Conference
2. CACR13 CACR13: (New Title) Relating to prohibiting an assessment, rate, or tax on personal income. Providing that no assessment, rate, or tax on income earned by a natural person shall be levied by the state of New Hampshire except taxes in effect on January 1, 2012 and adjustments to the rate of such taxes. Passed · HOUSE Committee of Conference
3. HB655 HB655: (New Title) repealing a prospective repeal regarding certain authority of the secretary of state relative to pooled risk management programs. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
4. HB1221 HB1221: relative to the credit for the business enterprise tax against the business profits tax. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
5. HB1418 HB1418: (2nd New Title) increasing the threshold amounts for taxation under the business enterprise tax and extending the commission to study business taxes; excluding charges for Internet access from the communications services tax and requiring the transfer of insurance premium tax revenue to the department of health and human services; and relative to section 179 expense deductions under the business profits tax. Enacted Law without signature · HOUSE Committee of Conference
6. HB1487 HB1487: (3rd New Title) relative to low carbon fuel standards programs. Enacted Law without signature · HOUSE Committee of Conference

2011 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB337 HB337: (New Title) amending the calculation and distribution of adequate education grants, repealing fiscal capacity disparity aid, and providing stabilization grants to certain municipalities. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference

2010 (2 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1128 HB1128: relative to the distribution of meals and rooms tax revenues to cities and towns. Senate · HOUSE Committee of Conference
2. HB1417 HB1417: (New Title) allowing the companion dogs of restaurant owners in certain areas of restaurants. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference

2009 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB41 HB41: allowing the executive director of fish and game to donate certain hunting and fishing permits to the wildlife heritage foundation of New Hampshire. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference

2008 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1335 HB1335: establishing a commission to study the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury suffered by New Hampshire soldiers and veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference

HOUSE CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW & STATUTORY RECODIFICATION (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

2011 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HR13 HR13: repudiating Opinion of the Justices, 162 N.H. 160 (2011), and urging the senate to remove from the table and pass 2011 HB 89. Passed · HOUSE CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW & STATUTORY RECODIFICATION

HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety (7 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

2012 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1709 HB1709: establishing a criminal offense for failure to report a missing or deceased child. House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety

2010 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1644 HB1644: including "unborn child" in the definition of "another" for the purpose of first and second degree murder, manslaughter, and negligent homicide. House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety

2008 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB323 SB323: (New Title) repealing a provision relative to the calculation of multiple concurrent or consecutive sentences of imprisonment. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety

2006 (3 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1292 HB1292: relative to the application of the capital murder statute. House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
2. HB1649 HB1649: including "unborn child" in the definition of "another" for the purpose of first and second degree murder, manslaughter, and negligent homicide. House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
3. HB1669 HB1669: increasing the penalties for littering. House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety

2005 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB497 HB497: relative to stolen checks. House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety

HOUSE Education (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

2008 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1336 HB1336: requiring the department of education to develop a plan to educate school personnel to recognize stress-related issues in children whose parents have served in Iraq or Afghanistan. House · HOUSE Education

HOUSE Election Law (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

2005 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB88 HB88: establishing a committee to study voter registration affidavits. House · HOUSE Election Law

HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration (9 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

2012 (3 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1476 HB1476: prohibiting the enforcement of out-of-state laws, rules, codes, and fess not approved by the New Hampshire legislature. House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
2. SB311 SB311: (3rd New Title) relative to weights and measures. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
3. SB392 SB392: relative to road salt applicators. House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration

2011 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB76 SB76: relative to the authority of the department of revenue administration to adopt rules and to administer state tax laws. House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration

2009 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB475 HB475: prohibiting the investment of state funds in the energy sectors of countries that have been identified by the United States Department of State as state sponsors of terrorism. House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration

2008 (2 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB300 SB300: relative to death benefits for corrections officers killed in the line of duty. House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
2. SB366 SB366: relative to the operation of the state suggestion and extraordinary service award program. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration

2007 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB758 HB758: establishing a new state defined contribution retirement plan for new state employees and establishing a committee to study the transition of current employees into the new plan and administration of the new plan. House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration

2005 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB555 HB555: establishing February 6 as Ronald Reagan Day. House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration

HOUSE Finance (6 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

2012 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB295 SB295: increasing the research and development tax credit against the business profits tax. House · HOUSE Finance

2011 (3 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB78 SB78: relative to motor vehicle registration fees. House · HOUSE Finance
2. SB151 SB151: relative to contracts of the department of health and human services. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
3. SB154 SB154: (New Title) reforming and renaming the comprehensive shoreland protection act and repealing New Hampshire’s regional greenhouse gas initiative cap and trade program for controlling carbon dioxide emissions. Vetoed by Governor · HOUSE Finance

2010 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1670 HB1670: establishing a searchable budget database for state spending. House · HOUSE Finance

2009 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB369 HB369: establishing a spending cap on state budget requests. House · HOUSE Finance

HOUSE FISH AND GAME (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

2007 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB565 HB565: prohibiting the use of leghold traps and conibear traps. House · HOUSE FISH AND GAME

HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs (4 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

2012 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB287 SB287: relative to confidential prescription data. House · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

2008 (3 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB603 HB603: establishing a task force on mental health costs and requiring the commissioner of the department of corrections to enroll any person being released from a correctional facility in any available free or reduced cost drug program. House · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
2. HB1467 HB1467: establishing a commission to study the feasibility of constructing a state hospital facility to treat certain youths addicted to heroin or cocaine. House · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
3. SB102 SB102: relative to the powers of state government in the event of an incident or outbreak of communicable disease. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

HOUSE Judiciary (3 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

2012 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1269 HB1269: relative to immunity from civil liability for sports officials. House · HOUSE Judiciary

2010 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1410 HB1410: prohibiting lobbyists from serving on judicial branch commissions, committees, boards, or similar government entities. House · HOUSE Judiciary

2007 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HR8 HR8: requesting an opinion from the New Hampshire supreme court on certain questions regarding education funding. House · HOUSE Judiciary

HOUSE Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

2011 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB86 SB86: requiring the department of labor to warn employers of certain violations prior to imposing a fine. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services

HOUSE LOCAL AND REGULATED REVENUES (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

2010 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1522 HB1522: relative to local spending caps. House · HOUSE LOCAL AND REGULATED REVENUES

2009 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB298 HB298: excluding the value of a view from determination of market value for property tax assessments. House · HOUSE LOCAL AND REGULATED REVENUES

HOUSE Municipal and County Government (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

2008 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1163 HB1163: relative to town or district bonds or notes. House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government

HOUSE No Committee Assignment (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

2011 (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HR11 HR11: affirming revenue estimates for fiscal years 2011, 2012, and 2013. Passed · HOUSE No Committee Assignment
2. HR12 HR12: affirming revenue estimates for fiscal years 2011, 2012, and 2013. Passed · HOUSE No Committee Assignment

HOUSE Public Works and Highways (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

2012 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1437 HB1437: relative to display of certain historical items in the state house. House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways

HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development (4 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

2012 (2 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. SB344 SB344: allowing the department of resources and economic development to cut vegetation in shoreland areas where public safety is of concern. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
2. SB358 SB358: (New Title) relative to eligibility for free admission to the state park system for members of the armed forces. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development

2010 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1186 HB1186: prohibiting smoking within certain areas of New Hampshire state parks and historic sites. House · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development

2008 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB158 SB158: relative to review of activities affecting surface waters. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development

HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy (7 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

2012 (4 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1288 HB1288: relative to protection of private property from the use of eminent domain. House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
2. HB1305 HB1305: reestablishing the exemption from property taxation for telecommunications poles and conduits and establishing a committee to study how utilities are taxed by the state and municipalities. House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
3. HB1724 HB1724: requiring certain engine coolants and antifreeze to include an aversive agent so that they are rendered unpalatable. House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
4. SCR2 SCR2: regarding the White Mountain National Forest. Passed · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy

2011 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB55 SB55: requiring certain engine coolants and antifreeze to include an aversive agent so that they are rendered unpalatable. House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy

2008 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB419 SB419: relative to the duties of the energy planning and advisory board and restructuring policy principles. House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy

2007 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB476 HB476: relative to membership on the public utilities commission. House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy

HOUSE SPECIAL COMMITTEE (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

2008 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HA1 HA1: for the removal of Patricia C. Coffey, superior court justice, from office. House · HOUSE SPECIAL COMMITTEE

2006 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HA1 HA1: an ADDRESS for the removal of Kenneth R. McHugh, superior court justice, from office. House · HOUSE SPECIAL COMMITTEE

HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs (8 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

2012 (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HR29 HR29: urging the United States Department of Health and Human Services to rescind its rule requiring health plans to provide sterilizations and contraceptives. House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
2. SB217 SB217: relative to management of Cannon mountain by the department of resources and economic development. House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

2009 (2 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB524 HB524: establishing a permanent state defense force. House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
2. SB57 SB57: relative to the commission to study the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury suffered by New Hampshire soldiers and veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

2008 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1391 HB1391: prohibiting the investment of state funds in the energy sectors of countries that have been identified by the United States Department of State as state sponsors of terrorism. House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

2007 (2 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB161 HB161: renaming the Veterans Administration Hospital the Styles Bridges Veterans Administration Hospital. House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
2. SB221 SB221: establishing a commission to organize events in celebration of the Abraham Lincoln bicentennial. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

2006 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HJR26 HJR26: urging Congress to reevaluate Title IX. House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

HOUSE Transportation (3 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

2008 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB303 SB303: relative to special number plates. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Transportation

2007 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB515 HB515: relative to combat veteran stickers on number plates. House · HOUSE Transportation

2005 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB149 HB149: prohibiting the use or installation of radar scrambler devices in motor vehicles. House · HOUSE Transportation

HOUSE Ways and Means (13 bills sponsored; 6 bills enacted)

2012 (4 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. HB611 HB611: relative to determination of the reasonable compensation deduction under the business profits tax. House · HOUSE Ways and Means
2. HB1222 HB1222: relative to protected shoreland permitting fees. House · HOUSE Ways and Means
3. SB203 SB203: (New Title) relative to limited liability companies and relative to meetings of a certain legislative study commission by open blogging. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Ways and Means
4. SB372 SB372: (New Title) establishing an education tax credit. Enacted Veto overridden · HOUSE Ways and Means

2011 (2 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. SB125 SB125: (New Title) relative to the standards and burden of proof with respect to the business profits tax deduction for reasonable compensation attributable to owners of partnerships, limited liability companies, and sole proprietorships. Enacted Law without signature · HOUSE Ways and Means
2. SB170 SB170: relative to the New Hampshire Medical Malpractice Joint Underwriting Association. Enacted Law without signature · HOUSE Ways and Means

2010 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. CACR26 CACR26: relating to taxation. Providing that there shall be no broad-based taxes in New Hampshire. House · HOUSE Ways and Means

2008 (3 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. CACR24 CACR24: relating to prohibiting any new tax on personal income. Providing that no new tax on personal income shall be levied by the state of New Hampshire. House · HOUSE Ways and Means
2. SB63 SB63: authorizing the commissioner of revenue administration to extend tax filing deadlines for certain members of the armed forces. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Ways and Means
3. SB328 SB328: relative to civil forfeitures for certain waste disposal violations. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Ways and Means

2007 (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB619 HB619: establishing an additional exemption from the interest and dividends tax for individuals who are 70 years of age or older. House · HOUSE Ways and Means
2. HB793 HB793: establishing an exemption from the interest and dividends tax for individuals who are 62 years of age or older. House · HOUSE Ways and Means

2006 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1319 HB1319: decreasing the rate of the tobacco tax. House · HOUSE Ways and Means

No committee listed (7 bills sponsored; 5 bills enacted)

2012 (4 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

1. SB229 SB229: (2nd New Title) establishing a commission to make recommendations on whether the New Hampshire retirement system should be replaced with a defined contribution plan for all new hires and to study the impact such change would have on the retirement system. House
2. SB326 SB326: (3rd New Title) relative to state reimbursement of towns and relative to taxation of trusts under the interest and dividends tax. Enacted Veto overridden
3. SB370 SB370: (2nd New Title) relative to the powers of the state veterinarian. Enacted Signed by Governor
4. SB406 SB406: (2nd New Title) relative to establishing an early offer alternative in medical injury claims, relative to confidentiality of police personnel files, and establishing a committee to study the referral of patients for use of implantable medical devices. Enacted Veto overridden

2011 (3 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. SB3 SB3: (2nd New Title) making comprehensive changes to the state retirement system. Vetoed by Governor
2. SB92 SB92: (New Title) establishing an economic strategic commission to review the relationship between business and government. Enacted Signed by Governor
3. SB196 SB196: (2nd New Title) relative to the renomination or reelection of teachers and grievance procedures. Enacted Law without signature

SENATE Commerce (4 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

2012 (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1677 HB1677: relative to choice as to whether to join a labor union and eliminating the duty of a public employee labor organization to represent employees who elect not to join or to pay dues or fees to the employee organization. Senate · SENATE Commerce
2. SB345 SB345: relative to the sale of mortgages. Senate · SENATE Commerce

2011 (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB89 HB89: (New Title) requiring the attorney general to join the lawsuit challenging the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Senate · SENATE Commerce
2. SB187 SB187: relative to fair debt collection. Senate · SENATE Commerce

SENATE Education (5 bills sponsored; 4 bills enacted)

2012 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1417 HB1417: relative to a student's freedom of association. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Education

2009 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB225 HB225: relative to room and board scholarships for children of firefighters and police officers. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Education

2008 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1282 HB1282: amending the pre-engineering technology curriculum. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Education

2007 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB558 HB558: (New Title) repealing the education trust fund. Senate · SENATE Education

2006 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HJR21 HJR21: urging the university of New Hampshire to restore intercollegiate baseball and softball. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Education

SENATE ELECTION LAW AND INTERNAL AFFAIRS (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

2008 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1239 HB1239: relative to the legislative youth advisory council. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ELECTION LAW AND INTERNAL AFFAIRS

SENATE Energy and Natural Resources (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

2012 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB264 SB264: relative to energy facility site evaluations. Senate · SENATE Energy and Natural Resources

SENATE ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (3 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

2010 (2 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. HB1378 HB1378: (New Title) establishing an adopt-a-state park program in the state park system and establishing an adopt-a-forest fire tower program in the division of forests and lands. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
2. HB1379 HB1379: relative to promotion of the state parks. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

2009 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB61 HB61: relative to a definition of "sustainable energy." Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

SENATE Executive Departments and Administration (4 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

2012 (2 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB624 HB624: (2nd New Title) establishing a committee to study the rulemaking authority of state agencies to establish fees. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
2. SB4 SB4: requiring legislative approval of cost items for state employee contract negotiations. Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration

2011 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB178 HB178: establishing a committee to study issues regarding Financial Resources Mortgage, Inc. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration

2010 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB268 HB268: relative to transfers from the judicial branch to the executive or legislative branches of state government. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration

SENATE Finance (9 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

2012 (6 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1607 HB1607: (New Title) establishing an education tax credit. Vetoed by Governor · SENATE Finance
2. HB1662 HB1662: relative to preparation of fiscal notes. Senate · SENATE Finance
3. HB1692 HB1692: making changes to the administration of the university system of New Hampshire. Senate · SENATE Finance
4. SB181 SB181: relative to distribution of funds for education. Senate · SENATE Finance
5. SB293 SB293: relative to notice requirements and payment of interest by the department of revenue administration for overpayments and underpayments of tax. Senate · SENATE Finance
6. SB294 SB294: relative to dedicated funds administered by the department of labor, department of environmental services, banking department, and secretary of state. Senate · SENATE Finance

2011 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB126 SB126: relative to net operating loss carryovers under the business profits tax. Senate · SENATE Finance

2007 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB704 HB704: (New Title) relative to the commission on the status of men and relative to appropriations to the STARC armory and making appropriations for state matching funds for federal emergency management agency disaster assistance grants and energy expense shortfalls. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance

2005 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB215 HB215: (New Title) relative to water management and relative to the membership of the exotic aquatic weeds and species committee. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance

SENATE Health and Human Services (5 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

2012 (3 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1560 HB1560: relative to the interstate Health Care Compact. Senate · SENATE Health and Human Services
2. HB1642 HB1642: (New Title) relative to destination specialty hospitals. Senate · SENATE Health and Human Services
3. HB1725 HB1725: prohibiting health care practitioner self-referrals for medical devices. Senate · SENATE Health and Human Services

2007 (2 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB327 HB327: (New Title) allowing collaborative pharmacy practice agreements to include pharmacy locations during declared emergencies. Senate · SENATE Health and Human Services
2. HB926 HB926: relative to the regulation of pharmacies and pharmacists. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Health and Human Services

SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

2012 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1256 HB1256: establishing a New Hampshire state register of historic places. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS

SENATE Judiciary (11 bills sponsored; 8 bills enacted)

2012 (3 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1532 HB1532: relative to trespass on land which is not posted. Senate · SENATE Judiciary
2. HB1551 HB1551: (3rd New Title) clarifying the liability of landowners, lessees, and occupants of premises who allow other persons to use the premises for hunting, fishing, and other recreational purposes or to remove fuel wood, and relative to the losing claimant’s payment of the prevailing party’s costs in actions against such landowners, lessees, and occupants barred by liability immunity provisions. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary
3. SB278 SB278: limiting the recovery of health care expenses in personal injury actions and removing "probable duration of life but for the injury" as an element that may be considered in determining damages in a wrongful death action. Senate · SENATE Judiciary

2011 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB147 HB147: making the commission of certain offenses punishable under the capital murder statute. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary

2010 (2 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. HB1219 HB1219: repealing the wartime registration of aliens laws. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary
2. HB1634 HB1634: relative to assault by strangulation. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary

2009 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB243 HB243: authorizing the designation of special assistant attorneys general. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary

2008 (2 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. HB1370 HB1370: establishing a pilot program for an integrated juvenile justice information sharing system. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary
2. HB1453 HB1453: relative to civil liability for damage to protective barriers. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary

2006 (2 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1153 HB1153: establishing a commission to study the laws and rules relating to subpoenas, summonses and complaints. Senate · SENATE Judiciary
2. HB1625 HB1625: (2nd New Title) establishing penalties for guardians ad litem who fail to file reports. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary

SENATE NO COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

2011 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HCR27 HCR27: honoring the members of the military and intelligence community who carried out the mission that killed Osama bin Laden, and for other purposes. Passed · SENATE NO COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT

SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs (10 bills sponsored; 4 bills enacted)

2012 (6 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. HB1134 HB1134: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the construction of a permanent memorial to Governor John Gilbert Winant on state property other than the state house grounds. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
2. HB1229 HB1229: declaring March 30 as Welcome Home Veterans Day to honor veterans of Vietnam. Senate · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
3. HB1329 HB1329: relative to the default budget in certain towns. Senate · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
4. HB1354 HB1354: (New Title) relative to voter affidavits. Enacted Law without signature · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
5. HB1371 HB1371: relative to conflicts of interest of county government officials. Senate · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
6. HB1478 HB1478: relative to the definitions of resident for motor vehicle law purposes and domicile for voting purposes and relative to vehicle registration and driver's license requirements. Senate · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs

2011 (2 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB341 HB341: relative to local spending caps. Senate · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
2. HB594 HB594: relative to the application of procedures for discharge or suspension from county employment. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs

2010 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1310 HB1310: (New Title) allowing towns to hire health care workers. Senate · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs

2008 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1143 HB1143: (New Title) relative to shelter for dogs and the authority of law enforcement officers to take abused and neglected dogs into custody. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs

SENATE Transportation (2 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

2012 (2 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. HB1138 HB1138: naming a bridge in Pelham in honor of Sergeant Daniel R. Gionet. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Transportation
2. HB1504 HB1504: reinstating the Maine-New Hampshire Interstate Bridge Authority. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Transportation

SENATE TRANSPORTATION AND INTERSTATE COOPERATION (3 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

2010 (2 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. HB1195 HB1195: relative to height, length, width, and weight limits for trucks. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE TRANSPORTATION AND INTERSTATE COOPERATION
2. HB1563 HB1563: (New Title) naming a bridge in Salem in honor of Corporal Nicholas Arvanitis, Staff Sergeant Edmond L. Lo, and Marine Lance Corporal Robert L. Moscillo. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE TRANSPORTATION AND INTERSTATE COOPERATION

2006 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1417 HB1417: (New Title) establishing gold star number plates and relative to special number plates for veterans. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE TRANSPORTATION AND INTERSTATE COOPERATION

SENATE Ways and Means (9 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

2012 (7 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB564 HB564: (New Title) relative to the adoption of forms by the department of revenue administration for the filing of taxes and removing the requirement for electronic tax payments. Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
2. HB1209 HB1209: establishing a committee to study administration of the business profits tax and the business enterprise tax. Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
3. HB1302 HB1302: relative to underpayment of estimated taxes and equalization of valuations administered by the department of revenue administration. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Ways and Means
4. SB132 SB132: establishing exemptions from the real estate transfer tax. Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
5. SB167 SB167: establishing a production jobs creation credit under the business enterprise tax and making changes affecting small business to the business profits tax, the business enterprise tax, and the meals and rooms tax. Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
6. SB292 SB292: relative to property taxation of certain manufactured housing. Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
7. SB304 SB304: relative to the waiver of state fees associated with historic preservation. Senate · SENATE Ways and Means

2011 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB80 SB80: exempting certain rental income from the meals and rooms tax. Senate · SENATE Ways and Means

2007 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB372 HB372: exempting motor vehicles equipped and used for transporting disabled persons from the tax on rental of motor vehicles. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Ways and Means

Alcohol and tobacco (2 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1319 HB1319: decreasing the rate of the tobacco tax. 2006 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
2. SB120 SB120: relative to alcoholic beverage advertising restrictions. Enacted 2011 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Commerce and Consumer Affairs

Business and labor (15 bills sponsored; 5 bills enacted)

1. HB327 HB327: (New Title) allowing collaborative pharmacy practice agreements to include pharmacy locations during declared emergencies. 2007 · Senate · SENATE Health and Human Services
2. HB611 HB611: relative to determination of the reasonable compensation deduction under the business profits tax. 2012 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
3. HB758 HB758: establishing a new state defined contribution retirement plan for new state employees and establishing a committee to study the transition of current employees into the new plan and administration of the new plan. 2007 · House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
4. HB1209 HB1209: establishing a committee to study administration of the business profits tax and the business enterprise tax. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
5. HB1221 HB1221: relative to the credit for the business enterprise tax against the business profits tax. Enacted 2012 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
6. HB1418 HB1418: (2nd New Title) increasing the threshold amounts for taxation under the business enterprise tax and extending the commission to study business taxes; excluding charges for Internet access from the communications services tax and requiring the transfer of insurance premium tax revenue to the department of health and human services; and relative to section 179 expense deductions under the business profits tax. Enacted 2012 · Law without signature · HOUSE Committee of Conference
7. HB1677 HB1677: relative to choice as to whether to join a labor union and eliminating the duty of a public employee labor organization to represent employees who elect not to join or to pay dues or fees to the employee organization. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Commerce
8. SB4 SB4: requiring legislative approval of cost items for state employee contract negotiations. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
9. SB86 SB86: requiring the department of labor to warn employers of certain violations prior to imposing a fine. Enacted 2011 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
10. SB92 SB92: (New Title) establishing an economic strategic commission to review the relationship between business and government. Enacted 2011 · Signed by Governor
11. SB125 SB125: (New Title) relative to the standards and burden of proof with respect to the business profits tax deduction for reasonable compensation attributable to owners of partnerships, limited liability companies, and sole proprietorships. Enacted 2011 · Law without signature · HOUSE Ways and Means
12. SB126 SB126: relative to net operating loss carryovers under the business profits tax. 2011 · Senate · SENATE Finance
13. SB167 SB167: establishing a production jobs creation credit under the business enterprise tax and making changes affecting small business to the business profits tax, the business enterprise tax, and the meals and rooms tax. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
14. SB294 SB294: relative to dedicated funds administered by the department of labor, department of environmental services, banking department, and secretary of state. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Finance
15. SB295 SB295: increasing the research and development tax credit against the business profits tax. 2012 · House · HOUSE Finance

Children and family law (6 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. HB225 HB225: relative to room and board scholarships for children of firefighters and police officers. Enacted 2009 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Education
2. HB1143 HB1143: (New Title) relative to shelter for dogs and the authority of law enforcement officers to take abused and neglected dogs into custody. Enacted 2008 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
3. HB1336 HB1336: requiring the department of education to develop a plan to educate school personnel to recognize stress-related issues in children whose parents have served in Iraq or Afghanistan. 2008 · House · HOUSE Education
4. HB1644 HB1644: including "unborn child" in the definition of "another" for the purpose of first and second degree murder, manslaughter, and negligent homicide. 2010 · House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
5. HB1649 HB1649: including "unborn child" in the definition of "another" for the purpose of first and second degree murder, manslaughter, and negligent homicide. 2006 · House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
6. HB1709 HB1709: establishing a criminal offense for failure to report a missing or deceased child. 2012 · House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety

Commerce (4 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB89 HB89: (New Title) requiring the attorney general to join the lawsuit challenging the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. 2011 · Senate · SENATE Commerce
2. HB1677 HB1677: relative to choice as to whether to join a labor union and eliminating the duty of a public employee labor organization to represent employees who elect not to join or to pay dues or fees to the employee organization. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Commerce
3. SB187 SB187: relative to fair debt collection. 2011 · Senate · SENATE Commerce
4. SB345 SB345: relative to the sale of mortgages. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Commerce

Commerce and Consumer Affairs (2 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. SB120 SB120: relative to alcoholic beverage advertising restrictions. Enacted 2011 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Commerce and Consumer Affairs
2. SB156 SB156: authorizing retail vehicle dealers to act as agents of the division of motor vehicles for vehicle registrations and title applications. Enacted 2011 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Commerce and Consumer Affairs

Committee of Conference (11 bills sponsored; 8 bills enacted)

1. CACR12 CACR12: (New Title) relating to public education. Providing that the general court shall have the authority to define standards for public education, establish standards of accountability, mitigate local disparities in educational opportunity and fiscal capacity, and have full discretion to determine the amount of state funding for education. 2012 · Senate · HOUSE Committee of Conference
2. CACR13 CACR13: (New Title) Relating to prohibiting an assessment, rate, or tax on personal income. Providing that no assessment, rate, or tax on income earned by a natural person shall be levied by the state of New Hampshire except taxes in effect on January 1, 2012 and adjustments to the rate of such taxes. 2012 · Passed · HOUSE Committee of Conference
3. HB41 HB41: allowing the executive director of fish and game to donate certain hunting and fishing permits to the wildlife heritage foundation of New Hampshire. Enacted 2009 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
4. HB337 HB337: (New Title) amending the calculation and distribution of adequate education grants, repealing fiscal capacity disparity aid, and providing stabilization grants to certain municipalities. Enacted 2011 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
5. HB655 HB655: (New Title) repealing a prospective repeal regarding certain authority of the secretary of state relative to pooled risk management programs. Enacted 2012 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
6. HB1128 HB1128: relative to the distribution of meals and rooms tax revenues to cities and towns. 2010 · Senate · HOUSE Committee of Conference
7. HB1221 HB1221: relative to the credit for the business enterprise tax against the business profits tax. Enacted 2012 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
8. HB1335 HB1335: establishing a commission to study the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury suffered by New Hampshire soldiers and veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Enacted 2008 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
9. HB1417 HB1417: (New Title) allowing the companion dogs of restaurant owners in certain areas of restaurants. Enacted 2010 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
10. HB1418 HB1418: (2nd New Title) increasing the threshold amounts for taxation under the business enterprise tax and extending the commission to study business taxes; excluding charges for Internet access from the communications services tax and requiring the transfer of insurance premium tax revenue to the department of health and human services; and relative to section 179 expense deductions under the business profits tax. Enacted 2012 · Law without signature · HOUSE Committee of Conference
11. HB1487 HB1487: (3rd New Title) relative to low carbon fuel standards programs. Enacted 2012 · Law without signature · HOUSE Committee of Conference

CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW & STATUTORY RECODIFICATION (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HR13 HR13: repudiating Opinion of the Justices, 162 N.H. 160 (2011), and urging the senate to remove from the table and pass 2011 HB 89. 2011 · Passed · HOUSE CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW & STATUTORY RECODIFICATION

Criminal justice and courts (26 bills sponsored; 11 bills enacted)

1. CACR12 CACR12: (New Title) relating to public education. Providing that the general court shall have the authority to define standards for public education, establish standards of accountability, mitigate local disparities in educational opportunity and fiscal capacity, and have full discretion to determine the amount of state funding for education. 2012 · Senate · HOUSE Committee of Conference
2. HA1 HA1: for the removal of Patricia C. Coffey, superior court justice, from office. 2008 · House · HOUSE SPECIAL COMMITTEE
3. HA1 HA1: an ADDRESS for the removal of Kenneth R. McHugh, superior court justice, from office. 2006 · House · HOUSE SPECIAL COMMITTEE
4. HB147 HB147: making the commission of certain offenses punishable under the capital murder statute. Enacted 2011 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary
5. HB225 HB225: relative to room and board scholarships for children of firefighters and police officers. Enacted 2009 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Education
6. HB243 HB243: authorizing the designation of special assistant attorneys general. Enacted 2009 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary
7. HB497 HB497: relative to stolen checks. 2005 · House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
8. HB1153 HB1153: establishing a commission to study the laws and rules relating to subpoenas, summonses and complaints. 2006 · Senate · SENATE Judiciary
9. HB1219 HB1219: repealing the wartime registration of aliens laws. Enacted 2010 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary
10. HB1269 HB1269: relative to immunity from civil liability for sports officials. 2012 · House · HOUSE Judiciary
11. HB1292 HB1292: relative to the application of the capital murder statute. 2006 · House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
12. HB1370 HB1370: establishing a pilot program for an integrated juvenile justice information sharing system. Enacted 2008 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary
13. HB1410 HB1410: prohibiting lobbyists from serving on judicial branch commissions, committees, boards, or similar government entities. 2010 · House · HOUSE Judiciary
14. HB1453 HB1453: relative to civil liability for damage to protective barriers. Enacted 2008 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary
15. HB1532 HB1532: relative to trespass on land which is not posted. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Judiciary
16. HB1551 HB1551: (3rd New Title) clarifying the liability of landowners, lessees, and occupants of premises who allow other persons to use the premises for hunting, fishing, and other recreational purposes or to remove fuel wood, and relative to the losing claimant’s payment of the prevailing party’s costs in actions against such landowners, lessees, and occupants barred by liability immunity provisions. Enacted 2012 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary
17. HB1625 HB1625: (2nd New Title) establishing penalties for guardians ad litem who fail to file reports. Enacted 2006 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary
18. HB1634 HB1634: relative to assault by strangulation. Enacted 2010 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary
19. HB1644 HB1644: including "unborn child" in the definition of "another" for the purpose of first and second degree murder, manslaughter, and negligent homicide. 2010 · House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
20. HB1649 HB1649: including "unborn child" in the definition of "another" for the purpose of first and second degree murder, manslaughter, and negligent homicide. 2006 · House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
21. HB1669 HB1669: increasing the penalties for littering. 2006 · House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
22. HB1709 HB1709: establishing a criminal offense for failure to report a missing or deceased child. 2012 · House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
23. HR8 HR8: requesting an opinion from the New Hampshire supreme court on certain questions regarding education funding. 2007 · House · HOUSE Judiciary
24. SB278 SB278: limiting the recovery of health care expenses in personal injury actions and removing "probable duration of life but for the injury" as an element that may be considered in determining damages in a wrongful death action. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Judiciary
25. SB323 SB323: (New Title) repealing a provision relative to the calculation of multiple concurrent or consecutive sentences of imprisonment. Enacted 2008 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
26. SB406 SB406: (2nd New Title) relative to establishing an early offer alternative in medical injury claims, relative to confidentiality of police personnel files, and establishing a committee to study the referral of patients for use of implantable medical devices. Enacted 2012 · Veto overridden

Education (14 bills sponsored; 7 bills enacted)

1. CACR12 CACR12: (New Title) relating to public education. Providing that the general court shall have the authority to define standards for public education, establish standards of accountability, mitigate local disparities in educational opportunity and fiscal capacity, and have full discretion to determine the amount of state funding for education. 2012 · Senate · HOUSE Committee of Conference
2. HB225 HB225: relative to room and board scholarships for children of firefighters and police officers. Enacted 2009 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Education
3. HB337 HB337: (New Title) amending the calculation and distribution of adequate education grants, repealing fiscal capacity disparity aid, and providing stabilization grants to certain municipalities. Enacted 2011 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
4. HB558 HB558: (New Title) repealing the education trust fund. 2007 · Senate · SENATE Education
5. HB1282 HB1282: amending the pre-engineering technology curriculum. Enacted 2008 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Education
6. HB1336 HB1336: requiring the department of education to develop a plan to educate school personnel to recognize stress-related issues in children whose parents have served in Iraq or Afghanistan. 2008 · House · HOUSE Education
7. HB1417 HB1417: relative to a student's freedom of association. Enacted 2012 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Education
8. HB1607 HB1607: (New Title) establishing an education tax credit. 2012 · Vetoed by Governor · SENATE Finance
9. HB1692 HB1692: making changes to the administration of the university system of New Hampshire. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Finance
10. HJR21 HJR21: urging the university of New Hampshire to restore intercollegiate baseball and softball. Enacted 2006 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Education
11. HR8 HR8: requesting an opinion from the New Hampshire supreme court on certain questions regarding education funding. 2007 · House · HOUSE Judiciary
12. SB181 SB181: relative to distribution of funds for education. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Finance
13. SB196 SB196: (2nd New Title) relative to the renomination or reelection of teachers and grievance procedures. Enacted 2011 · Law without signature
14. SB372 SB372: (New Title) establishing an education tax credit. Enacted 2012 · Veto overridden · HOUSE Ways and Means

ELECTION LAW AND INTERNAL AFFAIRS (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1239 HB1239: relative to the legislative youth advisory council. Enacted 2008 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ELECTION LAW AND INTERNAL AFFAIRS

Elections and voting (4 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. HB88 HB88: establishing a committee to study voter registration affidavits. 2005 · House · HOUSE Election Law
2. HB1354 HB1354: (New Title) relative to voter affidavits. Enacted 2012 · Law without signature · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
3. HB1478 HB1478: relative to the definitions of resident for motor vehicle law purposes and domicile for voting purposes and relative to vehicle registration and driver's license requirements. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
4. SB196 SB196: (2nd New Title) relative to the renomination or reelection of teachers and grievance procedures. Enacted 2011 · Law without signature

Energy and Natural Resources (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB264 SB264: relative to energy facility site evaluations. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Energy and Natural Resources

Energy and utilities (8 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. HB61 HB61: relative to a definition of "sustainable energy." Enacted 2009 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
2. HB475 HB475: prohibiting the investment of state funds in the energy sectors of countries that have been identified by the United States Department of State as state sponsors of terrorism. 2009 · House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
3. HB476 HB476: relative to membership on the public utilities commission. 2007 · House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
4. HB704 HB704: (New Title) relative to the commission on the status of men and relative to appropriations to the STARC armory and making appropriations for state matching funds for federal emergency management agency disaster assistance grants and energy expense shortfalls. Enacted 2007 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
5. HB1305 HB1305: reestablishing the exemption from property taxation for telecommunications poles and conduits and establishing a committee to study how utilities are taxed by the state and municipalities. 2012 · House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
6. HB1391 HB1391: prohibiting the investment of state funds in the energy sectors of countries that have been identified by the United States Department of State as state sponsors of terrorism. 2008 · House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
7. SB264 SB264: relative to energy facility site evaluations. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Energy and Natural Resources
8. SB419 SB419: relative to the duties of the energy planning and advisory board and restructuring policy principles. 2008 · House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy

ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (3 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

1. HB61 HB61: relative to a definition of "sustainable energy." Enacted 2009 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
2. HB1378 HB1378: (New Title) establishing an adopt-a-state park program in the state park system and establishing an adopt-a-forest fire tower program in the division of forests and lands. Enacted 2010 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
3. HB1379 HB1379: relative to promotion of the state parks. Enacted 2010 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Environment and natural resources (8 bills sponsored; 6 bills enacted)

1. HB41 HB41: allowing the executive director of fish and game to donate certain hunting and fishing permits to the wildlife heritage foundation of New Hampshire. Enacted 2009 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
2. HB215 HB215: (New Title) relative to water management and relative to the membership of the exotic aquatic weeds and species committee. Enacted 2005 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
3. HB1186 HB1186: prohibiting smoking within certain areas of New Hampshire state parks and historic sites. 2010 · House · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
4. HB1551 HB1551: (3rd New Title) clarifying the liability of landowners, lessees, and occupants of premises who allow other persons to use the premises for hunting, fishing, and other recreational purposes or to remove fuel wood, and relative to the losing claimant’s payment of the prevailing party’s costs in actions against such landowners, lessees, and occupants barred by liability immunity provisions. Enacted 2012 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary
5. SB158 SB158: relative to review of activities affecting surface waters. Enacted 2008 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
6. SB294 SB294: relative to dedicated funds administered by the department of labor, department of environmental services, banking department, and secretary of state. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Finance
7. SB344 SB344: allowing the department of resources and economic development to cut vegetation in shoreland areas where public safety is of concern. Enacted 2012 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
8. SB358 SB358: (New Title) relative to eligibility for free admission to the state park system for members of the armed forces. Enacted 2012 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development

Executive administration (13 bills sponsored; 5 bills enacted)

1. HB178 HB178: establishing a committee to study issues regarding Financial Resources Mortgage, Inc. Enacted 2011 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
2. HB268 HB268: relative to transfers from the judicial branch to the executive or legislative branches of state government. Enacted 2010 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
3. HB475 HB475: prohibiting the investment of state funds in the energy sectors of countries that have been identified by the United States Department of State as state sponsors of terrorism. 2009 · House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
4. HB555 HB555: establishing February 6 as Ronald Reagan Day. 2005 · House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
5. HB624 HB624: (2nd New Title) establishing a committee to study the rulemaking authority of state agencies to establish fees. Enacted 2012 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
6. HB758 HB758: establishing a new state defined contribution retirement plan for new state employees and establishing a committee to study the transition of current employees into the new plan and administration of the new plan. 2007 · House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
7. HB1476 HB1476: prohibiting the enforcement of out-of-state laws, rules, codes, and fess not approved by the New Hampshire legislature. 2012 · House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
8. SB4 SB4: requiring legislative approval of cost items for state employee contract negotiations. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
9. SB76 SB76: relative to the authority of the department of revenue administration to adopt rules and to administer state tax laws. 2011 · House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
10. SB300 SB300: relative to death benefits for corrections officers killed in the line of duty. 2008 · House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
11. SB311 SB311: (3rd New Title) relative to weights and measures. Enacted 2012 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
12. SB366 SB366: relative to the operation of the state suggestion and extraordinary service award program. Enacted 2008 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
13. SB392 SB392: relative to road salt applicators. 2012 · House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration

FISH AND GAME (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB565 HB565: prohibiting the use of leghold traps and conibear traps. 2007 · House · HOUSE FISH AND GAME

Health and Human Services (5 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB327 HB327: (New Title) allowing collaborative pharmacy practice agreements to include pharmacy locations during declared emergencies. 2007 · Senate · SENATE Health and Human Services
2. HB926 HB926: relative to the regulation of pharmacies and pharmacists. Enacted 2007 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Health and Human Services
3. HB1560 HB1560: relative to the interstate Health Care Compact. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Health and Human Services
4. HB1642 HB1642: (New Title) relative to destination specialty hospitals. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Health and Human Services
5. HB1725 HB1725: prohibiting health care practitioner self-referrals for medical devices. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Health and Human Services

Health care (15 bills sponsored; 5 bills enacted)

1. HB161 HB161: renaming the Veterans Administration Hospital the Styles Bridges Veterans Administration Hospital. 2007 · House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
2. HB603 HB603: establishing a task force on mental health costs and requiring the commissioner of the department of corrections to enroll any person being released from a correctional facility in any available free or reduced cost drug program. 2008 · House · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
3. HB1310 HB1310: (New Title) allowing towns to hire health care workers. 2010 · Senate · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
4. HB1418 HB1418: (2nd New Title) increasing the threshold amounts for taxation under the business enterprise tax and extending the commission to study business taxes; excluding charges for Internet access from the communications services tax and requiring the transfer of insurance premium tax revenue to the department of health and human services; and relative to section 179 expense deductions under the business profits tax. Enacted 2012 · Law without signature · HOUSE Committee of Conference
5. HB1467 HB1467: establishing a commission to study the feasibility of constructing a state hospital facility to treat certain youths addicted to heroin or cocaine. 2008 · House · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
6. HB1560 HB1560: relative to the interstate Health Care Compact. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Health and Human Services
7. HB1642 HB1642: (New Title) relative to destination specialty hospitals. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Health and Human Services
8. HB1725 HB1725: prohibiting health care practitioner self-referrals for medical devices. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Health and Human Services
9. HR29 HR29: urging the United States Department of Health and Human Services to rescind its rule requiring health plans to provide sterilizations and contraceptives. 2012 · House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
10. SB102 SB102: relative to the powers of state government in the event of an incident or outbreak of communicable disease. Enacted 2008 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
11. SB151 SB151: relative to contracts of the department of health and human services. Enacted 2011 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
12. SB170 SB170: relative to the New Hampshire Medical Malpractice Joint Underwriting Association. Enacted 2011 · Law without signature · HOUSE Ways and Means
13. SB278 SB278: limiting the recovery of health care expenses in personal injury actions and removing "probable duration of life but for the injury" as an element that may be considered in determining damages in a wrongful death action. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Judiciary
14. SB287 SB287: relative to confidential prescription data. 2012 · House · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
15. SB406 SB406: (2nd New Title) relative to establishing an early offer alternative in medical injury claims, relative to confidentiality of police personnel files, and establishing a committee to study the referral of patients for use of implantable medical devices. Enacted 2012 · Veto overridden

Housing and property (5 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB298 HB298: excluding the value of a view from determination of market value for property tax assessments. 2009 · House · HOUSE LOCAL AND REGULATED REVENUES
2. HB1134 HB1134: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the construction of a permanent memorial to Governor John Gilbert Winant on state property other than the state house grounds. Enacted 2012 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
3. HB1288 HB1288: relative to protection of private property from the use of eminent domain. 2012 · House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
4. HB1305 HB1305: reestablishing the exemption from property taxation for telecommunications poles and conduits and establishing a committee to study how utilities are taxed by the state and municipalities. 2012 · House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
5. SB292 SB292: relative to property taxation of certain manufactured housing. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Ways and Means

Insurance (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1418 HB1418: (2nd New Title) increasing the threshold amounts for taxation under the business enterprise tax and extending the commission to study business taxes; excluding charges for Internet access from the communications services tax and requiring the transfer of insurance premium tax revenue to the department of health and human services; and relative to section 179 expense deductions under the business profits tax. Enacted 2012 · Law without signature · HOUSE Committee of Conference

INTERNAL AFFAIRS (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1256 HB1256: establishing a New Hampshire state register of historic places. Enacted 2012 · Signed by Governor · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS

LOCAL AND REGULATED REVENUES (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB298 HB298: excluding the value of a view from determination of market value for property tax assessments. 2009 · House · HOUSE LOCAL AND REGULATED REVENUES
2. HB1522 HB1522: relative to local spending caps. 2010 · House · HOUSE LOCAL AND REGULATED REVENUES

Local government (10 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

1. CACR12 CACR12: (New Title) relating to public education. Providing that the general court shall have the authority to define standards for public education, establish standards of accountability, mitigate local disparities in educational opportunity and fiscal capacity, and have full discretion to determine the amount of state funding for education. 2012 · Senate · HOUSE Committee of Conference
2. HB337 HB337: (New Title) amending the calculation and distribution of adequate education grants, repealing fiscal capacity disparity aid, and providing stabilization grants to certain municipalities. Enacted 2011 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
3. HB594 HB594: relative to the application of procedures for discharge or suspension from county employment. Enacted 2011 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
4. HB1128 HB1128: relative to the distribution of meals and rooms tax revenues to cities and towns. 2010 · Senate · HOUSE Committee of Conference
5. HB1163 HB1163: relative to town or district bonds or notes. 2008 · House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
6. HB1305 HB1305: reestablishing the exemption from property taxation for telecommunications poles and conduits and establishing a committee to study how utilities are taxed by the state and municipalities. 2012 · House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
7. HB1310 HB1310: (New Title) allowing towns to hire health care workers. 2010 · Senate · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
8. HB1329 HB1329: relative to the default budget in certain towns. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
9. HB1371 HB1371: relative to conflicts of interest of county government officials. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
10. SB326 SB326: (3rd New Title) relative to state reimbursement of towns and relative to taxation of trusts under the interest and dividends tax. Enacted 2012 · Veto overridden

NO COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT (3 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HCR27 HCR27: honoring the members of the military and intelligence community who carried out the mission that killed Osama bin Laden, and for other purposes. 2011 · Passed · SENATE NO COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT
2. HR11 HR11: affirming revenue estimates for fiscal years 2011, 2012, and 2013. 2011 · Passed · HOUSE No Committee Assignment
3. HR12 HR12: affirming revenue estimates for fiscal years 2011, 2012, and 2013. 2011 · Passed · HOUSE No Committee Assignment

Public and Municipal Affairs (10 bills sponsored; 4 bills enacted)

1. HB341 HB341: relative to local spending caps. 2011 · Senate · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
2. HB594 HB594: relative to the application of procedures for discharge or suspension from county employment. Enacted 2011 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
3. HB1134 HB1134: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the construction of a permanent memorial to Governor John Gilbert Winant on state property other than the state house grounds. Enacted 2012 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
4. HB1143 HB1143: (New Title) relative to shelter for dogs and the authority of law enforcement officers to take abused and neglected dogs into custody. Enacted 2008 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
5. HB1229 HB1229: declaring March 30 as Welcome Home Veterans Day to honor veterans of Vietnam. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
6. HB1310 HB1310: (New Title) allowing towns to hire health care workers. 2010 · Senate · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
7. HB1329 HB1329: relative to the default budget in certain towns. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
8. HB1354 HB1354: (New Title) relative to voter affidavits. Enacted 2012 · Law without signature · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
9. HB1371 HB1371: relative to conflicts of interest of county government officials. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
10. HB1478 HB1478: relative to the definitions of resident for motor vehicle law purposes and domicile for voting purposes and relative to vehicle registration and driver's license requirements. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs

Public finance (30 bills sponsored; 6 bills enacted)

1. CACR12 CACR12: (New Title) relating to public education. Providing that the general court shall have the authority to define standards for public education, establish standards of accountability, mitigate local disparities in educational opportunity and fiscal capacity, and have full discretion to determine the amount of state funding for education. 2012 · Senate · HOUSE Committee of Conference
2. HB215 HB215: (New Title) relative to water management and relative to the membership of the exotic aquatic weeds and species committee. Enacted 2005 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
3. HB369 HB369: establishing a spending cap on state budget requests. 2009 · House · HOUSE Finance
4. HB475 HB475: prohibiting the investment of state funds in the energy sectors of countries that have been identified by the United States Department of State as state sponsors of terrorism. 2009 · House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
5. HB558 HB558: (New Title) repealing the education trust fund. 2007 · Senate · SENATE Education
6. HB564 HB564: (New Title) relative to the adoption of forms by the department of revenue administration for the filing of taxes and removing the requirement for electronic tax payments. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
7. HB704 HB704: (New Title) relative to the commission on the status of men and relative to appropriations to the STARC armory and making appropriations for state matching funds for federal emergency management agency disaster assistance grants and energy expense shortfalls. Enacted 2007 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
8. HB1128 HB1128: relative to the distribution of meals and rooms tax revenues to cities and towns. 2010 · Senate · HOUSE Committee of Conference
9. HB1163 HB1163: relative to town or district bonds or notes. 2008 · House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
10. HB1302 HB1302: relative to underpayment of estimated taxes and equalization of valuations administered by the department of revenue administration. Enacted 2012 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Ways and Means
11. HB1329 HB1329: relative to the default budget in certain towns. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
12. HB1391 HB1391: prohibiting the investment of state funds in the energy sectors of countries that have been identified by the United States Department of State as state sponsors of terrorism. 2008 · House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
13. HB1418 HB1418: (2nd New Title) increasing the threshold amounts for taxation under the business enterprise tax and extending the commission to study business taxes; excluding charges for Internet access from the communications services tax and requiring the transfer of insurance premium tax revenue to the department of health and human services; and relative to section 179 expense deductions under the business profits tax. Enacted 2012 · Law without signature · HOUSE Committee of Conference
14. HB1607 HB1607: (New Title) establishing an education tax credit. 2012 · Vetoed by Governor · SENATE Finance
15. HB1662 HB1662: relative to preparation of fiscal notes. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Finance
16. HB1670 HB1670: establishing a searchable budget database for state spending. 2010 · House · HOUSE Finance
17. HB1692 HB1692: making changes to the administration of the university system of New Hampshire. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Finance
18. HR8 HR8: requesting an opinion from the New Hampshire supreme court on certain questions regarding education funding. 2007 · House · HOUSE Judiciary
19. HR11 HR11: affirming revenue estimates for fiscal years 2011, 2012, and 2013. 2011 · Passed · HOUSE No Committee Assignment
20. HR12 HR12: affirming revenue estimates for fiscal years 2011, 2012, and 2013. 2011 · Passed · HOUSE No Committee Assignment
21. SB63 SB63: authorizing the commissioner of revenue administration to extend tax filing deadlines for certain members of the armed forces. Enacted 2008 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Ways and Means
22. SB76 SB76: relative to the authority of the department of revenue administration to adopt rules and to administer state tax laws. 2011 · House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
23. SB78 SB78: relative to motor vehicle registration fees. 2011 · House · HOUSE Finance
24. SB126 SB126: relative to net operating loss carryovers under the business profits tax. 2011 · Senate · SENATE Finance
25. SB151 SB151: relative to contracts of the department of health and human services. Enacted 2011 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
26. SB154 SB154: (New Title) reforming and renaming the comprehensive shoreland protection act and repealing New Hampshire’s regional greenhouse gas initiative cap and trade program for controlling carbon dioxide emissions. 2011 · Vetoed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
27. SB181 SB181: relative to distribution of funds for education. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Finance
28. SB293 SB293: relative to notice requirements and payment of interest by the department of revenue administration for overpayments and underpayments of tax. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Finance
29. SB294 SB294: relative to dedicated funds administered by the department of labor, department of environmental services, banking department, and secretary of state. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Finance
30. SB295 SB295: increasing the research and development tax credit against the business profits tax. 2012 · House · HOUSE Finance

Public safety (2 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. HB704 HB704: (New Title) relative to the commission on the status of men and relative to appropriations to the STARC armory and making appropriations for state matching funds for federal emergency management agency disaster assistance grants and energy expense shortfalls. Enacted 2007 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
2. SB344 SB344: allowing the department of resources and economic development to cut vegetation in shoreland areas where public safety is of concern. Enacted 2012 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development

Public Works and Highways (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1437 HB1437: relative to display of certain historical items in the state house. 2012 · House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways

Retirement and pensions (4 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB594 HB594: relative to the application of procedures for discharge or suspension from county employment. Enacted 2011 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
2. HB758 HB758: establishing a new state defined contribution retirement plan for new state employees and establishing a committee to study the transition of current employees into the new plan and administration of the new plan. 2007 · House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
3. SB3 SB3: (2nd New Title) making comprehensive changes to the state retirement system. 2011 · Vetoed by Governor
4. SB229 SB229: (2nd New Title) establishing a commission to make recommendations on whether the New Hampshire retirement system should be replaced with a defined contribution plan for all new hires and to study the impact such change would have on the retirement system. 2012 · House

Science, Technology and Energy (7 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB476 HB476: relative to membership on the public utilities commission. 2007 · House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
2. HB1288 HB1288: relative to protection of private property from the use of eminent domain. 2012 · House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
3. HB1305 HB1305: reestablishing the exemption from property taxation for telecommunications poles and conduits and establishing a committee to study how utilities are taxed by the state and municipalities. 2012 · House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
4. HB1724 HB1724: requiring certain engine coolants and antifreeze to include an aversive agent so that they are rendered unpalatable. 2012 · House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
5. SB55 SB55: requiring certain engine coolants and antifreeze to include an aversive agent so that they are rendered unpalatable. 2011 · House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
6. SB419 SB419: relative to the duties of the energy planning and advisory board and restructuring policy principles. 2008 · House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
7. SCR2 SCR2: regarding the White Mountain National Forest. 2012 · Passed · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy

SPECIAL COMMITTEE (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HA1 HA1: for the removal of Patricia C. Coffey, superior court justice, from office. 2008 · House · HOUSE SPECIAL COMMITTEE
2. HA1 HA1: an ADDRESS for the removal of Kenneth R. McHugh, superior court justice, from office. 2006 · House · HOUSE SPECIAL COMMITTEE

State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs (8 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. HB161 HB161: renaming the Veterans Administration Hospital the Styles Bridges Veterans Administration Hospital. 2007 · House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
2. HB524 HB524: establishing a permanent state defense force. 2009 · House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
3. HB1391 HB1391: prohibiting the investment of state funds in the energy sectors of countries that have been identified by the United States Department of State as state sponsors of terrorism. 2008 · House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
4. HJR26 HJR26: urging Congress to reevaluate Title IX. 2006 · House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
5. HR29 HR29: urging the United States Department of Health and Human Services to rescind its rule requiring health plans to provide sterilizations and contraceptives. 2012 · House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
6. SB57 SB57: relative to the commission to study the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury suffered by New Hampshire soldiers and veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Enacted 2009 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
7. SB217 SB217: relative to management of Cannon mountain by the department of resources and economic development. 2012 · House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
8. SB221 SB221: establishing a commission to organize events in celebration of the Abraham Lincoln bicentennial. Enacted 2007 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

Taxation (34 bills sponsored; 11 bills enacted)

1. CACR13 CACR13: (New Title) Relating to prohibiting an assessment, rate, or tax on personal income. Providing that no assessment, rate, or tax on income earned by a natural person shall be levied by the state of New Hampshire except taxes in effect on January 1, 2012 and adjustments to the rate of such taxes. 2012 · Passed · HOUSE Committee of Conference
2. CACR24 CACR24: relating to prohibiting any new tax on personal income. Providing that no new tax on personal income shall be levied by the state of New Hampshire. 2008 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
3. CACR26 CACR26: relating to taxation. Providing that there shall be no broad-based taxes in New Hampshire. 2010 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
4. HB298 HB298: excluding the value of a view from determination of market value for property tax assessments. 2009 · House · HOUSE LOCAL AND REGULATED REVENUES
5. HB372 HB372: exempting motor vehicles equipped and used for transporting disabled persons from the tax on rental of motor vehicles. Enacted 2007 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Ways and Means
6. HB564 HB564: (New Title) relative to the adoption of forms by the department of revenue administration for the filing of taxes and removing the requirement for electronic tax payments. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
7. HB611 HB611: relative to determination of the reasonable compensation deduction under the business profits tax. 2012 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
8. HB619 HB619: establishing an additional exemption from the interest and dividends tax for individuals who are 70 years of age or older. 2007 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
9. HB793 HB793: establishing an exemption from the interest and dividends tax for individuals who are 62 years of age or older. 2007 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
10. HB1128 HB1128: relative to the distribution of meals and rooms tax revenues to cities and towns. 2010 · Senate · HOUSE Committee of Conference
11. HB1209 HB1209: establishing a committee to study administration of the business profits tax and the business enterprise tax. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
12. HB1221 HB1221: relative to the credit for the business enterprise tax against the business profits tax. Enacted 2012 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
13. HB1222 HB1222: relative to protected shoreland permitting fees. 2012 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
14. HB1302 HB1302: relative to underpayment of estimated taxes and equalization of valuations administered by the department of revenue administration. Enacted 2012 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Ways and Means
15. HB1305 HB1305: reestablishing the exemption from property taxation for telecommunications poles and conduits and establishing a committee to study how utilities are taxed by the state and municipalities. 2012 · House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
16. HB1319 HB1319: decreasing the rate of the tobacco tax. 2006 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
17. HB1418 HB1418: (2nd New Title) increasing the threshold amounts for taxation under the business enterprise tax and extending the commission to study business taxes; excluding charges for Internet access from the communications services tax and requiring the transfer of insurance premium tax revenue to the department of health and human services; and relative to section 179 expense deductions under the business profits tax. Enacted 2012 · Law without signature · HOUSE Committee of Conference
18. HB1607 HB1607: (New Title) establishing an education tax credit. 2012 · Vetoed by Governor · SENATE Finance
19. SB63 SB63: authorizing the commissioner of revenue administration to extend tax filing deadlines for certain members of the armed forces. Enacted 2008 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Ways and Means
20. SB76 SB76: relative to the authority of the department of revenue administration to adopt rules and to administer state tax laws. 2011 · House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
21. SB80 SB80: exempting certain rental income from the meals and rooms tax. 2011 · Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
22. SB125 SB125: (New Title) relative to the standards and burden of proof with respect to the business profits tax deduction for reasonable compensation attributable to owners of partnerships, limited liability companies, and sole proprietorships. Enacted 2011 · Law without signature · HOUSE Ways and Means
23. SB126 SB126: relative to net operating loss carryovers under the business profits tax. 2011 · Senate · SENATE Finance
24. SB132 SB132: establishing exemptions from the real estate transfer tax. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
25. SB167 SB167: establishing a production jobs creation credit under the business enterprise tax and making changes affecting small business to the business profits tax, the business enterprise tax, and the meals and rooms tax. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
26. SB170 SB170: relative to the New Hampshire Medical Malpractice Joint Underwriting Association. Enacted 2011 · Law without signature · HOUSE Ways and Means
27. SB203 SB203: (New Title) relative to limited liability companies and relative to meetings of a certain legislative study commission by open blogging. Enacted 2012 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Ways and Means
28. SB292 SB292: relative to property taxation of certain manufactured housing. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
29. SB293 SB293: relative to notice requirements and payment of interest by the department of revenue administration for overpayments and underpayments of tax. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Finance
30. SB295 SB295: increasing the research and development tax credit against the business profits tax. 2012 · House · HOUSE Finance
31. SB304 SB304: relative to the waiver of state fees associated with historic preservation. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
32. SB326 SB326: (3rd New Title) relative to state reimbursement of towns and relative to taxation of trusts under the interest and dividends tax. Enacted 2012 · Veto overridden
33. SB328 SB328: relative to civil forfeitures for certain waste disposal violations. Enacted 2008 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Ways and Means
34. SB372 SB372: (New Title) establishing an education tax credit. Enacted 2012 · Veto overridden · HOUSE Ways and Means

Transportation (11 bills sponsored; 5 bills enacted)

1. CACR26 CACR26: relating to taxation. Providing that there shall be no broad-based taxes in New Hampshire. 2010 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
2. HB149 HB149: prohibiting the use or installation of radar scrambler devices in motor vehicles. 2005 · House · HOUSE Transportation
3. HB372 HB372: exempting motor vehicles equipped and used for transporting disabled persons from the tax on rental of motor vehicles. Enacted 2007 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Ways and Means
4. HB515 HB515: relative to combat veteran stickers on number plates. 2007 · House · HOUSE Transportation
5. HB1138 HB1138: naming a bridge in Pelham in honor of Sergeant Daniel R. Gionet. Enacted 2012 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Transportation
6. HB1478 HB1478: relative to the definitions of resident for motor vehicle law purposes and domicile for voting purposes and relative to vehicle registration and driver's license requirements. 2012 · Senate · SENATE Public and Municipal Affairs
7. HB1504 HB1504: reinstating the Maine-New Hampshire Interstate Bridge Authority. Enacted 2012 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Transportation
8. SB78 SB78: relative to motor vehicle registration fees. 2011 · House · HOUSE Finance
9. SB156 SB156: authorizing retail vehicle dealers to act as agents of the division of motor vehicles for vehicle registrations and title applications. Enacted 2011 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Commerce and Consumer Affairs
10. SB303 SB303: relative to special number plates. Enacted 2008 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Transportation
11. SB392 SB392: relative to road salt applicators. 2012 · House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration

TRANSPORTATION AND INTERSTATE COOPERATION (3 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

1. HB1195 HB1195: relative to height, length, width, and weight limits for trucks. Enacted 2010 · Signed by Governor · SENATE TRANSPORTATION AND INTERSTATE COOPERATION
2. HB1417 HB1417: (New Title) establishing gold star number plates and relative to special number plates for veterans. Enacted 2006 · Signed by Governor · SENATE TRANSPORTATION AND INTERSTATE COOPERATION
3. HB1563 HB1563: (New Title) naming a bridge in Salem in honor of Corporal Nicholas Arvanitis, Staff Sergeant Edmond L. Lo, and Marine Lance Corporal Robert L. Moscillo. Enacted 2010 · Signed by Governor · SENATE TRANSPORTATION AND INTERSTATE COOPERATION

Uncategorized (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB370 SB370: (2nd New Title) relative to the powers of the state veterinarian. Enacted 2012 · Signed by Governor