Burton Cohen

2004 (32 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

1. HB304 HB304: relative to state acquisition of certain acreage in the Connecticut Lakes headwaters tract and making an appropriation therefor. Senate · SENATE Finance
2. HB366 HB366: relative to mercury reduction. Senate · SENATE INTERSTATE COOPERATION
3. HB501 HB501: ratifying certain actions of the Rye conservation commission. House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
4. HB651 HB651: (2nd New Title) relative to the purchase of prior service credit in the retirement system, and repealing certain provisions permitting additional contributions. Senate · HOUSE Committee of Conference
5. HB747 HB747: establishing the crime victim employment leave act. House · HOUSE Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
6. HB1129 HB1129: prohibiting smoking in vehicles when child passenger restraints are required. House · HOUSE Transportation
7. HB1153 HB1153: relative to employment security. House · HOUSE Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
8. HB1267 HB1267: requiring fast food restaurants to provide nutritional information to consumers. House · HOUSE COMMERCE
9. HB1375 HB1375: relative to powers of conservation commissions. House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
10. SB95 SB95: relative to the development of workforce housing within municipalities. House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
11. SB105 SB105: establishing state appliance and equipment energy efficiency standards. Senate · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
12. SB112 SB112: relative to state use of domestic steel. Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
13. SB118 SB118: establishing a ladders to literacy program and making an appropriation therefor. Senate · SENATE Education
14. SB126 SB126: (New Title) exempting transfers of title between spouses from the real estate transfer tax. House · HOUSE Ways and Means
15. SB215 SB215: relative to the use of prerecorded telephone messages for political advocacy. House · HOUSE Election Law
16. SB230 SB230: relative to transition service and relative to the sale of PSNH generation assets. Senate · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
17. SB311 SB311: relative to civil penalties for unlawful campaign practices. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Election Law
18. SB312 SB312: establishing a state code of ethics. Enacted Signed by Governor
19. SB313 SB313: relative to unsolicited commercial electronic mail. Senate · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS
20. SB320 SB320: relative to penalties for damaging emergency vehicles. House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
21. SB321 SB321: relative to the certification of pharmacy technicians by the board of pharmacy. Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
22. SB332 SB332: relative to tolls for disabled veterans. House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
23. SB334 SB334: relative to the dredging of Hampton-Seabrook harbor. Senate · SENATE Capital Budget
24. SB363 SB363: relative to notification of cancellation of insurance coverage. Senate · SENATE INSURANCE
25. SB373 SB373: relative to the disposal of mercury-added products. Senate · SENATE INTERSTATE COOPERATION
26. SB374 SB374: relative to emissions requirements for municipal waste combustion units. Senate · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
27. SB428 SB428: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the protection of consumers from unfair lending practices. House · HOUSE COMMERCE
28. SB494 SB494: (2nd New Title) relative to the prohibition on taking conch and winkles; licensing requirements for taking lobsters and crabs; and changing the name of the advisory committee on shore fisheries to the advisory committee on marine fisheries. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE FISH AND GAME
29. SB523 SB523: prohibiting the use of government property for electioneering. Senate · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS
30. SB525 SB525: (New Title) relative to land and community heritage investment program administration. House · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
31. SR5 SR5: urging an Independent Safety Assessment for Vermont Yankee. Senate
32. SR6 SR6: urging the Department of Housing and Urban Development to rescind the limitation on rental assistance under the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program. Senate · SENATE NO COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT

2003 (35 bills sponsored; 12 bills enacted)

1. HB58 HB58: requiring the department of transportation to study and report on the advantages of constructing state-owned truck service centers. House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
2. HB109 HB109: (New Title) relative to telemarketing practices. Senate
3. HB139 HB139: (2nd New Title) relative to the collection and reporting of school drop-out, suspension, and expulsion data; relative to the deadlines for submitting certain reports to the department of education; and establishing a statewide education accountability system. Enacted Law without signature · HOUSE Committee of Conference
4. HB272 HB272: relative to a pilot study by the department of transportation restricting large truck traffic during hours of darkness on certain roads in Portsmouth. House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
5. HB292 HB292: relative to vehicles entering intersections. House · HOUSE Transportation
6. HB334 HB334: establishing an international trade commission to investigate and report on the effects of international trade agreements on New Hampshire self-governance. House · HOUSE COMMERCE
7. HB365 HB365: relative to governmental land uses. House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
8. HB496 HB496: establishing a committee to study the inclusion of New Hampshire in the Amber Alert program. House · HOUSE Children and Family Law
9. HB565 HB565: establishing a commission to implement the Hampton Beach Master Plan. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
10. HB738 HB738: permitting aid to public water systems to be used for forming or improving regional water systems and making an appropriation therefor. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
11. HCR1 HCR1: endorsing the Canine Good Citizen Program. Passed · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
12. HCR4 HCR4: urging adoption and implementation of a national do-not-call list for telemarketers. House · HOUSE COMMERCE
13. HR7 HR7: urging increased consideration and preservation of local authority in international trade and investment agreements. House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
14. SB58 SB58: relative to the net operating loss under the business profits tax. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
15. SB64 SB64: relative to updating the drought management plan. House · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
16. SB65 SB65: relative to reducing certain mercury emissions. Senate · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
17. SB66 SB66: limiting the exemption from the meals and rooms tax for sales of alcoholic beverages by voluntary nonprofit organizations operating under one-day licenses from the liquor commission. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Ways and Means
18. SB67 SB67: relative to a report on municipal water needs. House · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
19. SB86 SB86: (New Title) relative to the disclosure of information about child fatalities resulting from abuse and neglect; relative to accreditation of the department of health and human services by the Council on Accreditation for Children and Family Services; and extending the reporting date for the pilot project relative to abuse and neglect hearings in Grafton county court. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
20. SB96 SB96: (New Title) establishing a pharmacy discount program for seniors and disabled persons and making an appropriation therefor. House · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
21. SB98 SB98: prohibiting telemarketers from contacting customers on a federal do-not-call registry. Enacted Signed by Governor
22. SB111 SB111: relative to the standardized protocol for investigating and interviewing victims of child abuse and neglect and relative to the development of multi-disciplinary child abuse investigation teams. Senate · SENATE Judiciary
23. SB115 SB115: (New Title) increasing the fees for review of subdivisions and waste disposal systems by the department of environmental services and making an appropriation for implementing information technology and regulatory process improvements. Enacted Signed by Governor
24. SB116 SB116: establishing a committee to study methods to prevent or reduce the high school dropout rate. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Education
25. SB123 SB123: establishing a commission to study structures for increased voter education and improved enforcement of campaign practices laws. House · HOUSE Election Law
26. SB162 SB162: establishing a committee to study water resources. Enacted Law without signature · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
27. SB185 SB185: relative to reducing mercury in automobiles. Senate · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
28. SB197 SB197: (New Title) relative to extended unemployment benefits and making an appropriation therefor. Enacted Law without signature · HOUSE Finance
29. SB201 SB201: establishing a committee to study insurance practices relative to homeowner's insurance. House · HOUSE COMMERCE
30. SB208 SB208: establishing a property tax cap and abatement program. Senate
31. SB209 SB209: relative to permissible campaign contributions by business organizations and labor unions. Senate
32. SB216 SB216: relative to the developmental services priority waiting list and making an appropriation therefor. Senate
33. SB217 SB217: relative to the calculation of average daily membership in residence for the purpose of calculating the cost of an adequate education. Senate
34. SB226 SB226: increasing the homestead exemption. Enacted Law without signature · HOUSE Judiciary
35. SCR2 SCR2: urging the United States Congress to act to rectify the science, research funding, and restrictions governing the Northeast multispecies fishing industry and its impact on New Hampshire fishermen. Passed · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

2002 (52 bills sponsored; 19 bills enacted)

1. CACR16 CACR16: (New Title) relating to procedure for nomination and review of judges. Providing that judges shall be nominated and selected by an independent commission and reviewed every 10 years thereafter. House · HOUSE Judiciary
2. CACR20 CACR20: relating to a personal income tax. Providing that any personal income tax enacted by the general court shall be dedicated exclusively for the purposes of public education. House · HOUSE Finance
3. HB253 HB253: relative to mercury reductions. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
4. HB284 HB284: (New Title) relative to additional emissions reductions from existing fossil fuel burning steam electric power plants. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
5. HB294 HB294: (New Title) excluding certain pension income from household income for purposes of determining low and moderate income homeowners property tax relief. House · HOUSE Finance
6. HB423 HB423: (New Title) relative to the sale of generation assets, the provision of transition service, and the funding of the energy efficiency program for Public Service Company of New Hamsphire. House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
7. HB691 HB691: relative to Area Health Education Centers in New Hampshire and making an appropriation therefor. House · HOUSE Finance
8. HB755 HB755: relative to groundwater contamination and gasoline sampling. House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
9. HB1102 HB1102: (New Title) establishing a hazardous waste coordinator certificate program and making an appropriation therefor. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
10. HB1210 HB1210: (3rd New Title) relative to barbering, cosmetology, and esthetics. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
11. HB1268 HB1268: (2nd New Title) relative to the net operating loss deduction under the business profits tax. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
12. HB1299 HB1299: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the creation of a marriage education and enhancement program. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
13. HB1455 HB1455: (New Title) establishing portability of a person's qualifying retirement funds for the purchase of permissive service credit in the New Hampshire retirement system. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
14. HB1462 HB1462: eliminating the statewide education property tax as a source of funding adequate education. Senate · SENATE Finance
15. SB31 SB31: eliminating straight ticket voting. House · HOUSE Election Law
16. SB87 SB87: relative to permissible campaign contributions by business organizations and labor unions. Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
17. SB146 SB146: relative to personal watercraft. Senate · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
18. SB173 SB173: creating a business profits tax credit for certain donations made for science and technology equipment and facilities to the university system of New Hampshire or any of its component institutions. Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
19. SB183 SB183: relative to distribution of certain meals and rooms tax revenue to municipalities with affordable housing. House · HOUSE Ways and Means
20. SB303 SB303: establishing a committee to study the definition of an adequate education. Senate · SENATE Education
21. SB305 SB305: establishing a committee to study methods for improving communication tower aesthetics. Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
22. SB307 SB307: relative to limitation of liability for dentists and dental hygienists working in free dental clinics. Senate · SENATE Judiciary
23. SB310 SB310: relative to child custody. Senate · SENATE Judiciary
24. SB311 SB311: establishing a no telemarketing sales calls statewide registry. Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
25. SB312 SB312: relative to quarterly payment of estimated interest and dividends tax. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Ways and Means
26. SB321 SB321: (NewTitle) establishing a committee to study statutory and administrative requirements regarding the legal residency of homeless children in certain educational and institutional settings, and relative to the appeal of decisions made regarding change of school or assignment. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Education
27. SB336 SB336: (2nd New Title) establishing a committee to study campaign finance reform and apportioning state representative districts. Vetoed by Governor · HOUSE Election Law
28. SB340 SB340: relative to alterations to party registration. Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
29. SB345 SB345: making the misrepresentation of the geographic location of a business a violation of the consumer protection act. House · HOUSE COMMERCE
30. SB355 SB355: relative to campaign contributions and expenditures. Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
31. SB363 SB363: establishing a committee to study economic distortions associated with property taxation. House · HOUSE Ways and Means
32. SB371 SB371: relative to the regulation of manufactured housing parks. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
33. SB372 SB372: prohibiting the sale of reformulated gasoline in certain counties of the state. House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
34. SB373 SB373: relative to state payments to foster care families and making an appropriation therefor. Senate · SENATE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
35. SB375 SB375: requiring a firearm safety program prior to the issuance of a concealed weapons permit. Senate · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
36. SB376 SB376: requiring a mental health records check prior to the sale or transfer of a firearm. Senate · SENATE Judiciary
37. SB381 SB381: relative to the employee benefits of employees of the Pease Development authority. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
38. SB388 SB388: relative to bingo game operation. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Ways and Means
39. SB391 SB391: relative to appeals from the compensation appeals board. House · HOUSE Judiciary
40. SB398 SB398: authorizing an increase in admission fees for the Seacoast Science Center at Odiorne Point state park in Rye, New Hampshire. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
41. SB405 SB405: relative to special number plates for veterans. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Transportation
42. SB418 SB418: relative to unemployment compensation. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
43. SB432 SB432: relative to allowing political subdivision employees who are members of the retirement system to make payment for prior service with other retirement assets. Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
44. SB433 SB433: (2nd New Title) establishing a standardized protocol for the investigation and assessment of child abuse and neglect cases and relative to grant applications for the investigation and assessment of child abuse cases. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Children and Family Law
45. SB436 SB436: allowing municipalities to adopt a lower interest rate charged on property tax payments made for property redemptions. House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
46. SB437 SB437: (New Title) relative to the protection of public water supplies during emergency conditions and establishing a committee to study the formation of regional water systems and the eligibility of such systems for state construction grants. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
47. SB442 SB442: (2nd New Title) establishing a committee to study revising the statutes relative to the state militia and the state guard, making certain technical changes to the militia statutes, and creating 2 funds. Enacted Signed by Governor
48. SB444 SB444: relative to parents in the classroom. House · HOUSE Education
49. SB448 SB448: creating business profits tax credits for contributions made by business organizations for housing for its low and moderate income employees and for certain affordable housing programs. Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
50. SB456 SB456: making appropriations to the department of health and human services. Enacted Signed by Governor
51. SCR4 SCR4: relative to prescription drug patient assistance programs. Passed · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
52. SR2 SR2: a resolution supporting the retention of the phrase "under God" in the pledge of allegiance. Senate · SENATE NO COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT

2001 (34 bills sponsored; 14 bills enacted)

1. CACR12 CACR12: relating to the term of office for governor. Providing that beginning with the 2004 general election, there shall be a 4-year term of office for governor. Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
2. CACR13 CACR13: relating to terms for state senators. Providing that beginning with the 2004 general election, there shall be 4-year terms of office for state senators. Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
3. HB131 HB131: relative to the retention and disposal of certain financial disclosure forms. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
4. HB145 HB145: establishing the position of state animal control officer and making an appropriation therefor. House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
5. HB171 HB171: abolishing the death penalty. House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
6. HB191 HB191: permitting unmarried adults to adopt jointly. House · HOUSE Children and Family Law
7. HB197 HB197: extending the reporting date of the commission to study methods for reducing violent incidents involving children and guns. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary
8. HB245 HB245: relative to the duties and staff of the state geologist. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
9. HB274 HB274: banning the residential open burning of trash and relative to a dioxin emissions reduction and control program. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
10. HB408 HB408: relative to the regulation of nursing by the board of nursing. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
11. HB422 HB422: establishing a committee to study the prevention of unintended pregnancies. House · HOUSE Children and Family Law
12. HB443 HB443: (2nd New Title) relative to a state energy plan and relative to road toll fees for vehicles powered by alternate energy sources. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
13. HB469 HB469: relative to the applicable minimum wage for hourly employees. Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
14. HB676 HB676: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the creation of a regional program for collection and marketing of certain components of the municipal solid waste stream. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
15. HB715 HB715: relative to the New Hampshire port authority. House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
16. HB736 HB736: establishing the consumer safety firearms protection act. House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
17. HB740 HB740: relative to decommissioning of nuclear electric generating facilities. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
18. HB746 HB746: authorizing citizen suits to assure enforcement of New Hampshire's environmental statutes. House · HOUSE Judiciary
19. HB759 HB759: establishing a flat rate education income tax, relative to the state education property tax and certain other taxes, and relative to other sources of funding for education. House · HOUSE Ways and Means
20. SB27 SB27: allowing the state to apply for review of a state prison sentence by the superior court's review division. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
21. SB71 SB71: (New Title) establishing a study committee relative to the regulation and compensation of persons licensed under the real estate practice act. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
22. SB89 SB89: establishing a committee to study methods of strengthening and clarifying the comprehensive shoreland protection act and its application. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
23. SB90 SB90: relative to misdemeanor jury trials. Senate · SENATE Judiciary
24. SB93 SB93: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the public health and environmental benefit of requiring stationary and mobile sources that burn virgin petroleum products or coal to comply with the requirements of the air toxic control act. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
25. SB95 SB95: (2nd New Title) relative to campaign finance reporting requirements, political expenditure limitation amounts, and permissible campaign contributions by business organizations. Senate
26. SB100 SB100: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the feasibility of creating a mental health court division. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Judiciary
27. SB114 SB114: (New Title) establishing a committee to study issues relating to judicial reform, and making an appropriation therefor. House · HOUSE Judiciary
28. SB116 SB116: relative to motor vehicle offenses which result in the death or serious bodily injury of another. Senate · SENATE Judiciary
29. SB121 SB121: relative to the advisory committee on international trade. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
30. SB129 SB129: establishing a minimum age for issuing a license to carry a concealed pistol or revolver. Senate · SENATE Judiciary
31. SB154 SB154: requiring criminal records check prior to the sale or transfer of firearms. Senate · SENATE Judiciary
32. SB185 SB185: relative to push-polling. Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
33. SB196 SB196: relative to the review of wireless communications facility proposals of state agencies and of proposals received by local land use boards. Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
34. SCR2 SCR2: (New Title) calling on the President and the Congress to fully fund the federal government's share of the average per pupil expenditure in public elementary and secondary schools in the United States under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Passed · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

2000 (65 bills sponsored; 23 bills enacted)

1. CACR20 CACR20: relating to the election of governor and senators. Providing that beginning with the 2002 general election, and every 4 years thereafter, the governor and senators shall be elected. House · HOUSE Election Law
2. HB279 HB279: relative to refinancing the cost and rehabilitation of the Cheshire Bridge. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
3. HB575 HB575: limiting railroad liability for passenger and tourist rail service. House · HOUSE Judiciary
4. HB662 HB662: relative to the duties of the liquor commission. House · HOUSE COMMERCE
5. HB1159 HB1159: establishing a committee to study the origins and destinations of truck traffic at the exit 3 truck stop in the town of Greenland. House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
6. HB1200 HB1200: (3rd New Title) relative to the application of education property tax hardship relief to estate planning trusts and relative to eligibility for hardship relief. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
7. HB1229 HB1229: requiring the completion of a rate proceeding prior to legislative approval of a settlement agreement with PSNH. House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
8. HB1358 HB1358: prohibiting smoking in restaurants. House · HOUSE COMMERCE
9. HB1375 HB1375: establishing financial assurance for guaranteed promise of customer repayment of rate reduction bonds. House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
10. HB1378 HB1378: establishing a task force to conduct an ongoing study of the feasibility of re-establishing passenger rail service on the Eastern Line from Newburyport, Massachusetts to Kittery, Maine. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Transportation
11. HB1462 HB1462: (New Title) extending the report date and changing the membership and duties of the committee to study methods to promote the use of renewable energy sources. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
12. HB1470 HB1470: relative to divestiture of electric utility assets. Senate · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
13. HB1503 HB1503: establishing a study committee to review the state's current parole and probation procedures. House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
14. HB1519 HB1519: relative to diversity training for law enforcement and educational personnel. House · HOUSE Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
15. HB1548 HB1548: abolishing the death penalty. Vetoed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary
16. HB1604 HB1604: establishing the position of state animal control officer. House · HOUSE FISH AND GAME
17. HB1607 HB1607: (New Title) establishing a study committee to consider legislation reducing to zero the number of persons with developmental disabilities and persons with brain injuries in the state who are not receiving or have not received Medicaid services. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
18. HCR30 HCR30: (New Title) urging the United States Environmental Protection Agency to adopt recently proposed new emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles, at least as stringent as originally proposed, and to adopt a second phase of emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles and reductions in the sulfur content of highway diesel fuel. Passed · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
19. HCR31 HCR31: urging the New Hampshire congressional delegation to take action to keep the international border crossing between the United States and Canada, in the town of Pittsburg, New Hampshire, open 24 hours a day. Passed · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
20. HJR6 HJR6: (New Title) encouraging the revitalization of the northern rail corridor from Concord to Lebanon and recognizing its interim recreational uses. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Transportation
21. HJR23 HJR23: urging the executive branch to negotiate an expedient settlement resolving the Claremont dispute. House · HOUSE Finance
22. SB29 SB29: relative to the proper sheltering of dogs. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
23. SB52 SB52: requiring insurance coverage for infertility treatments. House · HOUSE COMMERCE
24. SB96 SB96: relative to pre-approval of payment of medical services by workers' compensation insurers. Senate · SENATE INSURANCE
25. SB97 SB97: [New Title] relative to charitable trusts which are institutional funds. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
26. SB135 SB135: relative to water supply land protection grants. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
27. SB144 SB144: relative to qualifications for members of the fish and game commission. Senate · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
28. SB178 SB178: (New Title) relative to appropriations to the port authority for dredging projects. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
29. SB181 SB181: relative to the licensure of geologists. House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
30. SB218 SB218: regulating the land application of sewage sludge. Senate · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
31. SB219 SB219: [New Title] establishing a procedure for providing educational improvement assistance to local school districts and making an appropriation therefor. House · HOUSE Education
32. SB301 SB301: relative to prohibiting the department of resources and economic development from selling to or making leases with certain entities on state park or state forest lands without prior approval by the general court. Senate · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS
33. SB330 SB330: ( New Title ) establishing a committee to study the impact of water withdrawals on instream flows and the impact of instream flow rules on entities that withdraw water or are affected by instream flows. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
34. SB331 SB331: requiring a report from the public utilities commission and the department of environmental services evaluating whether existing regulatory structures encourage or discourage regional cooperation for water resources management and water conservation. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
35. SB339 SB339: ( New Title) relative to conducting a feasibility study of various alternatives to enhance safety at the traffic circle in the city of Portsmouth. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
36. SB340 SB340: extending the reporting date of the committee to study the problems and possible regulation of outdoor lighting. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
37. SB344 SB344: relative to appointment of housing consumers to housing authority boards. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
38. SB348 SB348: extending the committee to study the establishment of a permit system for vessels registered in another state temporarily using the waters of New Hampshire. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Transportation
39. SB361 SB361: authorizing citizen suits to assure enforcement of New Hampshire's environmental statutes. Senate · SENATE Judiciary
40. SB373 SB373: directing the public water access advisory board to prepare a report relating to the types of public access and recreational uses appropriate to different types of public bodies of water. Senate · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
41. SB382 SB382: relative to appeals of release or detention orders Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
42. SB383 SB383: (New Title) requiring the department of health and human services and insurers to make prompt payments. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
43. SB384 SB384: [New Title] establishing a committee to study pollution prevention and pretreatment programs for reducing pollutant levels in sewage sludge. House · HOUSE Environment and Agriculture
44. SB387 SB387: relative to proposed toll booths in the city of Nashua and relative to alternatives to the statewide toll booth system. House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
45. SB388 SB388: assessing a surcharge on waste disposed at solid waste landfills and incinerators. Senate · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
46. SB406 SB406: ( New Title ) prohibiting the use of reformulated gasoline with watercraft on or in bodies of water that provide public water supplies. House · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
47. SB408 SB408: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the application of non-conventional veterinary procedures for domestic animals. House · HOUSE Environment and Agriculture
48. SB413 SB413: relative to confidentiality of addresses for victims of domestic violence, stalking, or sexual assault. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
49. SB419 SB419: establishing the crime of negligent storage of a firearm. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
50. SB420 SB420: (New Title) increasing the penalty for people convicted of purposeful cruelty to animals taking place in front of children and with intent to intimidate them and relative to criminal threatening. House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
51. SB421 SB421: (New title) establishing a child day care program credit against the business profits tax and the business enterprise tax. House · HOUSE Finance
52. SB427 SB427: banning the sale or transfer of "Saturday night specials." Senate · SENATE Judiciary
53. SB429 SB429: relative to claims before the state commission for human rights. Senate · SENATE Judiciary
54. SB430 SB430: authorizing the sweepstakes commission to allow electronic bingo games. Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
55. SB433 SB433: relative to the age at which a minor may purchase or possess handguns and ammunition. Senate · SENATE Judiciary
56. SB438 SB438: relative to habitual simple assault. Senate · SENATE Finance
57. SB439 SB439: (New Title) relative to motor vehicle offenses resulting in serious bodily injury and relative to driver record information. Enacted Signed by Governor
58. SB443 SB443: relative to veterinarian reimbursement for the animal population control program. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Environment and Agriculture
59. SB449 SB449: (2nd New Title) clarifying that employees in certain department of health and human services' positions are entitled to certain salaries and raises; increasing certain appropriations to the legislative branch for consultants; making fiscal year 2000 legislative branch appropriations nonlapsing until June 30, 2001; and appropriating funds to the legislative budget assistant and the department of revenue administration for tax modeling. Enacted Signed by Governor
60. SB460 SB460: establishing a grant program to reimburse eligible districts served by municipal waste combustors. House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
61. SCR3 SCR3: rescinding the 1979 call for a federal constitutional convention. House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
62. SCR5 SCR5: urging the New England states and New York to consider cooperative strategies to address the challenge of the high cost of prescription medicines. Passed · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
63. SCR6 SCR6: urging the President and Congress to address the challenge of high prescription medication prices. Passed
64. SCR7 SCR7: urging the federal government to consider the impacts on New Hampshire and the smaller states of interstate waste legislation. House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
65. SR14 SR14: relative to heating oil prices and the state match requirement for the federal Weatherization Program. Senate

HOUSE Children and Family Law (4 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

2003 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB496 HB496: establishing a committee to study the inclusion of New Hampshire in the Amber Alert program. House · HOUSE Children and Family Law

2002 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB433 SB433: (2nd New Title) establishing a standardized protocol for the investigation and assessment of child abuse and neglect cases and relative to grant applications for the investigation and assessment of child abuse cases. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Children and Family Law

2001 (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB191 HB191: permitting unmarried adults to adopt jointly. House · HOUSE Children and Family Law
2. HB422 HB422: establishing a committee to study the prevention of unintended pregnancies. House · HOUSE Children and Family Law

HOUSE COMMERCE (13 bills sponsored; 4 bills enacted)

2004 (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1267 HB1267: requiring fast food restaurants to provide nutritional information to consumers. House · HOUSE COMMERCE
2. SB428 SB428: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the protection of consumers from unfair lending practices. House · HOUSE COMMERCE

2003 (3 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB334 HB334: establishing an international trade commission to investigate and report on the effects of international trade agreements on New Hampshire self-governance. House · HOUSE COMMERCE
2. HCR4 HCR4: urging adoption and implementation of a national do-not-call list for telemarketers. House · HOUSE COMMERCE
3. SB201 SB201: establishing a committee to study insurance practices relative to homeowner's insurance. House · HOUSE COMMERCE

2002 (2 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB345 SB345: making the misrepresentation of the geographic location of a business a violation of the consumer protection act. House · HOUSE COMMERCE
2. SB371 SB371: relative to the regulation of manufactured housing parks. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE

2001 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB121 SB121: relative to the advisory committee on international trade. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE

2000 (5 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. HB662 HB662: relative to the duties of the liquor commission. House · HOUSE COMMERCE
2. HB1358 HB1358: prohibiting smoking in restaurants. House · HOUSE COMMERCE
3. SB52 SB52: requiring insurance coverage for infertility treatments. House · HOUSE COMMERCE
4. SB97 SB97: [New Title] relative to charitable trusts which are institutional funds. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
5. SB383 SB383: (New Title) requiring the department of health and human services and insurers to make prompt payments. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE

HOUSE Committee of Conference (6 bills sponsored; 5 bills enacted)

2004 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB651 HB651: (2nd New Title) relative to the purchase of prior service credit in the retirement system, and repealing certain provisions permitting additional contributions. Senate · HOUSE Committee of Conference

2003 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB139 HB139: (2nd New Title) relative to the collection and reporting of school drop-out, suspension, and expulsion data; relative to the deadlines for submitting certain reports to the department of education; and establishing a statewide education accountability system. Enacted Law without signature · HOUSE Committee of Conference

2002 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1210 HB1210: (3rd New Title) relative to barbering, cosmetology, and esthetics. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference

2001 (3 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

1. HB131 HB131: relative to the retention and disposal of certain financial disclosure forms. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
2. HB274 HB274: banning the residential open burning of trash and relative to a dioxin emissions reduction and control program. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
3. HB676 HB676: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the creation of a regional program for collection and marketing of certain components of the municipal solid waste stream. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference

HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety (10 bills sponsored; 5 bills enacted)

2004 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB320 SB320: relative to penalties for damaging emergency vehicles. House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety

2001 (3 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB171 HB171: abolishing the death penalty. House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
2. HB736 HB736: establishing the consumer safety firearms protection act. House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
3. SB27 SB27: allowing the state to apply for review of a state prison sentence by the superior court's review division. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety

2000 (6 bills sponsored; 4 bills enacted)

1. HB1503 HB1503: establishing a study committee to review the state's current parole and probation procedures. House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
2. SB29 SB29: relative to the proper sheltering of dogs. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
3. SB382 SB382: relative to appeals of release or detention orders Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
4. SB413 SB413: relative to confidentiality of addresses for victims of domestic violence, stalking, or sexual assault. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
5. SB419 SB419: establishing the crime of negligent storage of a firearm. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
6. SB420 SB420: (New Title) increasing the penalty for people convicted of purposeful cruelty to animals taking place in front of children and with intent to intimidate them and relative to criminal threatening. House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety

HOUSE Education (4 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

2003 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB116 SB116: establishing a committee to study methods to prevent or reduce the high school dropout rate. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Education

2002 (2 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB321 SB321: (NewTitle) establishing a committee to study statutory and administrative requirements regarding the legal residency of homeless children in certain educational and institutional settings, and relative to the appeal of decisions made regarding change of school or assignment. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Education
2. SB444 SB444: relative to parents in the classroom. House · HOUSE Education

2000 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB219 SB219: [New Title] establishing a procedure for providing educational improvement assistance to local school districts and making an appropriation therefor. House · HOUSE Education

HOUSE Election Law (6 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

2004 (2 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB215 SB215: relative to the use of prerecorded telephone messages for political advocacy. House · HOUSE Election Law
2. SB311 SB311: relative to civil penalties for unlawful campaign practices. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Election Law

2003 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB123 SB123: establishing a commission to study structures for increased voter education and improved enforcement of campaign practices laws. House · HOUSE Election Law

2002 (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB31 SB31: eliminating straight ticket voting. House · HOUSE Election Law
2. SB336 SB336: (2nd New Title) establishing a committee to study campaign finance reform and apportioning state representative districts. Vetoed by Governor · HOUSE Election Law

2000 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. CACR20 CACR20: relating to the election of governor and senators. Providing that beginning with the 2002 general election, and every 4 years thereafter, the governor and senators shall be elected. House · HOUSE Election Law

HOUSE Environment and Agriculture (3 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

2000 (3 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB384 SB384: [New Title] establishing a committee to study pollution prevention and pretreatment programs for reducing pollutant levels in sewage sludge. House · HOUSE Environment and Agriculture
2. SB408 SB408: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the application of non-conventional veterinary procedures for domestic animals. House · HOUSE Environment and Agriculture
3. SB443 SB443: relative to veterinarian reimbursement for the animal population control program. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Environment and Agriculture

HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration (4 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

2002 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB381 SB381: relative to the employee benefits of employees of the Pease Development authority. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration

2001 (2 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB145 HB145: establishing the position of state animal control officer and making an appropriation therefor. House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
2. SB71 SB71: (New Title) establishing a study committee relative to the regulation and compensation of persons licensed under the real estate practice act. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration

2000 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB181 SB181: relative to the licensure of geologists. House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration

HOUSE Finance (9 bills sponsored; 4 bills enacted)

2003 (3 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

1. SB58 SB58: relative to the net operating loss under the business profits tax. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
2. SB86 SB86: (New Title) relative to the disclosure of information about child fatalities resulting from abuse and neglect; relative to accreditation of the department of health and human services by the Council on Accreditation for Children and Family Services; and extending the reporting date for the pilot project relative to abuse and neglect hearings in Grafton county court. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
3. SB197 SB197: (New Title) relative to extended unemployment benefits and making an appropriation therefor. Enacted Law without signature · HOUSE Finance

2002 (3 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. CACR20 CACR20: relating to a personal income tax. Providing that any personal income tax enacted by the general court shall be dedicated exclusively for the purposes of public education. House · HOUSE Finance
2. HB294 HB294: (New Title) excluding certain pension income from household income for purposes of determining low and moderate income homeowners property tax relief. House · HOUSE Finance
3. HB691 HB691: relative to Area Health Education Centers in New Hampshire and making an appropriation therefor. House · HOUSE Finance

2000 (3 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HJR23 HJR23: urging the executive branch to negotiate an expedient settlement resolving the Claremont dispute. House · HOUSE Finance
2. SB178 SB178: (New Title) relative to appropriations to the port authority for dredging projects. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
3. SB421 SB421: (New title) establishing a child day care program credit against the business profits tax and the business enterprise tax. House · HOUSE Finance

HOUSE FISH AND GAME (2 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

2004 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB494 SB494: (2nd New Title) relative to the prohibition on taking conch and winkles; licensing requirements for taking lobsters and crabs; and changing the name of the advisory committee on shore fisheries to the advisory committee on marine fisheries. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE FISH AND GAME

2000 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1604 HB1604: establishing the position of state animal control officer. House · HOUSE FISH AND GAME

HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

2003 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB96 SB96: (New Title) establishing a pharmacy discount program for seniors and disabled persons and making an appropriation therefor. House · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

2000 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SCR5 SCR5: urging the New England states and New York to consider cooperative strategies to address the challenge of the high cost of prescription medicines. Passed · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

HOUSE Judiciary (7 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

2003 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB226 SB226: increasing the homestead exemption. Enacted Law without signature · HOUSE Judiciary

2002 (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. CACR16 CACR16: (New Title) relating to procedure for nomination and review of judges. Providing that judges shall be nominated and selected by an independent commission and reviewed every 10 years thereafter. House · HOUSE Judiciary
2. SB391 SB391: relative to appeals from the compensation appeals board. House · HOUSE Judiciary

2001 (3 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB746 HB746: authorizing citizen suits to assure enforcement of New Hampshire's environmental statutes. House · HOUSE Judiciary
2. SB100 SB100: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the feasibility of creating a mental health court division. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Judiciary
3. SB114 SB114: (New Title) establishing a committee to study issues relating to judicial reform, and making an appropriation therefor. House · HOUSE Judiciary

2000 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB575 HB575: limiting railroad liability for passenger and tourist rail service. House · HOUSE Judiciary

HOUSE Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services (4 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

2004 (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB747 HB747: establishing the crime victim employment leave act. House · HOUSE Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
2. HB1153 HB1153: relative to employment security. House · HOUSE Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services

2002 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB418 SB418: relative to unemployment compensation. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services

2000 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1519 HB1519: relative to diversity training for law enforcement and educational personnel. House · HOUSE Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services

HOUSE Municipal and County Government (7 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

2004 (3 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB501 HB501: ratifying certain actions of the Rye conservation commission. House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
2. HB1375 HB1375: relative to powers of conservation commissions. House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
3. SB95 SB95: relative to the development of workforce housing within municipalities. House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government

2003 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB365 HB365: relative to governmental land uses. House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government

2002 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB436 SB436: allowing municipalities to adopt a lower interest rate charged on property tax payments made for property redemptions. House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government

2000 (2 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. SB340 SB340: extending the reporting date of the committee to study the problems and possible regulation of outdoor lighting. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
2. SB344 SB344: relative to appointment of housing consumers to housing authority boards. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Municipal and County Government

HOUSE Public Works and Highways (7 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

2004 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB332 SB332: relative to tolls for disabled veterans. House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways

2003 (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB58 HB58: requiring the department of transportation to study and report on the advantages of constructing state-owned truck service centers. House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
2. HB272 HB272: relative to a pilot study by the department of transportation restricting large truck traffic during hours of darkness on certain roads in Portsmouth. House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways

2001 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB715 HB715: relative to the New Hampshire port authority. House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways

2000 (3 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1159 HB1159: establishing a committee to study the origins and destinations of truck traffic at the exit 3 truck stop in the town of Greenland. House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
2. SB339 SB339: ( New Title) relative to conducting a feasibility study of various alternatives to enhance safety at the traffic circle in the city of Portsmouth. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
3. SB387 SB387: relative to proposed toll booths in the city of Nashua and relative to alternatives to the statewide toll booth system. House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways

HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development (10 bills sponsored; 6 bills enacted)

2004 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB525 SB525: (New Title) relative to land and community heritage investment program administration. House · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development

2003 (3 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB64 SB64: relative to updating the drought management plan. House · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
2. SB67 SB67: relative to a report on municipal water needs. House · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
3. SB162 SB162: establishing a committee to study water resources. Enacted Law without signature · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development

2002 (2 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. SB398 SB398: authorizing an increase in admission fees for the Seacoast Science Center at Odiorne Point state park in Rye, New Hampshire. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
2. SB437 SB437: (New Title) relative to the protection of public water supplies during emergency conditions and establishing a committee to study the formation of regional water systems and the eligibility of such systems for state construction grants. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development

2001 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB89 SB89: establishing a committee to study methods of strengthening and clarifying the comprehensive shoreland protection act and its application. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development

2000 (3 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. SB330 SB330: ( New Title ) establishing a committee to study the impact of water withdrawals on instream flows and the impact of instream flow rules on entities that withdraw water or are affected by instream flows. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
2. SB331 SB331: requiring a report from the public utilities commission and the department of environmental services evaluating whether existing regulatory structures encourage or discourage regional cooperation for water resources management and water conservation. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
3. SB406 SB406: ( New Title ) prohibiting the use of reformulated gasoline with watercraft on or in bodies of water that provide public water supplies. House · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development

HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy (7 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

2002 (3 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB423 HB423: (New Title) relative to the sale of generation assets, the provision of transition service, and the funding of the energy efficiency program for Public Service Company of New Hamsphire. House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
2. HB755 HB755: relative to groundwater contamination and gasoline sampling. House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
3. SB372 SB372: prohibiting the sale of reformulated gasoline in certain counties of the state. House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy

2001 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB93 SB93: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the public health and environmental benefit of requiring stationary and mobile sources that burn virgin petroleum products or coal to comply with the requirements of the air toxic control act. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy

2000 (3 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1229 HB1229: requiring the completion of a rate proceeding prior to legislative approval of a settlement agreement with PSNH. House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
2. HB1375 HB1375: establishing financial assurance for guaranteed promise of customer repayment of rate reduction bonds. House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
3. SB460 SB460: establishing a grant program to reimburse eligible districts served by municipal waste combustors. House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy

HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs (6 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

2003 (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HR7 HR7: urging increased consideration and preservation of local authority in international trade and investment agreements. House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
2. SCR2 SCR2: urging the United States Congress to act to rectify the science, research funding, and restrictions governing the Northeast multispecies fishing industry and its impact on New Hampshire fishermen. Passed · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

2002 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SCR4 SCR4: relative to prescription drug patient assistance programs. Passed · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

2001 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SCR2 SCR2: (New Title) calling on the President and the Congress to fully fund the federal government's share of the average per pupil expenditure in public elementary and secondary schools in the United States under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Passed · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

2000 (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SCR3 SCR3: rescinding the 1979 call for a federal constitutional convention. House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
2. SCR7 SCR7: urging the federal government to consider the impacts on New Hampshire and the smaller states of interstate waste legislation. House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

HOUSE Transportation (4 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

2004 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1129 HB1129: prohibiting smoking in vehicles when child passenger restraints are required. House · HOUSE Transportation

2003 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB292 HB292: relative to vehicles entering intersections. House · HOUSE Transportation

2002 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB405 SB405: relative to special number plates for veterans. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Transportation

2000 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB348 SB348: extending the committee to study the establishment of a permit system for vessels registered in another state temporarily using the waters of New Hampshire. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Transportation

HOUSE Ways and Means (7 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

2004 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB126 SB126: (New Title) exempting transfers of title between spouses from the real estate transfer tax. House · HOUSE Ways and Means

2003 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB66 SB66: limiting the exemption from the meals and rooms tax for sales of alcoholic beverages by voluntary nonprofit organizations operating under one-day licenses from the liquor commission. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Ways and Means

2002 (4 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. SB183 SB183: relative to distribution of certain meals and rooms tax revenue to municipalities with affordable housing. House · HOUSE Ways and Means
2. SB312 SB312: relative to quarterly payment of estimated interest and dividends tax. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Ways and Means
3. SB363 SB363: establishing a committee to study economic distortions associated with property taxation. House · HOUSE Ways and Means
4. SB388 SB388: relative to bingo game operation. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Ways and Means

2001 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB759 HB759: establishing a flat rate education income tax, relative to the state education property tax and certain other taxes, and relative to other sources of funding for education. House · HOUSE Ways and Means

No committee listed (16 bills sponsored; 7 bills enacted)

2004 (2 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB312 SB312: establishing a state code of ethics. Enacted Signed by Governor
2. SR5 SR5: urging an Independent Safety Assessment for Vermont Yankee. Senate

2003 (7 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. HB109 HB109: (New Title) relative to telemarketing practices. Senate
2. SB98 SB98: prohibiting telemarketers from contacting customers on a federal do-not-call registry. Enacted Signed by Governor
3. SB115 SB115: (New Title) increasing the fees for review of subdivisions and waste disposal systems by the department of environmental services and making an appropriation for implementing information technology and regulatory process improvements. Enacted Signed by Governor
4. SB208 SB208: establishing a property tax cap and abatement program. Senate
5. SB209 SB209: relative to permissible campaign contributions by business organizations and labor unions. Senate
6. SB216 SB216: relative to the developmental services priority waiting list and making an appropriation therefor. Senate
7. SB217 SB217: relative to the calculation of average daily membership in residence for the purpose of calculating the cost of an adequate education. Senate

2002 (2 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. SB442 SB442: (2nd New Title) establishing a committee to study revising the statutes relative to the state militia and the state guard, making certain technical changes to the militia statutes, and creating 2 funds. Enacted Signed by Governor
2. SB456 SB456: making appropriations to the department of health and human services. Enacted Signed by Governor

2001 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB95 SB95: (2nd New Title) relative to campaign finance reporting requirements, political expenditure limitation amounts, and permissible campaign contributions by business organizations. Senate

2000 (4 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. SB439 SB439: (New Title) relative to motor vehicle offenses resulting in serious bodily injury and relative to driver record information. Enacted Signed by Governor
2. SB449 SB449: (2nd New Title) clarifying that employees in certain department of health and human services' positions are entitled to certain salaries and raises; increasing certain appropriations to the legislative branch for consultants; making fiscal year 2000 legislative branch appropriations nonlapsing until June 30, 2001; and appropriating funds to the legislative budget assistant and the department of revenue administration for tax modeling. Enacted Signed by Governor
3. SCR6 SCR6: urging the President and Congress to address the challenge of high prescription medication prices. Passed
4. SR14 SR14: relative to heating oil prices and the state match requirement for the federal Weatherization Program. Senate

SENATE Capital Budget (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

2004 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB334 SB334: relative to the dredging of Hampton-Seabrook harbor. Senate · SENATE Capital Budget

SENATE Education (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

2004 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB118 SB118: establishing a ladders to literacy program and making an appropriation therefor. Senate · SENATE Education

2002 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB303 SB303: establishing a committee to study the definition of an adequate education. Senate · SENATE Education

SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (9 bills sponsored; 4 bills enacted)

2004 (3 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB105 SB105: establishing state appliance and equipment energy efficiency standards. Senate · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
2. SB230 SB230: relative to transition service and relative to the sale of PSNH generation assets. Senate · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
3. SB374 SB374: relative to emissions requirements for municipal waste combustion units. Senate · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

2003 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB565 HB565: establishing a commission to implement the Hampton Beach Master Plan. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

2001 (2 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. HB443 HB443: (2nd New Title) relative to a state energy plan and relative to road toll fees for vehicles powered by alternate energy sources. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
2. HB740 HB740: relative to decommissioning of nuclear electric generating facilities. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

2000 (3 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1462 HB1462: (New Title) extending the report date and changing the membership and duties of the committee to study methods to promote the use of renewable energy sources. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
2. HB1470 HB1470: relative to divestiture of electric utility assets. Senate · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
3. HCR31 HCR31: urging the New Hampshire congressional delegation to take action to keep the international border crossing between the United States and Canada, in the town of Pittsburg, New Hampshire, open 24 hours a day. Passed · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

SENATE ENVIRONMENT (7 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

2003 (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB65 SB65: relative to reducing certain mercury emissions. Senate · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
2. SB185 SB185: relative to reducing mercury in automobiles. Senate · SENATE ENVIRONMENT

2002 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB253 HB253: relative to mercury reductions. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENVIRONMENT

2000 (4 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HCR30 HCR30: (New Title) urging the United States Environmental Protection Agency to adopt recently proposed new emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles, at least as stringent as originally proposed, and to adopt a second phase of emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles and reductions in the sulfur content of highway diesel fuel. Passed · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
2. SB218 SB218: regulating the land application of sewage sludge. Senate · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
3. SB373 SB373: directing the public water access advisory board to prepare a report relating to the types of public access and recreational uses appropriate to different types of public bodies of water. Senate · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
4. SB388 SB388: assessing a surcharge on waste disposed at solid waste landfills and incinerators. Senate · SENATE ENVIRONMENT

SENATE Executive Departments and Administration (6 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

2004 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB321 SB321: relative to the certification of pharmacy technicians by the board of pharmacy. Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration

2002 (3 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB305 SB305: establishing a committee to study methods for improving communication tower aesthetics. Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
2. SB311 SB311: establishing a no telemarketing sales calls statewide registry. Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
3. SB432 SB432: relative to allowing political subdivision employees who are members of the retirement system to make payment for prior service with other retirement assets. Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration

2001 (2 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB245 HB245: relative to the duties and staff of the state geologist. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
2. HB469 HB469: relative to the applicable minimum wage for hourly employees. Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration

SENATE Finance (13 bills sponsored; 10 bills enacted)

2004 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB304 HB304: relative to state acquisition of certain acreage in the Connecticut Lakes headwaters tract and making an appropriation therefor. Senate · SENATE Finance

2003 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB738 HB738: permitting aid to public water systems to be used for forming or improving regional water systems and making an appropriation therefor. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance

2002 (6 bills sponsored; 5 bills enacted)

1. HB284 HB284: (New Title) relative to additional emissions reductions from existing fossil fuel burning steam electric power plants. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
2. HB1102 HB1102: (New Title) establishing a hazardous waste coordinator certificate program and making an appropriation therefor. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
3. HB1268 HB1268: (2nd New Title) relative to the net operating loss deduction under the business profits tax. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
4. HB1299 HB1299: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the creation of a marriage education and enhancement program. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
5. HB1455 HB1455: (New Title) establishing portability of a person's qualifying retirement funds for the purchase of permissive service credit in the New Hampshire retirement system. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
6. HB1462 HB1462: eliminating the statewide education property tax as a source of funding adequate education. Senate · SENATE Finance

2001 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB408 HB408: relative to the regulation of nursing by the board of nursing. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance

2000 (4 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

1. HB279 HB279: relative to refinancing the cost and rehabilitation of the Cheshire Bridge. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
2. HB1200 HB1200: (3rd New Title) relative to the application of education property tax hardship relief to estate planning trusts and relative to eligibility for hardship relief. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
3. SB135 SB135: relative to water supply land protection grants. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
4. SB438 SB438: relative to habitual simple assault. Senate · SENATE Finance

SENATE INSURANCE (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

2004 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB363 SB363: relative to notification of cancellation of insurance coverage. Senate · SENATE INSURANCE

2000 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB96 SB96: relative to pre-approval of payment of medical services by workers' compensation insurers. Senate · SENATE INSURANCE

SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS (3 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

2004 (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB313 SB313: relative to unsolicited commercial electronic mail. Senate · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS
2. SB523 SB523: prohibiting the use of government property for electioneering. Senate · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS

2000 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB301 SB301: relative to prohibiting the department of resources and economic development from selling to or making leases with certain entities on state park or state forest lands without prior approval by the general court. Senate · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS

SENATE INTERSTATE COOPERATION (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

2004 (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB366 HB366: relative to mercury reduction. Senate · SENATE INTERSTATE COOPERATION
2. SB373 SB373: relative to the disposal of mercury-added products. Senate · SENATE INTERSTATE COOPERATION

SENATE Judiciary (14 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

2003 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB111 SB111: relative to the standardized protocol for investigating and interviewing victims of child abuse and neglect and relative to the development of multi-disciplinary child abuse investigation teams. Senate · SENATE Judiciary

2002 (3 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB307 SB307: relative to limitation of liability for dentists and dental hygienists working in free dental clinics. Senate · SENATE Judiciary
2. SB310 SB310: relative to child custody. Senate · SENATE Judiciary
3. SB376 SB376: requiring a mental health records check prior to the sale or transfer of a firearm. Senate · SENATE Judiciary

2001 (5 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB197 HB197: extending the reporting date of the commission to study methods for reducing violent incidents involving children and guns. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary
2. SB90 SB90: relative to misdemeanor jury trials. Senate · SENATE Judiciary
3. SB116 SB116: relative to motor vehicle offenses which result in the death or serious bodily injury of another. Senate · SENATE Judiciary
4. SB129 SB129: establishing a minimum age for issuing a license to carry a concealed pistol or revolver. Senate · SENATE Judiciary
5. SB154 SB154: requiring criminal records check prior to the sale or transfer of firearms. Senate · SENATE Judiciary

2000 (5 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1548 HB1548: abolishing the death penalty. Vetoed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary
2. SB361 SB361: authorizing citizen suits to assure enforcement of New Hampshire's environmental statutes. Senate · SENATE Judiciary
3. SB427 SB427: banning the sale or transfer of "Saturday night specials." Senate · SENATE Judiciary
4. SB429 SB429: relative to claims before the state commission for human rights. Senate · SENATE Judiciary
5. SB433 SB433: relative to the age at which a minor may purchase or possess handguns and ammunition. Senate · SENATE Judiciary

SENATE NO COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

2004 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SR6 SR6: urging the Department of Housing and Urban Development to rescind the limitation on rental assistance under the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program. Senate · SENATE NO COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT

2002 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SR2 SR2: a resolution supporting the retention of the phrase "under God" in the pledge of allegiance. Senate · SENATE NO COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT

SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS (8 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

2004 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB112 SB112: relative to state use of domestic steel. Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS

2002 (3 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB87 SB87: relative to permissible campaign contributions by business organizations and labor unions. Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
2. SB340 SB340: relative to alterations to party registration. Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
3. SB355 SB355: relative to campaign contributions and expenditures. Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS

2001 (4 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. CACR12 CACR12: relating to the term of office for governor. Providing that beginning with the 2004 general election, there shall be a 4-year term of office for governor. Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
2. CACR13 CACR13: relating to terms for state senators. Providing that beginning with the 2004 general election, there shall be 4-year terms of office for state senators. Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
3. SB185 SB185: relative to push-polling. Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
4. SB196 SB196: relative to the review of wireless communications facility proposals of state agencies and of proposals received by local land use boards. Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS

SENATE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES (2 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

2002 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB373 SB373: relative to state payments to foster care families and making an appropriation therefor. Senate · SENATE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

2000 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1607 HB1607: (New Title) establishing a study committee to consider legislation reducing to zero the number of persons with developmental disabilities and persons with brain injuries in the state who are not receiving or have not received Medicaid services. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

SENATE Transportation (2 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

2000 (2 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. HB1378 HB1378: establishing a task force to conduct an ongoing study of the feasibility of re-establishing passenger rail service on the Eastern Line from Newburyport, Massachusetts to Kittery, Maine. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Transportation
2. HJR6 HJR6: (New Title) encouraging the revitalization of the northern rail corridor from Concord to Lebanon and recognizing its interim recreational uses. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Transportation

SENATE Ways and Means (3 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

2002 (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB173 SB173: creating a business profits tax credit for certain donations made for science and technology equipment and facilities to the university system of New Hampshire or any of its component institutions. Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
2. SB448 SB448: creating business profits tax credits for contributions made by business organizations for housing for its low and moderate income employees and for certain affordable housing programs. Senate · SENATE Ways and Means

2000 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB430 SB430: authorizing the sweepstakes commission to allow electronic bingo games. Senate · SENATE Ways and Means

SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION (4 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

2003 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HCR1 HCR1: endorsing the Canine Good Citizen Program. Passed · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION

2002 (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB146 SB146: relative to personal watercraft. Senate · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
2. SB375 SB375: requiring a firearm safety program prior to the issuance of a concealed weapons permit. Senate · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION

2000 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB144 SB144: relative to qualifications for members of the fish and game commission. Senate · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION

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

1. HB662 HB662: relative to the duties of the liquor commission. 2000 · House · HOUSE COMMERCE
2. SB66 SB66: limiting the exemption from the meals and rooms tax for sales of alcoholic beverages by voluntary nonprofit organizations operating under one-day licenses from the liquor commission. Enacted 2003 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Ways and Means

Business and labor (19 bills sponsored; 5 bills enacted)

1. HB469 HB469: relative to the applicable minimum wage for hourly employees. 2001 · Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
2. HB747 HB747: establishing the crime victim employment leave act. 2004 · House · HOUSE Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
3. HB1153 HB1153: relative to employment security. 2004 · House · HOUSE Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
4. HB1268 HB1268: (2nd New Title) relative to the net operating loss deduction under the business profits tax. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
5. HB1519 HB1519: relative to diversity training for law enforcement and educational personnel. 2000 · House · HOUSE Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
6. SB58 SB58: relative to the net operating loss under the business profits tax. Enacted 2003 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
7. SB87 SB87: relative to permissible campaign contributions by business organizations and labor unions. 2002 · Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
8. SB95 SB95: (2nd New Title) relative to campaign finance reporting requirements, political expenditure limitation amounts, and permissible campaign contributions by business organizations. 2001 · Senate
9. SB173 SB173: creating a business profits tax credit for certain donations made for science and technology equipment and facilities to the university system of New Hampshire or any of its component institutions. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
10. SB209 SB209: relative to permissible campaign contributions by business organizations and labor unions. 2003 · Senate
11. SB218 SB218: regulating the land application of sewage sludge. 2000 · Senate · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
12. SB345 SB345: making the misrepresentation of the geographic location of a business a violation of the consumer protection act. 2002 · House · HOUSE COMMERCE
13. SB381 SB381: relative to the employee benefits of employees of the Pease Development authority. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
14. SB384 SB384: [New Title] establishing a committee to study pollution prevention and pretreatment programs for reducing pollutant levels in sewage sludge. 2000 · House · HOUSE Environment and Agriculture
15. SB418 SB418: relative to unemployment compensation. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
16. SB421 SB421: (New title) establishing a child day care program credit against the business profits tax and the business enterprise tax. 2000 · House · HOUSE Finance
17. SB432 SB432: relative to allowing political subdivision employees who are members of the retirement system to make payment for prior service with other retirement assets. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
18. SB448 SB448: creating business profits tax credits for contributions made by business organizations for housing for its low and moderate income employees and for certain affordable housing programs. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
19. SB449 SB449: (2nd New Title) clarifying that employees in certain department of health and human services' positions are entitled to certain salaries and raises; increasing certain appropriations to the legislative branch for consultants; making fiscal year 2000 legislative branch appropriations nonlapsing until June 30, 2001; and appropriating funds to the legislative budget assistant and the department of revenue administration for tax modeling. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor

Capital Budget (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB334 SB334: relative to the dredging of Hampton-Seabrook harbor. 2004 · Senate · SENATE Capital Budget

Children and Family Law (12 bills sponsored; 4 bills enacted)

1. HB191 HB191: permitting unmarried adults to adopt jointly. 2001 · House · HOUSE Children and Family Law
2. HB197 HB197: extending the reporting date of the commission to study methods for reducing violent incidents involving children and guns. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary
3. HB422 HB422: establishing a committee to study the prevention of unintended pregnancies. 2001 · House · HOUSE Children and Family Law
4. HB496 HB496: establishing a committee to study the inclusion of New Hampshire in the Amber Alert program. 2003 · House · HOUSE Children and Family Law
5. HB1129 HB1129: prohibiting smoking in vehicles when child passenger restraints are required. 2004 · House · HOUSE Transportation
6. SB86 SB86: (New Title) relative to the disclosure of information about child fatalities resulting from abuse and neglect; relative to accreditation of the department of health and human services by the Council on Accreditation for Children and Family Services; and extending the reporting date for the pilot project relative to abuse and neglect hearings in Grafton county court. Enacted 2003 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
7. SB111 SB111: relative to the standardized protocol for investigating and interviewing victims of child abuse and neglect and relative to the development of multi-disciplinary child abuse investigation teams. 2003 · Senate · SENATE Judiciary
8. SB310 SB310: relative to child custody. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Judiciary
9. SB321 SB321: (NewTitle) establishing a committee to study statutory and administrative requirements regarding the legal residency of homeless children in certain educational and institutional settings, and relative to the appeal of decisions made regarding change of school or assignment. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Education
10. SB420 SB420: (New Title) increasing the penalty for people convicted of purposeful cruelty to animals taking place in front of children and with intent to intimidate them and relative to criminal threatening. 2000 · House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
11. SB421 SB421: (New title) establishing a child day care program credit against the business profits tax and the business enterprise tax. 2000 · House · HOUSE Finance
12. SB433 SB433: (2nd New Title) establishing a standardized protocol for the investigation and assessment of child abuse and neglect cases and relative to grant applications for the investigation and assessment of child abuse cases. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Children and Family Law

COMMERCE (13 bills sponsored; 4 bills enacted)

1. HB334 HB334: establishing an international trade commission to investigate and report on the effects of international trade agreements on New Hampshire self-governance. 2003 · House · HOUSE COMMERCE
2. HB662 HB662: relative to the duties of the liquor commission. 2000 · House · HOUSE COMMERCE
3. HB1267 HB1267: requiring fast food restaurants to provide nutritional information to consumers. 2004 · House · HOUSE COMMERCE
4. HB1358 HB1358: prohibiting smoking in restaurants. 2000 · House · HOUSE COMMERCE
5. HCR4 HCR4: urging adoption and implementation of a national do-not-call list for telemarketers. 2003 · House · HOUSE COMMERCE
6. SB52 SB52: requiring insurance coverage for infertility treatments. 2000 · House · HOUSE COMMERCE
7. SB97 SB97: [New Title] relative to charitable trusts which are institutional funds. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
8. SB121 SB121: relative to the advisory committee on international trade. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
9. SB201 SB201: establishing a committee to study insurance practices relative to homeowner's insurance. 2003 · House · HOUSE COMMERCE
10. SB345 SB345: making the misrepresentation of the geographic location of a business a violation of the consumer protection act. 2002 · House · HOUSE COMMERCE
11. SB371 SB371: relative to the regulation of manufactured housing parks. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
12. SB383 SB383: (New Title) requiring the department of health and human services and insurers to make prompt payments. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
13. SB428 SB428: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the protection of consumers from unfair lending practices. 2004 · House · HOUSE COMMERCE

Committee of Conference (6 bills sponsored; 5 bills enacted)

1. HB131 HB131: relative to the retention and disposal of certain financial disclosure forms. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
2. HB139 HB139: (2nd New Title) relative to the collection and reporting of school drop-out, suspension, and expulsion data; relative to the deadlines for submitting certain reports to the department of education; and establishing a statewide education accountability system. Enacted 2003 · Law without signature · HOUSE Committee of Conference
3. HB274 HB274: banning the residential open burning of trash and relative to a dioxin emissions reduction and control program. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
4. HB651 HB651: (2nd New Title) relative to the purchase of prior service credit in the retirement system, and repealing certain provisions permitting additional contributions. 2004 · Senate · HOUSE Committee of Conference
5. HB676 HB676: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the creation of a regional program for collection and marketing of certain components of the municipal solid waste stream. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
6. HB1210 HB1210: (3rd New Title) relative to barbering, cosmetology, and esthetics. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference

Criminal justice and courts (35 bills sponsored; 9 bills enacted)

1. CACR16 CACR16: (New Title) relating to procedure for nomination and review of judges. Providing that judges shall be nominated and selected by an independent commission and reviewed every 10 years thereafter. 2002 · House · HOUSE Judiciary
2. CACR20 CACR20: relating to a personal income tax. Providing that any personal income tax enacted by the general court shall be dedicated exclusively for the purposes of public education. 2002 · House · HOUSE Finance
3. HB171 HB171: abolishing the death penalty. 2001 · House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
4. HB197 HB197: extending the reporting date of the commission to study methods for reducing violent incidents involving children and guns. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary
5. HB575 HB575: limiting railroad liability for passenger and tourist rail service. 2000 · House · HOUSE Judiciary
6. HB736 HB736: establishing the consumer safety firearms protection act. 2001 · House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
7. HB746 HB746: authorizing citizen suits to assure enforcement of New Hampshire's environmental statutes. 2001 · House · HOUSE Judiciary
8. HB747 HB747: establishing the crime victim employment leave act. 2004 · House · HOUSE Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
9. HB1503 HB1503: establishing a study committee to review the state's current parole and probation procedures. 2000 · House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
10. HB1548 HB1548: abolishing the death penalty. 2000 · Vetoed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary
11. SB27 SB27: allowing the state to apply for review of a state prison sentence by the superior court's review division. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
12. SB29 SB29: relative to the proper sheltering of dogs. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
13. SB86 SB86: (New Title) relative to the disclosure of information about child fatalities resulting from abuse and neglect; relative to accreditation of the department of health and human services by the Council on Accreditation for Children and Family Services; and extending the reporting date for the pilot project relative to abuse and neglect hearings in Grafton county court. Enacted 2003 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
14. SB90 SB90: relative to misdemeanor jury trials. 2001 · Senate · SENATE Judiciary
15. SB100 SB100: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the feasibility of creating a mental health court division. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Judiciary
16. SB111 SB111: relative to the standardized protocol for investigating and interviewing victims of child abuse and neglect and relative to the development of multi-disciplinary child abuse investigation teams. 2003 · Senate · SENATE Judiciary
17. SB114 SB114: (New Title) establishing a committee to study issues relating to judicial reform, and making an appropriation therefor. 2001 · House · HOUSE Judiciary
18. SB116 SB116: relative to motor vehicle offenses which result in the death or serious bodily injury of another. 2001 · Senate · SENATE Judiciary
19. SB129 SB129: establishing a minimum age for issuing a license to carry a concealed pistol or revolver. 2001 · Senate · SENATE Judiciary
20. SB154 SB154: requiring criminal records check prior to the sale or transfer of firearms. 2001 · Senate · SENATE Judiciary
21. SB226 SB226: increasing the homestead exemption. Enacted 2003 · Law without signature · HOUSE Judiciary
22. SB301 SB301: relative to prohibiting the department of resources and economic development from selling to or making leases with certain entities on state park or state forest lands without prior approval by the general court. 2000 · Senate · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS
23. SB307 SB307: relative to limitation of liability for dentists and dental hygienists working in free dental clinics. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Judiciary
24. SB310 SB310: relative to child custody. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Judiciary
25. SB320 SB320: relative to penalties for damaging emergency vehicles. 2004 · House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
26. SB361 SB361: authorizing citizen suits to assure enforcement of New Hampshire's environmental statutes. 2000 · Senate · SENATE Judiciary
27. SB376 SB376: requiring a mental health records check prior to the sale or transfer of a firearm. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Judiciary
28. SB382 SB382: relative to appeals of release or detention orders Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
29. SB391 SB391: relative to appeals from the compensation appeals board. 2002 · House · HOUSE Judiciary
30. SB413 SB413: relative to confidentiality of addresses for victims of domestic violence, stalking, or sexual assault. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
31. SB419 SB419: establishing the crime of negligent storage of a firearm. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
32. SB420 SB420: (New Title) increasing the penalty for people convicted of purposeful cruelty to animals taking place in front of children and with intent to intimidate them and relative to criminal threatening. 2000 · House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
33. SB427 SB427: banning the sale or transfer of "Saturday night specials." 2000 · Senate · SENATE Judiciary
34. SB429 SB429: relative to claims before the state commission for human rights. 2000 · Senate · SENATE Judiciary
35. SB433 SB433: relative to the age at which a minor may purchase or possess handguns and ammunition. 2000 · Senate · SENATE Judiciary

Education (18 bills sponsored; 5 bills enacted)

1. CACR20 CACR20: relating to a personal income tax. Providing that any personal income tax enacted by the general court shall be dedicated exclusively for the purposes of public education. 2002 · House · HOUSE Finance
2. HB139 HB139: (2nd New Title) relative to the collection and reporting of school drop-out, suspension, and expulsion data; relative to the deadlines for submitting certain reports to the department of education; and establishing a statewide education accountability system. Enacted 2003 · Law without signature · HOUSE Committee of Conference
3. HB691 HB691: relative to Area Health Education Centers in New Hampshire and making an appropriation therefor. 2002 · House · HOUSE Finance
4. HB759 HB759: establishing a flat rate education income tax, relative to the state education property tax and certain other taxes, and relative to other sources of funding for education. 2001 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
5. HB1200 HB1200: (3rd New Title) relative to the application of education property tax hardship relief to estate planning trusts and relative to eligibility for hardship relief. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
6. HB1299 HB1299: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the creation of a marriage education and enhancement program. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
7. HB1462 HB1462: eliminating the statewide education property tax as a source of funding adequate education. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Finance
8. HB1519 HB1519: relative to diversity training for law enforcement and educational personnel. 2000 · House · HOUSE Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
9. SB116 SB116: establishing a committee to study methods to prevent or reduce the high school dropout rate. Enacted 2003 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Education
10. SB118 SB118: establishing a ladders to literacy program and making an appropriation therefor. 2004 · Senate · SENATE Education
11. SB123 SB123: establishing a commission to study structures for increased voter education and improved enforcement of campaign practices laws. 2003 · House · HOUSE Election Law
12. SB173 SB173: creating a business profits tax credit for certain donations made for science and technology equipment and facilities to the university system of New Hampshire or any of its component institutions. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
13. SB217 SB217: relative to the calculation of average daily membership in residence for the purpose of calculating the cost of an adequate education. 2003 · Senate
14. SB219 SB219: [New Title] establishing a procedure for providing educational improvement assistance to local school districts and making an appropriation therefor. 2000 · House · HOUSE Education
15. SB303 SB303: establishing a committee to study the definition of an adequate education. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Education
16. SB321 SB321: (NewTitle) establishing a committee to study statutory and administrative requirements regarding the legal residency of homeless children in certain educational and institutional settings, and relative to the appeal of decisions made regarding change of school or assignment. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Education
17. SB444 SB444: relative to parents in the classroom. 2002 · House · HOUSE Education
18. SCR2 SCR2: (New Title) calling on the President and the Congress to fully fund the federal government's share of the average per pupil expenditure in public elementary and secondary schools in the United States under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. 2001 · Passed · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

Elections and voting (13 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. CACR12 CACR12: relating to the term of office for governor. Providing that beginning with the 2004 general election, there shall be a 4-year term of office for governor. 2001 · Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
2. CACR13 CACR13: relating to terms for state senators. Providing that beginning with the 2004 general election, there shall be 4-year terms of office for state senators. 2001 · Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
3. CACR20 CACR20: relating to the election of governor and senators. Providing that beginning with the 2002 general election, and every 4 years thereafter, the governor and senators shall be elected. 2000 · House · HOUSE Election Law
4. SB31 SB31: eliminating straight ticket voting. 2002 · House · HOUSE Election Law
5. SB87 SB87: relative to permissible campaign contributions by business organizations and labor unions. 2002 · Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
6. SB95 SB95: (2nd New Title) relative to campaign finance reporting requirements, political expenditure limitation amounts, and permissible campaign contributions by business organizations. 2001 · Senate
7. SB123 SB123: establishing a commission to study structures for increased voter education and improved enforcement of campaign practices laws. 2003 · House · HOUSE Election Law
8. SB209 SB209: relative to permissible campaign contributions by business organizations and labor unions. 2003 · Senate
9. SB215 SB215: relative to the use of prerecorded telephone messages for political advocacy. 2004 · House · HOUSE Election Law
10. SB311 SB311: relative to civil penalties for unlawful campaign practices. Enacted 2004 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Election Law
11. SB336 SB336: (2nd New Title) establishing a committee to study campaign finance reform and apportioning state representative districts. 2002 · Vetoed by Governor · HOUSE Election Law
12. SB355 SB355: relative to campaign contributions and expenditures. 2002 · Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
13. SB523 SB523: prohibiting the use of government property for electioneering. 2004 · Senate · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS

ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (9 bills sponsored; 4 bills enacted)

1. HB443 HB443: (2nd New Title) relative to a state energy plan and relative to road toll fees for vehicles powered by alternate energy sources. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
2. HB565 HB565: establishing a commission to implement the Hampton Beach Master Plan. Enacted 2003 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
3. HB740 HB740: relative to decommissioning of nuclear electric generating facilities. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
4. HB1462 HB1462: (New Title) extending the report date and changing the membership and duties of the committee to study methods to promote the use of renewable energy sources. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
5. HB1470 HB1470: relative to divestiture of electric utility assets. 2000 · Senate · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
6. HCR31 HCR31: urging the New Hampshire congressional delegation to take action to keep the international border crossing between the United States and Canada, in the town of Pittsburg, New Hampshire, open 24 hours a day. 2000 · Passed · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
7. SB105 SB105: establishing state appliance and equipment energy efficiency standards. 2004 · Senate · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
8. SB230 SB230: relative to transition service and relative to the sale of PSNH generation assets. 2004 · Senate · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
9. SB374 SB374: relative to emissions requirements for municipal waste combustion units. 2004 · Senate · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Energy and utilities (8 bills sponsored; 5 bills enacted)

1. HB284 HB284: (New Title) relative to additional emissions reductions from existing fossil fuel burning steam electric power plants. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
2. HB423 HB423: (New Title) relative to the sale of generation assets, the provision of transition service, and the funding of the energy efficiency program for Public Service Company of New Hamsphire. 2002 · House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
3. HB443 HB443: (2nd New Title) relative to a state energy plan and relative to road toll fees for vehicles powered by alternate energy sources. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
4. HB740 HB740: relative to decommissioning of nuclear electric generating facilities. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
5. HB1462 HB1462: (New Title) extending the report date and changing the membership and duties of the committee to study methods to promote the use of renewable energy sources. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
6. HB1470 HB1470: relative to divestiture of electric utility assets. 2000 · Senate · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
7. SB105 SB105: establishing state appliance and equipment energy efficiency standards. 2004 · Senate · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
8. SB331 SB331: requiring a report from the public utilities commission and the department of environmental services evaluating whether existing regulatory structures encourage or discourage regional cooperation for water resources management and water conservation. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development

ENVIRONMENT (7 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB253 HB253: relative to mercury reductions. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
2. HCR30 HCR30: (New Title) urging the United States Environmental Protection Agency to adopt recently proposed new emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles, at least as stringent as originally proposed, and to adopt a second phase of emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles and reductions in the sulfur content of highway diesel fuel. 2000 · Passed · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
3. SB65 SB65: relative to reducing certain mercury emissions. 2003 · Senate · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
4. SB185 SB185: relative to reducing mercury in automobiles. 2003 · Senate · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
5. SB218 SB218: regulating the land application of sewage sludge. 2000 · Senate · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
6. SB373 SB373: directing the public water access advisory board to prepare a report relating to the types of public access and recreational uses appropriate to different types of public bodies of water. 2000 · Senate · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
7. SB388 SB388: assessing a surcharge on waste disposed at solid waste landfills and incinerators. 2000 · Senate · SENATE ENVIRONMENT

Environment and Agriculture (3 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB384 SB384: [New Title] establishing a committee to study pollution prevention and pretreatment programs for reducing pollutant levels in sewage sludge. 2000 · House · HOUSE Environment and Agriculture
2. SB408 SB408: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the application of non-conventional veterinary procedures for domestic animals. 2000 · House · HOUSE Environment and Agriculture
3. SB443 SB443: relative to veterinarian reimbursement for the animal population control program. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Environment and Agriculture

Environment and natural resources (29 bills sponsored; 13 bills enacted)

1. HB304 HB304: relative to state acquisition of certain acreage in the Connecticut Lakes headwaters tract and making an appropriation therefor. 2004 · Senate · SENATE Finance
2. HB501 HB501: ratifying certain actions of the Rye conservation commission. 2004 · House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
3. HB738 HB738: permitting aid to public water systems to be used for forming or improving regional water systems and making an appropriation therefor. Enacted 2003 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
4. HB746 HB746: authorizing citizen suits to assure enforcement of New Hampshire's environmental statutes. 2001 · House · HOUSE Judiciary
5. HB755 HB755: relative to groundwater contamination and gasoline sampling. 2002 · House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
6. HB1375 HB1375: relative to powers of conservation commissions. 2004 · House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
7. HCR30 HCR30: (New Title) urging the United States Environmental Protection Agency to adopt recently proposed new emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles, at least as stringent as originally proposed, and to adopt a second phase of emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles and reductions in the sulfur content of highway diesel fuel. 2000 · Passed · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
8. SB64 SB64: relative to updating the drought management plan. 2003 · House · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
9. SB67 SB67: relative to a report on municipal water needs. 2003 · House · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
10. SB89 SB89: establishing a committee to study methods of strengthening and clarifying the comprehensive shoreland protection act and its application. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
11. SB93 SB93: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the public health and environmental benefit of requiring stationary and mobile sources that burn virgin petroleum products or coal to comply with the requirements of the air toxic control act. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
12. SB115 SB115: (New Title) increasing the fees for review of subdivisions and waste disposal systems by the department of environmental services and making an appropriation for implementing information technology and regulatory process improvements. Enacted 2003 · Signed by Governor
13. SB135 SB135: relative to water supply land protection grants. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
14. SB144 SB144: relative to qualifications for members of the fish and game commission. 2000 · Senate · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
15. SB146 SB146: relative to personal watercraft. 2002 · Senate · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
16. SB162 SB162: establishing a committee to study water resources. Enacted 2003 · Law without signature · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
17. SB330 SB330: ( New Title ) establishing a committee to study the impact of water withdrawals on instream flows and the impact of instream flow rules on entities that withdraw water or are affected by instream flows. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
18. SB331 SB331: requiring a report from the public utilities commission and the department of environmental services evaluating whether existing regulatory structures encourage or discourage regional cooperation for water resources management and water conservation. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
19. SB348 SB348: extending the committee to study the establishment of a permit system for vessels registered in another state temporarily using the waters of New Hampshire. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Transportation
20. SB361 SB361: authorizing citizen suits to assure enforcement of New Hampshire's environmental statutes. 2000 · Senate · SENATE Judiciary
21. SB373 SB373: directing the public water access advisory board to prepare a report relating to the types of public access and recreational uses appropriate to different types of public bodies of water. 2000 · Senate · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
22. SB388 SB388: relative to bingo game operation. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Ways and Means
23. SB398 SB398: authorizing an increase in admission fees for the Seacoast Science Center at Odiorne Point state park in Rye, New Hampshire. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
24. SB406 SB406: ( New Title ) prohibiting the use of reformulated gasoline with watercraft on or in bodies of water that provide public water supplies. 2000 · House · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
25. SB430 SB430: authorizing the sweepstakes commission to allow electronic bingo games. 2000 · Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
26. SB437 SB437: (New Title) relative to the protection of public water supplies during emergency conditions and establishing a committee to study the formation of regional water systems and the eligibility of such systems for state construction grants. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
27. SB494 SB494: (2nd New Title) relative to the prohibition on taking conch and winkles; licensing requirements for taking lobsters and crabs; and changing the name of the advisory committee on shore fisheries to the advisory committee on marine fisheries. Enacted 2004 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE FISH AND GAME
28. SB525 SB525: (New Title) relative to land and community heritage investment program administration. 2004 · House · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
29. SCR2 SCR2: urging the United States Congress to act to rectify the science, research funding, and restrictions governing the Northeast multispecies fishing industry and its impact on New Hampshire fishermen. 2003 · Passed · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

Executive administration (10 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

1. HB145 HB145: establishing the position of state animal control officer and making an appropriation therefor. 2001 · House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
2. HB245 HB245: relative to the duties and staff of the state geologist. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
3. HB469 HB469: relative to the applicable minimum wage for hourly employees. 2001 · Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
4. SB71 SB71: (New Title) establishing a study committee relative to the regulation and compensation of persons licensed under the real estate practice act. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
5. SB181 SB181: relative to the licensure of geologists. 2000 · House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
6. SB305 SB305: establishing a committee to study methods for improving communication tower aesthetics. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
7. SB311 SB311: establishing a no telemarketing sales calls statewide registry. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
8. SB321 SB321: relative to the certification of pharmacy technicians by the board of pharmacy. 2004 · Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
9. SB381 SB381: relative to the employee benefits of employees of the Pease Development authority. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
10. SB432 SB432: relative to allowing political subdivision employees who are members of the retirement system to make payment for prior service with other retirement assets. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration

FISH AND GAME (2 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1604 HB1604: establishing the position of state animal control officer. 2000 · House · HOUSE FISH AND GAME
2. SB494 SB494: (2nd New Title) relative to the prohibition on taking conch and winkles; licensing requirements for taking lobsters and crabs; and changing the name of the advisory committee on shore fisheries to the advisory committee on marine fisheries. Enacted 2004 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE FISH AND GAME

Health care (14 bills sponsored; 7 bills enacted)

1. HB691 HB691: relative to Area Health Education Centers in New Hampshire and making an appropriation therefor. 2002 · House · HOUSE Finance
2. HB1607 HB1607: (New Title) establishing a study committee to consider legislation reducing to zero the number of persons with developmental disabilities and persons with brain injuries in the state who are not receiving or have not received Medicaid services. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
3. SB52 SB52: requiring insurance coverage for infertility treatments. 2000 · House · HOUSE COMMERCE
4. SB86 SB86: (New Title) relative to the disclosure of information about child fatalities resulting from abuse and neglect; relative to accreditation of the department of health and human services by the Council on Accreditation for Children and Family Services; and extending the reporting date for the pilot project relative to abuse and neglect hearings in Grafton county court. Enacted 2003 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
5. SB93 SB93: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the public health and environmental benefit of requiring stationary and mobile sources that burn virgin petroleum products or coal to comply with the requirements of the air toxic control act. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
6. SB96 SB96: (New Title) establishing a pharmacy discount program for seniors and disabled persons and making an appropriation therefor. 2003 · House · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
7. SB96 SB96: relative to pre-approval of payment of medical services by workers' compensation insurers. 2000 · Senate · SENATE INSURANCE
8. SB100 SB100: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the feasibility of creating a mental health court division. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Judiciary
9. SB363 SB363: relative to notification of cancellation of insurance coverage. 2004 · Senate · SENATE INSURANCE
10. SB376 SB376: requiring a mental health records check prior to the sale or transfer of a firearm. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Judiciary
11. SB383 SB383: (New Title) requiring the department of health and human services and insurers to make prompt payments. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
12. SB449 SB449: (2nd New Title) clarifying that employees in certain department of health and human services' positions are entitled to certain salaries and raises; increasing certain appropriations to the legislative branch for consultants; making fiscal year 2000 legislative branch appropriations nonlapsing until June 30, 2001; and appropriating funds to the legislative budget assistant and the department of revenue administration for tax modeling. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor
13. SB456 SB456: making appropriations to the department of health and human services. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor
14. SCR5 SCR5: urging the New England states and New York to consider cooperative strategies to address the challenge of the high cost of prescription medicines. 2000 · Passed · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

Housing and property (14 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

1. HB294 HB294: (New Title) excluding certain pension income from household income for purposes of determining low and moderate income homeowners property tax relief. 2002 · House · HOUSE Finance
2. HB759 HB759: establishing a flat rate education income tax, relative to the state education property tax and certain other taxes, and relative to other sources of funding for education. 2001 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
3. HB1200 HB1200: (3rd New Title) relative to the application of education property tax hardship relief to estate planning trusts and relative to eligibility for hardship relief. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
4. HB1462 HB1462: eliminating the statewide education property tax as a source of funding adequate education. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Finance
5. SB95 SB95: relative to the development of workforce housing within municipalities. 2004 · House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
6. SB183 SB183: relative to distribution of certain meals and rooms tax revenue to municipalities with affordable housing. 2002 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
7. SB208 SB208: establishing a property tax cap and abatement program. 2003 · Senate
8. SB344 SB344: relative to appointment of housing consumers to housing authority boards. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
9. SB363 SB363: establishing a committee to study economic distortions associated with property taxation. 2002 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
10. SB371 SB371: relative to the regulation of manufactured housing parks. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
11. SB436 SB436: allowing municipalities to adopt a lower interest rate charged on property tax payments made for property redemptions. 2002 · House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
12. SB448 SB448: creating business profits tax credits for contributions made by business organizations for housing for its low and moderate income employees and for certain affordable housing programs. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
13. SB523 SB523: prohibiting the use of government property for electioneering. 2004 · Senate · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS
14. SR6 SR6: urging the Department of Housing and Urban Development to rescind the limitation on rental assistance under the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program. 2004 · Senate · SENATE NO COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT

Insurance (5 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB52 SB52: requiring insurance coverage for infertility treatments. 2000 · House · HOUSE COMMERCE
2. SB96 SB96: relative to pre-approval of payment of medical services by workers' compensation insurers. 2000 · Senate · SENATE INSURANCE
3. SB201 SB201: establishing a committee to study insurance practices relative to homeowner's insurance. 2003 · House · HOUSE COMMERCE
4. SB363 SB363: relative to notification of cancellation of insurance coverage. 2004 · Senate · SENATE INSURANCE
5. SB383 SB383: (New Title) requiring the department of health and human services and insurers to make prompt payments. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE

INTERNAL AFFAIRS (3 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB301 SB301: relative to prohibiting the department of resources and economic development from selling to or making leases with certain entities on state park or state forest lands without prior approval by the general court. 2000 · Senate · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS
2. SB313 SB313: relative to unsolicited commercial electronic mail. 2004 · Senate · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS
3. SB523 SB523: prohibiting the use of government property for electioneering. 2004 · Senate · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS

INTERSTATE COOPERATION (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB366 HB366: relative to mercury reduction. 2004 · Senate · SENATE INTERSTATE COOPERATION
2. SB373 SB373: relative to the disposal of mercury-added products. 2004 · Senate · SENATE INTERSTATE COOPERATION

Local government (17 bills sponsored; 5 bills enacted)

1. HB365 HB365: relative to governmental land uses. 2003 · House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
2. HB501 HB501: ratifying certain actions of the Rye conservation commission. 2004 · House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
3. HB676 HB676: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the creation of a regional program for collection and marketing of certain components of the municipal solid waste stream. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
4. HB1159 HB1159: establishing a committee to study the origins and destinations of truck traffic at the exit 3 truck stop in the town of Greenland. 2000 · House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
5. HB1375 HB1375: relative to powers of conservation commissions. 2004 · House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
6. HCR31 HCR31: urging the New Hampshire congressional delegation to take action to keep the international border crossing between the United States and Canada, in the town of Pittsburg, New Hampshire, open 24 hours a day. 2000 · Passed · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
7. SB67 SB67: relative to a report on municipal water needs. 2003 · House · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
8. SB86 SB86: (New Title) relative to the disclosure of information about child fatalities resulting from abuse and neglect; relative to accreditation of the department of health and human services by the Council on Accreditation for Children and Family Services; and extending the reporting date for the pilot project relative to abuse and neglect hearings in Grafton county court. Enacted 2003 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
9. SB95 SB95: relative to the development of workforce housing within municipalities. 2004 · House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
10. SB183 SB183: relative to distribution of certain meals and rooms tax revenue to municipalities with affordable housing. 2002 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
11. SB339 SB339: ( New Title) relative to conducting a feasibility study of various alternatives to enhance safety at the traffic circle in the city of Portsmouth. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
12. SB340 SB340: extending the reporting date of the committee to study the problems and possible regulation of outdoor lighting. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
13. SB344 SB344: relative to appointment of housing consumers to housing authority boards. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
14. SB374 SB374: relative to emissions requirements for municipal waste combustion units. 2004 · Senate · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
15. SB387 SB387: relative to proposed toll booths in the city of Nashua and relative to alternatives to the statewide toll booth system. 2000 · House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
16. SB436 SB436: allowing municipalities to adopt a lower interest rate charged on property tax payments made for property redemptions. 2002 · House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
17. SB460 SB460: establishing a grant program to reimburse eligible districts served by municipal waste combustors. 2000 · House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy

NO COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SR2 SR2: a resolution supporting the retention of the phrase "under God" in the pledge of allegiance. 2002 · Senate · SENATE NO COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT
2. SR6 SR6: urging the Department of Housing and Urban Development to rescind the limitation on rental assistance under the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program. 2004 · Senate · SENATE NO COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT

PUBLIC AFFAIRS (8 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. CACR12 CACR12: relating to the term of office for governor. Providing that beginning with the 2004 general election, there shall be a 4-year term of office for governor. 2001 · Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
2. CACR13 CACR13: relating to terms for state senators. Providing that beginning with the 2004 general election, there shall be 4-year terms of office for state senators. 2001 · Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
3. SB87 SB87: relative to permissible campaign contributions by business organizations and labor unions. 2002 · Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
4. SB112 SB112: relative to state use of domestic steel. 2004 · Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
5. SB185 SB185: relative to push-polling. 2001 · Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
6. SB196 SB196: relative to the review of wireless communications facility proposals of state agencies and of proposals received by local land use boards. 2001 · Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
7. SB340 SB340: relative to alterations to party registration. 2002 · Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
8. SB355 SB355: relative to campaign contributions and expenditures. 2002 · Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS

Public finance (40 bills sponsored; 19 bills enacted)

1. CACR20 CACR20: relating to a personal income tax. Providing that any personal income tax enacted by the general court shall be dedicated exclusively for the purposes of public education. 2002 · House · HOUSE Finance
2. HB145 HB145: establishing the position of state animal control officer and making an appropriation therefor. 2001 · House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
3. HB279 HB279: relative to refinancing the cost and rehabilitation of the Cheshire Bridge. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
4. HB284 HB284: (New Title) relative to additional emissions reductions from existing fossil fuel burning steam electric power plants. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
5. HB294 HB294: (New Title) excluding certain pension income from household income for purposes of determining low and moderate income homeowners property tax relief. 2002 · House · HOUSE Finance
6. HB304 HB304: relative to state acquisition of certain acreage in the Connecticut Lakes headwaters tract and making an appropriation therefor. 2004 · Senate · SENATE Finance
7. HB408 HB408: relative to the regulation of nursing by the board of nursing. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
8. HB423 HB423: (New Title) relative to the sale of generation assets, the provision of transition service, and the funding of the energy efficiency program for Public Service Company of New Hamsphire. 2002 · House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
9. HB691 HB691: relative to Area Health Education Centers in New Hampshire and making an appropriation therefor. 2002 · House · HOUSE Finance
10. HB738 HB738: permitting aid to public water systems to be used for forming or improving regional water systems and making an appropriation therefor. Enacted 2003 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
11. HB759 HB759: establishing a flat rate education income tax, relative to the state education property tax and certain other taxes, and relative to other sources of funding for education. 2001 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
12. HB1102 HB1102: (New Title) establishing a hazardous waste coordinator certificate program and making an appropriation therefor. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
13. HB1200 HB1200: (3rd New Title) relative to the application of education property tax hardship relief to estate planning trusts and relative to eligibility for hardship relief. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
14. HB1268 HB1268: (2nd New Title) relative to the net operating loss deduction under the business profits tax. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
15. HB1299 HB1299: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the creation of a marriage education and enhancement program. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
16. HB1375 HB1375: establishing financial assurance for guaranteed promise of customer repayment of rate reduction bonds. 2000 · House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
17. HB1455 HB1455: (New Title) establishing portability of a person's qualifying retirement funds for the purchase of permissive service credit in the New Hampshire retirement system. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
18. HB1462 HB1462: eliminating the statewide education property tax as a source of funding adequate education. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Finance
19. HJR23 HJR23: urging the executive branch to negotiate an expedient settlement resolving the Claremont dispute. 2000 · House · HOUSE Finance
20. SB58 SB58: relative to the net operating loss under the business profits tax. Enacted 2003 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
21. SB86 SB86: (New Title) relative to the disclosure of information about child fatalities resulting from abuse and neglect; relative to accreditation of the department of health and human services by the Council on Accreditation for Children and Family Services; and extending the reporting date for the pilot project relative to abuse and neglect hearings in Grafton county court. Enacted 2003 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
22. SB96 SB96: (New Title) establishing a pharmacy discount program for seniors and disabled persons and making an appropriation therefor. 2003 · House · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
23. SB97 SB97: [New Title] relative to charitable trusts which are institutional funds. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
24. SB114 SB114: (New Title) establishing a committee to study issues relating to judicial reform, and making an appropriation therefor. 2001 · House · HOUSE Judiciary
25. SB115 SB115: (New Title) increasing the fees for review of subdivisions and waste disposal systems by the department of environmental services and making an appropriation for implementing information technology and regulatory process improvements. Enacted 2003 · Signed by Governor
26. SB118 SB118: establishing a ladders to literacy program and making an appropriation therefor. 2004 · Senate · SENATE Education
27. SB135 SB135: relative to water supply land protection grants. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
28. SB178 SB178: (New Title) relative to appropriations to the port authority for dredging projects. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
29. SB183 SB183: relative to distribution of certain meals and rooms tax revenue to municipalities with affordable housing. 2002 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
30. SB197 SB197: (New Title) relative to extended unemployment benefits and making an appropriation therefor. Enacted 2003 · Law without signature · HOUSE Finance
31. SB216 SB216: relative to the developmental services priority waiting list and making an appropriation therefor. 2003 · Senate
32. SB219 SB219: [New Title] establishing a procedure for providing educational improvement assistance to local school districts and making an appropriation therefor. 2000 · House · HOUSE Education
33. SB373 SB373: relative to state payments to foster care families and making an appropriation therefor. 2002 · Senate · SENATE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
34. SB421 SB421: (New title) establishing a child day care program credit against the business profits tax and the business enterprise tax. 2000 · House · HOUSE Finance
35. SB438 SB438: relative to habitual simple assault. 2000 · Senate · SENATE Finance
36. SB442 SB442: (2nd New Title) establishing a committee to study revising the statutes relative to the state militia and the state guard, making certain technical changes to the militia statutes, and creating 2 funds. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor
37. SB449 SB449: (2nd New Title) clarifying that employees in certain department of health and human services' positions are entitled to certain salaries and raises; increasing certain appropriations to the legislative branch for consultants; making fiscal year 2000 legislative branch appropriations nonlapsing until June 30, 2001; and appropriating funds to the legislative budget assistant and the department of revenue administration for tax modeling. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor
38. SB456 SB456: making appropriations to the department of health and human services. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor
39. SCR2 SCR2: urging the United States Congress to act to rectify the science, research funding, and restrictions governing the Northeast multispecies fishing industry and its impact on New Hampshire fishermen. 2003 · Passed · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
40. SCR2 SCR2: (New Title) calling on the President and the Congress to fully fund the federal government's share of the average per pupil expenditure in public elementary and secondary schools in the United States under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. 2001 · Passed · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES (2 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1607 HB1607: (New Title) establishing a study committee to consider legislation reducing to zero the number of persons with developmental disabilities and persons with brain injuries in the state who are not receiving or have not received Medicaid services. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
2. SB373 SB373: relative to state payments to foster care families and making an appropriation therefor. 2002 · Senate · SENATE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

Public safety (9 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

1. HB197 HB197: extending the reporting date of the commission to study methods for reducing violent incidents involving children and guns. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary
2. HB736 HB736: establishing the consumer safety firearms protection act. 2001 · House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
3. SB154 SB154: requiring criminal records check prior to the sale or transfer of firearms. 2001 · Senate · SENATE Judiciary
4. SB320 SB320: relative to penalties for damaging emergency vehicles. 2004 · House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
5. SB375 SB375: requiring a firearm safety program prior to the issuance of a concealed weapons permit. 2002 · Senate · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
6. SB376 SB376: requiring a mental health records check prior to the sale or transfer of a firearm. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Judiciary
7. SB419 SB419: establishing the crime of negligent storage of a firearm. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
8. SB433 SB433: relative to the age at which a minor may purchase or possess handguns and ammunition. 2000 · Senate · SENATE Judiciary
9. SB437 SB437: (New Title) relative to the protection of public water supplies during emergency conditions and establishing a committee to study the formation of regional water systems and the eligibility of such systems for state construction grants. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development

Public Works and Highways (7 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB58 HB58: requiring the department of transportation to study and report on the advantages of constructing state-owned truck service centers. 2003 · House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
2. HB272 HB272: relative to a pilot study by the department of transportation restricting large truck traffic during hours of darkness on certain roads in Portsmouth. 2003 · House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
3. HB715 HB715: relative to the New Hampshire port authority. 2001 · House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
4. HB1159 HB1159: establishing a committee to study the origins and destinations of truck traffic at the exit 3 truck stop in the town of Greenland. 2000 · House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
5. SB332 SB332: relative to tolls for disabled veterans. 2004 · House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
6. SB339 SB339: ( New Title) relative to conducting a feasibility study of various alternatives to enhance safety at the traffic circle in the city of Portsmouth. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
7. SB387 SB387: relative to proposed toll booths in the city of Nashua and relative to alternatives to the statewide toll booth system. 2000 · House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways

Retirement and pensions (5 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. HB139 HB139: (2nd New Title) relative to the collection and reporting of school drop-out, suspension, and expulsion data; relative to the deadlines for submitting certain reports to the department of education; and establishing a statewide education accountability system. Enacted 2003 · Law without signature · HOUSE Committee of Conference
2. HB294 HB294: (New Title) excluding certain pension income from household income for purposes of determining low and moderate income homeowners property tax relief. 2002 · House · HOUSE Finance
3. HB651 HB651: (2nd New Title) relative to the purchase of prior service credit in the retirement system, and repealing certain provisions permitting additional contributions. 2004 · Senate · HOUSE Committee of Conference
4. HB1455 HB1455: (New Title) establishing portability of a person's qualifying retirement funds for the purchase of permissive service credit in the New Hampshire retirement system. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
5. SB432 SB432: relative to allowing political subdivision employees who are members of the retirement system to make payment for prior service with other retirement assets. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration

Science, Technology and Energy (7 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB423 HB423: (New Title) relative to the sale of generation assets, the provision of transition service, and the funding of the energy efficiency program for Public Service Company of New Hamsphire. 2002 · House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
2. HB755 HB755: relative to groundwater contamination and gasoline sampling. 2002 · House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
3. HB1229 HB1229: requiring the completion of a rate proceeding prior to legislative approval of a settlement agreement with PSNH. 2000 · House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
4. HB1375 HB1375: establishing financial assurance for guaranteed promise of customer repayment of rate reduction bonds. 2000 · House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
5. SB93 SB93: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the public health and environmental benefit of requiring stationary and mobile sources that burn virgin petroleum products or coal to comply with the requirements of the air toxic control act. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
6. SB372 SB372: prohibiting the sale of reformulated gasoline in certain counties of the state. 2002 · House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
7. SB460 SB460: establishing a grant program to reimburse eligible districts served by municipal waste combustors. 2000 · House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy

State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs (6 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HR7 HR7: urging increased consideration and preservation of local authority in international trade and investment agreements. 2003 · House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
2. SCR2 SCR2: urging the United States Congress to act to rectify the science, research funding, and restrictions governing the Northeast multispecies fishing industry and its impact on New Hampshire fishermen. 2003 · Passed · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
3. SCR2 SCR2: (New Title) calling on the President and the Congress to fully fund the federal government's share of the average per pupil expenditure in public elementary and secondary schools in the United States under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. 2001 · Passed · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
4. SCR3 SCR3: rescinding the 1979 call for a federal constitutional convention. 2000 · House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
5. SCR4 SCR4: relative to prescription drug patient assistance programs. 2002 · Passed · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
6. SCR7 SCR7: urging the federal government to consider the impacts on New Hampshire and the smaller states of interstate waste legislation. 2000 · House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

Taxation (20 bills sponsored; 7 bills enacted)

1. CACR20 CACR20: relating to a personal income tax. Providing that any personal income tax enacted by the general court shall be dedicated exclusively for the purposes of public education. 2002 · House · HOUSE Finance
2. HB294 HB294: (New Title) excluding certain pension income from household income for purposes of determining low and moderate income homeowners property tax relief. 2002 · House · HOUSE Finance
3. HB759 HB759: establishing a flat rate education income tax, relative to the state education property tax and certain other taxes, and relative to other sources of funding for education. 2001 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
4. HB1200 HB1200: (3rd New Title) relative to the application of education property tax hardship relief to estate planning trusts and relative to eligibility for hardship relief. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
5. HB1268 HB1268: (2nd New Title) relative to the net operating loss deduction under the business profits tax. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
6. HB1462 HB1462: eliminating the statewide education property tax as a source of funding adequate education. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Finance
7. SB58 SB58: relative to the net operating loss under the business profits tax. Enacted 2003 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
8. SB66 SB66: limiting the exemption from the meals and rooms tax for sales of alcoholic beverages by voluntary nonprofit organizations operating under one-day licenses from the liquor commission. Enacted 2003 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Ways and Means
9. SB126 SB126: (New Title) exempting transfers of title between spouses from the real estate transfer tax. 2004 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
10. SB173 SB173: creating a business profits tax credit for certain donations made for science and technology equipment and facilities to the university system of New Hampshire or any of its component institutions. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
11. SB183 SB183: relative to distribution of certain meals and rooms tax revenue to municipalities with affordable housing. 2002 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
12. SB208 SB208: establishing a property tax cap and abatement program. 2003 · Senate
13. SB312 SB312: relative to quarterly payment of estimated interest and dividends tax. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Ways and Means
14. SB363 SB363: establishing a committee to study economic distortions associated with property taxation. 2002 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
15. SB388 SB388: relative to bingo game operation. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Ways and Means
16. SB421 SB421: (New title) establishing a child day care program credit against the business profits tax and the business enterprise tax. 2000 · House · HOUSE Finance
17. SB430 SB430: authorizing the sweepstakes commission to allow electronic bingo games. 2000 · Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
18. SB436 SB436: allowing municipalities to adopt a lower interest rate charged on property tax payments made for property redemptions. 2002 · House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
19. SB448 SB448: creating business profits tax credits for contributions made by business organizations for housing for its low and moderate income employees and for certain affordable housing programs. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Ways and Means
20. SB449 SB449: (2nd New Title) clarifying that employees in certain department of health and human services' positions are entitled to certain salaries and raises; increasing certain appropriations to the legislative branch for consultants; making fiscal year 2000 legislative branch appropriations nonlapsing until June 30, 2001; and appropriating funds to the legislative budget assistant and the department of revenue administration for tax modeling. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor

Transportation (14 bills sponsored; 6 bills enacted)

1. HB58 HB58: requiring the department of transportation to study and report on the advantages of constructing state-owned truck service centers. 2003 · House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
2. HB272 HB272: relative to a pilot study by the department of transportation restricting large truck traffic during hours of darkness on certain roads in Portsmouth. 2003 · House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
3. HB292 HB292: relative to vehicles entering intersections. 2003 · House · HOUSE Transportation
4. HB443 HB443: (2nd New Title) relative to a state energy plan and relative to road toll fees for vehicles powered by alternate energy sources. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
5. HB575 HB575: limiting railroad liability for passenger and tourist rail service. 2000 · House · HOUSE Judiciary
6. HB1129 HB1129: prohibiting smoking in vehicles when child passenger restraints are required. 2004 · House · HOUSE Transportation
7. HB1378 HB1378: establishing a task force to conduct an ongoing study of the feasibility of re-establishing passenger rail service on the Eastern Line from Newburyport, Massachusetts to Kittery, Maine. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Transportation
8. HCR30 HCR30: (New Title) urging the United States Environmental Protection Agency to adopt recently proposed new emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles, at least as stringent as originally proposed, and to adopt a second phase of emission standards for heavy-duty vehicles and reductions in the sulfur content of highway diesel fuel. 2000 · Passed · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
9. HJR6 HJR6: (New Title) encouraging the revitalization of the northern rail corridor from Concord to Lebanon and recognizing its interim recreational uses. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Transportation
10. SB116 SB116: relative to motor vehicle offenses which result in the death or serious bodily injury of another. 2001 · Senate · SENATE Judiciary
11. SB320 SB320: relative to penalties for damaging emergency vehicles. 2004 · House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
12. SB348 SB348: extending the committee to study the establishment of a permit system for vessels registered in another state temporarily using the waters of New Hampshire. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Transportation
13. SB405 SB405: relative to special number plates for veterans. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Transportation
14. SB439 SB439: (New Title) relative to motor vehicle offenses resulting in serious bodily injury and relative to driver record information. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor

Uncategorized (6 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. HB109 HB109: (New Title) relative to telemarketing practices. 2003 · Senate
2. SB98 SB98: prohibiting telemarketers from contacting customers on a federal do-not-call registry. Enacted 2003 · Signed by Governor
3. SB312 SB312: establishing a state code of ethics. Enacted 2004 · Signed by Governor
4. SCR6 SCR6: urging the President and Congress to address the challenge of high prescription medication prices. 2000 · Passed
5. SR5 SR5: urging an Independent Safety Assessment for Vermont Yankee. 2004 · Senate
6. SR14 SR14: relative to heating oil prices and the state match requirement for the federal Weatherization Program. 2000 · Senate

WILDLIFE & RECREATION (4 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HCR1 HCR1: endorsing the Canine Good Citizen Program. 2003 · Passed · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
2. SB144 SB144: relative to qualifications for members of the fish and game commission. 2000 · Senate · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
3. SB146 SB146: relative to personal watercraft. 2002 · Senate · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
4. SB375 SB375: requiring a firearm safety program prior to the issuance of a concealed weapons permit. 2002 · Senate · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION