Johnson

2002 (85 bills sponsored; 42 bills enacted)

1. CACR7 CACR7: relating to the state's responsibility to provide to all citizens the opportunity for a public education. Providing that the general court shall have the exclusive authority to determine the content, extent, and funding of a public education and that the state may fulfill its responsibility to provide to all citizens the opportunity for a public education. House · HOUSE Finance
2. CACR35 CACR35: (New Title) relating to property taxation for education funding. Providing that if the state imposes a real property tax to fund public education, the state shall not collect, nor shall it require a political subdivision to collect or remit, such tax in excess of the amount contributed by the state to support the cost of adequate public education for pupils in such political subdivision. House · HOUSE Ways and Means
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. HB439 HB439: (New Title) establishing a position of septage coordinator and making an appropriation therefor. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
6. HB522 HB522: (New Title) establishing discretionary preservation easements for preserving historic agricultural structures, and changing the disposition of unused interest from the land conservation investment program. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
7. HB555 HB555: (New Title) relative to the billing of counties for certain expenses by the department of health and human services and relative to costs of certain juvenile placements. Senate · SENATE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
8. HB556 HB556: (2nd New Title) relative to responsibilities of the department of cultural resources and the department of safety regarding building preservation and rehabilitation, and allowing the commissioner of the department of cultural resources to accept donations for purposes stipulated by the donor. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
9. HB592 HB592: (2nd New Title) relative to a milfoil and other exotic aquatic plants prevention program. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
10. HB656 HB656: relative to the formula for distributing school building aid grants. House · HOUSE Finance
11. HB1100 HB1100: (New Title) relative to the judicial conduct commission and making an appropriation therefor. Senate · SENATE Judiciary
12. HB1120 HB1120: relative to naming a certain island in Lake Winnipesaukee in the town of Moultonborough. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
13. HB1148 HB1148: (New Title) naming the state office complex on Hazen Drive in the city of Concord the Meldrim Thomson State Office Complex and naming New Hampshire route 25A from Wentworth to Orford the Governor Meldrim Thomson Scenic Highway. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Transportation
14. HB1179 HB1179: establishing a task force to investigate the feasibility of utilizing the Concord to Lincoln rail corridor for passenger service. House · HOUSE Transportation
15. HB1187 HB1187: relative to criminal penalties for possession of a firearm in a safe school zone. Senate · SENATE Finance
16. HB1231 HB1231: (New Title) implementing a pre-engineering technology curriculum in the public high schools in the state and relative to the naming of the regional community-technical college system. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
17. HB1249 HB1249: adopting the model Drug Dealer Liability Act. Senate · SENATE Judiciary
18. HB1281 HB1281: establishing a commission to study public educational choice initiatives. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Education
19. HB1318 HB1318: (New Title) relative to the regulation of the use of pharmaceutical agents and the treatment of glaucoma by licensed optometrists. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
20. HB1326 HB1326: establishing a committee to study the veterinary/medical education loan program and the veterinary/medical/optometric loan program. House · HOUSE Education
21. HB1334 HB1334: relative to a certain highway project in Brookfield, New Hampshire. House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
22. HB1361 HB1361: relative to the regulation of business practices between off highway recreational vehicle manufacturers, distributors, and dealers. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
23. HB1381 HB1381: requiring licensing of public bathing facilities and of the operators, designers, and installers of public bathing facilities. House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
24. HB1397 HB1397: relative to the annual salary of police commissioners of the town of Wolfeboro. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS
25. HB1414 HB1414: (New Title) relative to taxation of excavation areas. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
26. HB1439 HB1439: relative to an agreement between the state of New Hampshire and city of Laconia and making an appropriation therefor. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
27. HB1446 HB1446: relative to the recitation of the pledge of allegiance in the public schools. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Education
28. HB1447 HB1447: establishing a committee to study methods of supporting the continued operation of wood-fired electrical generating facilities. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
29. HB1449 HB1449: (New Title) establishing a pilot program to study and establish protected instream flows and water management plans on the Lamprey River and the Souhegan River. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
30. HB1453 HB1453: extending the committee studying the status of veterans in New Hampshire and relative to the membership of the state veterans' advisory committee. Enacted Signed by Governor
31. HB1458 HB1458: allowing emergency medical service personnel to be group II members of the New Hampshire retirement system. House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
32. HB1462 HB1462: eliminating the statewide education property tax as a source of funding adequate education. Senate · SENATE Finance
33. HB1469 HB1469: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the eligibility of state employees to receive a retirement system benefit while in service, establishing a moratorium on eligibility for electing such benefit, and prospectively repealing the provision allowing certain state employees to receive a retirement allowance while in service. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
34. HB1475 HB1475: establishing a committee to study the use of state-issued identification by law enforcement to enhance public safety. House · HOUSE Transportation
35. HCR22 HCR22: encouraging multiple use management and access for future land transfers to the White Mountain National Forest. Passed · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
36. HCR23 HCR23: urging Congress to abolish the Recreational Fee Demonstration Program on public lands including the White Mountain National Forest. Passed · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
37. SB88 SB88: establishing a travel and tourism development fund in the department of resources and economic development and making an appropriation therefor. House · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
38. SB101 SB101: relative to mooring permits and fees. House · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
39. SB104 SB104: relative to regional approaches to instream flow preservation. Senate · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
40. SB105 SB105: relative to instream flow plan requirements. Senate · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
41. SB110 SB110: extending the kindergarten construction program. House · HOUSE Finance
42. SB127 SB127: relative to stress-related injuries under workers' compensation. Senate · SENATE INSURANCE
43. SB146 SB146: relative to personal watercraft. Senate · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
44. SB151 SB151: ( New Title) transferring and appropriating funds to the department of safety for additional staffing of evening and midnight patrols by current New Hampshire state troopers. Senate · SENATE Finance
45. SB166 SB166: relative to processing applications for the children's health insurance program (CHIP). Senate · SENATE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
46. SB182 SB182: (2nd New Title) establishing a brain injury program and making an appropriation therefor. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
47. SB314 SB314: relative to Selective Service Act Compliance through driver's license applications. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Transportation
48. SB316 SB316: establishing a committee to study the fiscal relationship between the Pease development authority and the state and its political subdivisions. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
49. SB320 SB320: establishing a study committee to review independent living retirement communities. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
50. SB324 SB324: urging a study of the operating efficiency of state government. House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
51. SB327 SB327: relative to a milfoil and other exotic plants prevention and research grant program and fund. Senate · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
52. SB328 SB328: establishing a 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
53. SB334 SB334: relative to grounds for refusal or denial of hotel accommodations. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
54. SB350 SB350: (2nd New Title) creating a business profits tax credit for certain donations made for science and technology equipment and facilities to the department of regional community-technical colleges or the university system of New Hampshire or any component institutions, authorizing the Berlin campus of the New Hampshire regional community-technical college system to upgrade and modernize its equipment and programs, and authorizing manufacturing technology training in the town of Littleton. House · HOUSE Ways and Means
55. SB351 SB351: (New Title) establishing a commission to study the expansion of projects eligible for financial assistance under RSA 486-A. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
56. SB356 SB356: relative to naming a certain body of water in Lake Winnipesaukee in the town of Meredith. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
57. SB357 SB357: relative to restrictions on the operation of boats. Senate · SENATE Transportation
58. SB380 SB380: establishing a committee to study the space needs of the division of safety services within the department of safety. House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
59. SB387 SB387: relative to the adoption of certain contracts by school districts. Senate · SENATE Education
60. SB392 SB392: (New Title) relative to the regulation of revolving credit plans. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
61. SB394 SB394: relative to the duties of the advisory committee on international trade. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
62. SB399 SB399: regulating demand drafts under the New Hampshire Uniform Commercial Code. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
63. SB401 SB401: relative to long-term care funding and making an appropriation therefor. Senate · SENATE Finance
64. SB402 SB402: establishing a committee to study long-term care funding and making an appropriation therefor. House · HOUSE COMMERCE
65. SB404 SB404: changing certain limitations on investment management fees and investments by banks acting as fiduciaries. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
66. SB405 SB405: relative to special number plates for veterans. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Transportation
67. SB410 SB410: relative to large groundwater withdrawals. House · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
68. SB414 SB414: relative to the committee allowing the use of business logo signing on the mainline of limited access and divided highways. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
69. SB418 SB418: relative to unemployment compensation. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
70. SB424 SB424: relative to instructional and operational costs of providing an adequate education. Senate · SENATE Education
71. SB425 SB425: revising the formula used to calculate the cost of an adequate education. Vetoed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
72. SB429 SB429: relative to the community technical college system. House · HOUSE Education
73. SB430 SB430: ( New Title) allowing towns or cities to increase the property tax credit for service-connected total disability and to add income limits for age groups in the elderly exemption. House
74. SB438 SB438: extending the retirement while in service election to all retirement system members whose membership is optional. Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
75. 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
76. SB443 SB443: relative to the division of condominiums. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
77. SB446 SB446: relative to rights and protections for New Hampshire national guard members called to state active duty. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
78. SB449 SB449: establishing a landlord-tenant mediation pilot program. Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
79. SB450 SB450: establishing a committee to study milfoil and exotic aquatic weed prevention and research. Senate · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
80. SB451 SB451: relative to the shoreland protection act. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
81. SB452 SB452: relative to fines for violations of the shoreland protection act. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
82. SB453 SB453: relative to setbacks in the shoreland protection act. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
83. SB456 SB456: making appropriations to the department of health and human services. Enacted Signed by Governor
84. SR1 SR1: a resolution urging the passage of legislation regarding the rights of voters in Manchester and Nashua. Senate · SENATE NO COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT
85. SR2 SR2: a resolution supporting the retention of the phrase "under God" in the pledge of allegiance. Senate · SENATE NO COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT

2001 (46 bills sponsored; 31 bills enacted)

1. HB113 HB113: relative to the Nute High School and library trustees. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Education
2. HB123 HB123: (New Title) relative to the retirement system classification for the director of the division of safety services, department of safety and relative to retirement allowances for certain state employees. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
3. HB124 HB124: (New Title) establishing a committee to study on-line and electronic voting. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
4. HB219 HB219: relative to the rules of the road involving school buses. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Transportation
5. HB238 HB238: relative to interstate banking. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
6. 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
7. HB291 HB291: revising the procedure for determining the cost of an adequate education. House · HOUSE Finance
8. HB297 HB297: eliminating excess education property tax payments. House · HOUSE Ways and Means
9. HB311 HB311: increasing the fees under the laws relative to sewage disposal systems to support a position at the department of environmental services to advocate for and implement long-term septage disposal solutions in partnership with New Hampshire municipalities. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
10. HB312 HB312: increasing the agent fee for fish and game licenses. House · HOUSE FISH AND GAME
11. HB328 HB328: relative to fees of sheriffs and deputy sheriffs. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
12. HB339 HB339: prohibiting the taking of deer by baiting. Senate · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
13. HB367 HB367: (New Title) relative to the establishment of a town forest in the town of Randolph and relative to property of preexisting school districts. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
14. HB390 HB390: (New Title) relative to the Live-Birth Infants Protection Act. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
15. HB397 HB397: establishing a committee to study the status of veterans in New Hampshire. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
16. HB482 HB482: relative to airport zoning. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
17. HB489 HB489: (2nd New Title) relative to the regulation of rural electric cooperatives by the public utilities commission and relative to transition and default service and the sale of generation assets by Public Service Company of New Hampshire. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
18. HB526 HB526: establishing a committee to study recodification of the motor vehicle insurance laws. House · HOUSE COMMERCE
19. HB536 HB536: making an appropriation to the town of Conway for the purpose of burying utility lines. House · HOUSE Finance
20. HB554 HB554: establishing a division of information technology within the department of safety. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
21. HB568 HB568: relative to appointment requirements for judges. House · HOUSE Judiciary
22. HB574 HB574: establishing a committee to study the recodification of laws relating to the joint committee on legislative facilities and the application of the right-to-know law. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS
23. HB584 HB584: relative to the registration and licensure of OHRV dealers and rental agents. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
24. HB612 HB612: (New Title) relative to expenditures from the dam maintenance fund by the department of environmental services and extending a study committee report date. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
25. HB632 HB632: allowing the sale of collectible beer without a license. House · HOUSE COMMERCE
26. HB648 HB648: (New Title) authorizing licensing of homeless youth programs. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
27. HB742 HB742: relative to collection of the education property tax and establishing a program to rebate certain excessive property tax payments of eligible taxpayers. House · HOUSE Ways and Means
28. HB766 HB766: establishing a New Hampshire education tax on consumption as a source of funding for education, reducing the rates of other state taxes, and increasing certain exemptions to the interest and dividends tax. House · HOUSE Ways and Means
29. HCR11 HCR11: to evaluate regional transportation infrastructure links. Passed · SENATE Transportation
30. HJR1 HJR1: urging Congress to expand eligibility for membership in the American Legion. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS
31. SB45 SB45: (New Title) relative to the legislative oversight committee on electric utility restructuring and relative to service from a rural electric cooperative under special contracts. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
32. SB47 SB47: relative to ownership of certified public accounting firms. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
33. SB48 SB48: relative to the rental of shared living facilities. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Judiciary
34. SB49 SB49: establishing a committee to study the creation of a landlord-tenant mediation project. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Judiciary
35. SB54 SB54: relative to the transfer of funds in the community-technical college system. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
36. SB70 SB70: relative to staffing at New Hampshire long-term health care facilities. Senate · SENATE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
37. 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
38. SB83 SB83: relative to the New Hampshire film and television commission. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
39. 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
40. 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
41. SB108 SB108: relative to the definition of "funeral home." House · HOUSE COMMERCE
42. SB121 SB121: relative to the advisory committee on international trade. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
43. SB134 SB134: (New Title) establishing a committee to study allowing the use of business logo signing on the mainline of limited access and divided highways. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
44. SB138 SB138: (New Title) relative to the instructional and operational costs of providing an adequate education. Senate · SENATE Finance
45. SB167 SB167: relative to the medicaid payment for long-term care services. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
46. SB195 SB195: permitting the department of regional community-technical colleges to lease building space from the Pease development authority in exchange for a reduction in Pease development authority's debt owed to the state. Senate · SENATE Finance

2000 (73 bills sponsored; 32 bills enacted)

1. CACR39 CACR39: relating to the funding of public education. Providing that the state shall fund an amount not less than 30 percent of the total annual statewide cost of public education for kindergarten through grade 12 and that the general court shall have the power to apportion this amount by statute; that the state shall support access to a continuum of educational opportunities including early childhood and postsecondary education at a financial level to be deemed appropriate by statute; and that beginning April 1, 2001, no property tax in any form shall be used to fund the state's obligation to cherish and support public education. House · HOUSE Finance
2. HB113 HB113: affirming sovereign immunity as it relates to the Claremont ruling. Senate · SENATE Judiciary
3. HB209 HB209: relative to authorizing the consideration of traditional village patterns in local zoning ordinances. House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
4. HB273 HB273: (New Title) establishing a school building aid oversight committee. Senate · SENATE Education
5. HB309 HB309: relative to motor vehicle insurance. House · HOUSE COMMERCE
6. HB449 HB449: requiring boating safety education. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Transportation
7. HB580 HB580: (New Title) authorizing a grant from funds appropriated to the joint promotional program for the purpose of marketing the Connecticut river area as a travel and tourism destination. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
8. HB692 HB692: adopting a single sales factor method of apportionment under the business profits tax. House · HOUSE Finance
9. HB693 HB693: limiting access to certain business records. House · HOUSE COMMERCE
10. HB1116 HB1116: prohibiting partial-birth abortions. House · HOUSE Judiciary
11. HB1141 HB1141: relative to access highways to public waters. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
12. HB1143 HB1143: relative to renaming New Hampshire route 28 in the town of Wolfeboro as the "Gary Parker Memorial Highway." Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Transportation
13. HB1174 HB1174: establishing a committee to study the feasibility of creating an umbrella-type agency for health care. House · HOUSE COMMERCE
14. HB1180 HB1180: relative to separating the budget for New Hampshire public television from the university system of New Hampshire budget. House · HOUSE Finance
15. HB1185 HB1185: extending the report date of the committee established to study mercury source reduction and recycling issues to November 1, 2000. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
16. HB1186 HB1186: extending the reporting date of the Sullivan county regional refuse disposal district issues study committee. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
17. 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
18. HB1257 HB1257: prohibiting the sale of urine for drug testing purposes. House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
19. HB1260 HB1260: relative to the cost of prescription medication. House · HOUSE COMMERCE
20. HB1292 HB1292: making it a crime to cause the death of an unborn child as a result of committing a violent act against a pregnant woman. House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
21. HB1355 HB1355: authorizing funding for a hydrodynamic study of the Hampton/Seabrook harbor and estuarine system. House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
22. HB1368 HB1368: establishing a Civil War memorials commission for the construction and maintenance of New Hampshire Civil War monuments and memorials. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS
23. HB1389 HB1389: relative to the Nute High School and library trustees. House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
24. HB1397 HB1397: relative to naming a certain island in Lake Winnipesaukee in the town of Moultonborough. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
25. HB1414 HB1414: (3rd New Title) authorizing the department of environmental services to discuss with other states the use of a regional gasoline containing less or no MTBE, promoting the use of less polluting marine engines by the state and others, extending the reporting date of the committee to study the requirements for usage of MTBE, and addressing municipal purchase, construction, or operation of certain fossil fuel facilities. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
26. HB1435 HB1435: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the immediate and long-term impact of changing methodology of communications and information technology as it applies to the right-to-know law. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary
27. HB1452 HB1452: (New Title) codifying the powers and duties of the joint committee on legislative facilities. Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
28. HB1464 HB1464: relative to the licensing process for new health care facility construction. Senate · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
29. HB1471 HB1471: (New Title) relative to the department of employment security's power to approve building projects. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
30. HB1478 HB1478: establishing matching funds for certain candidates. House · HOUSE Election Law
31. HB1525 HB1525: establishing a legislative oversight committee to review the procedures of the health services planning and review board. Senate · SENATE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
32. HB1531 HB1531: relative to the preemption of local regulations of firearms. Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
33. HB1578 HB1578: relative to the joint promotional program and making an appropriation therefor. House · HOUSE Finance
34. HB1580 HB1580: allowing businesses to apply the investment tax credit to contributions made to public schools, charter schools, and scholarship funding organizations. House · HOUSE Finance
35. HB1581 HB1581: making optional the laws relative to energy conservation in new building construction. House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
36. HB1596 HB1596: establishing a committee to study deadlines for the completion of work in the legislative process. House · HOUSE Legislative Administration
37. HB1597 HB1597: relative to passage of fiscal note bills which do not contain an accompanying fiscal analysis. House · HOUSE Legislative Administration
38. HB1614 HB1614: naming 2 bridges. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Transportation
39. HB1626 HB1626: establishing a program to rebate certain excessive property tax payments of eligible taxpayers. House · HOUSE Finance
40. HCR27 HCR27: (2nd New Title) requesting Congress to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to prevent federal courts from instructing states or political subdivisions of states to levy or increase taxes. Passed · SENATE BANKS
41. 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
42. HCR34 HCR34: urging Congress to investigate the rising prices of gasoline and diesel fuel and take appropriate action to decrease prices to consumers. Senate · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
43. HJR24 HJR24: (New Title) urging the United States Environmental Protection Agency and Congress to work with the northeastern states and gasoline refiners to authorize the use of a regional gasoline containing less or no MTBE additive and to promptly eliminate Clean Air Act requirements for oxygenates in gasoline. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
44. HJR26 HJR26: urging Congress to pass legislation ensuring improved access to local television for households in unserved and underserved rural areas. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS
45. SB46 SB46: relative to the applicability of mooring permit requirements House · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
46. SB61 SB61: relative to the definition of ski craft. Senate · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
47. SB76 SB76: ( New Title ) establishing a pilot program allowing certain economically depressed municipalities to offer tax exemptions to foster public accommodation and industrial construction. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
48. SB135 SB135: relative to water supply land protection grants. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
49. SB196 SB196: relative to electric rate reduction financing. Senate · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
50. SB207 SB207: relative to authorizing bonds for the construction and renovation of regional vocational education centers. House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
51. SB210 SB210: relative to payment by the state for certain court-ordered placements of special education students. House · HOUSE Finance
52. SB305 SB305: relative to payments to defeat eviction for nonpayment of rent. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Judiciary
53. SB306 SB306: relative to landlord access to a tenant's premises. Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
54. SB307 SB307: ( New Title ) relative to biosolids and short paper fiber. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Environment and Agriculture
55. SB320 SB320: (2nd New Title) relative to ratifying the Inter-Lakes cooperative school district meeting held on March 8, 2000; and relative to ratifying the Plainfield school district annual meeting held on March 10, 2000. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Education
56. 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
57. SB352 SB352: repealing the equipment challenge grant program within the New Hampshire community-technical colleges. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Education
58. SB362 SB362: relative to the length of buses and single unit vehicles. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Transportation
59. SB365 SB365: [New Title] relative to the adoption of bonds or notes in school districts and municipalities. Senate · SENATE Education
60. SB367 SB367: establishing a prescription drug access study committee. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
61. SB392 SB392: relative to the use of nonlapsed funds by the regional community-technical colleges. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
62. SB401 SB401: establishing the New Hampshire land and community heritage investment program and making an appropriation therefor. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
63. SB450 SB450: prohibiting the importation of tobacco products that violate federal law. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
64. SB453 SB453: relative to the expending of legacies or gifts and the transfer of funds by the regional community-technical colleges. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
65. SB457 SB457: relative to ownership of certified public accounting firms. House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
66. SB460 SB460: establishing a grant program to reimburse eligible districts served by municipal waste combustors. House · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
67. SB467 SB467: relative to the exemption from regulation of certain elevating devices. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
68. SB470 SB470: ( New Title ) relative to the duties of the commission on the status of community - technical education. Enacted Signed by Governor
69. SB472 SB472: relative to final authorization of electric rate reduction financing and commission action. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
70. SCR3 SCR3: rescinding the 1979 call for a federal constitutional convention. House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
71. 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
72. SJR1 SJR1: concerning the status of the White Mountain National Forest within the U.S. Forest Service's forest management plan. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
73. SR14 SR14: relative to heating oil prices and the state match requirement for the federal Weatherization Program. Senate

HOUSE COMMERCE (17 bills sponsored; 9 bills enacted)

2002 (7 bills sponsored; 6 bills enacted)

1. SB334 SB334: relative to grounds for refusal or denial of hotel accommodations. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
2. SB392 SB392: (New Title) relative to the regulation of revolving credit plans. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
3. SB394 SB394: relative to the duties of the advisory committee on international trade. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
4. SB399 SB399: regulating demand drafts under the New Hampshire Uniform Commercial Code. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
5. SB402 SB402: establishing a committee to study long-term care funding and making an appropriation therefor. House · HOUSE COMMERCE
6. SB404 SB404: changing certain limitations on investment management fees and investments by banks acting as fiduciaries. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
7. SB443 SB443: relative to the division of condominiums. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE

2001 (6 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

1. HB526 HB526: establishing a committee to study recodification of the motor vehicle insurance laws. House · HOUSE COMMERCE
2. HB632 HB632: allowing the sale of collectible beer without a license. House · HOUSE COMMERCE
3. SB47 SB47: relative to ownership of certified public accounting firms. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
4. SB83 SB83: relative to the New Hampshire film and television commission. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
5. SB108 SB108: relative to the definition of "funeral home." House · HOUSE COMMERCE
6. SB121 SB121: relative to the advisory committee on international trade. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE

2000 (4 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB309 HB309: relative to motor vehicle insurance. House · HOUSE COMMERCE
2. HB693 HB693: limiting access to certain business records. House · HOUSE COMMERCE
3. HB1174 HB1174: establishing a committee to study the feasibility of creating an umbrella-type agency for health care. House · HOUSE COMMERCE
4. HB1260 HB1260: relative to the cost of prescription medication. House · HOUSE COMMERCE

HOUSE Committee of Conference (4 bills sponsored; 4 bills enacted)

2002 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB439 HB439: (New Title) establishing a position of septage coordinator and making an appropriation therefor. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference

2001 (3 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

1. HB238 HB238: relative to interstate banking. 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. HB328 HB328: relative to fees of sheriffs and deputy sheriffs. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference

HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

2000 (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1257 HB1257: prohibiting the sale of urine for drug testing purposes. House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
2. HB1292 HB1292: making it a crime to cause the death of an unborn child as a result of committing a violent act against a pregnant woman. House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety

HOUSE Education (4 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

2002 (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1326 HB1326: establishing a committee to study the veterinary/medical education loan program and the veterinary/medical/optometric loan program. House · HOUSE Education
2. SB429 SB429: relative to the community technical college system. House · HOUSE Education

2000 (2 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. SB320 SB320: (2nd New Title) relative to ratifying the Inter-Lakes cooperative school district meeting held on March 8, 2000; and relative to ratifying the Plainfield school district annual meeting held on March 10, 2000. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Education
2. SB352 SB352: repealing the equipment challenge grant program within the New Hampshire community-technical colleges. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Education

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

2000 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1478 HB1478: establishing matching funds for certain candidates. House · HOUSE Election Law

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

2000 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB307 SB307: ( New Title ) relative to biosolids and short paper fiber. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Environment and Agriculture

HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration (5 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

2002 (3 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1381 HB1381: requiring licensing of public bathing facilities and of the operators, designers, and installers of public bathing facilities. House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
2. HB1458 HB1458: allowing emergency medical service personnel to be group II members of the New Hampshire retirement system. House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
3. SB324 SB324: urging a study of the operating efficiency of state government. House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration

2001 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. 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. SB457 SB457: relative to ownership of certified public accounting firms. House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration

HOUSE Finance (19 bills sponsored; 6 bills enacted)

2002 (5 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. CACR7 CACR7: relating to the state's responsibility to provide to all citizens the opportunity for a public education. Providing that the general court shall have the exclusive authority to determine the content, extent, and funding of a public education and that the state may fulfill its responsibility to provide to all citizens the opportunity for a public education. House · HOUSE Finance
2. HB656 HB656: relative to the formula for distributing school building aid grants. House · HOUSE Finance
3. SB110 SB110: extending the kindergarten construction program. House · HOUSE Finance
4. SB182 SB182: (2nd New Title) establishing a brain injury program and making an appropriation therefor. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
5. SB425 SB425: revising the formula used to calculate the cost of an adequate education. Vetoed by Governor · HOUSE Finance

2001 (3 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB291 HB291: revising the procedure for determining the cost of an adequate education. House · HOUSE Finance
2. HB536 HB536: making an appropriation to the town of Conway for the purpose of burying utility lines. House · HOUSE Finance
3. SB54 SB54: relative to the transfer of funds in the community-technical college system. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance

2000 (11 bills sponsored; 4 bills enacted)

1. CACR39 CACR39: relating to the funding of public education. Providing that the state shall fund an amount not less than 30 percent of the total annual statewide cost of public education for kindergarten through grade 12 and that the general court shall have the power to apportion this amount by statute; that the state shall support access to a continuum of educational opportunities including early childhood and postsecondary education at a financial level to be deemed appropriate by statute; and that beginning April 1, 2001, no property tax in any form shall be used to fund the state's obligation to cherish and support public education. House · HOUSE Finance
2. HB692 HB692: adopting a single sales factor method of apportionment under the business profits tax. House · HOUSE Finance
3. HB1180 HB1180: relative to separating the budget for New Hampshire public television from the university system of New Hampshire budget. House · HOUSE Finance
4. HB1578 HB1578: relative to the joint promotional program and making an appropriation therefor. House · HOUSE Finance
5. HB1580 HB1580: allowing businesses to apply the investment tax credit to contributions made to public schools, charter schools, and scholarship funding organizations. House · HOUSE Finance
6. HB1626 HB1626: establishing a program to rebate certain excessive property tax payments of eligible taxpayers. House · HOUSE Finance
7. SB210 SB210: relative to payment by the state for certain court-ordered placements of special education students. House · HOUSE Finance
8. SB392 SB392: relative to the use of nonlapsed funds by the regional community-technical colleges. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
9. SB401 SB401: establishing the New Hampshire land and community heritage investment program and making an appropriation therefor. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
10. SB450 SB450: prohibiting the importation of tobacco products that violate federal law. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
11. SB453 SB453: relative to the expending of legacies or gifts and the transfer of funds by the regional community-technical colleges. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance

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

2001 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB312 HB312: increasing the agent fee for fish and game licenses. House · HOUSE FISH AND GAME

HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs (4 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

2002 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB320 SB320: establishing a study committee to review independent living retirement communities. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

2001 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB167 SB167: relative to the medicaid payment for long-term care services. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

2000 (2 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1464 HB1464: relative to the licensing process for new health care facility construction. Senate · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
2. SB367 SB367: establishing a prescription drug access study committee. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

HOUSE Judiciary (5 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

2001 (3 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. HB568 HB568: relative to appointment requirements for judges. House · HOUSE Judiciary
2. SB48 SB48: relative to the rental of shared living facilities. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Judiciary
3. SB49 SB49: establishing a committee to study the creation of a landlord-tenant mediation project. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Judiciary

2000 (2 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1116 HB1116: prohibiting partial-birth abortions. House · HOUSE Judiciary
2. SB305 SB305: relative to payments to defeat eviction for nonpayment of rent. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Judiciary

HOUSE Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services (2 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

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; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB467 SB467: relative to the exemption from regulation of certain elevating devices. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services

HOUSE Legislative Administration (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

2000 (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1596 HB1596: establishing a committee to study deadlines for the completion of work in the legislative process. House · HOUSE Legislative Administration
2. HB1597 HB1597: relative to passage of fiscal note bills which do not contain an accompanying fiscal analysis. House · HOUSE Legislative Administration

HOUSE Municipal and County Government (5 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

2002 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB351 SB351: (New Title) establishing a commission to study the expansion of projects eligible for financial assistance under RSA 486-A. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Municipal and County Government

2000 (4 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB209 HB209: relative to authorizing the consideration of traditional village patterns in local zoning ordinances. House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
2. HB1389 HB1389: relative to the Nute High School and library trustees. House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
3. HB1581 HB1581: making optional the laws relative to energy conservation in new building construction. House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
4. SB76 SB76: ( New Title ) establishing a pilot program allowing certain economically depressed municipalities to offer tax exemptions to foster public accommodation and industrial construction. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Municipal and County Government

HOUSE Public Works and Highways (8 bills sponsored; 4 bills enacted)

2002 (4 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. HB1334 HB1334: relative to a certain highway project in Brookfield, New Hampshire. House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
2. SB316 SB316: establishing a committee to study the fiscal relationship between the Pease development authority and the state and its political subdivisions. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
3. SB380 SB380: establishing a committee to study the space needs of the division of safety services within the department of safety. House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
4. SB414 SB414: relative to the committee allowing the use of business logo signing on the mainline of limited access and divided highways. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Public Works and Highways

2001 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB134 SB134: (New Title) establishing a committee to study allowing the use of business logo signing on the mainline of limited access and divided highways. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Public Works and Highways

2000 (3 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1355 HB1355: authorizing funding for a hydrodynamic study of the Hampton/Seabrook harbor and estuarine system. House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
2. HB1471 HB1471: (New Title) relative to the department of employment security's power to approve building projects. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
3. SB207 SB207: relative to authorizing bonds for the construction and renovation of regional vocational education centers. House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways

HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development (9 bills sponsored; 5 bills enacted)

2002 (7 bills sponsored; 4 bills enacted)

1. SB88 SB88: establishing a travel and tourism development fund in the department of resources and economic development and making an appropriation therefor. House · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
2. SB101 SB101: relative to mooring permits and fees. House · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
3. SB356 SB356: relative to naming a certain body of water in Lake Winnipesaukee in the town of Meredith. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
4. SB410 SB410: relative to large groundwater withdrawals. House · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
5. SB451 SB451: relative to the shoreland protection act. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
6. SB452 SB452: relative to fines for violations of the shoreland protection act. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
7. SB453 SB453: relative to setbacks in the shoreland protection act. 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 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB46 SB46: relative to the applicability of mooring permit requirements House · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development

HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy (4 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

2001 (2 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. SB45 SB45: (New Title) relative to the legislative oversight committee on electric utility restructuring and relative to service from a rural electric cooperative under special contracts. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
2. 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 (2 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1414 HB1414: (3rd New Title) authorizing the department of environmental services to discuss with other states the use of a regional gasoline containing less or no MTBE, promoting the use of less polluting marine engines by the state and others, extending the reporting date of the committee to study the requirements for usage of MTBE, and addressing municipal purchase, construction, or operation of certain fossil fuel facilities. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
2. 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 (4 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

2002 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB446 SB446: relative to rights and protections for New Hampshire national guard members called to state active duty. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

2000 (3 bills sponsored; 1 bill 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
3. SJR1 SJR1: concerning the status of the White Mountain National Forest within the U.S. Forest Service's forest management plan. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

HOUSE Transportation (7 bills sponsored; 5 bills enacted)

2002 (5 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

1. HB1179 HB1179: establishing a task force to investigate the feasibility of utilizing the Concord to Lincoln rail corridor for passenger service. House · HOUSE Transportation
2. HB1475 HB1475: establishing a committee to study the use of state-issued identification by law enforcement to enhance public safety. House · HOUSE Transportation
3. SB314 SB314: relative to Selective Service Act Compliance through driver's license applications. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Transportation
4. SB328 SB328: establishing a 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
5. SB405 SB405: relative to special number plates for veterans. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Transportation

2000 (2 bills sponsored; 2 bills 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
2. SB362 SB362: relative to the length of buses and single unit vehicles. Enacted Signed by Governor · HOUSE Transportation

HOUSE Ways and Means (5 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

2002 (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. CACR35 CACR35: (New Title) relating to property taxation for education funding. Providing that if the state imposes a real property tax to fund public education, the state shall not collect, nor shall it require a political subdivision to collect or remit, such tax in excess of the amount contributed by the state to support the cost of adequate public education for pupils in such political subdivision. House · HOUSE Ways and Means
2. SB350 SB350: (2nd New Title) creating a business profits tax credit for certain donations made for science and technology equipment and facilities to the department of regional community-technical colleges or the university system of New Hampshire or any component institutions, authorizing the Berlin campus of the New Hampshire regional community-technical college system to upgrade and modernize its equipment and programs, and authorizing manufacturing technology training in the town of Littleton. House · HOUSE Ways and Means

2001 (3 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB297 HB297: eliminating excess education property tax payments. House · HOUSE Ways and Means
2. HB742 HB742: relative to collection of the education property tax and establishing a program to rebate certain excessive property tax payments of eligible taxpayers. House · HOUSE Ways and Means
3. HB766 HB766: establishing a New Hampshire education tax on consumption as a source of funding for education, reducing the rates of other state taxes, and increasing certain exemptions to the interest and dividends tax. House · HOUSE Ways and Means

No committee listed (6 bills sponsored; 4 bills enacted)

2002 (4 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

1. HB1453 HB1453: extending the committee studying the status of veterans in New Hampshire and relative to the membership of the state veterans' advisory committee. Enacted Signed by Governor
2. SB430 SB430: ( New Title) allowing towns or cities to increase the property tax credit for service-connected total disability and to add income limits for age groups in the elderly exemption. House
3. 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
4. SB456 SB456: making appropriations to the department of health and human services. Enacted Signed by Governor

2000 (2 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. SB470 SB470: ( New Title ) relative to the duties of the commission on the status of community - technical education. Enacted Signed by Governor
2. SR14 SR14: relative to heating oil prices and the state match requirement for the federal Weatherization Program. Senate

SENATE BANKS (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

2000 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HCR27 HCR27: (2nd New Title) requesting Congress to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to prevent federal courts from instructing states or political subdivisions of states to levy or increase taxes. Passed · SENATE BANKS

SENATE Education (7 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

2002 (4 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. HB1281 HB1281: establishing a commission to study public educational choice initiatives. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Education
2. HB1446 HB1446: relative to the recitation of the pledge of allegiance in the public schools. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Education
3. SB387 SB387: relative to the adoption of certain contracts by school districts. Senate · SENATE Education
4. SB424 SB424: relative to instructional and operational costs of providing an adequate education. Senate · SENATE Education

2001 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB113 HB113: relative to the Nute High School and library trustees. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Education

2000 (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB273 HB273: (New Title) establishing a school building aid oversight committee. Senate · SENATE Education
2. SB365 SB365: [New Title] relative to the adoption of bonds or notes in school districts and municipalities. Senate · SENATE Education

SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (7 bills sponsored; 4 bills enacted)

2002 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1447 HB1447: establishing a committee to study methods of supporting the continued operation of wood-fired electrical generating facilities. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

2001 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB489 HB489: (2nd New Title) relative to the regulation of rural electric cooperatives by the public utilities commission and relative to transition and default service and the sale of generation assets by Public Service Company of New Hampshire. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

2000 (5 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. HB580 HB580: (New Title) authorizing a grant from funds appropriated to the joint promotional program for the purpose of marketing the Connecticut river area as a travel and tourism destination. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
2. 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
3. HCR34 HCR34: urging Congress to investigate the rising prices of gasoline and diesel fuel and take appropriate action to decrease prices to consumers. Senate · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
4. SB196 SB196: relative to electric rate reduction financing. Senate · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
5. SB472 SB472: relative to final authorization of electric rate reduction financing and commission action. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

SENATE ENVIRONMENT (11 bills sponsored; 7 bills enacted)

2002 (6 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. HB253 HB253: relative to mercury reductions. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
2. HB1449 HB1449: (New Title) establishing a pilot program to study and establish protected instream flows and water management plans on the Lamprey River and the Souhegan River. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
3. SB104 SB104: relative to regional approaches to instream flow preservation. Senate · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
4. SB105 SB105: relative to instream flow plan requirements. Senate · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
5. SB327 SB327: relative to a milfoil and other exotic plants prevention and research grant program and fund. Senate · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
6. SB450 SB450: establishing a committee to study milfoil and exotic aquatic weed prevention and research. Senate · SENATE ENVIRONMENT

2001 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB612 HB612: (New Title) relative to expenditures from the dam maintenance fund by the department of environmental services and extending a study committee report date. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENVIRONMENT

2000 (4 bills sponsored; 4 bills enacted)

1. HB1141 HB1141: relative to access highways to public waters. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
2. HB1185 HB1185: extending the report date of the committee established to study mercury source reduction and recycling issues to November 1, 2000. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
3. HB1186 HB1186: extending the reporting date of the Sullivan county regional refuse disposal district issues study committee. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
4. HJR24 HJR24: (New Title) urging the United States Environmental Protection Agency and Congress to work with the northeastern states and gasoline refiners to authorize the use of a regional gasoline containing less or no MTBE additive and to promptly eliminate Clean Air Act requirements for oxygenates in gasoline. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE ENVIRONMENT

SENATE Executive Departments and Administration (4 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

2002 (3 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1318 HB1318: (New Title) relative to the regulation of the use of pharmaceutical agents and the treatment of glaucoma by licensed optometrists. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
2. SB438 SB438: extending the retirement while in service election to all retirement system members whose membership is optional. Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
3. SB449 SB449: establishing a landlord-tenant mediation pilot program. Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration

2000 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1452 HB1452: (New Title) codifying the powers and duties of the joint committee on legislative facilities. Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration

SENATE Finance (21 bills sponsored; 15 bills enacted)

2002 (12 bills sponsored; 8 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. HB556 HB556: (2nd New Title) relative to responsibilities of the department of cultural resources and the department of safety regarding building preservation and rehabilitation, and allowing the commissioner of the department of cultural resources to accept donations for purposes stipulated by the donor. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
3. HB592 HB592: (2nd New Title) relative to a milfoil and other exotic aquatic plants prevention program. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
4. HB1187 HB1187: relative to criminal penalties for possession of a firearm in a safe school zone. Senate · SENATE Finance
5. HB1231 HB1231: (New Title) implementing a pre-engineering technology curriculum in the public high schools in the state and relative to the naming of the regional community-technical college system. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
6. HB1361 HB1361: relative to the regulation of business practices between off highway recreational vehicle manufacturers, distributors, and dealers. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
7. HB1414 HB1414: (New Title) relative to taxation of excavation areas. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
8. HB1439 HB1439: relative to an agreement between the state of New Hampshire and city of Laconia and making an appropriation therefor. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
9. HB1462 HB1462: eliminating the statewide education property tax as a source of funding adequate education. Senate · SENATE Finance
10. HB1469 HB1469: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the eligibility of state employees to receive a retirement system benefit while in service, establishing a moratorium on eligibility for electing such benefit, and prospectively repealing the provision allowing certain state employees to receive a retirement allowance while in service. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
11. SB151 SB151: ( New Title) transferring and appropriating funds to the department of safety for additional staffing of evening and midnight patrols by current New Hampshire state troopers. Senate · SENATE Finance
12. SB401 SB401: relative to long-term care funding and making an appropriation therefor. Senate · SENATE Finance

2001 (7 bills sponsored; 5 bills enacted)

1. HB123 HB123: (New Title) relative to the retirement system classification for the director of the division of safety services, department of safety and relative to retirement allowances for certain state employees. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
2. HB311 HB311: increasing the fees under the laws relative to sewage disposal systems to support a position at the department of environmental services to advocate for and implement long-term septage disposal solutions in partnership with New Hampshire municipalities. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
3. HB554 HB554: establishing a division of information technology within the department of safety. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
4. HB584 HB584: relative to the registration and licensure of OHRV dealers and rental agents. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
5. HB648 HB648: (New Title) authorizing licensing of homeless youth programs. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
6. SB138 SB138: (New Title) relative to the instructional and operational costs of providing an adequate education. Senate · SENATE Finance
7. SB195 SB195: permitting the department of regional community-technical colleges to lease building space from the Pease development authority in exchange for a reduction in Pease development authority's debt owed to the state. Senate · SENATE Finance

2000 (2 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. 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
2. SB135 SB135: relative to water supply land protection grants. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance

SENATE INSURANCE (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

2002 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SB127 SB127: relative to stress-related injuries under workers' compensation. Senate · SENATE INSURANCE

SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS (5 bills sponsored; 5 bills enacted)

2002 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1397 HB1397: relative to the annual salary of police commissioners of the town of Wolfeboro. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS

2001 (2 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. HB574 HB574: establishing a committee to study the recodification of laws relating to the joint committee on legislative facilities and the application of the right-to-know law. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS
2. HJR1 HJR1: urging Congress to expand eligibility for membership in the American Legion. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS

2000 (2 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. HB1368 HB1368: establishing a Civil War memorials commission for the construction and maintenance of New Hampshire Civil War monuments and memorials. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS
2. HJR26 HJR26: urging Congress to pass legislation ensuring improved access to local television for households in unserved and underserved rural areas. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS

SENATE Judiciary (4 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

2002 (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1100 HB1100: (New Title) relative to the judicial conduct commission and making an appropriation therefor. Senate · SENATE Judiciary
2. HB1249 HB1249: adopting the model Drug Dealer Liability Act. Senate · SENATE Judiciary

2000 (2 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB113 HB113: affirming sovereign immunity as it relates to the Claremont ruling. Senate · SENATE Judiciary
2. HB1435 HB1435: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the immediate and long-term impact of changing methodology of communications and information technology as it applies to the right-to-know law. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary

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

2002 (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. SR1 SR1: a resolution urging the passage of legislation regarding the rights of voters in Manchester and Nashua. Senate · SENATE NO COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT
2. 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 (6 bills sponsored; 4 bills enacted)

2002 (1 bill sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB522 HB522: (New Title) establishing discretionary preservation easements for preserving historic agricultural structures, and changing the disposition of unused interest from the land conservation investment program. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS

2001 (3 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

1. HB124 HB124: (New Title) establishing a committee to study on-line and electronic voting. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
2. HB397 HB397: establishing a committee to study the status of veterans in New Hampshire. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
3. HB482 HB482: relative to airport zoning. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS

2000 (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1531 HB1531: relative to the preemption of local regulations of firearms. Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
2. SB306 SB306: relative to landlord access to a tenant's premises. Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS

SENATE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES (5 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

2002 (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB555 HB555: (New Title) relative to the billing of counties for certain expenses by the department of health and human services and relative to costs of certain juvenile placements. Senate · SENATE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
2. SB166 SB166: relative to processing applications for the children's health insurance program (CHIP). Senate · SENATE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

2001 (2 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB390 HB390: (New Title) relative to the Live-Birth Infants Protection Act. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
2. SB70 SB70: relative to staffing at New Hampshire long-term health care facilities. Senate · SENATE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

2000 (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1525 HB1525: establishing a legislative oversight committee to review the procedures of the health services planning and review board. Senate · SENATE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

SENATE Transportation (7 bills sponsored; 5 bills enacted)

2002 (2 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1148 HB1148: (New Title) naming the state office complex on Hazen Drive in the city of Concord the Meldrim Thomson State Office Complex and naming New Hampshire route 25A from Wentworth to Orford the Governor Meldrim Thomson Scenic Highway. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Transportation
2. SB357 SB357: relative to restrictions on the operation of boats. Senate · SENATE Transportation

2001 (2 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB219 HB219: relative to the rules of the road involving school buses. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Transportation
2. HCR11 HCR11: to evaluate regional transportation infrastructure links. Passed · SENATE Transportation

2000 (3 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

1. HB449 HB449: requiring boating safety education. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Transportation
2. HB1143 HB1143: relative to renaming New Hampshire route 28 in the town of Wolfeboro as the "Gary Parker Memorial Highway." Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Transportation
3. HB1614 HB1614: naming 2 bridges. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE Transportation

SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION (8 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

2002 (4 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1120 HB1120: relative to naming a certain island in Lake Winnipesaukee in the town of Moultonborough. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
2. HCR22 HCR22: encouraging multiple use management and access for future land transfers to the White Mountain National Forest. Passed · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
3. HCR23 HCR23: urging Congress to abolish the Recreational Fee Demonstration Program on public lands including the White Mountain National Forest. Passed · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
4. SB146 SB146: relative to personal watercraft. Senate · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION

2001 (2 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB339 HB339: prohibiting the taking of deer by baiting. Senate · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
2. HB367 HB367: (New Title) relative to the establishment of a town forest in the town of Randolph and relative to property of preexisting school districts. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION

2000 (2 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1397 HB1397: relative to naming a certain island in Lake Winnipesaukee in the town of Moultonborough. Enacted Signed by Governor · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
2. SB61 SB61: relative to the definition of ski craft. Senate · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION

Abortion and reproductive health (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1116 HB1116: prohibiting partial-birth abortions. 2000 · House · HOUSE Judiciary

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

1. SB450 SB450: prohibiting the importation of tobacco products that violate federal law. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance

BANKS (1 bill sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HCR27 HCR27: (2nd New Title) requesting Congress to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to prevent federal courts from instructing states or political subdivisions of states to levy or increase taxes. 2000 · Passed · SENATE BANKS

Business and labor (12 bills sponsored; 8 bills enacted)

1. HB123 HB123: (New Title) relative to the retirement system classification for the director of the division of safety services, department of safety and relative to retirement allowances for certain state employees. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
2. HB311 HB311: increasing the fees under the laws relative to sewage disposal systems to support a position at the department of environmental services to advocate for and implement long-term septage disposal solutions in partnership with New Hampshire municipalities. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
3. HB692 HB692: adopting a single sales factor method of apportionment under the business profits tax. 2000 · House · HOUSE Finance
4. HB693 HB693: limiting access to certain business records. 2000 · House · HOUSE COMMERCE
5. HB1361 HB1361: relative to the regulation of business practices between off highway recreational vehicle manufacturers, distributors, and dealers. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
6. HB1469 HB1469: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the eligibility of state employees to receive a retirement system benefit while in service, establishing a moratorium on eligibility for electing such benefit, and prospectively repealing the provision allowing certain state employees to receive a retirement allowance while in service. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
7. HB1580 HB1580: allowing businesses to apply the investment tax credit to contributions made to public schools, charter schools, and scholarship funding organizations. 2000 · House · HOUSE Finance
8. SB134 SB134: (New Title) establishing a committee to study allowing the use of business logo signing on the mainline of limited access and divided highways. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
9. SB350 SB350: (2nd New Title) creating a business profits tax credit for certain donations made for science and technology equipment and facilities to the department of regional community-technical colleges or the university system of New Hampshire or any component institutions, authorizing the Berlin campus of the New Hampshire regional community-technical college system to upgrade and modernize its equipment and programs, and authorizing manufacturing technology training in the town of Littleton. 2002 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
10. SB414 SB414: relative to the committee allowing the use of business logo signing on the mainline of limited access and divided highways. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
11. SB418 SB418: relative to unemployment compensation. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
12. SB467 SB467: relative to the exemption from regulation of certain elevating devices. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services

Children and family law (3 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. CACR39 CACR39: relating to the funding of public education. Providing that the state shall fund an amount not less than 30 percent of the total annual statewide cost of public education for kindergarten through grade 12 and that the general court shall have the power to apportion this amount by statute; that the state shall support access to a continuum of educational opportunities including early childhood and postsecondary education at a financial level to be deemed appropriate by statute; and that beginning April 1, 2001, no property tax in any form shall be used to fund the state's obligation to cherish and support public education. 2000 · House · HOUSE Finance
2. HB1292 HB1292: making it a crime to cause the death of an unborn child as a result of committing a violent act against a pregnant woman. 2000 · House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
3. SB166 SB166: relative to processing applications for the children's health insurance program (CHIP). 2002 · Senate · SENATE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

COMMERCE (17 bills sponsored; 9 bills enacted)

1. HB309 HB309: relative to motor vehicle insurance. 2000 · House · HOUSE COMMERCE
2. HB526 HB526: establishing a committee to study recodification of the motor vehicle insurance laws. 2001 · House · HOUSE COMMERCE
3. HB632 HB632: allowing the sale of collectible beer without a license. 2001 · House · HOUSE COMMERCE
4. HB693 HB693: limiting access to certain business records. 2000 · House · HOUSE COMMERCE
5. HB1174 HB1174: establishing a committee to study the feasibility of creating an umbrella-type agency for health care. 2000 · House · HOUSE COMMERCE
6. HB1260 HB1260: relative to the cost of prescription medication. 2000 · House · HOUSE COMMERCE
7. SB47 SB47: relative to ownership of certified public accounting firms. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
8. SB83 SB83: relative to the New Hampshire film and television commission. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
9. SB108 SB108: relative to the definition of "funeral home." 2001 · House · HOUSE COMMERCE
10. SB121 SB121: relative to the advisory committee on international trade. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
11. SB334 SB334: relative to grounds for refusal or denial of hotel accommodations. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
12. SB392 SB392: (New Title) relative to the regulation of revolving credit plans. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
13. SB394 SB394: relative to the duties of the advisory committee on international trade. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
14. SB399 SB399: regulating demand drafts under the New Hampshire Uniform Commercial Code. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
15. SB402 SB402: establishing a committee to study long-term care funding and making an appropriation therefor. 2002 · House · HOUSE COMMERCE
16. SB404 SB404: changing certain limitations on investment management fees and investments by banks acting as fiduciaries. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE
17. SB443 SB443: relative to the division of condominiums. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE COMMERCE

Committee of Conference (4 bills sponsored; 4 bills enacted)

1. HB238 HB238: relative to interstate banking. Enacted 2001 · 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 2001 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
3. HB328 HB328: relative to fees of sheriffs and deputy sheriffs. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
4. HB439 HB439: (New Title) establishing a position of septage coordinator and making an appropriation therefor. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference

Criminal justice and courts (18 bills sponsored; 6 bills enacted)

1. CACR7 CACR7: relating to the state's responsibility to provide to all citizens the opportunity for a public education. Providing that the general court shall have the exclusive authority to determine the content, extent, and funding of a public education and that the state may fulfill its responsibility to provide to all citizens the opportunity for a public education. 2002 · House · HOUSE Finance
2. CACR39 CACR39: relating to the funding of public education. Providing that the state shall fund an amount not less than 30 percent of the total annual statewide cost of public education for kindergarten through grade 12 and that the general court shall have the power to apportion this amount by statute; that the state shall support access to a continuum of educational opportunities including early childhood and postsecondary education at a financial level to be deemed appropriate by statute; and that beginning April 1, 2001, no property tax in any form shall be used to fund the state's obligation to cherish and support public education. 2000 · House · HOUSE Finance
3. HB113 HB113: affirming sovereign immunity as it relates to the Claremont ruling. 2000 · Senate · SENATE Judiciary
4. HB328 HB328: relative to fees of sheriffs and deputy sheriffs. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
5. HB568 HB568: relative to appointment requirements for judges. 2001 · House · HOUSE Judiciary
6. HB1100 HB1100: (New Title) relative to the judicial conduct commission and making an appropriation therefor. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Judiciary
7. HB1116 HB1116: prohibiting partial-birth abortions. 2000 · House · HOUSE Judiciary
8. HB1187 HB1187: relative to criminal penalties for possession of a firearm in a safe school zone. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Finance
9. HB1249 HB1249: adopting the model Drug Dealer Liability Act. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Judiciary
10. HB1257 HB1257: prohibiting the sale of urine for drug testing purposes. 2000 · House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
11. HB1292 HB1292: making it a crime to cause the death of an unborn child as a result of committing a violent act against a pregnant woman. 2000 · House · HOUSE Criminal Justice and Public Safety
12. HB1397 HB1397: relative to the annual salary of police commissioners of the town of Wolfeboro. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS
13. HB1435 HB1435: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the immediate and long-term impact of changing methodology of communications and information technology as it applies to the right-to-know law. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Judiciary
14. HCR27 HCR27: (2nd New Title) requesting Congress to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to prevent federal courts from instructing states or political subdivisions of states to levy or increase taxes. 2000 · Passed · SENATE BANKS
15. SB48 SB48: relative to the rental of shared living facilities. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Judiciary
16. SB49 SB49: establishing a committee to study the creation of a landlord-tenant mediation project. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Judiciary
17. SB210 SB210: relative to payment by the state for certain court-ordered placements of special education students. 2000 · House · HOUSE Finance
18. SB305 SB305: relative to payments to defeat eviction for nonpayment of rent. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Judiciary

Education (35 bills sponsored; 11 bills enacted)

1. CACR7 CACR7: relating to the state's responsibility to provide to all citizens the opportunity for a public education. Providing that the general court shall have the exclusive authority to determine the content, extent, and funding of a public education and that the state may fulfill its responsibility to provide to all citizens the opportunity for a public education. 2002 · House · HOUSE Finance
2. CACR35 CACR35: (New Title) relating to property taxation for education funding. Providing that if the state imposes a real property tax to fund public education, the state shall not collect, nor shall it require a political subdivision to collect or remit, such tax in excess of the amount contributed by the state to support the cost of adequate public education for pupils in such political subdivision. 2002 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
3. CACR39 CACR39: relating to the funding of public education. Providing that the state shall fund an amount not less than 30 percent of the total annual statewide cost of public education for kindergarten through grade 12 and that the general court shall have the power to apportion this amount by statute; that the state shall support access to a continuum of educational opportunities including early childhood and postsecondary education at a financial level to be deemed appropriate by statute; and that beginning April 1, 2001, no property tax in any form shall be used to fund the state's obligation to cherish and support public education. 2000 · House · HOUSE Finance
4. HB113 HB113: relative to the Nute High School and library trustees. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Education
5. HB219 HB219: relative to the rules of the road involving school buses. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Transportation
6. HB273 HB273: (New Title) establishing a school building aid oversight committee. 2000 · Senate · SENATE Education
7. HB291 HB291: revising the procedure for determining the cost of an adequate education. 2001 · House · HOUSE Finance
8. HB297 HB297: eliminating excess education property tax payments. 2001 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
9. HB367 HB367: (New Title) relative to the establishment of a town forest in the town of Randolph and relative to property of preexisting school districts. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
10. HB449 HB449: requiring boating safety education. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Transportation
11. HB656 HB656: relative to the formula for distributing school building aid grants. 2002 · House · HOUSE Finance
12. HB742 HB742: relative to collection of the education property tax and establishing a program to rebate certain excessive property tax payments of eligible taxpayers. 2001 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
13. HB766 HB766: establishing a New Hampshire education tax on consumption as a source of funding for education, reducing the rates of other state taxes, and increasing certain exemptions to the interest and dividends tax. 2001 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
14. HB1180 HB1180: relative to separating the budget for New Hampshire public television from the university system of New Hampshire budget. 2000 · House · HOUSE Finance
15. HB1187 HB1187: relative to criminal penalties for possession of a firearm in a safe school zone. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Finance
16. 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
17. HB1231 HB1231: (New Title) implementing a pre-engineering technology curriculum in the public high schools in the state and relative to the naming of the regional community-technical college system. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
18. HB1281 HB1281: establishing a commission to study public educational choice initiatives. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Education
19. HB1326 HB1326: establishing a committee to study the veterinary/medical education loan program and the veterinary/medical/optometric loan program. 2002 · House · HOUSE Education
20. HB1389 HB1389: relative to the Nute High School and library trustees. 2000 · House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
21. HB1446 HB1446: relative to the recitation of the pledge of allegiance in the public schools. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Education
22. HB1462 HB1462: eliminating the statewide education property tax as a source of funding adequate education. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Finance
23. HB1580 HB1580: allowing businesses to apply the investment tax credit to contributions made to public schools, charter schools, and scholarship funding organizations. 2000 · House · HOUSE Finance
24. SB138 SB138: (New Title) relative to the instructional and operational costs of providing an adequate education. 2001 · Senate · SENATE Finance
25. SB207 SB207: relative to authorizing bonds for the construction and renovation of regional vocational education centers. 2000 · House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
26. SB210 SB210: relative to payment by the state for certain court-ordered placements of special education students. 2000 · House · HOUSE Finance
27. SB320 SB320: (2nd New Title) relative to ratifying the Inter-Lakes cooperative school district meeting held on March 8, 2000; and relative to ratifying the Plainfield school district annual meeting held on March 10, 2000. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Education
28. SB350 SB350: (2nd New Title) creating a business profits tax credit for certain donations made for science and technology equipment and facilities to the department of regional community-technical colleges or the university system of New Hampshire or any component institutions, authorizing the Berlin campus of the New Hampshire regional community-technical college system to upgrade and modernize its equipment and programs, and authorizing manufacturing technology training in the town of Littleton. 2002 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
29. SB352 SB352: repealing the equipment challenge grant program within the New Hampshire community-technical colleges. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Education
30. SB365 SB365: [New Title] relative to the adoption of bonds or notes in school districts and municipalities. 2000 · Senate · SENATE Education
31. SB387 SB387: relative to the adoption of certain contracts by school districts. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Education
32. SB424 SB424: relative to instructional and operational costs of providing an adequate education. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Education
33. SB425 SB425: revising the formula used to calculate the cost of an adequate education. 2002 · Vetoed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
34. SB429 SB429: relative to the community technical college system. 2002 · House · HOUSE Education
35. SB470 SB470: ( New Title ) relative to the duties of the commission on the status of community - technical education. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor

Elections and voting (4 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB124 HB124: (New Title) establishing a committee to study on-line and electronic voting. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
2. HB1478 HB1478: establishing matching funds for certain candidates. 2000 · House · HOUSE Election Law
3. SB438 SB438: extending the retirement while in service election to all retirement system members whose membership is optional. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
4. SR1 SR1: a resolution urging the passage of legislation regarding the rights of voters in Manchester and Nashua. 2002 · Senate · SENATE NO COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT

ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (7 bills sponsored; 4 bills enacted)

1. HB489 HB489: (2nd New Title) relative to the regulation of rural electric cooperatives by the public utilities commission and relative to transition and default service and the sale of generation assets by Public Service Company of New Hampshire. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
2. HB580 HB580: (New Title) authorizing a grant from funds appropriated to the joint promotional program for the purpose of marketing the Connecticut river area as a travel and tourism destination. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
3. HB1447 HB1447: establishing a committee to study methods of supporting the continued operation of wood-fired electrical generating facilities. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
4. 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
5. HCR34 HCR34: urging Congress to investigate the rising prices of gasoline and diesel fuel and take appropriate action to decrease prices to consumers. 2000 · Senate · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
6. SB196 SB196: relative to electric rate reduction financing. 2000 · Senate · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
7. SB472 SB472: relative to final authorization of electric rate reduction financing and commission action. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · 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. HB489 HB489: (2nd New Title) relative to the regulation of rural electric cooperatives by the public utilities commission and relative to transition and default service and the sale of generation assets by Public Service Company of New Hampshire. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
3. HB536 HB536: making an appropriation to the town of Conway for the purpose of burying utility lines. 2001 · House · HOUSE Finance
4. HB1447 HB1447: establishing a committee to study methods of supporting the continued operation of wood-fired electrical generating facilities. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
5. HB1581 HB1581: making optional the laws relative to energy conservation in new building construction. 2000 · House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
6. SB45 SB45: (New Title) relative to the legislative oversight committee on electric utility restructuring and relative to service from a rural electric cooperative under special contracts. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
7. SB196 SB196: relative to electric rate reduction financing. 2000 · Senate · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
8. SB472 SB472: relative to final authorization of electric rate reduction financing and commission action. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

ENVIRONMENT (11 bills sponsored; 7 bills enacted)

1. HB253 HB253: relative to mercury reductions. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
2. HB612 HB612: (New Title) relative to expenditures from the dam maintenance fund by the department of environmental services and extending a study committee report date. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
3. HB1141 HB1141: relative to access highways to public waters. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
4. HB1185 HB1185: extending the report date of the committee established to study mercury source reduction and recycling issues to November 1, 2000. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
5. HB1186 HB1186: extending the reporting date of the Sullivan county regional refuse disposal district issues study committee. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
6. HB1449 HB1449: (New Title) establishing a pilot program to study and establish protected instream flows and water management plans on the Lamprey River and the Souhegan River. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
7. HJR24 HJR24: (New Title) urging the United States Environmental Protection Agency and Congress to work with the northeastern states and gasoline refiners to authorize the use of a regional gasoline containing less or no MTBE additive and to promptly eliminate Clean Air Act requirements for oxygenates in gasoline. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
8. SB104 SB104: relative to regional approaches to instream flow preservation. 2002 · Senate · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
9. SB105 SB105: relative to instream flow plan requirements. 2002 · Senate · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
10. SB327 SB327: relative to a milfoil and other exotic plants prevention and research grant program and fund. 2002 · Senate · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
11. SB450 SB450: establishing a committee to study milfoil and exotic aquatic weed prevention and research. 2002 · Senate · SENATE ENVIRONMENT

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

1. SB307 SB307: ( New Title ) relative to biosolids and short paper fiber. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Environment and Agriculture

Environment and natural resources (23 bills sponsored; 16 bills enacted)

1. HB311 HB311: increasing the fees under the laws relative to sewage disposal systems to support a position at the department of environmental services to advocate for and implement long-term septage disposal solutions in partnership with New Hampshire municipalities. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
2. HB312 HB312: increasing the agent fee for fish and game licenses. 2001 · House · HOUSE FISH AND GAME
3. HB522 HB522: (New Title) establishing discretionary preservation easements for preserving historic agricultural structures, and changing the disposition of unused interest from the land conservation investment program. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
4. HB612 HB612: (New Title) relative to expenditures from the dam maintenance fund by the department of environmental services and extending a study committee report date. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
5. HB1141 HB1141: relative to access highways to public waters. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
6. HB1414 HB1414: (3rd New Title) authorizing the department of environmental services to discuss with other states the use of a regional gasoline containing less or no MTBE, promoting the use of less polluting marine engines by the state and others, extending the reporting date of the committee to study the requirements for usage of MTBE, and addressing municipal purchase, construction, or operation of certain fossil fuel facilities. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
7. HB1449 HB1449: (New Title) establishing a pilot program to study and establish protected instream flows and water management plans on the Lamprey River and the Souhegan River. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
8. HB1581 HB1581: making optional the laws relative to energy conservation in new building construction. 2000 · House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
9. HJR24 HJR24: (New Title) urging the United States Environmental Protection Agency and Congress to work with the northeastern states and gasoline refiners to authorize the use of a regional gasoline containing less or no MTBE additive and to promptly eliminate Clean Air Act requirements for oxygenates in gasoline. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
10. SB46 SB46: relative to the applicability of mooring permit requirements 2000 · House · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
11. SB88 SB88: establishing a travel and tourism development fund in the department of resources and economic development and making an appropriation therefor. 2002 · House · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
12. 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
13. 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
14. SB101 SB101: relative to mooring permits and fees. 2002 · House · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
15. SB135 SB135: relative to water supply land protection grants. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
16. SB146 SB146: relative to personal watercraft. 2002 · Senate · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
17. SB328 SB328: establishing a committee to study the establishment of a permit system for vessels registered in another state temporarily using the waters of New Hampshire. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Transportation
18. 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
19. SB356 SB356: relative to naming a certain body of water in Lake Winnipesaukee in the town of Meredith. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
20. SB410 SB410: relative to large groundwater withdrawals. 2002 · House · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
21. SB451 SB451: relative to the shoreland protection act. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
22. SB452 SB452: relative to fines for violations of the shoreland protection act. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
23. SB453 SB453: relative to setbacks in the shoreland protection act. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development

Executive administration (9 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. HB1318 HB1318: (New Title) relative to the regulation of the use of pharmaceutical agents and the treatment of glaucoma by licensed optometrists. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
2. HB1381 HB1381: requiring licensing of public bathing facilities and of the operators, designers, and installers of public bathing facilities. 2002 · House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
3. HB1452 HB1452: (New Title) codifying the powers and duties of the joint committee on legislative facilities. 2000 · Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
4. HB1458 HB1458: allowing emergency medical service personnel to be group II members of the New Hampshire retirement system. 2002 · House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
5. 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
6. SB324 SB324: urging a study of the operating efficiency of state government. 2002 · House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
7. SB438 SB438: extending the retirement while in service election to all retirement system members whose membership is optional. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
8. SB449 SB449: establishing a landlord-tenant mediation pilot program. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration
9. SB457 SB457: relative to ownership of certified public accounting firms. 2000 · House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration

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

1. HB312 HB312: increasing the agent fee for fish and game licenses. 2001 · House · HOUSE FISH AND GAME

Health care (13 bills sponsored; 5 bills enacted)

1. HB555 HB555: (New Title) relative to the billing of counties for certain expenses by the department of health and human services and relative to costs of certain juvenile placements. 2002 · Senate · SENATE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
2. HB1174 HB1174: establishing a committee to study the feasibility of creating an umbrella-type agency for health care. 2000 · House · HOUSE COMMERCE
3. HB1326 HB1326: establishing a committee to study the veterinary/medical education loan program and the veterinary/medical/optometric loan program. 2002 · House · HOUSE Education
4. HB1458 HB1458: allowing emergency medical service personnel to be group II members of the New Hampshire retirement system. 2002 · House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
5. HB1464 HB1464: relative to the licensing process for new health care facility construction. 2000 · Senate · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
6. HB1525 HB1525: establishing a legislative oversight committee to review the procedures of the health services planning and review board. 2000 · Senate · SENATE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
7. SB70 SB70: relative to staffing at New Hampshire long-term health care facilities. 2001 · Senate · SENATE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
8. 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
9. SB166 SB166: relative to processing applications for the children's health insurance program (CHIP). 2002 · Senate · SENATE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
10. SB167 SB167: relative to the medicaid payment for long-term care services. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
11. SB320 SB320: establishing a study committee to review independent living retirement communities. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
12. SB367 SB367: establishing a prescription drug access study committee. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
13. SB456 SB456: making appropriations to the department of health and human services. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor

Housing and property (14 bills sponsored; 4 bills enacted)

1. CACR35 CACR35: (New Title) relating to property taxation for education funding. Providing that if the state imposes a real property tax to fund public education, the state shall not collect, nor shall it require a political subdivision to collect or remit, such tax in excess of the amount contributed by the state to support the cost of adequate public education for pupils in such political subdivision. 2002 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
2. CACR39 CACR39: relating to the funding of public education. Providing that the state shall fund an amount not less than 30 percent of the total annual statewide cost of public education for kindergarten through grade 12 and that the general court shall have the power to apportion this amount by statute; that the state shall support access to a continuum of educational opportunities including early childhood and postsecondary education at a financial level to be deemed appropriate by statute; and that beginning April 1, 2001, no property tax in any form shall be used to fund the state's obligation to cherish and support public education. 2000 · House · HOUSE Finance
3. HB209 HB209: relative to authorizing the consideration of traditional village patterns in local zoning ordinances. 2000 · House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
4. HB297 HB297: eliminating excess education property tax payments. 2001 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
5. HB367 HB367: (New Title) relative to the establishment of a town forest in the town of Randolph and relative to property of preexisting school districts. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
6. HB482 HB482: relative to airport zoning. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
7. HB742 HB742: relative to collection of the education property tax and establishing a program to rebate certain excessive property tax payments of eligible taxpayers. 2001 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
8. 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
9. HB1462 HB1462: eliminating the statewide education property tax as a source of funding adequate education. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Finance
10. HB1626 HB1626: establishing a program to rebate certain excessive property tax payments of eligible taxpayers. 2000 · House · HOUSE Finance
11. SB49 SB49: establishing a committee to study the creation of a landlord-tenant mediation project. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Judiciary
12. SB306 SB306: relative to landlord access to a tenant's premises. 2000 · Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
13. SB430 SB430: ( New Title) allowing towns or cities to increase the property tax credit for service-connected total disability and to add income limits for age groups in the elderly exemption. 2002 · House
14. SB449 SB449: establishing a landlord-tenant mediation pilot program. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration

Insurance (4 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB309 HB309: relative to motor vehicle insurance. 2000 · House · HOUSE COMMERCE
2. HB526 HB526: establishing a committee to study recodification of the motor vehicle insurance laws. 2001 · House · HOUSE COMMERCE
3. SB127 SB127: relative to stress-related injuries under workers' compensation. 2002 · Senate · SENATE INSURANCE
4. SB166 SB166: relative to processing applications for the children's health insurance program (CHIP). 2002 · Senate · SENATE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

INTERNAL AFFAIRS (5 bills sponsored; 5 bills enacted)

1. HB574 HB574: establishing a committee to study the recodification of laws relating to the joint committee on legislative facilities and the application of the right-to-know law. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS
2. HB1368 HB1368: establishing a Civil War memorials commission for the construction and maintenance of New Hampshire Civil War monuments and memorials. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS
3. HB1397 HB1397: relative to the annual salary of police commissioners of the town of Wolfeboro. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS
4. HJR1 HJR1: urging Congress to expand eligibility for membership in the American Legion. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS
5. HJR26 HJR26: urging Congress to pass legislation ensuring improved access to local television for households in unserved and underserved rural areas. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS

Legislative Administration (2 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1596 HB1596: establishing a committee to study deadlines for the completion of work in the legislative process. 2000 · House · HOUSE Legislative Administration
2. HB1597 HB1597: relative to passage of fiscal note bills which do not contain an accompanying fiscal analysis. 2000 · House · HOUSE Legislative Administration

Local government (22 bills sponsored; 13 bills enacted)

1. HB209 HB209: relative to authorizing the consideration of traditional village patterns in local zoning ordinances. 2000 · House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
2. HB311 HB311: increasing the fees under the laws relative to sewage disposal systems to support a position at the department of environmental services to advocate for and implement long-term septage disposal solutions in partnership with New Hampshire municipalities. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
3. HB367 HB367: (New Title) relative to the establishment of a town forest in the town of Randolph and relative to property of preexisting school districts. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
4. HB536 HB536: making an appropriation to the town of Conway for the purpose of burying utility lines. 2001 · House · HOUSE Finance
5. HB1120 HB1120: relative to naming a certain island in Lake Winnipesaukee in the town of Moultonborough. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
6. HB1143 HB1143: relative to renaming New Hampshire route 28 in the town of Wolfeboro as the "Gary Parker Memorial Highway." Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Transportation
7. HB1148 HB1148: (New Title) naming the state office complex on Hazen Drive in the city of Concord the Meldrim Thomson State Office Complex and naming New Hampshire route 25A from Wentworth to Orford the Governor Meldrim Thomson Scenic Highway. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Transportation
8. HB1186 HB1186: extending the reporting date of the Sullivan county regional refuse disposal district issues study committee. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
9. HB1389 HB1389: relative to the Nute High School and library trustees. 2000 · House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
10. HB1397 HB1397: relative to the annual salary of police commissioners of the town of Wolfeboro. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE INTERNAL AFFAIRS
11. HB1397 HB1397: relative to naming a certain island in Lake Winnipesaukee in the town of Moultonborough. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
12. HB1414 HB1414: (3rd New Title) authorizing the department of environmental services to discuss with other states the use of a regional gasoline containing less or no MTBE, promoting the use of less polluting marine engines by the state and others, extending the reporting date of the committee to study the requirements for usage of MTBE, and addressing municipal purchase, construction, or operation of certain fossil fuel facilities. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
13. HB1439 HB1439: relative to an agreement between the state of New Hampshire and city of Laconia and making an appropriation therefor. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
14. HB1581 HB1581: making optional the laws relative to energy conservation in new building construction. 2000 · House · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
15. 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
16. SB76 SB76: ( New Title ) establishing a pilot program allowing certain economically depressed municipalities to offer tax exemptions to foster public accommodation and industrial construction. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
17. SB350 SB350: (2nd New Title) creating a business profits tax credit for certain donations made for science and technology equipment and facilities to the department of regional community-technical colleges or the university system of New Hampshire or any component institutions, authorizing the Berlin campus of the New Hampshire regional community-technical college system to upgrade and modernize its equipment and programs, and authorizing manufacturing technology training in the town of Littleton. 2002 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
18. SB351 SB351: (New Title) establishing a commission to study the expansion of projects eligible for financial assistance under RSA 486-A. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
19. SB356 SB356: relative to naming a certain body of water in Lake Winnipesaukee in the town of Meredith. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
20. SB365 SB365: [New Title] relative to the adoption of bonds or notes in school districts and municipalities. 2000 · Senate · SENATE Education
21. SB430 SB430: ( New Title) allowing towns or cities to increase the property tax credit for service-connected total disability and to add income limits for age groups in the elderly exemption. 2002 · House
22. 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. SR1 SR1: a resolution urging the passage of legislation regarding the rights of voters in Manchester and Nashua. 2002 · Senate · SENATE NO COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT
2. SR2 SR2: a resolution supporting the retention of the phrase "under God" in the pledge of allegiance. 2002 · Senate · SENATE NO COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT

PUBLIC AFFAIRS (6 bills sponsored; 4 bills enacted)

1. HB124 HB124: (New Title) establishing a committee to study on-line and electronic voting. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
2. HB397 HB397: establishing a committee to study the status of veterans in New Hampshire. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
3. HB482 HB482: relative to airport zoning. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
4. HB522 HB522: (New Title) establishing discretionary preservation easements for preserving historic agricultural structures, and changing the disposition of unused interest from the land conservation investment program. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
5. HB1531 HB1531: relative to the preemption of local regulations of firearms. 2000 · Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS
6. SB306 SB306: relative to landlord access to a tenant's premises. 2000 · Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS

Public finance (55 bills sponsored; 26 bills enacted)

1. CACR7 CACR7: relating to the state's responsibility to provide to all citizens the opportunity for a public education. Providing that the general court shall have the exclusive authority to determine the content, extent, and funding of a public education and that the state may fulfill its responsibility to provide to all citizens the opportunity for a public education. 2002 · House · HOUSE Finance
2. CACR35 CACR35: (New Title) relating to property taxation for education funding. Providing that if the state imposes a real property tax to fund public education, the state shall not collect, nor shall it require a political subdivision to collect or remit, such tax in excess of the amount contributed by the state to support the cost of adequate public education for pupils in such political subdivision. 2002 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
3. CACR39 CACR39: relating to the funding of public education. Providing that the state shall fund an amount not less than 30 percent of the total annual statewide cost of public education for kindergarten through grade 12 and that the general court shall have the power to apportion this amount by statute; that the state shall support access to a continuum of educational opportunities including early childhood and postsecondary education at a financial level to be deemed appropriate by statute; and that beginning April 1, 2001, no property tax in any form shall be used to fund the state's obligation to cherish and support public education. 2000 · House · HOUSE Finance
4. HB123 HB123: (New Title) relative to the retirement system classification for the director of the division of safety services, department of safety and relative to retirement allowances for certain state employees. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
5. 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
6. HB291 HB291: revising the procedure for determining the cost of an adequate education. 2001 · House · HOUSE Finance
7. HB311 HB311: increasing the fees under the laws relative to sewage disposal systems to support a position at the department of environmental services to advocate for and implement long-term septage disposal solutions in partnership with New Hampshire municipalities. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
8. HB439 HB439: (New Title) establishing a position of septage coordinator and making an appropriation therefor. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Committee of Conference
9. HB536 HB536: making an appropriation to the town of Conway for the purpose of burying utility lines. 2001 · House · HOUSE Finance
10. HB554 HB554: establishing a division of information technology within the department of safety. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
11. HB556 HB556: (2nd New Title) relative to responsibilities of the department of cultural resources and the department of safety regarding building preservation and rehabilitation, and allowing the commissioner of the department of cultural resources to accept donations for purposes stipulated by the donor. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
12. HB580 HB580: (New Title) authorizing a grant from funds appropriated to the joint promotional program for the purpose of marketing the Connecticut river area as a travel and tourism destination. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
13. HB584 HB584: relative to the registration and licensure of OHRV dealers and rental agents. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
14. HB592 HB592: (2nd New Title) relative to a milfoil and other exotic aquatic plants prevention program. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
15. HB612 HB612: (New Title) relative to expenditures from the dam maintenance fund by the department of environmental services and extending a study committee report date. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
16. HB648 HB648: (New Title) authorizing licensing of homeless youth programs. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
17. HB656 HB656: relative to the formula for distributing school building aid grants. 2002 · House · HOUSE Finance
18. HB692 HB692: adopting a single sales factor method of apportionment under the business profits tax. 2000 · House · HOUSE Finance
19. HB766 HB766: establishing a New Hampshire education tax on consumption as a source of funding for education, reducing the rates of other state taxes, and increasing certain exemptions to the interest and dividends tax. 2001 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
20. HB1100 HB1100: (New Title) relative to the judicial conduct commission and making an appropriation therefor. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Judiciary
21. HB1180 HB1180: relative to separating the budget for New Hampshire public television from the university system of New Hampshire budget. 2000 · House · HOUSE Finance
22. HB1187 HB1187: relative to criminal penalties for possession of a firearm in a safe school zone. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Finance
23. 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
24. HB1231 HB1231: (New Title) implementing a pre-engineering technology curriculum in the public high schools in the state and relative to the naming of the regional community-technical college system. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
25. HB1355 HB1355: authorizing funding for a hydrodynamic study of the Hampton/Seabrook harbor and estuarine system. 2000 · House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
26. HB1361 HB1361: relative to the regulation of business practices between off highway recreational vehicle manufacturers, distributors, and dealers. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
27. HB1414 HB1414: (New Title) relative to taxation of excavation areas. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
28. HB1439 HB1439: relative to an agreement between the state of New Hampshire and city of Laconia and making an appropriation therefor. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
29. HB1462 HB1462: eliminating the statewide education property tax as a source of funding adequate education. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Finance
30. HB1469 HB1469: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the eligibility of state employees to receive a retirement system benefit while in service, establishing a moratorium on eligibility for electing such benefit, and prospectively repealing the provision allowing certain state employees to receive a retirement allowance while in service. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
31. HB1478 HB1478: establishing matching funds for certain candidates. 2000 · House · HOUSE Election Law
32. HB1578 HB1578: relative to the joint promotional program and making an appropriation therefor. 2000 · House · HOUSE Finance
33. HB1580 HB1580: allowing businesses to apply the investment tax credit to contributions made to public schools, charter schools, and scholarship funding organizations. 2000 · House · HOUSE Finance
34. HB1626 HB1626: establishing a program to rebate certain excessive property tax payments of eligible taxpayers. 2000 · House · HOUSE Finance
35. SB54 SB54: relative to the transfer of funds in the community-technical college system. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
36. SB88 SB88: establishing a travel and tourism development fund in the department of resources and economic development and making an appropriation therefor. 2002 · House · HOUSE Resources, Recreation and Development
37. SB110 SB110: extending the kindergarten construction program. 2002 · House · HOUSE Finance
38. SB135 SB135: relative to water supply land protection grants. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
39. SB138 SB138: (New Title) relative to the instructional and operational costs of providing an adequate education. 2001 · Senate · SENATE Finance
40. SB151 SB151: ( New Title) transferring and appropriating funds to the department of safety for additional staffing of evening and midnight patrols by current New Hampshire state troopers. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Finance
41. SB182 SB182: (2nd New Title) establishing a brain injury program and making an appropriation therefor. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
42. SB195 SB195: permitting the department of regional community-technical colleges to lease building space from the Pease development authority in exchange for a reduction in Pease development authority's debt owed to the state. 2001 · Senate · SENATE Finance
43. SB207 SB207: relative to authorizing bonds for the construction and renovation of regional vocational education centers. 2000 · House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
44. SB210 SB210: relative to payment by the state for certain court-ordered placements of special education students. 2000 · House · HOUSE Finance
45. SB327 SB327: relative to a milfoil and other exotic plants prevention and research grant program and fund. 2002 · Senate · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
46. SB365 SB365: [New Title] relative to the adoption of bonds or notes in school districts and municipalities. 2000 · Senate · SENATE Education
47. SB392 SB392: relative to the use of nonlapsed funds by the regional community-technical colleges. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
48. SB401 SB401: relative to long-term care funding and making an appropriation therefor. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Finance
49. SB401 SB401: establishing the New Hampshire land and community heritage investment program and making an appropriation therefor. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
50. SB402 SB402: establishing a committee to study long-term care funding and making an appropriation therefor. 2002 · House · HOUSE COMMERCE
51. SB425 SB425: revising the formula used to calculate the cost of an adequate education. 2002 · Vetoed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
52. 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
53. SB450 SB450: prohibiting the importation of tobacco products that violate federal law. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
54. SB453 SB453: relative to the expending of legacies or gifts and the transfer of funds by the regional community-technical colleges. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Finance
55. SB456 SB456: making appropriations to the department of health and human services. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor

PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES (5 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB390 HB390: (New Title) relative to the Live-Birth Infants Protection Act. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
2. HB555 HB555: (New Title) relative to the billing of counties for certain expenses by the department of health and human services and relative to costs of certain juvenile placements. 2002 · Senate · SENATE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
3. HB1525 HB1525: establishing a legislative oversight committee to review the procedures of the health services planning and review board. 2000 · Senate · SENATE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
4. SB70 SB70: relative to staffing at New Hampshire long-term health care facilities. 2001 · Senate · SENATE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
5. SB166 SB166: relative to processing applications for the children's health insurance program (CHIP). 2002 · Senate · SENATE PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS,HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

Public safety (4 bills sponsored; 0 bills enacted)

1. HB1187 HB1187: relative to criminal penalties for possession of a firearm in a safe school zone. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Finance
2. HB1458 HB1458: allowing emergency medical service personnel to be group II members of the New Hampshire retirement system. 2002 · House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
3. HB1475 HB1475: establishing a committee to study the use of state-issued identification by law enforcement to enhance public safety. 2002 · House · HOUSE Transportation
4. HB1531 HB1531: relative to the preemption of local regulations of firearms. 2000 · Senate · SENATE PUBLIC AFFAIRS

Public Works and Highways (8 bills sponsored; 4 bills enacted)

1. HB1334 HB1334: relative to a certain highway project in Brookfield, New Hampshire. 2002 · House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
2. HB1355 HB1355: authorizing funding for a hydrodynamic study of the Hampton/Seabrook harbor and estuarine system. 2000 · House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
3. HB1471 HB1471: (New Title) relative to the department of employment security's power to approve building projects. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
4. SB134 SB134: (New Title) establishing a committee to study allowing the use of business logo signing on the mainline of limited access and divided highways. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
5. SB207 SB207: relative to authorizing bonds for the construction and renovation of regional vocational education centers. 2000 · House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
6. SB316 SB316: establishing a committee to study the fiscal relationship between the Pease development authority and the state and its political subdivisions. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
7. SB380 SB380: establishing a committee to study the space needs of the division of safety services within the department of safety. 2002 · House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
8. SB414 SB414: relative to the committee allowing the use of business logo signing on the mainline of limited access and divided highways. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Public Works and Highways

Retirement and pensions (5 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

1. HB123 HB123: (New Title) relative to the retirement system classification for the director of the division of safety services, department of safety and relative to retirement allowances for certain state employees. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
2. HB1458 HB1458: allowing emergency medical service personnel to be group II members of the New Hampshire retirement system. 2002 · House · HOUSE Executive Departments and Administration
3. HB1469 HB1469: (New Title) establishing a committee to study the eligibility of state employees to receive a retirement system benefit while in service, establishing a moratorium on eligibility for electing such benefit, and prospectively repealing the provision allowing certain state employees to receive a retirement allowance while in service. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
4. SB320 SB320: establishing a study committee to review independent living retirement communities. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
5. SB438 SB438: extending the retirement while in service election to all retirement system members whose membership is optional. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Executive Departments and Administration

Science, Technology and Energy (4 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

1. HB1414 HB1414: (3rd New Title) authorizing the department of environmental services to discuss with other states the use of a regional gasoline containing less or no MTBE, promoting the use of less polluting marine engines by the state and others, extending the reporting date of the committee to study the requirements for usage of MTBE, and addressing municipal purchase, construction, or operation of certain fossil fuel facilities. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
2. SB45 SB45: (New Title) relative to the legislative oversight committee on electric utility restructuring and relative to service from a rural electric cooperative under special contracts. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Science, Technology and Energy
3. 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
4. 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 (4 bills sponsored; 2 bills enacted)

1. SB446 SB446: relative to rights and protections for New Hampshire national guard members called to state active duty. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
2. SCR3 SCR3: rescinding the 1979 call for a federal constitutional convention. 2000 · House · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
3. 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
4. SJR1 SJR1: concerning the status of the White Mountain National Forest within the U.S. Forest Service's forest management plan. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs

Taxation (15 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

1. CACR35 CACR35: (New Title) relating to property taxation for education funding. Providing that if the state imposes a real property tax to fund public education, the state shall not collect, nor shall it require a political subdivision to collect or remit, such tax in excess of the amount contributed by the state to support the cost of adequate public education for pupils in such political subdivision. 2002 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
2. CACR39 CACR39: relating to the funding of public education. Providing that the state shall fund an amount not less than 30 percent of the total annual statewide cost of public education for kindergarten through grade 12 and that the general court shall have the power to apportion this amount by statute; that the state shall support access to a continuum of educational opportunities including early childhood and postsecondary education at a financial level to be deemed appropriate by statute; and that beginning April 1, 2001, no property tax in any form shall be used to fund the state's obligation to cherish and support public education. 2000 · House · HOUSE Finance
3. HB297 HB297: eliminating excess education property tax payments. 2001 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
4. HB692 HB692: adopting a single sales factor method of apportionment under the business profits tax. 2000 · House · HOUSE Finance
5. HB742 HB742: relative to collection of the education property tax and establishing a program to rebate certain excessive property tax payments of eligible taxpayers. 2001 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
6. HB766 HB766: establishing a New Hampshire education tax on consumption as a source of funding for education, reducing the rates of other state taxes, and increasing certain exemptions to the interest and dividends tax. 2001 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
7. 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
8. HB1414 HB1414: (New Title) relative to taxation of excavation areas. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
9. HB1462 HB1462: eliminating the statewide education property tax as a source of funding adequate education. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Finance
10. HB1580 HB1580: allowing businesses to apply the investment tax credit to contributions made to public schools, charter schools, and scholarship funding organizations. 2000 · House · HOUSE Finance
11. HB1626 HB1626: establishing a program to rebate certain excessive property tax payments of eligible taxpayers. 2000 · House · HOUSE Finance
12. HCR27 HCR27: (2nd New Title) requesting Congress to propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to prevent federal courts from instructing states or political subdivisions of states to levy or increase taxes. 2000 · Passed · SENATE BANKS
13. SB76 SB76: ( New Title ) establishing a pilot program allowing certain economically depressed municipalities to offer tax exemptions to foster public accommodation and industrial construction. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Municipal and County Government
14. SB350 SB350: (2nd New Title) creating a business profits tax credit for certain donations made for science and technology equipment and facilities to the department of regional community-technical colleges or the university system of New Hampshire or any component institutions, authorizing the Berlin campus of the New Hampshire regional community-technical college system to upgrade and modernize its equipment and programs, and authorizing manufacturing technology training in the town of Littleton. 2002 · House · HOUSE Ways and Means
15. SB430 SB430: ( New Title) allowing towns or cities to increase the property tax credit for service-connected total disability and to add income limits for age groups in the elderly exemption. 2002 · House

Transportation (21 bills sponsored; 14 bills enacted)

1. HB219 HB219: relative to the rules of the road involving school buses. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Transportation
2. HB309 HB309: relative to motor vehicle insurance. 2000 · House · HOUSE COMMERCE
3. HB449 HB449: requiring boating safety education. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Transportation
4. HB526 HB526: establishing a committee to study recodification of the motor vehicle insurance laws. 2001 · House · HOUSE COMMERCE
5. HB1141 HB1141: relative to access highways to public waters. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE ENVIRONMENT
6. HB1143 HB1143: relative to renaming New Hampshire route 28 in the town of Wolfeboro as the "Gary Parker Memorial Highway." Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Transportation
7. HB1148 HB1148: (New Title) naming the state office complex on Hazen Drive in the city of Concord the Meldrim Thomson State Office Complex and naming New Hampshire route 25A from Wentworth to Orford the Governor Meldrim Thomson Scenic Highway. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Transportation
8. HB1179 HB1179: establishing a task force to investigate the feasibility of utilizing the Concord to Lincoln rail corridor for passenger service. 2002 · House · HOUSE Transportation
9. HB1334 HB1334: relative to a certain highway project in Brookfield, New Hampshire. 2002 · House · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
10. HB1361 HB1361: relative to the regulation of business practices between off highway recreational vehicle manufacturers, distributors, and dealers. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Finance
11. HB1475 HB1475: establishing a committee to study the use of state-issued identification by law enforcement to enhance public safety. 2002 · House · HOUSE Transportation
12. HB1614 HB1614: naming 2 bridges. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE Transportation
13. HCR11 HCR11: to evaluate regional transportation infrastructure links. 2001 · Passed · SENATE Transportation
14. SB134 SB134: (New Title) establishing a committee to study allowing the use of business logo signing on the mainline of limited access and divided highways. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Public Works and Highways
15. SB314 SB314: relative to Selective Service Act Compliance through driver's license applications. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Transportation
16. SB328 SB328: establishing a committee to study the establishment of a permit system for vessels registered in another state temporarily using the waters of New Hampshire. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Transportation
17. 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
18. SB357 SB357: relative to restrictions on the operation of boats. 2002 · Senate · SENATE Transportation
19. SB362 SB362: relative to the length of buses and single unit vehicles. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Transportation
20. SB405 SB405: relative to special number plates for veterans. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Transportation
21. SB414 SB414: relative to the committee allowing the use of business logo signing on the mainline of limited access and divided highways. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · HOUSE Public Works and Highways

Uncategorized (2 bills sponsored; 1 bill enacted)

1. HB1453 HB1453: extending the committee studying the status of veterans in New Hampshire and relative to the membership of the state veterans' advisory committee. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor
2. SR14 SR14: relative to heating oil prices and the state match requirement for the federal Weatherization Program. 2000 · Senate

WILDLIFE & RECREATION (8 bills sponsored; 3 bills enacted)

1. HB339 HB339: prohibiting the taking of deer by baiting. 2001 · Senate · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
2. HB367 HB367: (New Title) relative to the establishment of a town forest in the town of Randolph and relative to property of preexisting school districts. Enacted 2001 · Signed by Governor · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
3. HB1120 HB1120: relative to naming a certain island in Lake Winnipesaukee in the town of Moultonborough. Enacted 2002 · Signed by Governor · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
4. HB1397 HB1397: relative to naming a certain island in Lake Winnipesaukee in the town of Moultonborough. Enacted 2000 · Signed by Governor · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
5. HCR22 HCR22: encouraging multiple use management and access for future land transfers to the White Mountain National Forest. 2002 · Passed · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
6. HCR23 HCR23: urging Congress to abolish the Recreational Fee Demonstration Program on public lands including the White Mountain National Forest. 2002 · Passed · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
7. SB61 SB61: relative to the definition of ski craft. 2000 · Senate · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION
8. SB146 SB146: relative to personal watercraft. 2002 · Senate · SENATE WILDLIFE & RECREATION