Archive for January, 2008

January 23, 2008

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

The highlight of the day was the Governor’s State of the State address. He covered priorities for the next year including legislation to increase penalties for child predators, to help lower the cost of health care insurance for small businesses, and to seek a constitutional amendment on education funding. He offered a proposal […]

January 17, 2008

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

The House met in session yesterday to vote on bills retained from last year. We made it partly through the Environment and Agriculture Committee. Bills of note which were voted are are detailed below. The House voted to place an interest rate cap of 36% on “payday” loans. This segment of […]

Update January 3, 2008

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Happy New Year! The first session of the NH House was held yesterday, January 2nd. We took up the Consent Calendar and bills removed from consent. What should have been a short session lingered for four hours. One notable bill which passed raised the age of minority in juvenile delinquency proceedings […]