The House met in session this afternoon. The agenda was very light. A bill to allow certain criminal records to be annulled by petition of the NH district or superior court passed 190-103. Records of an arrest, conviction, and/or sentence can be annulled under this bill. The minority of the committee […]
The Finance Committee passed the bill to Cost and Adequate Education 13-9. The committee amended the bill to hold the donor towns harmless—meaning that there won’t be donor towns. They also set their own transition plan so that no community will receive more than 15% above their current grant, and no community will […]
The legislature worked on Education issues today. Finance spent over two hours discussing the Kindergarten bill. The committee appears willing to allow a district to contract with a private provider if the provider meets the minimum standards. The committee distributed five amendments on the bill to cost an adequate education. […]
I have written a lot about the projected deficit recently. The fact is that NH does not have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem. Revenues have increased approximately $40 million from last year. The problem is that the budget increased 17.5%, with approximately $475 million in new spending. Revenues […]
House Session was very light today. The Election Law committee had a bill which would allow 17 year olds to vote in primaries if they will be 18 at the time of the general election. This bill was tabled and a resolution passed to ask the Supreme Court if there are constitutional issues […]
The bill to define the cost of an adequate education, SB539, is currently in House Finance. I have posted some information about the bill already. I object to the bill for three main reasons.
The first objection is the way the universal or base cost is calculated. The committee recommended that […]
The NH House met in session yesterday. There were three bills of note, the bill to cost an adequate education, a bill relative to Kindergarten, and the bill to urge Congress to impeach President Bush and Vice-President Cheney. The good news of the day was that HR24 was tabled after each side presented […]
The following letter, published in the Telegraph today, explains my position on the Education Funding plan currently in the House. We vote on the plan today. The bill is scheduled to go to Finance next.
There is an education funding plan which is currently in the NH House which benefits Nashua but […]
On Wednesday April 16, the House will meet in session. One bill which has received some attention in the press recently is HR 24, petitioning Congress to commence impeachment procedures. The bill suggests that because of actions stated in the bill, President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney should be impeached. […]
The projected deficit continues to climb. The House Ways and Means Committee heard testimony from department heads on the status of revenues on Wednesday April 9. The new projection is a shortfall between $229 and $279 million. The committee plans to wait until after May 1 to update the full House. […]