| Legislative Update |
 Week of December 23, 2023 Tell Your Senators to Support a Key Bill Amendment for Teachers and Students SB 219 – Act now to: Contact your Senator and ask them to support a floor amendment that would require school districts to post the six-figure salaries of diversity professionals and other high-paid administrators before school budget meetings. SB 219, The Students First Act, is an important bill that will crack down on sprawling, expensive school administration in New Hampshire and ensure that our education spending puts students and teachers first. The proposed amendment to SB 219 would require school districts to report six-figure salaries of diversity professionals and other high-paid administrators before school budget meetings. This report will consist of line graphs that clearly inform voters on the money going to school costs, teacher pay, and administrator pay. These line graphs will prove to voters that they are being duped. Despite decades of increasing school expenses around New Hampshire, no school tax increases are going to teacher pay. Instead, school districts are creating well-paid, left-wing administrative bureaucracies focused on expensive Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives and staffing, all at the expense of teachers and students. Cornerstone supports this version of the bill and advocates for the passage of the bill with the reporting requirement in place. We need your help making sure it advances through the Senate and is signed into law. The Senate Education Committee held an executive session on SB 219 in November. During this session, they failed to introduce this important amendment, resulting in an ITL (inexpedient to legislate) vote on the bill. We must now urge the Senate to support a floor amendment to SB 219 when it goes to the Senate on January 3rd. We urge you to contact your Senator to ask them to support this amendment and take a firm stand to prevent school administrators from concealing this information while continuing to quietly prioritize “diversity, equity, and inclusion” over the foundational quality of school education.  CONTACT YOUR SENATOR Stand Up for The Safety of Women and Girls HB 396 – Act now to: Contact your Representative and ask them to vote OTP (ought to pass) on HB 396, with or without an amendment. HB 396 is a straightforward bill that preserves the state’s ability to differentiate between biological sexes in areas such as athletic competitions, prisons, restrooms, or places of intimate privacy. HB 396 is needed to clarify that nothing in New Hampshire law prevents public facilities from differentiating between the biological sexes in athletic competitions, prisons, locker rooms, restrooms, or places of intimate privacy. New Hampshire currently has liberal laws regarding gender and state ID, allowing Granite Staters to freely select whatever gender they choose on their drivers’ licenses. Elsewhere in the country, liberal federal courts are broadly interpreting similar state laws to mandate that any distinction between the sexes must be made according to personal identity without regard to any other qualifiers such as whether someone has even received medical transitioning. This bill seeks to rectify the potential misapplication of similar laws in New Hampshire. HB 396 is necessary to address the threats to the safety of our women and young girls that arise from the careless use of only self-declared gender identity to separate sensitive areas such as bathrooms, locker rooms, athletics, prisons, and other private areas. We urge you to contact your representatives and urge them to vote OTP on HB 396, with or without an amendment. CONTACT YOUR REPS Life in the Granite State Under Attack This legislative session, there are several bills being introduced by House and Senate Democrats seeking to return New Hampshire to abortion up to birth. These bills yet again indicate the extreme stance of New Hampshire Democrat legislators when it comes to the lives of innocent citizens. Every Democrat legislator supports the abortion of viable infants up to the moment the baby’s head crowns, babies that could be delivered and survive. The position of the New Hampshire Democrats is not only extreme, but out of touch with the 68% of Granite Staters who favor limits on abortion. Hearings for four of these bills have been scheduled in the Senate Judiciary Committee on January 4th, 2024. We must stand firm this session, doing everything we can to protect our 6-month ban and oppose any further attacks on innocent life. We encourage you to stay tuned for more info via our weekly legislative updates, through our Telegram, and our X/Twitter accounts. ShareTweetForward Thank you for supporting Cornerstone with your donation PLEASE CLICK HERE TO FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO A FRIEND This will protect you from being inadvertently unsubscribed from future emails by anyone reading the forwarded message. |
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