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| Legislative Update Week of Jan. 27th, 2025 Tuesday, January 28th, N.H. House Children and Family Law LOB, Room 206-208 1:30 p.m. – OPPOSE – HB553 The bill allows family court to proceed with parental fitness tests without a conviction, bypassing due process by not requiring a legal finding of guilt. The bill creates unmeasurable metrics of abuse to extend to “emotional” and “psychological” and while we understand these are real traumas, we do not believe that the burden of proof to have your child taken from you should include anything that cannot be measured.  Additionally they include this new term of “parentification” as abuse. Not only can this not be measured, it is a new “therapy” term, that could easily be misconstrued and is certainly not grounds for abuse. Finally, we are very upset that the bill lowers the standard of evidence by using the “preponderance of the evidence” standard instead of “beyond a reasonable doubt.” The bill treats abuse and neglect more like civil than criminal matters, potentially leading to unjust loss of parental rights without sufficient proof of wrongdoing.  Click here to register your disposition and testimony Email the committee CFL@leg.state.nh.us Tuesday, January 28th, N.H. House Education Funding LOB, Room 205-207  2:15 p.m. – SUPPORT – HB656 This bill is part of our efforts to put up guardrails concerning school based health clinics and any other potential education poison pills that could come from the federal level. Currently federal grants typically need school board approval and therefore are subject to public input, but often superintendents will list a federal grant as an “anticipated funds” and bypass the need for school board approval. This bill specifies that all federal grants exceeding $20,000 are “unanticipated funds” and therefore subject to school board approval and public notice.  Click here to register your disposition and testimony Email the committee houseeducationfundingcommittee@leg.state.nh.us Thursday, January 30th, N.H. House Municipal and County Government LOB, Room 301-303 10:30 – SUPPORT – HB230 This is the bill that passed both chambers only to be vetoed by Governor Sununu last year. But new year, new governor, new chances for success! This bill limits the authority of town health officers to make mandates. While it’s not everything I’d want in and ideal world, it does successfully limit these officer’s power, which is currently unlimited. And in future pandemics, these volunteers with 3 hours of training, would be unable to impose a town mask mandate, lockdown restriction, or any other insane measure they imposed during the last pandemic.  Click here to register your disposition and testimony Email the committee HouseMunicipalandCountyGovt@leg.state.nh.us Wednesday, January 29th, N.H. Senate Health and Human Services LOB, Room 101 9:30 am. – OPPOSE – SB75 This bill will allow information from the Immunization Information System (the “vaccine registry”) to be shared with health insurance companies. This is a horrible idea. While you can’t be denied medical care for not being vaccine, could an insurance provider refuse to cover medical treatment based on vaccine status if they have access to your vaccine data? Insurance companies are not medical providers. There is no “scientific” or “medical” benefit to them having access to this data. Additionally, RebuildNH and others have long fought for more stringent protections to privacy regarding the vaccine registry and we are constantly met with pushback regarding the large fiscal note attached to alter the system to protect privacy. This bill has an unspecified fiscal note. So when we attempt to protect people, the health department claims it would cost huge $$$ but when Democrats want to share your data with more third parties, they can’t come up with an actual dollar amount. Taxpayers should not be on the hook for sharing vaccine data with insurance companies.  Click here to register your disposition and testimony Email the committee David.Rochefort@leg.state.nh.us Kevin.Avard@leg.state.nh.us Regina.Birdsell@leg.state.nh.us Suzanne.Prentiss@leg.state.nh.us pat.long@leg.state.nh.us DHMC Vaccine Mandate UpdateMany of you helped with our effort to bring to light the case of Shannon Buttermore who was being denied a transplant at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center for not receiving the covid vaccine in direct violation of the NH Patient Bill of Rights. Because of your efforts, the Attorney General did reach out to DHMC. Unfortunately he did not fully enforce the law. DHMC changed their policy to remove the covid vaccine only from their list of required vaccines and avoided a lawsuit with Ms. Buttermore. We are very happy that Ms. Buttermore can get the medical treatment she needs now, but others are still being denied for their unwillingness to get other vaccines and DHMC is still in violation of the Patient Bill of Rights that prohibits mandating any vaccine for any patient. I’m not letting this go. I’ll update more later. Learn How To Be An Effective Activist Join Americans for Prosperity for an engaging workshop on effectively influencing legislation and legislators. Learn proven strategies to advocate for policies that promote freedom, build impactful relationships with lawmakers, and make your voice heard in the legislative process. Dinner is provided for all attendees! RSVP Location: AFP-NH Manchester Office 8025 S Willow St Suite#205 Manchester, NH 03103 Wednesday January 29th Workshop is 6pm – 8:30pm. Dinner is provided for all attendees! Towards Liberty, Melissa Blasek Executive Director, RebuildNHFollow us on Social  |
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