0. The Tenants' Unions Recognition & Nurturing (TURN) Act 1. It is this legislator's understanding that under current NH law, any tenants' unions have to be organized as normal non-profits, without any special protections or anything. This legislation seeks to change that by recognizing tenants' unions with a special status, and granting them special protections. 2. Copy and paste all New Hampshire law governing the organization of labor unions, and then do a find-and-replace to change all instances of "workers" to "tenants", and "bosses" to "landlords". 3. Edit all existing New Hampshire law to modify all laws governing tenant-landlord interaction to include any tenants' union that that tenant may be a part of in that interaction. For example, "The landlord must notify the tenant," would become, "The landlord must notify the tenant, and any tenants' union that that tenant may be part of," and, "A tenant may refuse to pay rent if the landlord refuses to perform maintenance for that tenant," would become, "A tenant may refuse to pay rent if the landlord refuses to perform maintenance for that tenant, or if the landlord refuses to perform maintenance for any other tenant in that building, and then the tenants' union to which both of those tenants belong vote by majority to collectively go on a rent strike as a union." (include 14 days notification period for rent strike?) Important considerations: - union should be seen as union from day 1 - damages (548 petition) - wrongful renovation evictions - protection from landlord infiltration of organizing meetings - protection from landlord intimidation/retaliation (define certain actions as retaliatory?) - Board of Tenant Relations? (similar to NLRB) - There apparently has been legislation in Connecticut that I could borrow from; TODO: find out what it was and research