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Off to day 3 of Bedlam in Bedford. New day, new thread; starts here. #NHPolitics
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Again, I'm only going to livetweet as much as I have energy for and can keep up with; if a bill goes by too quickly for me to type anything about, I reserve the right to skip tweeting anything about it.
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Starting now with HB440, which claims to be a civil/ religious liberties bill, but is actually a "Reopen" anti-science bill. @CamKenney is making a good argument against it; let's kill it! #NHPolitics
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HB542 is another "Reopen" bill to let people spread COVID more easily. Church via YouTube/Zoom works perfectly fine; there's no reason it HAS to be in person. Thanks to @AlexisSimpsonNH for making the case against HB542 here. #NHPolitics
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HB402 is being untabled; it was the last bill of the day yesterday, so apparently the GOP has found votes today that it didn't have yesterday... #NHPolitics
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Ha! They didn't have the votes after all! HB402 stays on the table! #NHPolitics
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Apparently the GOP is trying to use jury duty records as some sort tool to fight (non-existent) voter fraud with HB561? That's sneaky. And a violation of privacy. WTF. #NHPolitics
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Republicans will use every trick in the book to make it harder for people to vote. They need to stop. #NHPolitics
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Poor Marjorie Smith is confused, lol. I don't blame her!
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Last Judiciary bill of the OTP portion of bills: HB566. Seems like a waste of time. #NHPolitics
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ok onto bills from the Labor Committee... first up is HB348, one of those bills about the collective bargaining process that the unions have been organizing against. Hopefully we can kill it... #NHPolitics
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Well, it got tabled, at least... onto HB385, on expanded workers' comp for firefighters. This one is actually good! Let's pass it! #NHPolitics
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HB448 being discussed now; it's a study committee for comparing federal OSHA safety standards with NHDOL safety standards. I thought we were avoiding new study committees this year due to COVID, but this one seems reasonable at least. #NHPolitics
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We're onto the bills that came out of my committee now (M&CG); first up is CACR9, the tax cap amendment. Lemme find my notes from when we heard it... #NHPolitics
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Yeah I was kind of confused by it at first: @cooljeanius/1359154475018166277
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Time for HB183, the stupid unnecessary lemonade stand bill. Also the planes seem to be flying lower overhead than normal today... #NHPolitics
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I don't get why Republicans are so excited about that passing; it affects literally no one
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HB243 is up now; this was the confusing one that was actually 3 separate bills that got combined, so I'm not going to bother searching up my old tweets on it, due to their fragmented nature. It's actually not that bad a bill, it just needs more work, IMO. #NHPolitics
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But yeah, even though it's not THAT bad, I'm still voting against it anyways, just due to the cleanups it needs. We really need a full GitHub/GitLab style workflow here, for accountability/attribution of changes, not just postings of individual files without any version control
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Oh great, HB266 is up next; this one could be another shitshow... (it's the anti-sanctuary bill)
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Whoa, we managed to get HB266 tabled on a voice vote! No idea how we managed to pull that off, but, yay! #NHPolitics
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Next up is HB374, on adopting SB2. Town meeting stuff is so confusing for someone like me who lives in a city and doesn't have to deal with town meetings... #NHPolitics
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Onto HB439... oh yeah, this one's really bad. It would cripple our city councils' abilities to do anything good. I hope we can kill this. #NHPolitics
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Rep. Blasek makes me so mad. #NHPolitics
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...and another motion to ITL something gets overridden by a motion to table. Sigh. Can't let anything be simple, can we... #NHPolitics
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ok back from lunch for HB484; let me find my old tweets on this one... #NHPolitics
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Right, this was one of Rep. Pauer's bills: @cooljeanius/1368922834681094146
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dang, I didn't realize our legislature was so horny... (0////_////0)'
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onto SciTech's bills now with HB315, on the aggregation of electric customers. If this bill came out of committee unanimously, why wasn't it on the consent calendar? I don't see any note saying "because it's a budget bill" this time... #NHPolitics
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Next is HB351, restructuring the system benefits charge. Apparently it has something to do with clean energy and efficiency? I dunno; listening to the debate... #NHPolitics
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Next is HB373, on state participation in low carbon fuel standards programs. This is a bad bill; it's a gag rule that violates DES's right to free speech, and it'll worsen the climate crisis. Let's defeat it. #NHPolitics
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Wow SFR&VA basically sent us nothing... onto Transportation's bills, with HB224, on the tinting of car windows. Kinda disappointed in the pro-cop wording of some of the Dem notes on bills in this section, tbh. #NHPolitics
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Onto HB251FN, about car seats for kids. This one seems reasonable. #NHPolitics
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GOP is being dilatory
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Why are they so opposed to car seats for kids?!?! #NHPolitics
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(note: that's a rhetorical question; don't answer it.)
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If you can afford a car, you can afford a car seat. The privilege of car owners pretending they're being oppressed here is just staggering. #NHPolitics
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This whole debate would be moot if we just banned privately-owned vehicles and replaced them all with public transportation instead. No need for car seats there. Car culture baffles me. #NHPolitics
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So, yeah, speaking of vomit... #NHPolitics
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Still on the car seat debate... good grief... #NHPolitics
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We spent almost exactly an hour on that car seat one. Anyways, onto HB260FN, on removing front license plates. Weird. #NHPolitics
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I'm at the point where I'm probably gonna cut back on my commentary a bit
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Some taxation CACRs now. These have failed in the past; I am tired of discussing them.
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I think my cell reception has gotten worse; Twitter is taking longer for me to load now...
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onto bills removed from the consent calendar
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So yeah, I'm kinda conflicted on HB111... it's supposed to end qualified immunity, which I support doing, but it does it for ALL government employees, not just cops, and I'd prefer to only end QI for cops... #NHPolitics
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Still, though, ending QI for cops is important enough that the unintended consequences of it affecting other people are probably acceptable, so I'm going to vote for it (and against tabling) anyways. The warts can be fixed in the senate. #NHPolitics
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Yes, it'd be better if he had a narrower bill to do this, but we don't. So we gotta work with what we have.
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Yeah this is kind of confusing... I'm almost tempted to do a "print remarks" motion after we vote just to help courts sort through what we meant here... #NHPolitics
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So yeah I did that
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OMG Speaker Packard just apologized for that clip that's going around of him swearing at Rep. Copp #NHPolitics
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onto part 3 of the calendar
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Motion to special-order HB177 to be next; this is the bill to ban landfills near state parks that everyone has been emailing us about. Hopefully we can pass it! #NHPolitics
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Yeah we passed HB177! Woot! #NHPolitics
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LOL we're trying to refer the "Seditious Six" to Leg. Admin now... probably won't work, but it's worth a shot! #NHPolitics
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It's "Altschiller" not "Ashwiller", Speaker Packard!
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Yeah @tjsnh calling out the GOP's messing with the calendar! Good for him! #NHPolitics
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Welp, looks like they'll get away with having us adjourn without considering all the Dem bills... oh well... #NHPolitics