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                                                                      1. Today’s MCG committee hearing is going to be a doozy. Thread for it starts here. #NHPolitics
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                                                                      ok the Zoom call is up
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                                                                    actually starting now; we’ll be starting by finishing up the #TinyHouses bill from last week first
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                                                                  Someone was asking for a reference to Appendix Q of the IRC (International Residential Code); I’m pretty sure this is it: codes.iccsafe.org/content/IRC2018/appendix-q-tiny-houses?site_type=public
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                                                                ok so it looks like we’re not actually voting on 588 (the #TinyHouses bill) yet; we just closed the hearing on it, which was still technically open. Now we’re moving onto HB484, Rep. Pauer’s bill on town warrant articles. #NHPolitics
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                                                              uh oh, some testifiers are having trouble speaking by Zoom today...
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                                                            Tech issues seem to be fixed; James (Jim) Lefebvre of Conway is testifying in opposition to HB484 (I wish more testifiers would say whether they support or oppose the bill as the first thing they say)
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                                                          Brian Rater of Brookline (Rep. Pauer’s town) is testifying against HB484; I don’t think I remembered that Hollis-Brookline was a combined school district…
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                                                        Next testimony is from someone from the NHMA; I’ll give you 3 guesses who it is and the first two don’t count. …yup, it’s Cordell Johnston again, and he is suggesting to retain the bill for further study.
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                                                      Tom Gehan of Hollis’s budget committee is testifying against HB484 now.
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                                                    Eric Pauer (Rep. Diane Pauer’s husband) is testifying in favor of HB484 now; they seem to be a team
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                                                  is “fiduciarily” even a word? Spellcheck doesn’t seem to recognize it
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                                                (i.e., “fiduciary” turned into an adverb)
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                                              next up is Chris Hyde of Hollis’s budget committee testifying against HB484
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                                            this seems like it’s really just a Hollis-Brookline local issue… sequel to Danville’s dogcatcher bill from last week…
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                                          Next up is HB411, establishing a study commission on equalization rates
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                                        Rep. Merner (sp?) isn’t here to introduce HB411 so Rep. Maggiore is doing it instead
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                                      Charelle Lucas is deferring her testimony to George Sansoucy from Lancaster, who is testifying in favor of HB411. Apparently Rep. Merner is over in Ways & Means today.
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                                    er actually they’re asking us to retain this bill (HB411) until after COVID instead, since we’re trying to avoid new study committees at the moment
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                                  Rep. Stavis is offering a motion to reconsider HB512 now because we never got a chance to discuss her amendment to it before the Republicans ITL-ed it.
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                                Motion to reconsider HB512 passes 11-9; we got 2 Republicans to join us
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                              Rep. Stavis’s amendment to HB512 passes 18-1 (Rep. Melvin was the 1); now to vote on the bill as amended…
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                            …and even WITH the amendment, HB512 STILL fails along party lines, 10-9. Remember, Republicans want to keep it easy to evict you, Democrats want to protect you from evictions. Keep that in mind when midterms come around next year. #NHPolitics
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                          Next up is Peter Somssich introducing HB392, which would require land use board members to be residents of the towns of the boards in question
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                        oh wait I think I have that wrong; that’s already the current requirement, but instead this bill would clarify that that requirement only applies to voting members of the local land use boards
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                      Can I just refer to Cordell Johnston as “C.J.” now and have people know who I’m talking about? Anyways he’s testifying and apparently the NHMA is neutral on HB392; just raising some possibilities for amendments.
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                    Mark Brighton of Portsmouth is now testifying in favor of HB392
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                  Hm, @JdmMeuse was on the sponsor list but didn’t testify on it… David could you give us your take on HB392?
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                Anyways Rep. Diane Pauer has another bill before us today; she’s introducing HB374 to us now, which is about how towns may adopt the SB2 form of government.
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              Former Rep. Jim Bélanger of Hollis (who was previously on this committee) is now testifying… that sounded like it was against HB392? I didn’t quite hear the specific words “support” or “oppose” though…
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            Now Laura Buono of Hillsborough (the town) is testifying against HB392.
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          C.J. opposes HB392
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        Gail Cromwell of Temple, NH opposes HB392
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      Eric Pauer is back again to testify in favor of another of his wife’s bills (HB392 this time).
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    oops I think this was a typo; HB392 was actually a Peter Somssich bill, according to my other tweets with that bill number...
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      wait but that was also in this thread, too... I'll have to check my binder of last year's bills once I get back home... (online search tools aren't helping me)
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        oh wait I think I see what happened: I kept referring to HB392 as the bill under discussion even when the topic had changed to HB374; all tweets referring to HB392 in this thread ought to read HB374 instead: legiscan.com/NH/bill/HB374/2021