cooljeanius’s avatarcooljeanius’s Twitter Archive—№ 69,288

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                                                                                                        HB10 is tabled 193-192, so I guess there could still be future games played with it... anyways, next bill is a child support bill
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                                                                                                      HB548 is about "arrearage" (fun word!) of child support payments; ITL motion passes 189-187, so the bill dies
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                                                                                                    that's it for bills from Children & Family Law; bill from Commerce goes by too quickly on voice vote to comment on, so next are bills from Criminal Justice with HB135, a bill prohibiting no-knock warrants
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                                                                                                  Now @jonahowheeler is speaking against the amendment on the grounds that it weakens the bill; I agree with him that the amendment is bad and will be voting against it.
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                                                                                                Rep. Roy is now speaking in favor of the amendment because he thinks that there are some situations in which no-knock warrants are needed
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                                                                                              Amendment is adopted 299-84; time for the underlying bill
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                                                                                            even though the amendment was adopted, weakening the bill, I still think the bill is worth passing anyways. It's progress in the right direction, even if it isn't everything that it ought to be.
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                                                                                          OTP/A on HB135 passes 374-9; next is... a motion of reconsideration on HB548, the child support bill
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                                                                                        reconsideration of HB548 fails; back to our regularly-scheduled next bill, HB351, a negligent firearm storage bill.
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                                                                                      amendment to HB351 fails; onto debate on the underlying bill. Rep. Meuse is listing some examples of when children in NH have shot themselves or others with unsecured weapons.
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                                                                                    OTP on HB351 fails, so GOP moves to Indefinitely Postpone it instead, which passes 202-183
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                                                                                  Oops looks like I missed what happened with HB397; onto the bills from Education next, starting with CACR7
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                                                                                CACR7 removes the prohibition currently in our Constitution against taxpayer money being used for religious education. Of course, it's not like the existence of this clause has stopped the GOP from trying to violate it anyways...
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                                                                              Anyways, I support keeping this clause in our Constitution, and just wish it would be enforced more often. Thus, I oppose CACR7.
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                                                                            Speaking at the level of the Federal Constitution, the Free Exercise Clause shouldn't be used to override the Establishment Clause
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                                                                          vote on OTP on CACR7 is 192-191, which doesn't reach the 3/5ths necessary to pass, so it fails
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                                                                        a bunch of tabling motions coming up
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                                                                      lunch break time; be back at 1
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                                                                    btw, re: Free Exercise vs. Establishment of Religion, my dream set of modifications to the Constitution would clarify that: github.com/cooljeanius/w_Constitution/commit/7052ddea9b2d5583464da2c49cf175f62f5b93e2
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                                                                  k back; current bill is HB275, relative to schools approved for a school tuition program by a school board. Rep. Ladd is speaking to it.
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                                                                HB275 passes OTP 201-181; next motion is a tabling motion on HB331, relative to the income threshold for EFAs.
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                                                              HB331 is tabled 277-103; hopefully rest of tabling of Education bills will all go by easily on voice votes
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                                                            Rep. Hynes challenges the ruling of the Speaker; is overruled. Vote to table HB427 will be by division.
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                                                          That's not how the First Amendment works
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                                                        HB427 is tabled 309-72
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                                                      hm, wonder what those non-water drinks being spilled were...
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                                                    current motion: whether to table HB516, relative to freedom of speech and association at public institutions of higher education
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                                                  HB516 is tabled 306-73
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                                                Current motion: tabling motion on HB538, establishing a local education freedom account program.
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                                              tabling continues; dunno why the Free Stater minority of the GOP caucus is continuing to protest these when they clearly don't have the votes here
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                                            ok looks like we're getting an actual debate on HB572, relative to eligibility for free school meals. Rep. Belcher is speaking against it based on numbers he made up from nowhere.
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                                          Now Rep @hallfornh is speaking in favor of HB572, to feed hungry kids
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                                        Now speaking: Hope Damon in favor of HB572, drawing upon her experience as a dietician
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                                      HB572 passes OTP 201-177; now voting on a "print remarks" motion... dunno why Republicans are objecting to this... embarrassed by Rep. Belcher making up his own unofficial Fiscal Note?
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                                    "print remarks" motion passes 233-143; back to tabling stuff
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                                  ok we made it through the Education bills; onto the Election Law bills with HB40. Rep. Berry moves to table
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                                looks like Election Law leadership has a similar "table everything" agreement, which is a shame, as I was hoping we could pass HB255, to close the LLC loophole in campaign finance law
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                              so yeah everything from Election Law got tabled; next is HB56 from Env&Ag, relative to permits for the siting of new landfills. This is a followup to the @SaveForestLake1 activism from last term.
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                            amendment 0772h to HB56 is meant to fix the parts that led to this effort failing last term
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                          Now speaking: @nashuaward7 in favor of HB56, to get some safeguards on landfill siting
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                        Now speaking: Rep. Peter Bixby in favor of HB56
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                      HB56 passes OTP 224-155; hopefully it actually gets signed into law this time!
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                    Onto the bills from ED&A; since we special-ordered HB96, their first bill is HB127, relative to the declaration of a state of emergency. @GroteJacinthe had a brief speech against it, now Rep. Tony Lekas is speaking in favor of it.
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                  HB127 passes OTP 193-185; next bill is HB228, relative to repealing the demographics commission
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                They killed my other demographics commission related bill; kinda mad at them for that
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              dang it, I can't find my tweets from the hearing for it...
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            Demographics Commission repeal is passed OTP 347-30; oh well, guess that's one less meeting my Dad has to go to...
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          more tabling by voice vote
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        really frustrated by this inability of Twitter search to find the tweets I'm looking for; it's like none of my tweets between Jan 6, 2023, and 6 days ago, exist for the purposes of search
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      If I wanted to be doing this thread on a platform without working search, I'd be doing this thread on Mastodon
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    some procedural confusion going on here
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      current bill: HB532, relative to the licensure and regulation of music therapists. Uh...?
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        apparently licensure is necessary here so that these therapists can be eligible for insurance reimbursement
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          HB532 passes OTP 210-166; Speaker Packard announces that there are now some snacks available for representatives in the anteroom
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            ...but people won't have time to get them, since there are more votes to take
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              current motion: whether to table HCR2, a resolution condemning recent racist vandalism
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                HCR2 is tabled; now is HR11, relative to welcoming communities. Rep. Mangipudi is speaking in favor of it.
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                  For reference, the hearing for HR11 was where this clip was from: @SebFuentesNH/1636345289849073665
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                    Now Rep. Simon is speaking against HR11
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                      lots of people had stepped out for snacks, so it's taking people awhile to return for this vote
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                        HR11 is ITL-ed; that's it for ED&A bills. Next is Finance with HB50, relative to payment by the state of a portion of retirement system of political subdivision employers.
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                          Rep. Mike O'Brien is speaking in favor of amendment 0977h to HB50
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                            Rep. Dan McGuire also spoke in favor of the amendment, so, that's bipartisan support for it
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                              amdmt and full bill both passed... but now... uh... procedural confusion?
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                                apparently you can still table a bill after it's been passed, but before the 3rd reading motion
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                                  tabling motion on HB50 passes 206-170, but apparently it might still be added to the budget?
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                                    Now up: HB506, about a rail trail tunnel under a new highway exit.
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                                      apparently there was a last-minute redesign of the tunnel
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                                        goal is to stay until 6PM today, which we look well on track to make it by
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                                          time for the lobster scuba diving bill; Rep. Harvey moves to table it
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                                            (this is HB442, for reference)
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                                              tabling motion fails; onto debate on the underlying bill. This one should be interesting! First is amendment 0709h to the bill, which Rep. Goley is speaking against.
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                                                wait so he says the bill needs work, but is then opposing the amendment? Isn't doing an amendment doing that work?
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                                                  a point about the "coastal cleanup" portion of the bill: I remember doing an event called something like that as a kid, but I guess that must have just been a privately-organized volunteer thing; the one being mentioned here is a state-run one
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                                                    hm, "display is available in the anteroom" is an interesting way of getting around the "no props on the House floor" rule
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                                                      Found the display; it's a binder of photos of underwater lobster traps. I took pics of the ones with sticky notes on them.
                                                      oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their APIoh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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                                                        Now @jonahowheeler is speaking in favor of the amendment, and against pollution by the lobstering industry
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                                                          amendment is adopted 271-105; onto the vote on the underlying bill
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                                                            OTP/A on HB442 passes 276-100; hooray for lobsters! Onto the HHS bills; first of theirs is HB69, relative to direct payment and membership-based health care facilities
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                                                              "how awesome it would be to go in for a colonoscopy" is not a combination of words that I would expect to be put together in that order
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                                                                HB69 passes OTP 190-189
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                                                                  LOL the reconsideration backfired (since they didn't actually want to reconsider); it passed 194-185. Motion is now to table
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                                                                    Usually when someone does the "reconsider and vote no" thing it's just to lock it into place, so it's pretty funny to see one of those actually leading to a reconsideration
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                                                                      HB69 is tabled 192-187; what a reversal! I love the chaos of this chamber sometimes (except when I hate it)
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                                                                        next is HB114, relative to the age at which a minor may receive mental health treatment without parental consent. Rep. Cushman is speaking against it, as she sees it as an attack on parental rights
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                                                                          Rep. Schapiro is now speaking in favor of HB114; listing cases where it might be useful
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                                                                            I think I remember cosponsoring and/or testifying to last term's version of this bill
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                                                                              Mental health counseling can be helpful and should be available to those who would like to try it. Personally I haven't found a counselor that I've stayed with for more than a few years, but others should be able to find out whether it works for them themselves.
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                                                                                HB114 passes OTP 191-186 and reconsideration on it fails 188-191
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                                                                                  Next bill is HB238, relative to the role of quality control and the developmental disability service system.
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                                                                                    HB238 is passed 362-13
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                                                                                      looks like we're probably going to break after we get thru the HHS bills (5 left), but before we start on the Judiciary ones
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                                                                                        Current bill is HB342, relative to lead testing in children
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                                                                                          3rd reading motion! We didn't even make it out of the HHS bills today! (be back tomorrow)