2013 Regular Session

Relative to insurance parity for optometrists.

Sponsor: Donna Schlachman

Relative to the interest rate on title loans.

Sponsor: Edward Butler

Relative to appointment of inspectors of election.

Sponsor: Kathleen Hoelzel

Relative to laws regarding pawnbrokers.

Sponsor: David Huot

Requiring the public utilities commission to make specific findings as to the public need for proposed transmission lines.

Sponsor: Charles Townsend

Relative to driving privileges for certain first-time DWI offenders.

Sponsor: Stephen Shurtleff

Repealing the authority for supplemental allowances under the judicial retirement plan.

Sponsor: Carol McGuire

Relative to the state contribution for water pollution control.

Sponsor: Karen Umberger

Relative to the application process for a certificate for an energy facility.

Sponsor: Roderick Ladd

Relative to appeals within the department of environmental services.

Sponsor: Christopher Ahlgren

Relative to disclosure of annulled criminal records.

Sponsor: J.R. Hoell

Relative to duties of inspectors of election.

Sponsor: Steven Smith

Prohibiting discrimination against the unemployed.

Sponsor: Timothy Copeland

Relative to the legalization and regulation of marijuana.

Sponsor: Steve Vaillancourt

Authorizing and regulating the use of license plate scanning devices.

Sponsor: Stephen Shurtleff

Providing for collection of the E-911 surcharge from certain prepaid cellular telephones.

Sponsor: Delmar Burridge

Requiring new electric transmission lines in New Hampshire to be buried.

Sponsor: Laurence Rappaport

Requiring unused vacation and sick leave to be converted to service time for purposes of calculating retirement system benefits.

Sponsor: Dan McGuire

Relative to solitary confinement.

Sponsor: Timothy Robertson

Relative to the placement of all new electric transmission lines in New Hampshire.

Sponsor: Laurence Rappaport

Relative to liquor manufacturers.

Sponsor: Michele Peckham

Relative to rafting of boats.

Sponsor: John Burt

Relative to earned time credits for inmates participating in rehabilitative programming.

Sponsor: Steve Vaillancourt

Establishing an employers' private right of action to enforce the payment of workers' compensation coverage.

Sponsor: Charles Weed

Imposing an extended term of imprisonment for assault against a health care provider.

Sponsor: Andrew White

Relative to admission fees for certain persons at state parks and historical sites.

Sponsor: Nancy Stiles

Relative to property and casualty insurance.

Sponsor: Edward Butler

Relative to an extended term of imprisonment for persons with 2 prior convictions.

Sponsor: Timothy Robertson

Relative to credit card fees.

Sponsor: Mel Myler

Relative to actions under the consumer protection law.

Sponsor: Donna Schlachman

Relative to registration for medical technicians.

Sponsor: Timothy Copeland

Requiring insurance companies sending out solicitations for marketing purposes to include their insurance license number on such solicitations.

Sponsor: Brian Chirichiello

Relative to political contributions and expenditures and relative to reporting by political committees.

Sponsor: Robert Perry

Establishing a one-year moratorium on applications for certificates for electric transmission facilities.

Sponsor: Suzanne Smith

Relative to the definition of push-polling.

Sponsor: David Pierce

Relative to the issuance of waivers for lot loading or setback distances in condominium conversion.

Sponsor: Gene Chandler

Relative to showing a ballot.

Sponsor: Timothy Horrigan

Relative to the licensure of liquefied propane installation and service technicians.

Sponsor: Sharon Carson

Relative to the adoption, revision, and amendment of municipal charters.

Sponsor: Frederick Rice

Relative to the management of trust funds and capital reserve funds.

Sponsor: Frederick Rice

Restricting the collection of biometric data by state agencies, municipalities, and political subdivisions.

Sponsor: Neal Kurk

Relative to time limits for regulatory boards and commissions to hold disciplinary proceedings.

Sponsor: Carol McGuire

Relative to determining qualifications of voters.

Sponsor: Patrick Long

Relative to access to health insurance coverage.

Sponsor: Thomas Sherman

Relative to New Hampshire farm wineries.

Sponsor: Tara Sad

Relative to funding for the fish and game search and rescue fund.

Sponsor: Gene Chandler

Relative to the tax on tobacco products other than cigarettes and establishing a tobacco use prevention and cessation program fund.

Sponsor: William Butynski

Relative to medical examination requirements for commercial drivers' licenses.

Sponsor: Kyle Tasker

Requiring the labeling of genetically engineered foods and agricultural commodities.

Sponsor: Maureen Mann

Relative to the mathematics requirement for high school graduation.

Sponsor: Roderick Ladd

Establishing a committee to study examination of elderly drivers.

Sponsor: Tara Sad

Relative to poker games and charitable gaming.

Sponsor: George Lambert

Establishing keno.

Sponsor: Keith Murphy

Relative to titles for motor vehicles.

Sponsor: Mary Cooney

Raising the age of minority for juvenile delinquency proceedings from 17 to 18 years of age.

Sponsor: David Bickford

Relative to eligibility for in-state tuition rates at the university system of New Hampshire.

Sponsor: Peter Schmidt

Establishing a credit against business profits taxes for motion picture production expenditures in New Hampshire.

Sponsor: Jeffrey Goley

Relative to emergency compacts.

Sponsor: Lenette Peterson

Establishing a commission to study the sale of naming rights for certain structures.

Sponsor: Dan McGuire

Eliminating certain ramp tolls on the Everett turnpike in the town of Merrimack.

Sponsor: Peter Bragdon

Relative to bridge replacement and bridge aid funds.

Sponsor: Robert Rowe

Relative to medical care price disclosure and transparency.

Sponsor: Marilinda Garcia

Relative to mandatory drug testing for certain health care workers.

Sponsor: Timothy Copeland

Relative to covered prescription drugs.

Sponsor: Cindy Rosenwald

Relative to the certificate of need board.

Sponsor: Neal Kurk

Relative to the definition of a gift to an elected official, public official, public employee, constitutional official, or legislative employee.

Sponsor: Frank Sapareto

Relative to ethics requirements for members of the general court.

Sponsor: Edmond Gionet

Relative to tuition payments for chartered public school pupils.

Sponsor: Ralph Boehm

Relative to the cost of fiscal analysis of legislation relating to the retirement system.

Sponsor: Katherine Rogers

Relative to benefits for state employees serving in the armed forces.

Sponsor: David Hess

Relative to the renewable energy fund and regulation of telephone, Voice Over Internet Protocol, and IP-enabled service providers and relative to electric renewable portfolio standards.

Sponsor: Naida Kaen

Relative to establishing a single liquor commissioner.

Sponsor: Marilinda Garcia

Relative to reporting of compensation paid to retired members of the retirement system, relative to notice to retired members of the limitations on part-time employment, and relative to retirement system membership for a person holding positions of town clerk and tax collector.

Sponsor: Daniel Sullivan

Relative to limitations on sales by nano breweries for consumption on the premises.

Sponsor: Tim O'Flaherty

Relative to the New Hampshire vaccine association.

Sponsor: Laurie Harding

Relative to electric renewable portfolio standards.

Sponsor: Jeb Bradley

Relative to residential units in rooming houses.

Sponsor: Patrick Long

Relative to municipally-owned utilities.

Sponsor: Peggy Gilmour

Relative to photo identification of voters.

Sponsor: Lucy Weber

Relative to the regulation of the practice of genetic counseling.

Sponsor: Sharon Carson

Relative to the licensure of fuel gas fitters and plumbers by a mechanical licensing board established within the department of safety and transferring regulation of plumbers to the mechanical licensing board.

Sponsor: Sharon Carson

Relative to the children in need of services (CHINS) program, relative to court-ordered placements in shelter care facilities and at the youth development center and requiring a report on the uses of the Sununu Youth Services Center.

Sponsor: Patricia Lovejoy

Relative to establishing an individual's status as a veteran and specifying that training for active duty is service for purposes of the veterans' tax credit.

Sponsor: Alfred Baldasaro

Relative to the use of cannabis for therapeutic purposes.

Sponsor: Donna Schlachman

Requiring criminal background checks for volunteers and employees at youth skill camps.

Sponsor: Donald LeBrun

Relative to collocation and modification of personal wireless services facilities.

Sponsor: Jeb Bradley

Establishing an integrated land development permit.

Sponsor: Bob Odell

Authorizing group net metering for limited electrical energy procedures.

Sponsor: Molly Kelly

Directing the joint legislative historical committee to conduct a study of state house flag restoration and preservation.

Sponsor: David Watters

Relative to electronic prescriptions.

Sponsor: Nancy Stiles

Relative to the use of proceeds from the regional greenhouse gas initiative program.

Sponsor: Richard Barry

Relative to the criteria for approving and calculating school building aid grants.

Sponsor: Roderick Ladd

Relative to reinsurance.

Sponsor: Donna Schlachman

Relative to property abandoned by tenants.

Sponsor: Mark Warden

Establishing a committee to study developing a policy for veteran preference for government hiring and extending the commission on the effects of service-connected post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury.

Sponsor: Sharon Carson

Establishing a commission to study palliative care and associated quality of life initiatives.

Sponsor: Peggy Gilmour

Establishing a committee to study New Hampshire election laws and procedures.

Sponsor: Kathleen Hoelzel

Establishing a commission on housing policy and regulation.

Sponsor: Bob Odell

Relative to portable electronics insurance.

Sponsor: Sharon Carson

Clarifying the definition of renewable generation facility for purposes of payments in lieu of property tax payments and allowing certain facilities that combust municipal waste for energy to make payments in lieu of property tax payments.

Sponsor: Sylvia Larsen

Relative to disqualification of candidates.

Sponsor: David Boutin

Relative to electronic funds transfers.

Sponsor: Jeb Bradley

Relative to hours of sales of on-premises liquor licensees.

Sponsor: Mark Warden

Relative to support and care costs for children with disabilities.

Sponsor: James Parison

Relative to worksharing.

Sponsor: Andrew White

Relative to voluntary installation of fire suppression sprinklers.

Sponsor: John Hunt

Relative to technical changes to election laws.

Sponsor: Dennis Fields

Posthumously emancipating enslaved Africans in New Hampshire.

Sponsor: Martha Fuller Clark

Relative to termination of activities and dissolution of the association created under RSA 404-G.

Sponsor: Edward Butler

Relative to water resource management and protection plans in municipal master plans.

Sponsor: Judith Spang

Establishing a study committee to review the hearings officer's report with regard to the New Hampshire Local Government Center and to study potential changes to RSA 5-B.

Sponsor: Daniel Sullivan

Relative to criminal background checks for individuals volunteering or applying for employment at licensed child care facilities.

Sponsor: Nancy Stiles

Relative to falsity of reports by employers and unemployment benefits recipients.

Sponsor: Andrew White

Relative to the determination of gainful occupation for a group II member receiving an accidental disability retirement allowance from the retirement system, and relative to the director and assistant director of the division of homeland security and emergency management in the department of safety.

Sponsor: Norman Major

Authorizing coastal management provisions in master plans.

Sponsor: David Watters

Relative to the limitation of liability for negligence regarding public safety officers.

Sponsor: Lawrence Kappler

Relative to special number plates for members of the national guard.

Sponsor: Kathleen Stroud

Relative to the rulemaking authority of and administrative fine authority for the department of resources and economic development.

Sponsor: Nancy Stiles

Relative to the committee on legislator orientation.

Sponsor: Lynne Ober

Relative to reclamation trust funds.

Sponsor: James Webb

Exempting drivers of eligible agricultural and farm vehicles from certain federal motor carrier regulations and relative to drivers license renewals of members of the armed forces and federal employees and their spouses.

Sponsor: David Boutin

Relative to the rulemaking authority of the liquor commission.

Sponsor: Carol McGuire

Relative to the authority of county correctional officers.

Sponsor: Jeanie Forrester

Relative to the use of the title "fire marshal."

Sponsor: Brian Rhodes

Relative to the inclusion of a default budget in separate warrant articles submitted by sewer and water commissions.

Sponsor: John Reagan

Requiring revenue from commemorative liquor bottles to be used for the preservation of state house Civil War battle flags.

Sponsor: David Watters

Relative to aid to the permanently and totally disabled and old age assistance.

Sponsor: Lou D'Allesandro

Relative to the definition of lead fishing sinkers and jigs and the penalties for prohibited sales of lead fishing sinkers and jigs.

Sponsor: Jeanie Forrester

Relative to the assistance program for 2-parent families with dependent children and making a technical correction.

Sponsor: Thomas Donovan

Relative to the maximum permit application fee for certain municipal dredging projects.

Sponsor: Gary Daniels

Allowing parents to agree on college contributions.

Sponsor: Carolyn Gargasz

Adopting the interstate wildlife violators compact.

Sponsor: Jeff Woodburn

Repealing a future reduction in vessel registration fees.

Sponsor: David Huot

Relative to the fuel oil discharge cleanup fund.

Sponsor: Leigh Webb

Establishing a committee to study the use and misuse of prescription drugs in workers' compensation cases.

Sponsor: Lou D'Allesandro

Relative to the shoreland protection act.

Sponsor: Judith Spang

Relative to a school district's transportation responsibility for pupils of divorced parents with joint decision making responsibility.

Sponsor: James Coffey

Making appropriations for the expenses of certain departments of the state for fiscal years ending June 30, 2014 and June 30, 2015.

Sponsor: Mary Wallner

Relative to the division of higher education and the higher education commission.

Sponsor: Nancy Stiles

Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures.

Sponsor: Mary Wallner

Prohibiting the department of safety from providing motor vehicle records for the purpose of creating or enhancing a federal identification database.

Sponsor: Carol McGuire

Establishing a committee to study the establishment of a state infrastructure bank.

Sponsor: Sharon Carson

Relative to the procedure for filling a vacancy on a cooperative school district budget committee.

Sponsor: James Belanger

Relative to duties of town treasurers.

Sponsor: Maureen Mann

Establishing a commercial shrimp license.

Sponsor: David Watters

Relative to contingency funds in towns.

Sponsor: James Belanger

Relative to the use of open source software by state agencies; including the department of information technology in the uniform electronic transactions act; and repealing the information practices act.

Sponsor: Lynne Ober

Relative to the collection of the amount of the property tax deferral for the elderly or disabled upon sale of the property.

Sponsor: Gary Daniels

Relative to licensing requirements for homestead food and organic processor or handler certification.

Sponsor: Carol McGuire

Exempting small trailers from inspection requirements; allowing qualified dealers to inspect trailers; and deleting a reference to highway enforcement officers.

Sponsor: James Rausch

Relative to the annulment of criminal records.

Sponsor: Joel Winters

Making technical corrections to the International Registration Plan.

Sponsor: James Rausch

Relative to the time towns that have adopted official ballot voting have to approve bonding in solid waste management districts and ratifying the Greenland school district meeting held on March 11 and 12, 2013.

Sponsor: Robert Cushing

Repealing a prohibition relative to auxiliary state troopers.

Sponsor: James Rausch

Relative to registration of vehicles by residents without a permanent street address.

Sponsor: Brian Rhodes

Relative to special use permits in the White Mountain National Forest.

Sponsor: Jeff Woodburn

Permitting municipalities to establish a capital reserve plan for expenditure of capital reserve funds and relative to electronic billing by municipal utilities.

Sponsor: Peter Bragdon

Relative to sending checklists to the state archives.

Sponsor: Kathleen Hoelzel

Relative to the composition and duties of the task force on work and family.

Sponsor: Mary Gile

Relative to the municipal bond bank reserve process.

Sponsor: Andrew White

Relative to funding agreements issued by life insurance companies.

Sponsor: Edward Butler

Relative to property and casualty insurers under the risk-based capital law.

Sponsor: Donna Schlachman

Relative to applications for licensure by the real estate appraisers board.

Sponsor: Lou D'Allesandro

Establishing a commission to study permanent options for funding the veterinary diagnostic laboratory.

Sponsor: Robert Haefner

Relative to the regulation of private investigators and security guards.

Sponsor: Delmar Burridge

Relative to service of demand for rent and eviction notice.

Sponsor: Shawn Jasper

Permitting current marital masters to remain in office until retirement, resignation, disability, or nonrenewal of appointment.

Sponsor: Gary Richardson

Relative to the duty of the long range capital planning and utilization committee.

Sponsor: John Graham

Relative to public funds.

Sponsor: Jeanie Forrester

Relative to privacy in the workplace.

Sponsor: Katherine Rogers

Relative to the judicial branch information technology fund.

Sponsor: Robert Rowe

Relative to the treatment of medical support in child support cases.

Sponsor: John Reagan

Relative to Medicaid rates.

Sponsor: John Reagan

Repealing provisions relative to the sale of the former Laconia state school property and eliminating a ramp toll on the Everett turnpike in the town of Merrimack.

Sponsor: James Rausch

Relative to expiration of variances and special exceptions.

Sponsor: David Boutin

Relative to the taxation of water works or flood control land held in another town or city.

Sponsor: Sharon Carson

Relative to beverage container and packaging approval.

Sponsor: Adam Schroadter

Relative to operation of OHRVs on the traveled portion of public highways, where permitted.

Sponsor: Robert Theberge

Extending the Coos county job creation tax credit.

Sponsor: William Butynski

Relative to protection and preservation of significant archeological deposits.

Sponsor: Nancy Stiles

Relative to the controlled drug prescription health and safety program.

Sponsor: Jeb Bradley

Relative to plumbers and mechanical contractors on state boards.

Sponsor: Sharon Carson

Relative to the department of transportation inventory fund and relative to the effective date of the transfer of the electricians board to the joint board for licensure and certification.

Sponsor: James Rausch

Relative to backflow prevention valves.

Sponsor: Tracy Emerick

Relative to probate administration.

Sponsor: Bette Lasky

Shortening the appeals process for a permitting decision under RSA 482-A, relative to fill and dredge in wetlands.

Sponsor: Christopher Ahlgren

Relative to group and individual health insurance market rules.

Sponsor: Donna Schlachman

Relative to public employer collective bargaining agreements.

Sponsor: Charles Weed

Relative to registration of certain state contracts with the department of state and repealing the information practices act.

Sponsor: David Boutin

Establishing a committee to study the overlap of federal, state, and local regulation relative to environmental issues.

Sponsor: John Cebrowski

Requiring the division of higher education to develop a policy on academic credit for a student's military occupation, military training, coursework, and experience.

Sponsor: Alfred Baldasaro

Relative to funds for dam maintenance, removal and improvement.

Sponsor: Suzanne Smith

Relative to service of writs against cities.

Sponsor: Katherine Rogers

Relative to the incidental combustion of untreated wood at certain municipal transfer stations.

Sponsor: Gene Chandler

Regarding infestation of bed bugs in rental housing.

Sponsor: Patrick Long

Requiring certain health care organizations to report to the department of health and human services regarding implementation of New Hampshire's 10-year mental health plan.

Sponsor: James MacKay

Relative to disclosure of information regarding charitable solicitations.

Sponsor: Neal Kurk

Establishing the white potato as the state vegetable.

Sponsor: John O'Connor

Relative to effluent limitations with regard to nitrogen and phosphorus.

Sponsor: Adam Schroadter

Relative to the appointment of bail commissioners.

Sponsor: Sam Cataldo

Changing the definition of "cigarette" under the tobacco tax to match the definition of "cigarette" under the Master Settlement Agreement.

Sponsor: Susan Almy

Relative to transfer of funds by the liquor commission.

Sponsor: Dan McGuire

Relative to fees for vital records.

Sponsor: David Boutin

Relative to the storage of firearms.

Sponsor: Carol McGuire

Authorizing electronic payment of payroll.

Sponsor: Jeb Bradley

Conferring degree-granting authority to the American University of Madaba.

Sponsor: Nancy Stiles

Instituting a state minimum hourly rate.

Sponsor: Timothy Horrigan

Increasing the tobacco tax.

Sponsor: Cindy Rosenwald

Relative to proceedings of medical injury claims screening panels.

Sponsor: Lucy Weber

Relative to idling by diesel locomotives.

Sponsor: Norman Major

Establishing a committee to study the form of the oath taken by members of the general court.

Sponsor: John Hikel

Establishing a right of discovery to a carrier's investigation of claims in workers' compensation cases.

Sponsor: Jeffrey Goley

Relative to special licenses for taking lobster while engaged in recreational scuba diving.

Sponsor: Joe Duarte

Extending the commission to study water infrastructure sustainability funding.

Sponsor: Lawrence Kappler

Relative to occupational and professional boards and commissions procedures concerning military service and occupational experience or training.

Sponsor: Alfred Baldasaro

Relative to school district policies on health and sex education.

Sponsor: Ralph Boehm

Honoring the 100th Anniversary of the NH Presidential Primary and the Honorable Stephen A. Bullock.

Relative to the definitions of "student athlete" and "student sports" for the management of concussion and head injury.

Sponsor: Roderick Ladd

Relative to beverage and liquor licenses for bed and breakfasts.

Sponsor: Lucy Weber

Relative to the shop licensure requirements for barbers, cosmetologists, manicurists, and estheticians.

Sponsor: Carol McGuire

Repealing the equalization standards board.

Sponsor: Priscilla Lockwood

Establishing a committee to study existing debt collection laws and practices.

Sponsor: Harold Rice

Relative to state agency telecommunications services.

Sponsor: Jacqueline Cali-Pitts

Relative to the acquisition of property rights at Akers Pond dam in the town of Errol by the fish and game department and the acquisition of property rights at Northwood Lake dam in the town of Epsom and Hermit Lake dam in the town of Sanbornton by the department of environmental services.

Sponsor: Gene Chandler

Relative to professional misconduct of dental hygienists.

Sponsor: David Borden

Relative to collection of permit fees paid with insufficient fund checks.

Sponsor: Brian Rhodes

Relative to sibling visitation rights.

Sponsor: Sharon Carson

Relative to use of revolving funds by towns for maintaining recycling programs.

Sponsor: Gary Daniels

Making an appropriation for the purpose of paying residential care providers at the Chase Home for Children.

Sponsor: Sharon Nordgren

Honoring the victims and heroes of the Boston Marathon Tragedy.

Decriminalizing possession of one quarter of an ounce or less of marijuana.

Sponsor: Kyle Tasker

Waiving the residency requirement for in-state tuition rates for veterans attending the university system of New Hampshire.

Sponsor: Alfred Baldasaro

Relative to regulating alkaline hydrolysis for the disposal of human remains.

Sponsor: Steve Vaillancourt

Relative to lot access for erection of buildings.

Sponsor: James Belanger

Relative to the disposition of state-owned real estate.

Sponsor: John Graham

Prohibiting the designation of industrial hemp as a controlled substance.

Sponsor: Michael Garcia

Relative to an abusive work environment and the health and safety of public employees.

Sponsor: Dianne Schuett

Relative to appeals from the compensation appeals board.

Sponsor: Gary Richardson

Establishing a committee to review and make recommendations regarding consolidating all state energy positions throughout state departments.

Sponsor: Martha Fuller Clark

Establishing a committee to study police special details.

Sponsor: Jeb Bradley

Requesting Congress to begin the process for a constitutional amendment establishing that human beings, not corporations, are entitled to constitutional rights.

Sponsor: Robert Cushing

Relative to administrative supervision of insurers.

Sponsor: Edward Butler

Urging Congress to fund the development and implementation of a comprehensive health care delivery system to enhance the level of specialty care for New Hampshire's veterans.

Sponsor: Alfred Baldasaro

Requiring patriotic exercises in public schools on federal Constitution Day.

Sponsor: Glenn Cordelli

Requiring the labor commissioner to maintain certain statistical information regarding payment of workers' compensation.

Sponsor: James Webb

Relative to training of certain board officers of nonprofit corporations.

Sponsor: Sharon Carson

Appropriating funds to the department of environmental services for the purpose of funding eligible and completed drinking water, wastewater, and landfill closure projects under the state aid grant program.

Sponsor: Andy Sanborn

Relative to political contributions and expenditures and relative to reporting by political committees.

Sponsor: Jeb Bradley

Establishing an energy conservation loan program and an energy conservation project fund.

Sponsor: Bob Odell

Relative to beaching, grounding, or tying a boat to shore.

Sponsor: Jeb Bradley

Authorizing cottage housing development as an innovative land use control.

Sponsor: Stephen Shurtleff

Relative to the legislative members of the home education advisory council.

Sponsor: Mary Gile

Relative to the taking of red deer or elk.

Sponsor: Sam Cataldo

Establishing a scholarship program for New Hampshire residents to attend any New Hampshire public postsecondary education institution.

Sponsor: Charles Morse

Repealing the exotic aquatic weeds and species committee.

Sponsor: Lawrence Kappler

Relative to discovery in misdemeanor and violation cases.

Sponsor: James Belanger

Establishing a committee to study a constitutional amendment to prevent dedicated funding for a specific purpose from being diverted from that purpose.

Sponsor: Peter Bixby

Relative to the retirement system status of the director and assistant director of the division of homeland security and emergency management.

Sponsor: Naida Kaen

Relative to renovations to the vocational technical center at Alvirne high school.

Sponsor: Lars Christiansen

Relative to the New Hampshire national guard recruitment and retention scholarship fund and making an appropriation therefor.

Sponsor: Alfred Baldasaro

Prohibiting images of a person's residence to be taken from the air.

Sponsor: Neal Kurk

Increasing the research and development tax credit against the business profits tax and relative to the report of the commissioner of resources and economic development on the research and development tax credit.

Sponsor: Bob Odell

Relative to games of chance and establishing a gaming oversight authority and video lottery gaming.

Sponsor: Steve Vaillancourt

Affirming States' powers based on the Constitution for the United States and the Constitution of New Hampshire.

Sponsor: Daniel Itse

Relative to training for new executive branch commissioners.

Sponsor: Lynne Ober

Relative to annual reporting requirements for business entities.

Sponsor: Dan McGuire

Relative to a school district's transportation responsibility for pupils of divorced parents with joint decision making responsibility.

Sponsor: Peter Bragdon

Relative to implementation of voter identification requirements.

Sponsor: Russell Prescott

Relative to community rating.

Sponsor: Dan McGuire

Relative to simple assault.

Sponsor: Frank Sapareto

Relative to drug use not approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

Sponsor: Sharon Carson

Establishing a committee to study wine purchasing and pricing.

Sponsor: Dan McGuire

Recognizing the original Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Sponsor: Stella Tremblay

Relative to membership of village districts in regional planning commissions.

Sponsor: James Coffey

Relative to workforce housing and the definition of community.

Sponsor: Jack Flanagan

Commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision and affirming support for its holding and principles.

Sponsor: Candace Bouchard

Prohibiting the cruel confinement of certain farm animals.

Sponsor: Sharon Carson

Relative to liquor samples.

Sponsor: Nancy Stiles

Increasing the annual limit on the new investment tax credit.

Sponsor: Molly Kelly

Relative to the regional greenhouse gas initiative cap and trade program.

Sponsor: Martha Fuller Clark

Establishing the Granite State farm to plate program.

Sponsor: Martha Fuller Clark

Relative to table stakes poker.

Sponsor: David Boutin

Relative to forfeiture of bail.

Sponsor: Bette Lasky

Naming a bridge in the town of Whitefield.

Sponsor: Jeff Woodburn

Relative to the power of a peace officer to make an arrest without a warrant.

Sponsor: Daniel Itse

Relative to witness tampering.

Sponsor: Laura Pantelakos

Requiring optometrists to warn parents about the progression of myopia when prescribing distance lenses for children.

Sponsor: James Parison

Relative to simulcast greyhound races.

Sponsor: Steve Vaillancourt

Relative to annulment of criminal records.

Sponsor: John Hikel

Establishing a committee to study requiring safety training or instruction prior to the purchase or acquisition of a firearm.

Sponsor: Cynthia Sweeney

Relative to resisting arrest.

Sponsor: George Lambert

Increasing certain speed limits to 70 miles per hour.

Sponsor: Steve Vaillancourt

Relative to city charters.

Sponsor: Roger Berube

Establishing a committee to study extending the due date for final property tax bills.

Sponsor: Pamela Tucker

Relative to alimony.

Sponsor: Patrick Abrami

Relative to the enforcement of false swearing and perjury in official matters.

Sponsor: Jeffrey Oligny

Establishing New Hampshire anti-bullying day.

Sponsor: Donna Schlachman

Relative to attorney's fees and costs in an action against a governmental unit for false arrest.

Sponsor: Daniel Itse

Establishing a committee to study the financial assistance program for needy families (FANF) and state supplemental programs (SSP) for the needy blind, permanently and totally disabled, and old age assistance.

Sponsor: James MacKay

Requiring postsecondary education institutions to compile and submit reports on remedial education courses.

Sponsor: Ralph Boehm

Relative to child support expenditures.

Sponsor: Jane Johnson

Appropropriating funds to the department of environmental services for the purpose of funding eligible and completed drinking water, wastewater, and landfill closure projects under the state aid grant program.

Sponsor: Thomas Buco

Relative to attending a public school or public academy outside of the school district in which the pupil resides.

Sponsor: Kris Roberts

Relative to street rods.

Sponsor: Kyle Tasker

Relative to the penalty for making a false statement in a criminal complaint.

Sponsor: Daniel Itse

Requiring school boards to establish a policy allowing parents to send their children to an out-of-district school.

Sponsor: John Hikel

Relative to possession of a firearm on school property.

Sponsor: Daniel Itse

Relative to verification of school district membership data.

Sponsor: Kenneth Weyler

Relative to the relinquishment of firearms as a condition of bail.

Sponsor: George Lambert

Establishing a state minimum hourly rate.

Sponsor: Timothy Robertson

Establishing a committee to study the feasibility of cities and towns transferring insurance under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Sponsor: Andrew Renzullo

Limiting the authorization for new annual general fund-supported debt.

Sponsor: Neal Kurk

Relative to the adjustment of member and employer contribution rates in the retirement system.

Sponsor: Kenneth Weyler

Discontinuing collection of the toll at exit 12 on the Everett turnpike in the town of Merrimack.

Sponsor: Jeanine Notter

Repealing the prospective repeal date for the research and development tax credit.

Sponsor: Gary Richardson

Relative to official oppression.

Sponsor: Daniel Itse

Requiring the department of health and human services to license supervised visitation centers.

Sponsor: Jeffrey Oligny

Establishing a commission to study funding mechanisms for increasing the number of mental health beds statewide.

Sponsor: Kenneth Gidge

Relative to the timing of the release of patients from New Hampshire hospital.

Sponsor: Emily Sandblade

Making changes to state representative districts.

Sponsor: Peter Schmidt

Relative to amending the default budget in towns that use official ballot voting.

Sponsor: George Lambert

Allowing publication by electronic means by the probate division.

Sponsor: David Boutin

Instituting a state minimum hourly rate.

Sponsor: Donna Soucy

Making an appropriation for the purpose of reimbursing the spouse of a law enforcement officer who died in the line of duty.

Sponsor: Sharon Carson

Relative to waivers of charitable trusts filing fees.

Sponsor: Jeb Bradley

Relative to school district policies regarding a parent's determination that certain course material is objectionable.

Sponsor: Lou D'Allesandro

Relative to proof of identity by voters.

Sponsor: David Pierce

Relative to the property tax exemption for veterans who are totally and permanently disabled from service connection.

Sponsor: Peter Bragdon

Relative to electoral college electors.

Sponsor: Charles Weed

Relative to oversight of guardians ad litem by the guardian ad litem board.

Sponsor: Lawrence Kappler

Requiring the liquor commission to establish a pilot program for the sale of New Hampshire microbrewery and nano brewery beers at certain state liquor stores.

Sponsor: Robert Cushing

Allowing public employers in the state to buy into the state health insurance plan.

Sponsor: Janet Shaffer Hammond

Authorizing the commissioner of the department of resources and economic development to enter into contracts for provision of free Wifi Internet access at Hampton Beach state park.

Sponsor: Robert Cushing

Relative to wildlife resistant solid waste storage and disposal.

Sponsor: Skip Reilly

Relative to advertising of New Hampshire products by the liquor commission.

Sponsor: Maureen Mann

Relative to the membership, duties, and responsibilities of the guardian ad litem board and establishing the Court Appointed Advocates for Children in Divorce (CAACD) Corporation.

Sponsor: Daniel Itse

Requiring drug testing of applicants for Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF).

Sponsor: Donald LeBrun

Relative to the school district budget for kindergarten.

Sponsor: Lars Christiansen

Relative to antique vessel registration.

Sponsor: Christopher Ahlgren

Relative to the prohibition on the use of state funds to hire lobbyists.

Sponsor: Lynne Ober

Requiring proficiency on the statewide assessment for high school graduation.

Sponsor: Joseph Pitre

Relative to nonpayment of property taxes on current use land.

Sponsor: Peter Hansen

Prioritizing school building aid funds for a high school in which accreditation is probationary or has been revoked.

Sponsor: John Cloutier

Establishing a commission to study the feasibility of developing an industrial cooperative program for science, technology, engineering, and manufacturing programs at the university of New Hampshire.

Sponsor: David Murotake

Relative to expenditures from the fish and game search and rescue fund.

Sponsor: Kenneth Weyler

Requiring a disclosure statement by persons seeking a party's nomination for elective office.

Sponsor: Stella Tremblay

Relative to underground storage tank and above ground storage tank certification.

Sponsor: Colette Worsman

Reducing the nonresident fee for obtaining a license for a pistol or a revolver.

Sponsor: George Lambert

Establishing a temporary surcharge to the road toll to be dedicated to funding the state 10-year transportation improvement plan for rural and town roads.

Sponsor: Aboul Khan

Relative to amending official ballot warrant articles.

Sponsor: Frederick Rice

Relative to funding of capital projects of the division of ports and harbors, Pease development authority.

Sponsor: Nancy Stiles

Relative to overpayments caused by arbitration awards, back pay awards, settlement agreements, or jury verdicts.

Sponsor: Andrew White

Establishing a committee to study state house security.

Sponsor: Dick Patten

Establishing a committee to study the teaching of a second language beginning in kindergarten.

Sponsor: Carolyn Gargasz

Prohibiting the publication of the names of persons granted property tax exemptions, credits, or deferrals.

Sponsor: Andrew White

Relative to the tobacco tax.

Sponsor: Kenneth Weyler

Requiring parental consent prior to a mental health examination in public schools.

Sponsor: Daniel Itse

Making a capital appropriation for the construction of a monument commemorating the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the Isles of Shoals by John Smith.

Sponsor: David Campbell

Relative to state representative districts in Hillsborough county.

Sponsor: Charlene Takesian

Relative to the amount of the optional property tax credit for service-connected total disability.

Sponsor: Adam Schroadter

Relative to school district policies on health and sex education.

Sponsor: Roderick Ladd

Relative to assignment of circuit court judges as liaison judges.

Sponsor: Robert Rowe

Allowing straight ticket voting.

Sponsor: Jeanine Notter

Relative to responsibility for hazardous materials accidents.

Sponsor: Andrew White

Relative to governance of town libraries.

Sponsor: Kenneth Weyler

Clarifying the equity jurisdiction of the judicial branch family division.

Sponsor: Daniel Itse

Repealing certain agency rulemaking exemptions from the administrative procedures act.

Sponsor: Carol McGuire

Relative to the appraisal of residences in an industrial or commercial zone.

Sponsor: Kenneth Weyler

Reducing the rate of the business enterprise tax over a 5-year period and repealing the tax.

Sponsor: Leon Rideout

Relative to air quality violations for outdoor fires.

Sponsor: John Reagan

Relative to the appointment of insurance agents and repealing a fee for insurance producers.

Sponsor: Andy Sanborn

Relative to the New Hampshire Municipal Association.

Sponsor: Donna Soucy

Prohibiting the taking of bear from baited areas.

Sponsor: Jeanie Forrester

Relative to online availability of certain county budget information and reports.

Sponsor: Glenn Cordelli

Limiting the authority of delegates to Article V conventions.

Sponsor: Daniel Itse

Relative to the removal of certain wood stoves upon the sale of a home and notification of such removal to the department of environmental services.

Sponsor: Peter Schmidt

Requiring college courses completed by a high school student to be counted in the student's grade point average.

Sponsor: Kris Roberts

Repealing the law on weather modification experimentation.

Sponsor: Stella Tremblay

Relative to the eligibility of high school students enrolled in college courses to participate in high school extracurricular activities.

Sponsor: Kris Roberts

Relative to the department of health and human services promoting awareness of the federal earned income credit.

Sponsor: Peter Sullivan

Relative to application of laws on employment to the members of the house of representatives.

Sponsor: Lars Christiansen

Relative to access to galleries in the general court.

Sponsor: Timothy Horrigan

Establishing a statutory expectation of privacy in personal materials.

Sponsor: Neal Kurk

Relative to access to school-approved means of communication by recognized youth organizations.

Sponsor: Robert Haefner

Prohibiting interference with access to medical services and health insurance of New Hampshire citizens.

Sponsor: Daniel Itse

Establishing a committee to study the feasibility of personal rapid transit systems.

Sponsor: Steven Smith

Relative to the children in need of services program and making an appropriation therefor.

Sponsor: Laura Pantelakos

Relative to the disposition of estates valued at less than $10,000.

Sponsor: James Webb

Relative to penalties for failure to license dogs.

Sponsor: John Cebrowski

Allowing towns and cities to grant a part year veterans credit during the year of acquisition of property.

Sponsor: John Hunt

Permitting retired judges over the age of 70 to serve the courts under certain circumstances.

Sponsor: Mary Walz

Relative to the identification of dental prosthetic and orthodontic appliances.

Sponsor: Dorothea Hooper

Relating to the supreme court. Providing that rules made by the chief justice of the supreme court governing the administration of the courts in the state and the practice and procedure to be followed in all such courts shall not have the force and effect of law.

Sponsor: Lars Christiansen

Increasing the beer tax.

Sponsor: Charles Weed

Directing the school administrative unit legislative oversight committee to study the consolidation of school administrative units.

Sponsor: John Reagan

Relative to the powers of an executor or administrator to take control of a decedent's social networking websites.

Sponsor: Peter Sullivan

Relative to responsibility for medical costs incurred by a person in custody.

Sponsor: James Belanger

Relative to driveway permits issued by the department of transportation.

Sponsor: Dan McGuire

Relative to custody and control of the remains of deceased persons by next of kin.

Sponsor: Lawrence Kappler

Relative to the authority of the superintendent of a county correctional facility to release a prisoner.

Sponsor: James Belanger

Permitting manufactured housing parks and condominium associations to access dog registration records.

Sponsor: Donald LeBrun

Relative to calculation of the local tax cap by the Newfound area school district.

Sponsor: Suzanne Smith

RESOLVED, that the Senate meet in Joint Convention with the Honorable House of Representatives for the purpose of canvassing votes for the Governor and Executive Council.

Recording House sessions and the permanent journal.

Sponsor: Stephen Shurtleff

RESOLVED, that the return of votes from the several Senatorial Districts be referred to a Select Committee of three with instructions to examine and count the same and report to the Senate where any vacancies or contest exists and if so, in what Senatorial District.

RESOLVED, that the Rules of the 2011-2012 Session be adopted as the Rules of the 2013-2014 Session, with the changes which have been provided here today, and be it further RESOLVED that these Rules may be amended by majority vote for the next four legislative days.

Distribution of House publications.

Sponsor: Stephen Shurtleff

The Speaker employing personnel per RSA 17-E:5.

Sponsor: Stephen Shurtleff

Relative to the licensure of liquefied propane installation and service technicians.

Relative to tuition payments for chartered public school pupils.

Relative to the renewable energy fund and regulation of telephone, Voice Over Internet Protocol, and IP-enabled service providers and relative to electric renewable portfolio standards.

Relative to establishing an individual's status as a veteran and specifying that training for active duty is service for purposes of the veterans' tax credit.

Relative to reporting of compensation paid to retired members of the retirement system, relative to notice to retired members of the limitations on part-time employment, and relative to retirement system membership for a person holding positions of town clerk and tax collector.

Relative to the regulation of the practice of genetic counseling.

Relative to the use of cannabis for therapeutic purposes.

Relative to cost items in negotiated agreements.

Relative to teacher evaluation systems.

Consolidating the property appraisal division and the municipal services division of the department of revenue administration.

Relative to municipally-owned utilities.

Relative to the New Hampshire medal of honor.

Requiring the department of transportation to develop a procedure for soliciting requests for proposals for the sponsorship or naming rights of New Hampshire rest areas.

Relative to the general consumer credit laws of the state, making a technical correction, and relative to a town clerk and tax collector electing to be a member in the retirement system.

Relative to the licensure of fuel gas fitters and plumbers by a mechanical licensing board established within the department of safety and transferring regulation of plumbers to the mechanical licensing board.

Relative to establishing a single liquor commissioner.

Relative to electric renewable portfolio standards.

Relative to the master jury list.

Establishing an integrated land development permit.

Relative to games of chance.

Relative to the use of proceeds from the regional greenhouse gas initiative program.

Directing the joint legislative historical committee to conduct a study of state house flag restoration and preservation.

Relative to voters guides for proposed constitutional amendments.

Relative to New Hampshires regional greenhouse gas initiative.

Relative to property abandoned by tenants.

Establishing a committee to study developing a policy for veteran preference for government hiring and extending the commission on the effects of service-connected post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury.

Establishing a committee to study New Hampshire election laws and procedures.

Clarifying the definition of renewable generation facility for purposes of payments in lieu of property tax payments and allowing certain facilities that combust municipal waste for energy to make payments in lieu of property tax payments.

Establishing a commission to study general court policies and procedures relative to persons with disabilities.

Relative to portable electronics insurance.

Relative to the standard valuation law.

Relative to advance directives pertaining to life-sustaining treatment.

Relative to electronic funds transfers.

Making modifications to the DWI ignition interlock program.

Relative to the property taxation of qualifying historic buildings.

Relative to differential pay for certain state employees providing direct care to inmates and patients.

Relative to a financial examination supervisor.

Establishing a study committee to review the hearings officer's report with regard to the New Hampshire Local Government Center and to study potential changes to RSA 5-B.

Relative to voluntary installation of fire suppression sprinklers.

Relative to worksharing.

Relative to water resource management and protection plans in municipal master plans.

Relative to high school equivalency and relative to illiteracy.

Relative to support and care costs for children with disabilities.

Relative to the determination of gainful occupation for a group II member receiving an accidental disability retirement allowance from the retirement system, and relative to the director and assistant director of the division of homeland security and emergency management in the department of safety.

Relative to procedures for juvenile delinquency petitions filed by a school district or school official.

Making technical changes to the judicial retirement plan.

Relative to the authority of county correctional officers.

Excluding conservation officers of the fish and game department from requirements for emergency medical and trauma services.

Relative to the rulemaking authority of the liquor commission.

Relative to a surviving spouse's right to retain a Purple Heart plate.

Repealing the student tuition guaranty fund and making provisions for the disbursement of remaining funds.

Authorizing coastal management provisions in master plans.

Relative to the appointment and duties of the state fire marshal.

Relative to aid to the permanently and totally disabled and old age assistance.

Relative to reclamation trust funds.

Relative to the rulemaking authority of and administrative fine authority for the department of resources and economic development.

Relative to special number plates for members of the national guard.

Relative to appeals of planning board decisions.

Relative to the definition of lead fishing sinkers and jigs and the penalties for prohibited sales of lead fishing sinkers and jigs.

Repealing the prospective repeal of the information and analysis center.

Relative to the maximum permit application fee for certain municipal dredging projects.

Relative to parole procedures and relative to sanctions for violations of probation.

Relative to the escrow fund for court facility improvements.

Relative to a school district's transportation responsibility for pupils of divorced parents with joint decision making responsibility.

Relative to the fuel oil discharge cleanup fund.

Relative to state fees, funds, revenues, and expenditures.

Relative to commercial driver learner permits.

Relative to the removal of social security and other numbers from registry of deeds documents available on the Internet, and relative to background checks for county employees.

Allowing parents to agree on college contributions.

Relative to the division of higher education and the higher education commission.

Relative to insurance holding companies.

Repealing a prohibition relative to auxiliary state troopers.

Relative to the waitlist for community mental health services.

Revising the New Hampshire business corporations act, RSA 293-A.

Relative to prescription drugs in workers' compensation cases.

Establishing a commercial shrimp license.

Establishing a committee to examine the issue of statutory authority for all terrain vehicles, off highway recreational vehicles, and low speed utility vehicles to access public highways for food, fuel, and lodging.

Relative to the annulment of criminal records.

Establishing a committee to study options for mitigation of damages associated with highway noise.

Allowing counties to contract for professional real estate services for the sale or lease of county property.

Relative to weight of commercial vehicles with idle reduction devices.

Relative to registration of vehicles by residents without a permanent street address.

Relative to the time towns that have adopted official ballot voting have to approve bonding in solid waste management districts and ratifying the Greenland school district meeting held on March 11 and 12, 2013.

Relative to the use of open source software by state agencies; including the department of information technology in the uniform electronic transactions act; and repealing the information practices act.

Relative to the procedure for filling a vacancy on a cooperative school district budget committee.

Relative to special use permits in the White Mountain National Forest.

Relative to the municipal bond bank reserve process.

Relative to funding agreements issued by life insurance companies.

Establishing a committee to study the resolution of barriers to the use of telehealth technology in New Hampshire.

Establishing a committee to study the apportionment formula for cooperative school districts for towns with electric generation facilities.

Relative to payment of attorneys' fees for indigent parents in termination of parental rights cases.

Relative to property and casualty insurers under the risk-based capital law.

Establishing a commission to study permanent options for funding the veterinary diagnostic laboratory.

Relative to applications for licensure by the real estate appraisers board.

Relative to health care costs for county and state inmates.

Relative to public funds.

Making technical corrections to tax laws.

Relative to Medicaid rates.

Prohibiting residency restrictions for registered sex offenders and offenders against children.

Relative to the taxation of water works or flood control land held in another town or city.

Relative to the duty of the long range capital planning and utilization committee.

Relative to construction projects for the adjutant general's department.

Permitting current marital masters to remain in office until retirement, resignation, disability, or nonrenewal of appointment.

Relative to operation of OHRVs on the traveled portion of public highways, where permitted.

Extending the Coos county job creation tax credit.

Relative to beverage container and packaging approval.

Relative to protection and preservation of significant archeological deposits.

Relative to the controlled drug prescription health and safety program.

Authorizing phlebotomists to withdraw blood for alcohol concentration tests.

Relative to funds for dam maintenance, removal and improvement.

Relative to probate administration.

Relative to assisted living facilities and landlord tenant law.

Shortening the appeals process for a permitting decision under RSA 482-A, relative to fill and dredge in wetlands.

Relative to mileage fees for sheriffs and deputy sheriffs.

Relative to the sale of pets.

Relative to disclosure of information regarding charitable solicitations.

Establishing the white potato as the state vegetable.

Relative to the oil discharge cleanup fund.

Relative to the department of transportation inventory fund and relative to the effective date of the transfer of the electricians board to the joint board for licensure and certification.

Relative to backflow prevention valves.

Relative to superior court jurisdiction over domestic violence petitions.

Establishing a committee to study the overlap of federal, state, and local regulation relative to environmental issues.

Requiring the division of higher education to develop a policy on academic credit for a student's military occupation, military training, coursework, and experience.

Regarding infestation of bed bugs in rental housing.

Relative to the incidental combustion of untreated wood at certain municipal transfer stations.

Changing the definition of "cigarette" under the tobacco tax to match the definition of "cigarette" under the Master Settlement Agreement.

Relative to the definition of "professional service."

Relative to fees for vital records.

Increasing the size limitations for OHRVs operating on state-owned trails in Coos and Grafton counties.

Relative to state agency telecommunications services.

Establishing a committee to study existing debt collection laws and practices.

Relative to professional misconduct of dental hygienists.

Repealing the equalization standards board.

Relative to the shop licensure requirements for barbers, cosmetologists, manicurists, and estheticians.

Repealing a duty of the assessing standards board concerning municipal reimbursement for the cost of assessments.

Relative to the acquisition of property rights at Akers Pond dam in the town of Errol by the fish and game department and the acquisition of property rights at Northwood Lake dam in the town of Epsom and Hermit Lake dam in the town of Sanbornton by the department of environmental services.

Relative to home production of wine for personal or family use.

Relative to collection of permit fees paid with insufficient fund checks.

Relative to use of revolving funds by towns for maintaining recycling programs.

Making an appropriation for the purpose of paying residential care providers at the Chase Home for Children.

Relative to membership of the council on autism spectrum disorders.

Prohibiting the designation of industrial hemp as a controlled substance.

Directing the joint legislative historical committee to acquire and display a portrait of suffragist Marilla Marks Ricker.

Relative to administrative supervision of insurers.

Relative to approval of the project proposed by the Town of Alstead for the lower Warren Brook Restoration project, establishing a commission to determine the appropriate use of flood damaged property, and repealing a commission established in 2006 to determine the appropriate use of property damaged in the October 2005 floods.

Relative to aid to school districts for the cost of special education.

Authorizing the attorney general to join the settlement of accrued claims relating to the non-participating tobacco manufacturers adjustment disputes for 2003 to 2011 and the 2012 non-participating tobacco manufacturers adjustment.

Relative to distribution of education funds for fiscal year 2013.

Naming a bridge in the town of Whitefield.

RESOLVED, that the Senate is ready to meet with the Honorable House of Representatives in Joint Convention for the purpose of hearing the Budget Address by her Excellency, Governor Margaret Wood Hassan.

RESOLVED, that the Senate meet in Joint Convention with the Honorable House of Representatives for the purpose of hearing the report of the Joint Committee appointed to compare and count the votes for Governor and Executive Council, for the Inauguration of the Governor, the Honorable Margaret Wood Hassan, and for the taking of the oath by the Executive Council.

RESOLVED, that the return of votes from the several Senatorial Districts be referred to a Select Committee of three with instructions to examine and count the same and report to the Senate where any vacancies or contest exists and if so, in what Senatorial District.

Adopting the rules of the 2012 session for the 2013-2014 biennium.

RESOLVED, that the Senate meet in Joint Convention with the Honorable House of Representatives for the purpose of electing the Secretary of State and the State Treasurer.

Distribution of House publications.

RESOLVED, that the biennium salary of the members of the Senate be paid in one undivided sum as early as practical after adoption of this resolution, and be it further RESOLVED, that the mileage of members of the Senate be paid every two weeks during the session.