==Legislative Update, 2025 #07== Wins on another Major bill! Updates & still advocate on more Important bills 2/23/25

By Nick Norman - Tuesday, January 7, 2025

==Legislative Update, 2025 #07== Wins on another Major bill! Updates & still advocate on more Important bills

Howdee Everyone,

More Important bills analysis & sample emails are prepared. We continue to work on the extreme number of Important bills, 39 this season so far.
See Action Map & 1 Minute Advocate.

See Wins in the Major bills update.

Click this button each week if you want to quickly dive right in & handle the urgent communications in minutes.

1 Minute Advocate

We need more volunteers to analyze some of the minor bills. Please consider donating a small amount of time.

Next House Session
Thursday, March 6 at 10:00 am

Next Senate Session
Thursday, March 6 at 10:00 am

Update Summary
Note: some links have changed. Always use latest links in latest update.
Also note that we often keep previous update info on items still active because there are often new members signing up and receiving the updates. So we want them to have the info. Please have your housing provider partners and friends join us. The more members the stronger we will be.

Please pay attention to updates in 1 Minute Advocate during the week.

Major Bills Summary (follow action items in Action Map above):
Please make communications on the Important bills as outlined in the Action Map & 1 Minute Advocate.

Another win on Major bills:
HB724 Lead Paint Bill.
We believe this is the first time we have a win on a lead paint bill. The committee voted along party lines to ITL (kill) the bill. We are now waiting for the full House to schedule vote on the bill which is not happening this week and likely will next week.

Use 1 Minute Advocate now to study and prepare communication to be delivered next week on this critically important bill..

Recent and coming info(no changes since last week):
Update.....Description2024 #24 Required FinCEN company registration .
2024 #25 See Sneek Peek at upcoming bill titles.
2024 #25 Final outcome of 2024 bills.
2024 #25 See 2024 Newly Chartered Law. It is already updated with some of the more impactful bills. We will continue to add to the list.
2024 #25 Short analysis of the change in NH legislature from the last election.
TBD Analysis of the new Anti-Squatter law.
TBD Various media articles.
TBD Stats and resources regarding homelessness.
TBD In depth look at the potential restrictions involved with participation in federal programs.
TBD Opportunity to make a significant move to end homelessness for veterans in Manchester, NH. Contact us to talk about helping out.
TBD Info on the new lowered lead action levels from the EPA.
TBD Clarification on RSA 130-A newly constructed residential rental lead safe certificate requirement.
Stay tuned.

Important Bills:
We’re still concentrating on the flood of new state level legislation. Many Important bills now have been analyzed.

We will continue analysis on these during the week. Keep checking the 1 Minute Advocate.
Meanwhile, all hearings, for Major, Important, Minor bills, are listed in the Hearing Schedule below.

See 1 Minute Advocate for Important bills.

We are preparing a new feature of the Legislative Update and will have a separate Action Map Summary for the Important bills. See the link in the Important bills section of the 1 Minute Advocate.

We have the structure of it in place. It is partially filled in. Because there are 39 Important bills, it is rather large which is why we chose to separate it from this email. Also using this method we can continue to work on an update it during the week. As we complete more analysis it will be filled in more completely. There is some, at least minimal, analysis on 27 of them so far.

SB4, Title: relative to commercial property assessed clean energy and resiliency (C-PACER).
Property Owner Position: For
There is very large support for this bill. It appears that the bill will make it easier to use C-PACER financing which can increase the loan to value on developing real estate and aid in creating more housing. We expect this to pass quickly. It is now on the way to the governor.
No action needed.

Minor Bills:

We’re still concentrating on the flood of new state level legislation. Bill Status Data for minor bills will be updated soon. We’ve started working on minimal analysis on the Minor bills as well.

Big thank you to those that donated. It really makes a positive difference to keeping this Legislative Initiative going. Donations have ranged from $15 to $500.

If you feel we are providing benefit, you can send donations to 16 Crescent St, Derry, NH 03038 made payable to Nick Norman or clicking the donate button to pay online. The donations help pay for office staff.

Donate to the Legislative Initiative

1. General Legislative Logistics
Legislator contact info for the Major & Important bills is now updated into the 1 Minute Advocate.
Other contact info can be found on the GenCourt site, https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/

Use Logistics For Testifying for procedures and use 1 Minute Advocate for contact info.
Logistics For Testifying
If action map says to contact committee:
See Legislative Committee Communication & Testifying In Person Procedure, Physical & Email addresses

If action map says to contact your Representative and full House or your Senator and Full Senate:
See Find Your Legislators

See Standard Email/Letter Format

2. Major & Important Bills:
See Action Map table, 1 Minute Advocate & Update Summary above.

3. Federal Update
None so far. We’re still concentrating on the flood of new state level legislation.

4. Minor bill updates are included in bill status section further below.
See Bill Status summary below.

5. Media Update.
None so far.

Hearings this week:
2/27/2025 at 9:00 a.m. Location: Legislative Office Building Time: 9:00 a.m.
HB200, Supermajority To Override Tax Cap
Level of Response: No Property Owner Position at This Time
Property Owner Position: No Property Owner Position at This Time

2/27/2025 at 9:40 a.m. Location: Legislative Office Building Time: 9:40 a.m.
HB374, Local Tax Cap Procedure
Level of Response: No Property Owner Position at This Time
Property Owner Position: No Property Owner Position at This Time

2/27/2025 at 10:20 a.m. Location: Legislative Office Building Time: 10:20 a.m.
HB138, Notice Of Special Warrant Tax Impact
Level of Response: No Property Owner Position at This Time
Property Owner Position: No Property Owner Position at This Time

Hearings next week:
3/4/2025 at 10:00 a.m. Location: State House Time: 10:00 a.m.
SB90, 20 Units/Acre Residential in Commercial Zone
Level of Response: Email legislators, Call Legislators
Property Owner Position: For

3/4/2025 at 10:15 a.m. Location: State House Time: 10:15 a.m.
SB174, Number of Bedrooms Does Not Affect Development Approval
Level of Response: No Property Owner Position at This Time
Property Owner Position: No Property Owner Position at This Time

3/4/2025 at 10:30 a.m. Location: State House Time: 10:30 a.m.
SB175, Workforce Housing Convenants
Level of Response: No Property Owner Position at This Time
Property Owner Position: No Property Owner Position at This Time

3/4/2025 at 10:45 a.m. Location: State House Time: 10:45 a.m.
SB281, Class VI Road Building Occupancy Permits
Level of Response: No Property Owner Position at This Time
Property Owner Position: No Property Owner Position at This Time

3/4/2025 at 11:00 a.m. Location: State House Time: 11:00 a.m.
SB283, Ease Floor-Area-Ratio Requirements
Level of Response: Email legislators, Call Legislators
Property Owner Position: For

3/4/2025 at 11:30 a.m. Location: State House Time: 11:30 a.m.
SB163, Prohibit Building Permit Moratoria Or Limitations
Level of Response: No Property Owner Position at This Time
Property Owner Position: No Property Owner Position at This Time

Future Hearings:
None so far.

Love & Light,

Nick Norman
Director of Legislative Affairs
AANH Government Affairs Chair
NHRPOA Legislative Affairs Committee Chairman

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==Legislative Update, 2025 #05== Wins on 3 Major bills! Still advocate on HB724, Lead Paint & HB628, Section 8

Howdee Everyone,

All Major bills now have complete analysis & sample email prepared. We are now working on the Important bills.
See Action Map & 1 Minute Advocate.-
If not already done, it is critical for everyone to make communications now on HB724 Lead Pain Bill
& HB628, Section 8 Protected Class.

Click this button each week if you want to quickly dive right in & handle the urgent communications in minutes.

1 Minute Advocate

We need more volunteers to analyze some of the minor bills. Please consider donating a small amount of time.

Next House Session
Thursday, February 13th, 2025, at 10:00 a.m.
Thursday, February 20th

Next Senate Session
Thursday, 2/13/25, in the Senate Chamber 10am

Analysis of the lead paint bill is completed. Pay attention to updates in 1 Minute Advocate over the next few days.

Major bills (follow action items in Action Map above):
It is critical for everyone to make communications on the Major bills as outlined in the Action Map.
Three Major bills were voted in the full House. They are all wins for us.
See Action Map and 1 Minute Advocate.

Both at the committee executive session and the Full House session, it seemed Democrats could ‘see the writing on the wall’ and were scrambling to offer amendments to retain something of their position on these major bills. In the end, nothing they offered was accepted.
(PI=Parliamentary Inquiry)
HB60, Lease Expiration As Eviction Ground
Property Owner Position: For
Ellen Read (democrat) presented an amendment 2025-0254h, which allowed the lease termination as grounds for eviction but only after a 6 months grace period before the 60 day notice & the record of eviction would be sealed & only in a market of >=5% vacancy.
Joseph Alexander (republican), spoke against the amendment saying it was unnecessary regulation and the bill was good as written only that if it were up to him, he would reduce the notice to 30 days.
RC Vote 140 217 amendment fails.

David Paige (democrat) presented an amendment 2025-0251h
Use of HB60 would be limited to only in market of >=2.5% vacancy
He is a mom & pop landlord, knows how difficult to evict some tenants. However, he thinks the bill will do more harm than good. He quoted Vacancy of 0.8% & 52% homelessness increase.

Joseph Alexander (republican), spoke against the amendment saying it was unnecessary regulation.
Sweeny RC on amendment
Vote

Karen McGaff? PI to support amendment.
Joe Alexander (republican) PI against amendment
RC Vote 145-212 amendment fails.

With amendments failed, voting proceeded with OTP HB60
David Page (democrat) against HB60
Joe Alexander, (republican) For HB60 saying it’s simple contract law.

Meryl Gibbs (democrat) PI against
Dillon Dumont (republican) PI for
2/6/25 Full House OTP RC vote 217-139, HB60 passed the House as originally written.

HB444, Tenants 60 Day Option To Buy
Property Owner Position: Against
Mathew Hicks (democrat) for the minority, requests to vote against ITL
Dick Thackston, (republican) for ITL
Mathew Hicks (democrat) PI asks to vote against ITL to allow more work on the bill and amendments
Michael Aron, (republican) for LL asks to pass as is.
2/6/25 Full House RC Vote 213-144 ITL Succeeds, bill is dead.

HB623, Entities May Not Own Real Estate
Murray (not sure which Murray) made motion to table HB623
Murray PI against the ITL wants to allow for floor amendment
Joseph Alexander. PI. Vote against motion to table to allow original ITL recommendation.
RC Vote 149, 207, motion to table fails.

Now vote on original ITL recommendation
Brian Cole, (republican) opposes HB623, says the bill is overly broad, includes LLCs & non-profits, is an unfunded mandate. Says corporations own 3% housing in US and 1.5% in NH.
Ellen Read (democrat) PI, says 1/3 property owned by corporations, sarchastically quotes mindset that ‘anything for greed is good’. Wants to put forward amendment to put bill in a study committee.
Calvin Beaulier, (republican) PI, called it a socialist bill.
2/6/25 Full House RC vote: 216 141 ITL Succeeds, bill is dead.

Please advocate strongly against HB724 Lead Paint Bill. Naturally at the public hearing there were many people testifying in support of the which will even further place the cost of this societal issue solely on housing providers. If not already done us 1 Minute Advocate and communicate to the committee now.
See Action Map & 1 Minute Advocate for details.

New Important bills:
There are many bills listed as Important bills this season because many of them support creation of more housing. Since there are so many, we have taken them out of the Action Map and are listing them in the Important Bills section of the update and the 1 Minute Advocate.
We will attempt to continue analysis on these during the week. Keep checking the 1 Minute Advocate.

Important Bills: see also 1 Minute Advocate

We’re still concentrating on the flood of new state level legislation. We focus on Major bills first. Important bills will be updated soon. Meanwhile, all bills, Major, Important, Minor are listed in the Hearing Schedule below.

HB604, ADU construction Loan Forgiveness
See 1 Minute Advocate for details.

SB4, Title: relative to commercial property assessed clean energy and resiliency (C-PACER).
Property Owner Position: For
There is very large support for this bill. It appears that the bill will make it easier to use C-PACER financing which can increase the loan to value on developing real estate and aid in creating more housing. We expect this to pass quickly. No action required at this time.
Full Senate voted Ought to Pass: RC 23Y-0
No action needed.

HR6, Condemn Disparate Impact, See 1 Minute Advocate.
There was very little said at the public hearing. Our guess is this bill will not survive.
Regardless, it has no legal impact so at the moment we are just monitoring it.

Minor Bills:

We’re still concentrating on the flood of new state level legislation. Bill Status Data for minor bills will be updated soon and will likely move to a linked doc. Meanwhile, all bills scheduled for hearings, Major, Important, Minor are listed in the Hearing Schedule below.

Big thank you to those that donated. It really makes a positive difference to keeping this Legislative Initiative going. Donations have ranged from $15 to $500.

Donate to the Legislative Initiative

If action map says to contact your Representative and full House or your Senator and Full Senate:
See Find Your Legislators

See Standard Email/Letter Format

2. Major & Important Bills:
See Action Map table, 1 Minute Advocate & Update Summary above.

3. Federal Update
None so far. We’re still concentrating on the flood of new state level legislation.

4. Minor bill updates are included in bill status section further below.
See Bill Status summary below.

5. Media.
Planning to update soon.

Hearings this week:
2/11/2025 at 9:00 a.m. Location: Legislative Office Building Time: 9:00 a.m.
HB696, exempting electricity generators from the utility property tax and including them under the statewide education property tax, and relative to communications services tax revenues.

2/11/2025 at 9:30 a.m. Location: Legislative Office Building Time: 9:30 a.m.
SB220, relative to public hearings and deliberation for the denial of tax exemptions.

2/11/2025 at 10:00 a.m. Location: State House Time: 10:00 a.m.
SB86, NHHFA Affordable Housing Guarantee
Level of Response: Email legislators, Call Legislators
Property Owner Position: For

2/11/2025 at 10:15 a.m. Location: State House Time: 10:15 a.m.
SB279, Housing Champion Loan Program
Level of Response: Email legislators, Call Legislators
Property Owner Position: For

2/12/2025 at 9:30 a.m. Location: State House Time: 9:30 a.m.
SB291, Religious Tax Exemption
Level of Response: No Property Owner Position at This Time
Property Owner Position: No Property Owner Position at This Time

2/12/2025 at 2:30 p.m. Location: Legislative Office Building Time: 2:30 p.m.
HB462, establishing a cause of action for unwarranted video imaging of residential premises.

Hearings next week:
2/18/2025 at 10:00 a.m. Location: Legislative Office Building Time: 10:00 a.m.
HB383, relative to the authority of condominium boards and unit owners to create and amend condominium instruments.

2/18/2025 at 10:30 a.m. Location: Legislative Office Building Time: 10:30 a.m.
HB410, relative to adding conditions to zoning boards of adjustment imposing restrictions on the building and development of residential properties.

2/18/2025 at 1:00 p.m. Location: Legislative Office Building Time: 1:00 p.m.
HB457, relative to zoning restrictions on dwelling units.

2/18/2025 at 2:00 p.m. Location: Legislative Office Building Time: 2:00 p.m.
HB465, relative to the housing opportunity zone program.

Future Hearings:
None so far.

Love & Light,

Nick Norman
Director of Legislative Affairs
AANH Government Affairs Chair
NHRPOA Legislative Affairs Committee Chairman

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==Legislative Update, 2025 #04== Major call to Action now! Lead Paint bill hearing this week to create many more abatement orders; first wins on 4 Major bills;

Click this button each week if you want to quickly dive right in & handle the urgent communications in minutes.1 Minute Advocate

We need more volunteers to analyze some of the minor bills. Please consider donating a small amount of time.

Next House Session
Thursday, February 6th, 2025, at 10:00 a.m.
Thursday, February 13th
Thursday, February 20th

Next Senate Session
Thursday, January 30, 2025, in the Senate Chamber 1pm

Update Summary
Note: some links have changed. Always use latest links in latest update.
Also note that we often keep previous update info on items still active because there are often new members signing up and receiving the updates. So we want them to have the info. Please have your housing provider partners and friends join us. The more members the stronger we will be.

A little more analysis of the lead paint bill is completed. Much more is on the way. Pay attention to updates in 1 Minute Advocate over the next few days.

4 Major bills already have committee votes, full House votes on those committee recommendations 2/6/25. They are all wins for us.
See Action Map and 1 Minute Advocate. Time to contact your representative and full House on those NOW.

Committee reports are in 1 Minute Advocate for those bills.

Major bills (follow action items in Action Map above):
All Major bills scheduled for public hearing now have analysis & sample email prepared.
The HB724 Lead Paint Bill is scheduled for public hearing. Communicate to the committee now.
See Action Map & 1 Minute Advocate for details.
It is critical for everyone to make communications now on the Major bills scheduled for public hearing 1/28!

There are many bills listed as Important bills this season because many of them support creation of more housing. Since there are so many, we have taken them out of the Action Map and will be listing them in the Important Bills section of the update and the 1 Minute Advocate.
We will attempt to do analysis on these during the week. Keep checking the 1 Minute Advocate.

New Important bills:
Are listed in the 1 Minute Advocate

Recent and coming info(no changes since last week):
Update.....Description2024 #24 Required FinCEN company registration .
2024 #25 See Sneek Peek at upcoming bill titles.
2024 #25 Final outcome of 2024 bills.
2024 #25 See 2024 Newly Chartered Law. It is already updated with some of the more impactful bills. We will continue to add to the list.
2024 #25 Short analysis of the change in NH legislature from the last election.
TBD Analysis of the new Anti-Squatter law.
TBD Various media articles.
TBD Stats and resources regarding homelessness.
TBD In depth look at the potential restrictions involved with participation in federal programs.
TBD Opportunity to make a significant move to end homelessness for veterans in Manchester, NH. Contact us to talk about helping out.
TBD Info on the new lowered lead action levels from the EPA.
TBD Clarification on RSA 130-A newly constructed residential rental lead safe certificate requirement.
Stay tuned.

Important Bills: see also 1 Minute Advocate

We’re still concentrating on the flood of new state level legislation. We focus on Major bills first. Important bills will be updated soon. Meanwhile, all bills, Major, Important, Minor are listed in the Hearing Schedule below.

HB604, ADU construction Loan Forgiveness
See 1 Minute Advocate for details.

SB4, Title: relative to commercial property assessed clean energy and resiliency (C-PACER).
Property Owner Position: For
There is very large support for this bill. It appears that the bill will make it easier to use C-PACER financing which can increase the loan to value on developing real estate and aid in creating more housing. We expect this to pass quickly. No action required at this time.
Full Senate voted Ought to Pass: RC 23Y-0
No action needed.

HR6, Condemn Disparate Impact, See 1 Minute Advocate.
There was very little said at the public hearing. Our guess is this bill will not survive.
Regardless, it has no legal impact so at the moment we are just monitoring it.

Minor Bills:

Big thank you to those that donated. It really makes a positive difference to keeping this Legislative Initiative going. Donations have ranged from $15 to $500.

Donate to the Legislative Initiative

1. General Legislative Logistics
Legislator contact info for the Major bills scheduled for hearing is now updated into the 1 Minute Advocate.
Other contact info can be found on the GenCourt site, https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/

Until we are further down the new season startup. Use Logistics For Testifying for procedures and use 1 Minute Advocate for contact info.
Logistics For Testifying
If action map says to contact committee:
See Legislative Committee Communication & Testifying In Person Procedure, Physical & Email addresses

If action map says to contact your Representative and full House or your Senator and Full Senate:
See Find Your Legislators

See Standard Email/Letter Format

2. Major & Important Bills:
See Action Map table & Update Summary above.

3. Federal Update
None so far. We’re still concentrating on the flood of new state level legislation.

4. Minor bill updates are included in bill status section further below.
See Bill Status summary below.

5. Media.
Planning to update soon.

Hearings this week:
2/3/2025 at 1:45 p.m. Location: Legislative Office Building
HB746, relative to an award of attorney's fees upon a successful appeal of a local property tax assessment.

2/4/2025 at 9:00 a.m. Location: Legislative Office Building
HB537, relative to electric rates approved by the public utilities commission for residential condominium property.

2/4/2025 at 9:30 a.m. Location: Legislative Office Building
HB689, enabling municipalities to adopt a volunteer incentive property tax credit.

2/4/2025 at 9:30 a.m. Location: Legislative Office Building
HB539, requiring electric utilities to use residential electric rates for certain types of residential condominiums.

2/4/2025 at 10:00 a.m. Location: Legislative Office Building
HB577, relative to modifying the definition of ADUs.

2/4/2025 at 10:00 a.m. Location: Legislative Office Building
HB680, relative to standardizing homeowners associations' electricity billing for shared meter usage.

2/4/2025 at 10:00 a.m. Location: Legislative Office Building
HB530, increasing the amount of revenue transfered from the real estate transfer tax to the affordable housing fund.

2/4/2025 at 10:30 a.m. Location: Legislative Office Building
HB625, relative to enabling municipalities to levy payments against non-profits at a percentage of their assessed property values.

2/4/2025 at 11:00 a.m. Location: Legislative Office Building
HB685, permitting in all residentially zoned areas by right the construction of manufactured housing.

2/4/2025 at 11:00 a.m. Location: Legislative Office Building
HB769, relative to the base annual cost per pupil of providing the opportunity for an adequate education and statewide education property tax rate.

2/4/2025 at 11:30 a.m. Location: Legislative Office Building
HB426, relative to property tax exemptions for charitable organizations for the prior tax year.

2/4/2025 at 1:30 p.m. Location: Legislative Office Building
HB425, allowing tax-exempt entities to keep their tax-exempt status while renting facilities or property to entities that share their mission.

2/4/2025 at 1:30 p.m. Location: Legislative Office Building
HB631, permitting residential building in commercial zoning by right.

2/4/2025 at 1:50 p.m. Location: Legislative Office Building
HB421, relative to notice of tax exempt-status filing procedures by town officials or offices.

2/4/2025 at 2:00 p.m. Location: Legislative Office Building
SB4, C-PACER
Level of Response: Email legislators, Call Legislators
Property Owner Position: For

2/4/2025 at 2:10 p.m. Location: Legislative Office Building
HB782, expanding property tax exemptions for certain elderly and disabled persons; raising public awareness regarding tax credits and exemptions; and requiring an annual report regarding the efficacy of the low and moderate income homeowners property tax relief program.

2/5/2025 at 9:45 a.m. Location: State House
SB275, 2025-0959 SB275 text Title: providing property tax relief for some child care agencies.

2/5/2025 at 10:30 a.m. Location: Legislative Office Building
HB585, relative to the property tax exemption for religious organizations.

2/5/2025 at 10:45 a.m. Location: Legislative Office Building
HB87, prohibiting the posting of land not owned by the poster.

2/5/2025 at 1:00 p.m. Location: Legislative Office Building
HB724, Lower Lead Paint Levels Create Dramatic Increase In Lead Abatement Orders
Level of Response: Attend hearings, Email legislators, Call Legislators
Property Owner Position: Against

2/5/2025 at 2:30 p.m. Location: Legislative Office Building
HB756, Title: relative to establishing a blood lead level testing requirement for children entering daycare and public schools.

Hearings next week:
2/12/2025 at 2:30 p.m. Location: Legislative Office Building
HB462, establishing a cause of action for unwarranted video imaging of residential premises.

Future Hearings:
2/19/2025 at 10:30 a.m. Location: Legislative Office Building Time: 10:30 a.m.
HB584, relative to public health, safety, and state sovereignty

Love & Light,

Nick Norman
Director of Legislative Affairs
AANH Government Affairs Chair
NHRPOA Legislative Affairs Committee Chairman
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==Legislative Update, 2024 #25== Results of 2024 legislation, elections, newly chartered law. What’s coming in 2025

Howdee Everyone,

This will be a another limited legislative update. Included is a listing of the final status of the remaining 2024 bills, a sneek peek at what’s coming in 2025 & a short analysis of the change in NH legislature from the last election.
The furious roar of the start of the legislative season is just beginning. Hold on to your hats.
We need more volunteers to analyze some of the minor bills. We need more volunteers to analyze some of the minor bills. Please consider donating a small amount of time.

Next House Session
Convening Day - Wednesday, January 8 at 10:00 am

Next Senate Session
Convening Day - Wednesday, January 8 at 10:00 am

Governor's Inauguration Day - Thursday, January 9 at 11:30 am

Recent and coming info:
Update.....Description
2024 #24 Required FinCEN company registration .
2024 #25 See Sneek Peek at upcoming bill titles.
2024 #25 Final outcome of the remaining 2024 bills, see below
2024 #25 See 2024 Newly Chartered Law. It is already updated with some of the more impactful bills. We will continue to add to the list.
2024 #25 Short analysis of the change in NH legislature from the last election.
TBD Analysis of the new Anti-Squatter law.
TBD Various media articles.
TBD Stats and resources regarding homelessness.
TBD In depth look at the potential restrictions involved with participation in federal programs.
TBD Opportunity to make a significant move to end homelessness for veterans in Manchester, NH. Contact us if you’re interested to help out.
TBD Info on the new lowered lead action levels from the EPA.
TBD Clarification on RSA 130-A newly constructed residential rental lead safe certificate requirement.
Stay tuned.

Final outcome of the remaining 2024 bills:
Major bills (follow action items in Action Map above):

HB1400, Anti-Squatter Amendment attached to HB1400
We worked very diligently on this to craft language that would accomplish the goal of allowing a housing provider to quickly remove an unauthorized person while protecting rights of a true tenant and simultaneously avoid some bad unintended consequences in to versions of competing language. More on this in a future issue.
Signed by Governor
Another big win.

HB261, Lease Termination Domestic Violence Victims Or Newly Disabled
Property owner position: Against original bill, For Amendment 2024-0574s
We did a large amount of work on this bill and eliminated the most troublesome provisions and through some difficult talks brought it down to an acceptable version.
Signed by Governor
Another win.

Look over the new law to be sure you are compliant.

SB519, Restrictions On Renovation Evictions
Property owner position: Against
Died on the Table.
Another win.

HB1320, Flood Insurance
Property owner position: Against original bill. Neutral on amendment 2024-1954s.
The original bill had horrible provisions for rental real estate all of which we were able to entirely remove. In the end, the bill requires that prior to the execution of a purchase and sale agreement for real property that flood risks be disclosed to the buyer.
Signed by Governor
Another win.

HB283, Application Fee Limit & Refund
Property owner position: Against original bill; For amendment 2023-2441h
Another bill that started out very bad and we were successful in rewriting it to something very benign.
Signed by Governor
Another win.

This involves taking application fees. Look over the new law to be sure you are compliant.

HB379, Indigent Tenant Eviction Notice of NHLA
“Died In Interim Study”
Another win.

Important Bills:
SB392, Lead Hazard Remediation Fund
Died on the Table.
We hear that the Lead Hazard Remediation Fund was refunded another way so we still ended up with a win.

HB1281, Occupancy By Unrelated People
Died on the Table.
This was left as a You Decide bill so it is neither a win or a loss.

HB1144, Septic System Disclosure
Signed by Governor
This was left as a You Decide bill so it is neither a win or a loss.

HB1635, Short Term Rental Rooms & Meal Tax
Inexpedient To Legislate, bill died
This was left as a You Decide bill so it is neither a win or a loss.

HB1065, Limiting Sprinkler Requirements
Signed by Governor
Although not a Major bill we were For the bill so this is another win.

HB1229, Shoreline Minimum Standards Disclosure
Signed by Governor
This was left as a You Decide bill so it is neither a win or a loss.

HB1168, Study Impact Of The Housing Crisis On People With Disabilities.
Signed by Governor
This was left as a You Decide bill so it is neither a win or a loss.

HB1053, Allow Residential In Commercial Zones.
Died on the Table.
This was left as a You Decide bill so it is neither a win or a loss.

Minor Bills:
SB518, Section 8 Incentives
Property owner position: For
“Died In Interim Study”
This was a minor bill for us. It would have been good for the market to establish more incentives for housing providers.
This is not a loss for us. Rather legislators missed an opportunity.

Big thank you to those that donated. It really makes a positive difference to keeping this Legislative Initiative going. Donations have ranged from $15 to $500.

If you feel we are providing benefit, you can send donations to 16 Crescent St, Derry, NH 03038 made payable to Nick Norman or clicking the donate button to pay online.

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1. General Legislative Logistics
Note: we still need to update legislator contact info for 2025. For the time being there info is on the GenCourt site, https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/

Logistics For Testifying
If action map says to contact committee:
See Legislative Committee Communication & Testifying In Person Procedure, Physical & Email addresses

If action map says to contact your Representative and full House or your Senator and Full Senate:
See Legislative Full Senate and Full House Communication Procedure
See Find Your Legislators

See Standard Email/Letter Format

2. Major & Important Bills:
See Action Map table & Update Summary above.

3. Federal Update
None so far. We’re still concentrating on the flood of new state level legislation.

4. Minor bill updates are included in bill status section further below.
See Bill Status summary below.

5. Media.
None so far.

See more info in Summaries & Full Detail for each bill further below. (includes property owner position, contact info, Talking points, and more).
(Remember: to jump right to bill detail, use Control-F, Find).

Hearings this week:
None so far.

Hearings next week:
None so far

Future Hearings:
None so far

Love & Light,

Nick Norman
Director of Legislative Affairs
AANH Government Affairs Chair
NHRPOA Legislative Affairs Committee Chairman
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