Even though NH House passed a balanced budget on an historic voice vote, there were many policy initiatives on which the two parties disagreed. House Democrats were united in addressing and preventing the legislature from enacting:
• A six-week abortion ban.
• Several laws removing the protection of reproductive rights in the NH Constitution.
• A shift of $135 million in annual tax burden from wealthy individuals onto property taxpayers.
• Policies that increased the costs to local governments and the tax burden on property taxpayers across the state.
• An expansion of the school voucher program (EFA) to all students in primarily religious schools that would cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars.
• A law that would restrict the right of unions to bargain collectively known deceptively as “Right to Work”.
• A measure preventing the expansion of free school meals to the low-income families that need it.
• A law blocking New Hampshire from accessing federal funds to help feed needy kids in the summer.
• The enaction of rules that would only add to the contamination of our soil and drinking water with cancer-causing chemicals.
• Laws that jeopardize the safety of LGBTQ+ students by violating their privacy and forcibly outing them.
• Laws that usurp local control and target LGBTQ+ students by restricting what they can read.
• Rules designed to release EFA voucher recipients from their obligation to adhere to the program’s eligibility requirements.