House Speaker Thanks UNH for June 11 Session

The House will meet in session on Tuesday, June 30th at 10:00 a.m. at the Whittemore Center at the University of New Hampshire in Durham.

Thank you to all of the members for helping to ensure we had our first successful session away from the State House in over 150 years. We greatly appreciate your patience today as we worked through the complex logistics of making this session safe for everyone who attended.

Thank you to UNH for being so welcoming and gracious. The staff at UNH put in many hours of hard work to accommodate us and we very much appreciate their efforts. Also, a very special thank you to UNH President James Dean for all of his work in making this session possible. I also wish to thank the governor for his emergency order allowing actual mileage be paid to the members for travelling to Durham.

This session would not have been possible without our extraordinary House staff, who put in many, many hours seeing to every detail. I know you all join me in thanking them for their tremendous efforts.

Again, we will reconvene the House at the Whittemore Center on Tuesday, June 30th at 10:00 a.m. It is important for us to come back and finish the work we can take up. This will be our last House session of the year except when we come back in the fall to take up the Governor’s vetoes.

I want to thank you all for your devotion to the State of New Hampshire during this session and moving forward.

Stephen J. Shurtleff, Speaker of the House

A Historic 19 Hour House Session March 12 & 13

House Democrats showed their commitment to the people of New Hampshire by continuing late into the night and then into the morning of March 12 and 13 to finish the work of Granite Staters over the obstruction of House Republicans.

Majority Leader Doug Ley (D-Jaffrey) said, “I was proud of the work of the House and particularly the work of House Democrats today. Efforts by Republicans to disrupt the process including numerous motions and debates unrelated to our work purposely dragged the House session into the morning hours. Republicans, angry about being held accountable for not attending sexual harassment training, decided it was better to obstruct and deliberately delay.

With the ongoing threat of COVID19 they put members health at risk. Republicans claimed to take the process seriously but had to be scolded for smoking inside of the State House and tried to adjourn the House session which would have negated all the work we had done and prevented us from finishing the bills in front of us. Democrats showed again today we are serious about governing and will continue to do the work for the people of New Hampshire.”

Among the many bills passed by the House during this historic session were:

• Investing in energy efficiency

• Providing relief to victims of gun violence

• Removing barriers to participation in elections

• Steming big money in politics

• Addressing gun violence amoung Granite State students and children

• Redistricting

• Addressinig student loan debt

• Price cap for insulin

• Ending child marriage in New Hampshire