Bills affecting your community in New Hampshire (2026 session)

Establishing a state minimum wage and providing for incremental increases.

Relative to the penalty for false reports of suspected abuse and neglect made to the division for children, youth, and families, relative to owner's project manager services for school building aid projects, and relative to long-term care eligibility and making an appropriation therefor.

Relative to eviction safeguards for tenants whose Social Security payments are disrupted.

Relative to additional grounds for eviction under the landlord and tenant statute, relative to the responsibility of local school districts to provide meals to students during school hours, and reimbursing schools for meals provided to students at no cost and making an appropriation therefor.

Relative to employee leasing companies, workers' compensation coverage options, and a minimum wage exemption for minor league baseball players.

Relative to the department of health and human services management of social security payments, supplemental security income payments, and veterans benefits for children in foster care.

Relative to parental consent for student participation in Medicaid to schools program.

Allowing the insurance commissioner to approve innovative short or long-term care policies.

Making an appropriation to the department of health and human services to fund and support the Waypoint youth and young adult shelter.

Relative to long-term care eligibility and making an appropriation therefor.

Relative to local property tax exemptions for veterans with a 100 percent disability rating.

Relative to the relinquishment of deadly weapons by those subject to a domestic violence protective order.

Establishing a committee to study licensure of outpatient substance use disorder treatment facilities, authorizing parents to enroll their children in any public school in the state, and creating a limited exemption from parental consent required for certain recordings under the parental bill of rights.

Establishing a committee to study what legal protections currently exist for the freedom of expression of pregnancy resource centers and whether further First Amendment protections are needed.

Prohibiting public colleges and universities from regulating the possession or carrying of certain weapons on campus and establishing a committee to study the feasibility of allowing guns on campuses of public institutions of higher education.

Directing the department of health and human services to identify the impact of Medicaid changes on New Hampshire residents' access to health care.

The adoption of tax laws.

Relative to immunization requirements in foster family homes and relative to financial eligibility for the Medicare savings program.

Providing criminal penalties for the transporting of an unemancipated minor in order to obtain a surgical procedure or a termination of the minor's pregnancy without parental permission.

Relative to school district financial requirements and district probation processes.