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Good News Only Updates: Celebrating Progress in Pride
All the amazing positive updates for the lgbtqia+ community in the granite state
HB1792: Bill Hearings & Public Record
HB1792 This bill prohibits a laundry list of concepts including "critical race theory" and "LGBTQ+ ideology as a prescriptive world-view". (House Education Policy Committee).
Official Title: prohibiting school districts and personnel from the instruction of critical race theory and LGBTQ+ ideologies in schools as well as establishing a private right of action for violations.
Bill Sponsors: (Prime) Belcher (R), Noble (R), Osborne (R), Corcoran (R), Sabourin dit Choinière (R)
HB1376: Bill Hearings & Public Record
HB1376 This bill provides legal justification for parents to raise their trans children against the child's intended gender. (House Children & Family Law Committee)
Official Title: relative to a parent's ability to raise their child in a manner consistent with the child's biological sex.
Bill Sponsors: (Prime) Korzen (R), Kesselring (R), Litchfield (R), Mazur (R), Prudhomme-O'Brien (R), Reinfurt (R), Sabourin dit Choinière (R), Sirois (R), Thibault (R), Keith Murphy (R), Avard (R)
Legislative Updates (02/24/26)
The committee hearings on Friday exec'd that day. For those of you who missed that:
1564 was voted unanimously ITL. We showed up and showed out and it really mattered. This was the bill that sought to remove gender identity from all state statutes.
Two of the bathroom bills were moved to Interim Study with unanimous votes from the committee. 1217 + 1442. 1442 had that extra troubling criminal component.
1299 was recommended OTPA. The amendment designates that for public buildings to adopt this policy, it would also have to offer an individual/gender-neutral bathroom option.
1447 was recommended OTP. Rep MacFarlane did note that he wanted to add an amendment to the bill, and plans to do so on the floor - because he wanted to ensure that public camp sites wouldn’t be subject to the legislation.
There were also updates on bills from the Senate and House sessions
The Senate Approved 16Y-8N, SB434 - another censorship bill.
The Senate voted OTPA 16Y-8N, SB430 - the forced outing bill.
The House voted OTP 184 / 164 on HB1792 - that horrible anti-DEI bill.
Good News Only Updates: Celebrating Progress in Pride
All the amazing positive updates for the lgbtqia+ community in the granite state
HB1442: Public Testimony & Executive Session
HB1442 This sweeping and cruel bill applies to publicly accessible bathrooms, including private businesses. It criminally charges trans bathroom users with "willful trespass." Bizarrely, it only applies to trans women. They also make an erroneous attempt to define around intersex conditions, based on the presence of the SRY gene. The potential impact is so remarkable that it was recently covered in a national trans news article. (House Judiciary Committee)
Official Title: limiting the use of certain facilities on the basis of sex and redefining the term "gender identity."
Bill Sponsors: (Prime) Layon (R), Barbour (R), Reinfurt (R), Peternel (R), McGrath (R), Popovici-Muller (R), Sabourin dit Choinière (R), Mazur (R), DeVito (R), Love (R), Birdsell (R), Avard (R), Gannon (R)
HB1217: Public Testimony & Executive Session
HB1217 Nearly identical to SB268 - bathrooms, sports, prisons. (House Judiciary Committee) Track
Official Title: permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances.
Bill Sponsors: (Prime) Peternel (R), Reinfurt (R), Notter (R), Prudhomme-O'Brien (R), DeVito (R), Thibault (R), Barbour (R), Kelley (R), Moffett (R), DeRoy (R)
HB1299: Public Testimony & Executive Session
HB1299 Nearly identical to SB268 - bathrooms, sports, prisons. (House Judiciary Committee)
permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances and establishing that certain biological sex distinctions do not qualify as discrimination.
ill Sponsors: (Prime) Kofalt (R), Alexander (R), DeVito (R), Noble (R), Notter (R), Sheehan (R), Sirois (R), Avard (R), Innis (R), Victoria Sullivan (R), Ruth Ward (R)
HB1447: Public Testimony & Executive Session
HB1447 Classifies bathrooms, locker rooms, sleeping quarters with the same highly unusual SRY gene-based definition of biological sex, but without the trespass language. (House Judiciary Committee) Track
Official Title: restricting the use of certain public and private facilities on the basis of sex and establishing that such restriction does not qualify as discrimination.
Bill Sponsors: (Prime) Mazur (R), DeVito (R), Harvey-Bolia (R), Kelley (R), Korzen (R), Litchfield (R), McGrath (R), Mary Murphy (R), Prudhomme-O'Brien (R), Reinfurt (R), Victoria Sullivan (R)
HB1564: Public Testimony & Executive Session
HB1564 This bill removes all references of "gender identity" from NH law. (House Judiciary Committee) Track
Official Title: removing all references of gender identity in New Hampshire statutes.
Bill Sponsors: (Prime) King (R), Arnold Davis (R), Granger (R), Potenza (R), Turcotte (R), Sirois (R), Cambrils (R), Korzen (R), Belcher (R), Barton (R)
Official Title: limiting the use of certain facilities on the basis of sex and redefining the term "gender identity."
Bill Sponsors:(Prime) Layon (R), Barbour (R), Reinfurt (R), Peternel (R), McGrath (R), Popovici-Muller (R), Sabourin dit Choinière (R), Mazur (R), DeVito (R), Love (R), Birdsell (R), Avard (R), Gannon (R)
HB1165: Public Testimony
HB1165 This bill removes the "X" designation on NH Drivers Licenses and identification cards. (House Transportation Committee) Track
Official Title: relative to gender designation on state-issued identification.
Bill Sponsors: (Prime) King (R), Berry (R), Cambrils (R), Granger (R), Perez (R), Sellers (R), Panek (R)
SB464: Public Testimony & Executive Session
SB464 This bill dilutes a legal definition, preventing civil rights offenses from being recognized as such. (Senate Judiciary Committee?) Track
Official Title: relative to civil rights enforcement.
Bill Sponsors: (Prime) Abbas (R), Keith Murphy (R), Pearl (R), Victoria Sullivan (R), Gannon (R), Avard (R), Birdsell (R), Innis (R), Ammon (R)
SB552: Bill Hearings & Public Record
SB552 Nearly identical to SB268 - bathrooms, sports, prisons. (Senate Judiciary Committee) Track
Official Title: permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances.
Bill Sponsors: (Prime) Avard (R), Lang (R), Birdsell (R)
Good News Only Updates: Celebrating Progress in Pride
All the amazing positive updates for the lgbtqia+ community in the granite state
SB459: Bill Hearings & Public Record
SB459 Nearly identical to SB211, extending sports discrimination to higher education. It is a locker room and prison trans ban. (Senate Education Policy Committee?) Track
Official Title: relative to biological sex in student athletics and prisons.
Bill Sponsors: (Prime) Gannon (R), Victoria Sullivan (R), Pearl (R), Abbas (R), McGough (R), Keith Murphy (R), Innis (R), Bernardy (R), Litchfield (R), Mark Pearson (R), Lilli Walsh (R)
Good News Only Updates: Celebrating Progress in Pride
All the amazing positive updates for the lgbtqia+ community in the granite state
Advocates Applaud Governor Ayotte’s Veto of Anti-LGBTQ+ Bill
SB 268 would have rolled back critical nondiscrimination protections for transgender people
Today, Governor Ayotte vetoed SB 268, a bill that would have rolled back critical nondiscrimination protections for transgender and gender nonconforming Granite Staters and imposed unpopular policies such as bathroom bans in New Hampshire.
In 2018, New Hampshire became the first U.S. state to pass an update to its nondiscrimination law to include transgender people through an entirely Republican-controlled House, Senate, and Governor. The bill she vetoed would have rolled back some of those protections for transgender people in public places, including restrooms, making it harder and less safe for an already vulnerable group of Granite Staters to simply go about their daily lives.
HB1132: Bill Hearings & Public Record
Bill Title: prohibiting the display of flags in public schools not authorized by law and establishing penalties for display of prohibited flags.
Bill Sponsors: Lisa Freeman , Kevin Avard, Harry Bean, Juliet Harvey-Bolia, Melissa Litchfield, Riché Colcombe, James Thibault, Mary Ford, Laurence Miner
Committee Date and Time: 01.28.26 - House Education Policy and Administration GP, Room 232, Hearing 2:00 PM
HB1345: Bill Hearings & Public Record
Bill Title: requiring schools to establish rules related to the display of flags and designate students at each school to serve as the school's color guard.
Bill Sponsors: James Thibault , Jordan Ulery, Michael Moffett, Daniel Innis, Melissa Litchfield, Raymond Plante, Howard Pearl, Kristine Perez, Bryan Morse, Brian Nadeau
Committee Date and Time: 01.28.26 - House Education Policy and Administration GP, Room 232, Hearing 1:30 PM
Why we oppose HB1345 & HB1132
We have several reasons why we oppose these nearly identical bills.