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The 603 Equality Civic Education Initiative creates a multi-pronged approach to engaging, informing, and empowering voters who care about LGBTQIA issues. An important part of that is by Tracking legislation that touches the LGBTQIA+ community and providing updates and information on how NH residents can effectively engage with proposed legislation at every stage.
🪦HB1165: Bill Hearings & Public Record
HB1165 Anti-Trans Legislation targeting state IDs
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)
This bill removes the "X" designation on NH Drivers Licenses and identification cards. It’s a targeted attack on gender diverse individuals in New Hampshire, forcing folks to align their state-issued IDs with the sex assigned at birth and designated on their birth certificates. There are many reasons why individuals may choose an “X” designation on state ID - including because they are genderfluid, non-binary, or intersex. This bill would cause legal chaos if signed into law, forcing some individuals to have their state ID be misaligned with their federal ID, and/or have it completely mischaracterize their identity, biology, and presentation.
🪦HB1345: Bill Hearings & Public Record
HB1345 In addition to many flag rules, this bill only allows official flags to be flown in schools, effectively banning pride flags. (House Education Policy Committee)
Official 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: (Prime) Thibault (R), Moffett (R), Morse (R), Nadeau (R), Perez (R), Ulery (R), Plante (R), Litchfield (R), Innis (R), Pearl (R)
🪦SB268: Bill Hearings & Public Record
SB268 Retained from last year, this bill legalizes discrimination for bathrooms, locker rooms, sports, and prisons. Biological sex is not defined, nor are enforcement mechanisms. (Senate Judiciary Committee)
Official Title: permitting classification of individuals based on biological sex under certain limited circumstances.
Bill Sponsors: (Prime) Avard (R), Lang (R)
🪦SB211: Bill Hearings & Public Record
SB211 Retained from last year, this bill extends discrimination in sports to higher education. Though HB1205 in 2024 largely shut down trans participation in high school sports, efforts continue. (Senate Education Policy Committee)
Official Title: relative to biological sex in student athletics.
Bill Sponsors: (Prime) Avard (R), Lang (R), Innis (R), Ruth Ward (R), Abbas (R), McGough (R), Victoria Sullivan (R), Rochefort (R), Gannon (R), Pearl (R), McConkey (R), Kofalt (R), Notter (R), Pauer (R), Sirois (R)
🪦SB33: Bill Hearings & Public Record
SB33Retained from last year, this bill enables small groups of citizens to cause "harmful" materials to be removed from public schools. (Senate Education Policy Committee)
Official Title: relative to the regulation of public school materials.
🪦HB1778: Bill Hearings & Public Record
HB1778 This bill prohibits teaching public school students about "Personal Identity Ideology" including DEI, race, color, biological sex, sexual orientation, religion or gender identity. (House Education Policy Committee) Track
Official Title: relative to prohibiting the use of personal identity ideology in public school instruction and policies.
Bill Sponsors: (Prime) Litchfield (R), Nalevanko (R), Wherry (R), DeRoy (R), Thibault (R), Freeman (R), Mazur (R), Moffett (R), Gannon (R), Keith Murphy (R)
🪦HB1615: Bill Hearings & Public Record
HB1615This Republican bill creates an second-class alternative to marriage, in anticipation of a federal attack on marriage equality.
Official Title: permitting consenting adults to enter into contract-based marriage agreements as an alternative to the requirement of a marriage license.
Bill Sponsors: (Prime) Sabourin dit Choinière (R), Farrington (R), Granger (R), Drago (R), Dupont (R), Giasson (R), Love (R), Terry (R), Bailey (R), McFarlane (R), Keith Murphy (R)
🪦HB1564: Bill Hearings & Public Record
HB1564 This bill removes all references of "gender identity" from NH law. (House Judiciary Committee)
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)