Legislative Action

With crossover day happening yesterday, the Senate began work on House bills (and vice-versa) this week. Educator Death Benefit Passes Senate Committee Unanimously The NEA-NH backed bill to extend the $100,000 Death Benefit that currently covers police and firefighters to educators killed in the line of duty, was heard in the Senate Executive Departments and Administration Committee on Wednesday. Following the hearing, the committee voted unanimously to pass the bill, with a full vote in the Senate next week. Too often we contact our elected officials asking them to pass or oppose legislation, but then forget to say thank you […]

With the help of pro-education and pro-labor Representatives in both parties, NEA-New Hampshire has been able to defeat a number of anti-education and anti-labor bills this Legislative session, although a few stragglers, most notably vouchers, remain. While defeating these bills is good, we need to be proactive, not reactive. We need to elect more pro-education candidates, so that we can introduce legislation that will improve education in this state, not just stop it from getting worse. The importance of electing pro-education and pro-labor candidates up and down the ballot has never been greater. To do that, Apple Corps, the New […]