New Hampshire House of Representatives to vote on marriage repeal bills January 2012
p>The NH House of Representatives will be voting on HB 437 and HB 443./p>p>It is time to Take Action and contact your Representatives. /p>p>Forward this to your friends and family and ask them to do the same./p>p>Report the results of contact to info@nhftm.org/p>p>Write a letter to the editor by going to our take action page./p>p>These bills may pass the NH House and Senate If they do the Governor will veto the bills. The bills will not become law unless both the NH House and Senate can override the veto. To override the Governor’s veto it takes 2/3 of those present both in the NH House and Senate to vote to override. With full attendance that would be 266 of 400 House members and 16 of 24 Senators voting to override. It would take 134 House members to vote no to block repeal. /p>p>The State of marriage in New Hampshire. In January of 2011 two pieces of legislation to repeal New Hampshire’s marriage equality were introduced to the New Hampshire House of Representatives. The two pieces of legislation are HB437 and HB443. The bills were assigned to the House Judiciary Committee.On February 17, 2011 a public hearing on these bills was held in Concord at the State House. It is required in New Hampshire that all bills introduced have a public hearing and get a vote in the full Houses of Representatives. The turnout for this hearing was overwhelmingly in support of marriage equality and in opposition to HB437 and HB443, the bills to repeal marriage equality. /p>p>On March 3, 2011 the Judiciary committee voted to retain both these pieces of legislation. All bills retained in commmittee for action shall be acted on during the second year of session. On September 14 a sub-committee recommended that HB443 be voted I.T.L. (inexpedient to legislate). This is a recommendation to kill the bill. The sub-committee recommended amending HB437. The amendment would repeal New Hampshire’s anti-discrimination law as well as marriage equality in NH./p>p>On November 2, 2011 the Judiciary Committee voted to accept the sub-committees recommendations and make these recommendations to the full house of Representatives in January. The legislation to repeal the law that grants marriage equality will be voted on by the full House in January 2012./p>p>There will be no further public hearings on these bills./p>/p>