CONCORD – House and Senate Republican leaders are working on completing unfinished business while some House Democrats want to undo what the GOP-led Legislature did two years ago.
After a relatively slow start, the 2013 session of the New Hampshire Legislature ramps up with more than 100 public hearings scheduled and the first business sessions for the House and Senate.
Senate President Peter Bragdon, R-Milford, had agreed with Lynch that the state’s popular research and development tax credit for corporations should be doubled to $2 million a year, but the William O’Brien-led House last year tacked onto that bill a requirement that women had to endure a 48-hour waiting period before they could get an abortion.
New Gov. Maggie Hassan called for the change in her inaugural address earlier this month. A Senate panel quickly endorsed the tax credit bill by itself (SB 1) and the Senate takes it up Thursday.
“I’m pretty confident we are going to get a unanimous vote in the Senate, and I hope it’s a sign that we’re going to work together in a bipartisan fashion,’’ Bragdon said in an interview with The Telegraph editorial board.
O’Brien, R-Mont Vernon, accomplished quite a lot in his two-year reign but his signature defeat was convincing the House to pass a Right to Work law that makes it illegal for employees to pay dues or fees to a labor union. Then-Gov.![]()
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