The House of Representative met at the Whittemore Center on the UNH campus in Durham on September 16th to vote on overriding any of Governor Sununu’s Vetoes from July 28, 2020.
Two House Bills of interest to the Association were both “sustained lacking necessary two-thirds vote”.
HB1234 (omnibus bill) (Relative to state and local government administration.)
Dozens of subjects were rolled into this bill. The section that related to the Association was code amendments that were handled by a different bill. Other stakeholder groups had overlooked their local code amendments ratified for inclusion in the 2015 building code when that was swept into law in 2019.
The idea was to re-up and ratify those measures so they would be enforceable as part of the NH version of the IRC, the Energy Code, NFBA code.
The NH Building Officials, AGC and some of the energy groups were pursuing this bill.
NHHBA Legislative Committee had already done a review on the matters that the Association had sought for amendments and they have been ratified and are part of the code.
Additionally, while there was talk that the Senate would consider suspending its rules to take action on expired HB1714 (relative to ratification of prior code amendments), the Senate did not take up this bill.
HB1247 (Relative to mortgage defaults and nonpayment of rent during the novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak state of emergency.) The Committee will now be looking at the 2021-2022 legislative session, and whether we have proactive legislative measures to pursue with potential sponsors.
