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Current Issues


Children’s Alliance Testimony on Current Legislation
 

2008 Session

  • HB 267, relative to payday lending, before the Senate Commerce Committee, January 29

  • HB 1422, relative to a childhood obesity commission, before the House Health and Human Services Committee, January 31

  • “Proven methods for bridging the achievement gap,” before the Joint Committee on the Oversight of Costing an Adequate Education, December 2007  

2007 Session

  • SB 193, relative to the 'best interests of the child' standard

  • SB 226, relative to TANF flexibility and outcomes

  • HB 927, relative to defining an adequate education

  • HB 514, relative to minimum wage

  • HB 470, relative to comparable parenting  


Current Legislation

Follow the bills that the Children’s Alliance is tracking in the 2008 session here.


See all the bills before the legislature this year at the General Court website, available here.  


Priorities for New Hampshire’s Children

The Priorities for New Hampshire’s Children is an annual child-centered plan of action for New Hampshire developed and led by the 100+ partners of the New Hampshire Child Advocacy Network. 
 

 
 
 
NH CAN
 

The New Hampshire Child Advocacy Network is a statewide coalition of over 100 partner organizations improving the health and wellbeing of NH’s children and families through the annual Priorities for New Hampshire’s Children

 
KIDS COUNT
 

KIDS COUNT is a national and state-by-state effort to document the condition of children and families and to highlight the most promising ways of helping kids grow up to be healthy, productive adults

 
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