By PAIGE SUTHERLAND • JUN 2, 2016
With more than 1,000 bills to sift through at the start of this legislative session, New Hampshire lawmakers wrapped up its last full session day of the year this Wednesday.
And after having to work on a compromise state budget when the Governor vetoed the two-year spending bill last summer, and then being called back for special session to address the state’s drug crisis in the fall, state lawmakers are looking forward to a light summer workload.
“It was an interminable session – I thought it would never end,” Senate Majority Leader Jeb Bradley says jokingly.
But despite some setbacks – overall – Bradley called the session a success. “From passing Medicaid expansion, combating the heroin crisis and then closed off today with more business tax relief, so I feel we have had a very productive, largely bipartisan session,” Bradley said after Wednesday’s session.
And Wednesday’s final session day followed suit with this year’s overall legislative session – in length that is. With just under 30 bills left to weigh in on, lawmakers had a full day of debate before closing out the session.
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