(Click here for details from our friends at AFSC NH’s State House Watch)

• Governor Ayotte vetoed SB 268, a bill that would permit discrimination against transgender people. Thanks to all who made phone calls and thanks especially to 603 Equality for their leadership in defeating this dangerous bill.
• Thursday, the Rockingham County commissioners voted to table – indefinitely – a proposal to use their county jail as an immigrant detention center.
• On February 3, the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee voted unanimously to recommend defeat for three death penalty bills and to amend a fourth bill removing the death penalty for certain sexual offenses against minors under 13 years of age.  All four of these bills will go to the House floor in the coming weeks where we hope and expect that they will be fully defeated.
• Throughout this week and last, NH high school students walked out of class in support of immigrant rights, raising their voices in non-violent protest against the violence and lawlessness of federal immigration agencies.
• Approximately 350,000 Haitians living in the US were given a reprieve on Monday when a US District Court judge in Washington, DC blocked the Trump administration from terminating their Temporary Protected Status (TPS) which had been set to expire on February 3. The government has appealed.