Concealed Carry Hearing

[Kat Kanning]

From Mvpel

There will be another hearing for another bill seeking to repeal the concealed-carry license requreiment on Wednesday, February 16, at 2:00pm in room 204 of the Legislative Office Building directly behind the state house in Concord.

This bill is identical to HB285 heard earlier this week, but with the addition of an Article IV Section 1 "full faith and credit" claim.

Hope to see you there!

[GT]

The Bill is HB454

http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2005/HB0454.html

[GT]

Any news from the hearing?

[GT]

The House ITL'd the Bill on 3/9/2005 by voice vote

[Lloyd Danforth]

What does ITL'D mean?

[Kat Kanning]

It didn't pass.  Inexpedient to Legislate.

[GT]

Explanation of the Abbreviations can be found here: http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/ie/billstatus/abbrevs.html

[Lloyd Danforth]

Thanks

[dawn]

Most bills are either ITL (as someone already explained the meaning of that one) or OTP, meaning Ought To Pass. These are the committee recommendations and are typically (not always) agreed with by the entire body of House (or Senate).

Sometimes they do OTP/AM - ought to pass with amendment. Now, finding the amendments aren't the easiest thing to do. You have to search through the house calendars and they are near the end of that document. The original text of the bill remains unchanged online at this status (I hope they update them at future times so you can easily know what's really being voted upon).

I have also seen bills Laid on the Table and Retained in Committee. I can't define these yet.

Once a bill it ITL or OTP or OTP/AM it gets sent to the House (or Senate) for a floor vote. It can be placed on the consent calendar or the regular calendar. The consent calendar is interesting - they bundle a bunch of supposedly non-controversial bills together and a Yes vote votes yes to all the committee recommendations.