NH House committee: No pill for you!
Channel: impolitical
Date: 2012-02-24

February 23, 2012 executive session of the New Hampshire House Constitutional Review and Statutory Recodification Committee on HB1546.

Discussion centered, unsurprisingly, on the Speaker's non-germane (but ruled germane) amendment to repeal the 12-year-old law mandating birth control coverage in insurance policies regardless of the religious affiliation or beliefs of the employer. The amendment and the underlying bill passed on an almost entirely partisan basis, with several Republicans being added to the committee late in the game by the Speaker. Had the amendment not been an issue, the bill would almost certainly have been approved unanimously.