More from the series I did at Blue Hampshire. on bills proposed for the 2012 session of the NH legislature.
Rep. Robert ( Biblical Literacy) Kingsbury has been busy coming up with a bunch of nuisance bills. Job creation isn't big on his agenda, but social engineering certainly is:
CACR-24: A constitutional amendment stipulating that no person shall be eligible to become a judge until they're 60 years of age.
Apparently I have a second career to look forward to. In a few years. Kingsbury is the sole sponsor of this masterpiece.
HB 1146: Requires students to stand for the pledge of allegiance, if they are physically able to do so.
The bill contains no mention of the penalties for those students who refuse. Perhaps this is a jobs bill - creating a need for more security guards and truant officers. As far as teaching "patriotism," I'd suggest it's counterproductive, and may well lead to Alinsky reading and Yurpeen style socialism.
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HB 1421: AN ACT requiring a vegetarian diet for inmates in state correctional facilities.
Another solo Kingsbury. This is all we know:
Inmate Diet. Within 6 months of the effective date of this section, all meals served to inmates in state correctional facilities shall be vegetarian. Exceptions may be allowed for Sundays, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Inmates shall receive vitamin and mineral supplements to their diet as may be necessary.
He offers no rationale for this change in prison diet. The change will result in an estimated 4.7+ estimated increase in food cost.
Perhaps he envisions this as a punitive measure? Or perhaps he thinks a vegetarian diet will make inmates less violent? Or maybe he's envisioning farming as a growth industry in NH, and this is about job creation.
Finally (for today, anyhow), I give you HR 27, which comes to us from Rep. Brian Murphy:
A RESOLUTION urging New Hampshire policymakers to declare "brainpower" a state resource.
And they said irony was dead.
cross-posted at Blue Hampshire