Bill Text - HB544 (2021)

Relative to the propagation of divisive concepts.


Revision: March 5, 2021, 10:42 a.m.

Rep. Ammon, Hills. 40

March 3, 2021

2021-0611h

05/04

 

 

Amendment to HB 544

 

Amend RSA 10-C:1, I as inserted by section 1 of the bill by replacing it with the following:

 

I. “Contractor” means any and all persons, individuals, corporations, or businesses of any kind that in any manner have entered into a contract to perform a service for, or perform a subcontract pursuant to a contract to perform a service for, or with the state of New Hampshire.

 

Amend RSA 10-C:2, V(a)(1) as inserted by section 1 of the bill by replacing it with the following:

 

(1)  The head of each agency shall ensure that the agency, agency employees while on duty status, and any contractors hired by the agency to provide training, workshops, forums, or similar programming to agency employees do not teach, advocate, act upon, or promote in any training to agency employees any of the divisive concepts listed in RSA 10-C:1, II; and

 

Amend RSA 10-C:3 as inserted by section 1 of the bill by inserting after paragraph II the following new paragraph and renumbering the original paragraph III to read as paragraph IV:

 

III  Nothing in this chapter is meant to include as a “contract or subcontract” certain government financial assistance, including but not limited to the taking or receiving of loans, tax credits, tax incentives, tax abatements or gifts deriving from money sent from the federal government or agency designed or meant to assist during or after a declared emergency, including but not limited to health, weather, riot, civil disobedience or acts of foreign agents, or designed as economic stimulus during economic emergency.