CONCORD The Senate Finance Committee on Friday approved a $13.5 billion budget proposal that includes tax cuts praised by Republicans as well as abortion and education provisions opposed by Democrats.“When you’re weighing so many competing.
A key Senate committee moved forward an amended version of the “divisive concepts” bill, adding it to the New Hampshire budget and setting up another test for Gov. Chris Sununu.
In a 4-2, party-line vote, Republicans on the Finance Committee voted to insert an amended version of the legislation into the budget trailer bill, adding some last-minute changes to a version put forward by the House in April.
First proposed by the House earlier this year, New Hampshire’s “divisive concepts” legislation would prohibit schools and public entities from teaching that one race or gender is superior to another, and would ban the teaching that a person is “inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously.”
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