Pending NH Legislation Limiting Antennas – NH Residents Please Help

[Fred Kemmerer]

.A bill (HB1644) limiting the use of 5G applications in certain areas of
NH along with the creation of a RF Radiation Exposure Registry was
recently introduced to the NH House. Because of the confusing nature of
the bill and conflicting testimony the Science, Technology and Energy
Committee overseeing the bill voted 17 to 4 to recommend to the House
that the bill be sent to interim study.  If this recommendation is
adopted by the full House, likely next week, this bill will be dead for
all intents and purposes for this biennium.  A committee will be
established, conduct a review, and receive public testimony over the
summer and make a recommendation whether legislation of this nature is
warranted or not. NH ARRL Leadership will be attending the meetings.

HB1644 in its current form will have unintended consequences far beyond
5G applications impacting all forms of wireless communications including
amateur radio. NE Director Kemmerer, the NH Section Manager, and State
Government Liaison met to discuss the issue and we encourage League
members to contact their state representative to support the committee
recommendation to send the bill to interim study. You can locate the
email address of your representative by going to the following link:

http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/members/

The full House meets on February 16th so now is the time to contact your
legislator.

You can read the bill in its entirety:

http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_Status/billinfo.aspx?id=1725&inflect=2

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ARRL New Hampshire Section
Section Manager: Peter J Stohrer, K1PJS
[email protected]
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[Tom Mahon]

Went to this week’s House Record and copied the Majority explanation for the action on the bill. Must have been a heck of a hearing. AS you can detect, there are many aspects at work on this. The Minority may submit their rationale between now and the 16th.

Before moving to Maine I testified many times before legislative committees. If you are uncomfortable with calling, you can submit written comments via committee e-mail or House member e-mail. Please include your name and address. The committees are very diligent about including all written comments received into the record.

73.
Tom Mahon
AB1NS

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[Aron Insinga]

I sent them some detailed, written comments beforehand. It’s a very poorly written bill and it ignores serious aspects of privacy and information security in addition to trying to say something that isn’t well defined about RF safety and antennas.

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