DHMC Contract TOMORROW
The Executive Council meets tomorrow to vote on a contract for Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, who is still not in compliance with the Patient Bill of Rights by requiring vaccines for their transplant program. While I don’t personally have an issue with this contract, we should not be contracting with DHMC until they are complying with the law and ending their vaccine mandates.
Action Item #1
Contact your Executive Council member and tell them to vote to table the contract with Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (item 15) until they end all their vaccine mandates and comply with the Patient Bill of Rights.
District 1: Joseph.D.Kenney@nh.gov
District 2: karen.liothill@nh.gov
District 3: Janet.L.Stevens@nh.gov
District 4: John.A.Stephen@nh.gov
District 5: David.K.Wheeler@nh.gov
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Parent Bill Of Rights Is Currently A Threat
Bad news folks, despite the fact that RebuildNH has been an avid supporter of the “Parent Bill of Rights” legislation from past years, in their current forms neither bill does anything. All the language is existing statute. Very typical, politican, “feel good legislation”.
RebuildNH intended to neither oppose nor support the current language, but unfortunately after careful consideration, RebuildNH must oppose SB72 and HB10 unless they are amended.
The only “new” thing past versions of the bill did was legislate that parents have a right for schools to be completely open and honest about anything going on with their child including gender identity or sexual orientation. There have been lawsuits about this issue and currently if a parent were to sue about this issue, it is kind of a toss up whether they would win or not.
Here is the important part: If a parent bill of rights becomes law that does not affirm that schools can’t keep secrets from parents, then courts will likely rule against the parents. The legislature will have officially weighed in that parents have the rights enumerated in the parent bill of rights and no others.
A parent bill of rights without this specific right enumerated is net negative for parental rights.
Action Item #2
Email the committees and tell them to amend the bills to include the following language to ensure parent’s rights are fully protected.
(t) The right to inquire of the school or school personnel and to be truthfully and completely informed if their child is being identified by any name other than the name under which the child was enrolled in the school or any nickname that a reasonable person would understand to be commonly derived from such name, including under circumstances which a reasonable person would understand to be for the purpose of facilitating a change of gender or gender transition.
(u) The right to inquire of the school or school personnel and to be truthfully and completely informed if the child is being identified or referred to by school district staff, as being of a gender other than that of which the child was identified or referred when enrolled.
(v) The right to inquire of the school or school personnel and to be truthfully and completely informed if any school or school personnel are proceeding with any intervention to affirm or to provide an accommodation of a child’s asserted gender identity when the student’s gender identity is other than that of which the child was identified or referred when enrolled.
| Email House Children and Family Law and tell them to amend HB10 to add the language above: housecfl@rebuildnh.com Email Senate Children and Family Law and tell them to amend SB72 to add the language above: senatecfl@rebuildnh.com |
