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Legislative calendars list the business that has been scheduled in the legislature. They include hearing notices, committee reports, bill amendments, and more. The House and the Senate have separate calendars. During the legislative session, the calendars will be published several times a week.
Legislative journals are the records of what occurred on the floor of the Senate and House of Representatives. There are two versions of journals: the daily, or working, journals which are published within a few days of each completed floor session, and the official, permanent journals which are bound and edited versions of the daily journals. The permanent journals are indexed in several ways and include transcriptions of all remarks on the floor of the Senate and selective transcriptions of House remarks.
Streaming media files of Senate and House floor debate are available online. If you are researching a recent law, you will need to use the daily journals and streaming media files because as of 2024 the permanent journals were last published in 2017. Also, you may want to listen to the House floor sessions even if you have the House Journal; debate in the House is not routinely transcribed in the House Journal.
The Law Library has the old volumes of the NH RSAs in print. If what you need isn't online, email us at lawlibrary@courts.state.nh.us and we'll scan and send it to you.
These are links to statutory codes and compilations that existed before the current version, the Revised Statutes Annotated.
