NH lawmaker says wait on civil union bill

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A New Hampshire lawmaker is holding off on a bill to add civil union partners to all state insurance laws. Democratic state Representative Edward Butler, the bill’s sponsor, is vice-chair of the House commerce committee. He asked the committee Thursday to recommend that the full House kill the bill. He said lawmakers should resolve other civil union bills first.

Those include a bill to grant civil unions to straight couples and a bill to recognize gay marriages in other states as civil unions in New Hampshire. Another bill would institute gay marriage in the Granite State, while a competing measure would ban same-sex marriage.

Hearings on the marriage bills are scheduled for February 5th.

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