Governor Sununu On Paid Medical Leave Act: ‘I Will Veto That’

Governor Chris Sununu saying on Good Morning New Hampshire why stop the state’s paid family medical leave program before it really gets going.

“I will veto that. We did it the right way.  Other Governor’s are calling me saying how are you designing that, it’s really unique”, Sununu told Jack Heath.

The New Hampshire House voted to repeal the state’s paid family medical leave program less than a year after it was signed into law, saying that it’s no longer needed because private insurance carriers have now filed similar plans in the state.

The vote to repeal passed on a vote of 172-164 in the Republican-led House on Thursday.

Some committee members had said the plan is “financially exclusionary” to lower-income residents and needed work, but they opposed repealing it.

The bill now goes to the Senate.