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New Hampshire House and Senate members are hustling over the next four days to resolve their differences in more than 42 bills, including the $10.7 billion state budget, proposed medical marijuana legalization, and possible changes in the voter identification law.

June 20, at 4 p.m., is the deadline to sign committee of conference reports.

The blueprint: House, Senate aim to wrap up all unfinished business by June 26-27.

This week: Gov. Maggie Hassan and the Executive Council meet on Wednesday, 10 a.m., in council chambers at the Statehouse.

Unfinished business: House Bill 1 and 2, the state budget bill and its trailer bill, are the big mountains legislators must climb. The Senate-passed budget is roughly $300 million less than the House version, according to Senate Finance Chairman Chuck Morse (R-Salem). Sticky issues during committee negotiators include projected state revenues in the two-year budge that begins in two weeks and Medicaid expansion (House approved it, Senate rejected it).

Voter ID bill: A committee of conference on HB 595, relative to photo identification of voters, meets Monday morning at 9:30 in Room 308 of the Legislative Office Building.

Privacy in the Workplace. House and Senate negotiators meet Tuesday morning, Room 307 of the LOB, for House Bill 414, relative to privacy in the workplace. Or, as its adjusted Senate title reads, "AN ACT relative to privacy in the workplace and relative to legislative approval of collective bargaining agreements entered into by the state." According to the bill, this would prohibit an employer from requiring an employee or prospective employee to disclose his or her social media or electronic mail passwords, and...it would require legislative Fiscal Committee approval of all collective bargaining agreements entered into by the state.

Cannabis for therapeutic uses. House Bill 573 has much support in the Legislature, but how will the House and Senate conferees find common ground here? Big difference in the bill, as it passed each chamber, is that the House version featured a "home grow" option, in which eligible persons could grow up to three mature plants. Committee of conference on this bill meets Tuesday morning at 9 in LOB Room 205.

Toll on the F.E. Everett. Senate Bill 19, to repeal provisions on the sale of the former Laconia state school property – and eliminating a ramp toll on the Everett Turnpike in Merrimack (Exit 12) – is before a committee of conference Wednesday at 3 p.m. in Statehouse Room 100.