Bill Text: NH HCR9 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Urging the United States to reject compliance with the European Union's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-15 - Public Hearing: 01/24/2025 01:30 pm Legislative Office Building 206-208 [HCR9 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2025-HCR9-Introduced.html
HCR 9 - AS INTRODUCED
2025 SESSION
25-0660
07/06
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 9
SPONSORS: Rep. Bernardy, Rock. 36
COMMITTEE: State-Federal Relations and Veterans Affairs
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ANALYSIS
This bill urges the United States Congress and the President of the United States to reject any efforts to comply with the European Union's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive.
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25-0660
07/06
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five
Whereas, the European Union's ("EU") new Environmental, Social, and Governance ("ESG") law, the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive ("CSDDD"), is designed to transform business practices across the entire world, including in the United States, and
Whereas, the CSDDD mandates that large businesses impose ESG standards on companies operating within their "chain of activities," regardless of whether those chain businesses have operations within the EU, and
Whereas, the policy goals addressed in the CSDDD mandate compliance with EU standards regarding unions and collective bargaining, health care and disease prevention, children's education, complete transition to a "green energy" economy, corporate climate transition plans, reductions in water and land use, social justice, and censorship of climate change and energy policies, and
Whereas, businesses that fail to meet the CSDDD's requirements will face financial penalties of "not less than" 5 percent of net worldwide turnover, and
Whereas, in addition to these financial sanctions, activist groups and individuals are also authorized by the CSDDD to sue companies for alleged "damages," and
Whereas, if covered corporate business partners do not adhere to the CSDDD's mandates, covered companies must end these business relationships, face penalties, or cease operating in the EU, and
Whereas, the CSDDD explicitly states that large companies should provide "targeted and proportional support" for small and medium-sized business partners that have difficulty complying with the EU's ESG standards, and
Whereas, if the CSDDD goes unanswered, the United States will effectively become a vassal state of the EU and be fundamentally transformed through corporate coercion; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:
That the people of the state of New Hampshire, speaking through its legislature, hereby urge the United States to reject any efforts at compliance with the EU's CSDDD; and
Be it further resolved, that the clerk of the New Hampshire house of representatives transmit copies of this resolution to the president of the United States; the vice president of the United States in his capacity as presiding officer of the United States Senate, the speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the minority leader of the United States House of Representatives, the President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate, to each senator and representative from New Hampshire in the congress of the United States with the respectful request that the full and complete text of this resolution be printed in the Congressional Record, and to the presiding officers of each legislative body of each of the several states, requesting the cooperation of the states in urging the United States to reject any efforts at compliance with the EU's CSDDD.
