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2010 Bills
To view testimony for bills, click testimony links where applicable under each bill. To search Bill Text on the State of New Hampshire web site, click here.
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| Bill # |
Title |
Sponsor |
Status |
Our Position |
| CACR30 |
Relating to: health care. Providing that: people may enter into private contracts with health care providers for health care services and to purchase health care coverage. |
Andrew Renzullo |
HOUSE KILLED |
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| HB0050 |
relative to proceedings of medical injury claims screening panels. |
Robert Rowe |
HOUSE PASSED W/ AMENDMENT, SENATE LAID BILL ON TABLE. |
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| HB0271 |
relative to relevant information in a workers' compensation claim. |
Tara G Reardon |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, EFF: 7/1/2010. |
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| HB1128-FN-LOCAL |
relative to the distribution of meals and rooms tax revenues to cities and towns. |
Gene Chandler |
COMM OF CONFERENCE REPORT NOT SIGNED OFF BY SENATE. |
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| HB1133 |
relative to the duration of involuntary emergency admissions and relative to persons with mental illness and the corrections system. |
Stephen J Shurtleff |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, EFF: 9/11/2010 |
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| HB1136 |
requiring a report to be sent to the treatment facility on behalf of a person receiving treatment in the state mental health or developmental services system. |
Stephen J Shurtleff |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, EFF: 5/18/2010 |
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| HB1137 |
relative to withholding of wages. |
Gary L Daniels |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, EFF: 8/13/2010 |
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| HB1145 |
relative to the practice of dental hygienists. |
John M Reagan |
HOUSE KILLED |
SUPPORT |
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| HB1158 |
changing the name of the institutional review board to the vital records privacy board for health-related research. |
Maurice L Pilotte |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, EFF: 7/24/2010 |
SUPPORT |
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| HB1164 |
relative to newborn screening tests. |
Alida I Millham |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, EFF: 7/1/201O |
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| HB1168 |
clarifying the definition of gross misconduct for purposes of unemployment compensation. |
Thomas E Donovan |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, EFF: 9/6/2010 |
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| HB1169 |
relative to the New Hampshire health care quality assurance commission. |
James W Craig |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, EFF: 5/26/2010 |
SUPPORT |
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| HB1184 |
relative to the administration of the unused prescription drug program. |
Judith E Day |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, EFF: 7/24/2010 |
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| HB1228-FN |
relative to criminal record checks by health facilities. |
Alida I Millham |
HOUSE KILLED |
SUPPORT |
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| HB1233 |
relative to the amount of medical payments coverage under motor vehicle liability policies. |
David L Nixon |
HOUSE KILLED |
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| HB1252 |
relative to the duration of medical payments coverage under motor vehicle liability policies. |
David L Nixon |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, EFF: 1/1/2011 |
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| HB1255 |
relative to requirements for apportionment of damages. |
David L Nixon |
HOUSE KILLED |
OPPOSE |
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| HB1256 |
restricting medical injury claims subject to pretrial screening panel review to claims exceeding $250,000. |
David L Nixon |
HOUSE KILLED |
OPPOSE |
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| HB1257 |
changing requirements for extensions of time for hearings by pretrial screening panels for medical injury claims. |
David L Nixon |
HOUSE PASSED W/ AMENDMENT. SENATE KILLED. |
OPPOSE |
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| HB1258 |
relative to the award of costs and attorneys' fees incurred in the medical injury screening panel process. |
David L Nixon |
HOUSE KILLED |
OPPOSE |
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| HB1282-FN |
requiring insurance companies to send a copy of any claim which is denied to the insured and to the provider. |
Frank R Holden |
HOUSE KILLED |
OPPOSE |
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| HB1283-FN |
relative to participation in the state children's health insurance program. |
Andrew Renzullo |
HOUSE KILLED |
OPPOSE |
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| HB1296 |
prohibiting a state agency from establishing a fee without legislative approval. |
Jordan G Ulery |
HOUSE KILLED |
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| HB1310 |
allowing towns to hire health care workers. |
Priscilla P Lockwood |
HOUSE PASSED W/ AMENDMENT. SENATE KILLED. |
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| HB1336 |
relative to healthcare liability claims. |
William B Smith |
HOUSE LAID BILL ON TABLE |
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| HB1339 |
relative to the state services system and establishing a commission to study uncompensated care at community mental health centers. |
John DeJoie |
HOUSE KILLED |
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| HB1342 |
relative to the right of election to submit a claim for medical expenses under a medical payments motor vehicle liability policy or a health insurance policy. |
David L Nixon |
HOUSE KILLED |
OPPOSE |
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| HB1349 |
relative to requirements for pharmacists in charge. |
Sandra B Keans |
HOUSE KILLED |
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| HB1355-FN |
relative to certain Medicaid appropriations. |
Laurie Harding |
HOUSE PASSED. SENATE LAID BILL ON TABLE. |
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| HB1356 |
relative to certain nonprofit corporations subject to the right-to-know law. |
Rick H Watrous |
HOUSE KILLED |
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| HB1368 |
relative to the definition of ?employee? for workers? compensation purposes and relative to the New Hampshire return to work program. |
Jeffrey P Goley |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, EFF: 6/14/2010 |
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| HB1376 |
relative to the regulation of pharmacies and pharmacists. |
Frank G Case |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, SEC 12 EFF AS PROVIDED IN SEC 13 - REMAINDER EFF: 7/6/2010 |
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| HB1392-FN |
requiring insurance companies to report to the insurance department the number of claims denied. |
Frank R Holden |
HOUSE KILLED |
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| HB1398 |
allowing a surviving spouse to have access to the deceased spouse's medical records when there is no estate administration. |
Susan Emerson |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, EFF: 1/1/2011 |
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| HB1403 |
relative to wrongful termination. |
William Butynski |
HOUSE KILLED |
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| HB1426 |
permitting patients to bring their medications to the hospital or health care facility. |
Gary L Daniels |
HOUSE KILLED |
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| HB1430 |
relative to the uniform anatomical gift act. |
Robert A Foose |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, EFF: 7/31/2010 |
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| HB1431-FN |
relative to health care choice. |
Andrew Renzullo |
HOUSE KILLED |
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| HB1435-FN |
relative to the practitioner-patient relationship in the dispensing of prescriptions. |
Frank G Case |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, EFF: 1/1/2011 |
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| HB1438 |
relative to a patient's right to know regarding charges for health care. |
Andrew Renzullo |
HOUSE KILLED |
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| HB1454-FN |
requiring parental consent for medical procedures and medications provided to minors. |
Robert F Willette |
HOUSE KILLED |
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| HB1459 |
relative to the board of trust company incorporation |
Edward Butler |
SENATE ADOPTED CONFERENCE COMM REPORT, C OF C REPORT FAILED IN HOUSE, |
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| HB1479-FN |
requiring that body mass index be assessed in all pupils in grades one, 4, 7, and 10. |
Joan H Schulze |
HOUSE KILLED |
SUPPORT |
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| HB1488-FN |
relative to New Hampshire HealthFirst. |
Edward A Butler |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, EFF: 07/17/2010 |
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| HB1493 |
establishing a committee to study comprehensive mental health and substance use disorders parity. |
Liz H Merry |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, EFF: 7/20/2010 |
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| Hearing/Meeting: 9/2/2010 - 10:00 AM - STUDY COMM ON COMPREHEN MENTAL HEALTH & SUB USE DISORDERS PARITY, Room 303, LOB |
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| HB1531 |
prohibiting New Hampshire physicians and medical staff from sharing patient records in a health information exchange without the patient's written consent. |
Neal M Kurk |
HOUSE KILLED |
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| HB1537 |
allowing primary care providers to provide preventive oral health services to children between 0 and 3 years of age under the state Medicaid program. |
Rich T DiPentima |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, EFF: 7/18/2010 |
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| HB1545-FN |
relative to group size for premiums charged by health insurance carriers when issuing small employer health coverage. |
Susi Nord |
HOUSE KILLED |
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| HB1548-FN |
relative to ambulatory surgical facilities under the law requiring reporting of hospital infections. |
Cindy Rosenwald |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, EFF: 7/1/2010 |
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| HB1550-FN-L |
requiring substance abuse treatment drugs to be available to emergency medical providers when responding to emergencies in emergency medical vehicles. |
Joy K Tilton |
HOUSE KILLED |
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| HB1553 |
establishing a maternal mortality review panel to conduct comprehensive, multidisciplinary reviews of maternal deaths in New Hampshire. |
Charlotte Houde-Quimby |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, EFF: 8/8/2010 |
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| HB1583 |
relative to the property tax exemption for organizations with charitable activities. |
Gary L Daniels |
HOUSE KILLED |
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| HB1585-FN |
allowing health insurance policies to be sold without mandates. |
William L O'Brien |
HOUSE KILLED |
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| HB1586-FN |
relative to mandated benefits review. |
Andrew Renzullo |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, EFF: 5/18/2010 |
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| HB1597-FN |
relative to employer-provided health insurance coverage and prohibiting denial of coverage for certain pre-existing conditions. |
David W Hess |
HOUSE KILLED |
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| HB1599-FN |
establishing an emergency mental health and developmental disabilities database within the division of state police. |
Don Petterson |
HOUSE KILLED |
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| HB1636-FN |
establishing the real-time electronic controlled drug prescription monitoring program. |
Chip L Rice |
HOUSE KILLED |
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| HB1643-FN |
relative to requiring submission of a reduced spending alternative as part of the biennial budget process. |
John Cebrowski |
HOUSE KILLED |
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| HB1645-FN |
relative to freedom of choice on whether to join a labor union. |
William B Smith |
HOUSE KILLED |
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| HB1648-FN |
prohibiting interference with access to medical services and health insurance of New Hampshire citizens. |
Daniel C Itse |
HOUSE KILLED |
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| HB1649-FN |
relative to health information and patient rights. |
Robert G Bridgham |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, EFF: 1/1/2011 |
OPPOSE |
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| HB1664-FN |
making appropriations reductions in the operating budget for fiscal year 2011 and relative to state revenues and expenditures. |
Sherman A Packard |
HOUSE LAID BILL ON TABLE |
OPPOSE |
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| HB1672-FN |
making appropriation additions and revenue reductions for fiscal year 2011. |
Sherman A Packard |
HOUSE KILLED |
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| HB1689 |
exempting certain non-regulatory boards, commissions, councils, advisory committees, and task forces from repeal on June 30, 2011, etc. |
Laurie Harding |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, EFF: 7/1/2010 |
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| HB1690 |
making statutory changes required by the repeal of certain non-regulatory boards, commissions, councils, advisory committees, and task forces. |
Laurie Harding |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, EFF: 12/31/2010 |
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| HB1692 |
establishing a commission for primary care workforce issues. |
Robert G Bridgham |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, SEC 3 EFF: 11/1/2015, REMAINDER EFF: 6/1/2010 |
SUPPORT |
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| HCR30 |
urging the attorney general to fully investigate the proposed transaction between Catholic Medical Center Healthcare System and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health. |
Joel F Winters |
HOUSE PASSED W/ AMENDMENT. SENATE PASSED W/ AMENDMENT. HOUSE CONCURS W/ SENATE. |
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| SB320 |
relative to occupational exposure to the human immunodeficiency virus. |
Martha Fuller Clark |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, EFF: 9/18/2010 |
SUPPORT |
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| SB331 |
establishing a governor's commission task force on substance use disorder treatment for Medicaid eligible individuals. |
Harold W Janeway |
SENATE PASSD W/ AMENDMENT. HOUSE KILLED. |
SUPPORT |
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| SB343-FN |
relative to Medicaid managed care |
Jeb Bradley |
SENATE PASSED W/ AMENDMENT. HOUSE KILLED. |
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| SB374 |
relative to the compensation of physician practices or other entities for providing medical information for workers' compensation purposes. |
Jacalyn Cilley |
SENATE KILLED |
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| SB392-FN |
requiring public hearings concerning health insurance cost increases in health care services. |
Matthew Houde |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, SEC 1 EFF: 8/30/10, SEC 3 EFF: 7/1/14, REMAINDER EFF: 7/1/10. |
OPPOSE |
| Testimony Attached: [SB392SATestimony040710.pdf] |
| SB408 |
relative to purchasing alliances and establishing a study committee on the procurement of health insurance by employee leasing companies. |
Kathleen G Sgambati |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, SEC 2 & 10 EFF: AS PROV. IN SEC 11, REMAINDER EFF: 7/20/2010 |
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| SB410 |
establishing a committee to study New Hampshire's rate of infant mortality and develop proposals for remediation. |
Kathleen G Sgambati |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, EFF: 5/18/2010 |
SUPPORT |
| Hearing/Meeting: 9/29/2010 - 11:00 AM - STUDY COMM ON NH'S INFANT MORTALITY RATE & REMEDIATION PROPASALS, Room 103, SH |
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| SB417 |
relative to national healthcare reform and Medicaid. |
Jeb Bradley |
SENATE KILLED |
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| SB436 |
relative to health insurance open enrollment periods and establishing a temporary commission relative to children?s health insurance. |
Peggy Gilmour |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, SEC 3 EFF: 12/31/11, REMAINDER EFF: 7/20/2010 |
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| SB450-FN |
relative to costs and expenditures at the department of health and human services, establishing a special fund for certain civil fines collected by the department, and relative to the due date for the Medicaid enhancement tax. |
Kathleen G Sgambati |
NONCONCURRED COMM OF CONFERENCE REQUEST BY SENATE |
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| SB455-FN |
relative to federal health care reform. |
Kathleen G Sgambati |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, SECS 1-7 & 14 EFF: 7/1/10, OTHER SECS EFF 7/1/11, 7/1/12 & 9/23/10. |
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| SB459 |
relative to medical payments coverage. |
Jacalyn Cilley |
SENATE PASSED. HOUSE KILLED. |
SUPPORT |
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| SB460-FN-A |
relative to the lapse of certain legislative and judicial branch appropriations, budget reductions for the department of health and human services, voluntary furloughs for judges, and transfers of federal funds. |
Margaret Hassan |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, SECTION 1 & 2 EFF: 5/28/10, REMAINDER EFF: 3/29/2010 |
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| SB468 |
relative to tort reform. |
Jeb Bradley |
SENATE LAID BILL ON TABLE |
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| SB489-FN-A-L |
relative to table gaming and video lottery at certain locations throughout the state and relative to the recovery of horse racing. |
Lou D'Allesandro |
SENATE PASSED W/ AMENDMENT. HOUSE KILLED. |
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| Testimony Attached: [SB489testimony030410.pdf] [SB489testimonyLKM033010.pdf] |
| SB505-FN-A |
establishing the commission on health care cost containment and appropriating a special fund. |
Margaret W Hassan |
GOVERNOR SIGNED, EFF: 6/28/2010, SEC 3 EFF: 7/1/2012, REMAINDER EFF: 6/28/2010 |
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| Hearing/Meeting: 8/31/2010 - 01:00 PM - COMMISSION ON HEALTH CARE COST CONTAINMENT, Room 100, SH |
| Testimony Attached: [SB505SAHouseCommercetestimony040710.pdf] |
| SB519 |
relative to spending reductions for the department of health and human services. |
Lou D'Allesandro |
SENATE KILLED |
OPPOSE |
| Testimony Attached: [SB519testimonyLKM031810.pdf] |
