2009 Bills

2009 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.
Bill #	Title	Sponsor	Status	Our Position
2009-H-0010-L	relative to the minimum wage.	John K Knowles	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0030-R	relative to admission into evidence of certain medical bills, reports, and records.	Anthony R DiFruscia	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0063-R	relative to a health insurance access program.	Joel F Winters	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0165-R	prohibiting an insurer from canceling health care coverage based on the insured's terminal condition.	Anthony R DiFruscia	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0210-R	making an appropriation to fund the reporting of hospital infections by the department of health and human services.	Leo P Pepino	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0216-R	relative to financial disclosures, lobbyist registrations and statements, prohibited gifts, executive branch volunteers, and permissible campaign contributions by business organizations and labor unions.	James R Splaine	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0220-R	relative to medical records.	Peter L Batula	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0221-R	relative to "adverse events" in hospitals.	Peter L Batula	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0252-R	relative to the healthy kids program.	Suzanne S Butcher	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0264-R	relative to payroll deductions.	Gary L Daniels	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0303-R	requiring health care provider and insurance company bills to state the portion of payment covering costs of the uninsured.	Timothy Butterworth	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0313-R	relative to smoking in and around health care facilities.	Joan H Schulze	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0337-R	relative to hospital rules for paramedics.	Karen K Hutchinson	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0357-R	relative to health information and rights.	Robert G Bridgham	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0358-R	urging Congress to modify Medicare payments to enhance the compensation of primary care providers.	Robert G Bridgham	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0372-R	establishing a task force to study access to dental care.	Peter B Schmidt	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0385-R	permitting the stacking of medical payments insurance coverage.	David L Nixon	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0388-R	relative to provisions in insurance policies limiting payment of full benefits.	David L Nixon	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0389-R	eliminating a requirement that the trial judge present unanimous findings to the jury in medical injury cases.	David L Nixon	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0390-R	relative to pretrial screening panels for medical injury actions.	David L Nixon	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0408-R	relative to death with dignity for certain persons suffering from a terminal condition.	Charles F Weed	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0425-R	permitting private employers and others to join the state health insurance program.	Jill Shaffer Hammond	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0453-R	relative to the definition of "personal information" for purposes of providing notice of a security breach.	Neal M Kurk	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0467-R	relative to health information exchange.	Trinka Russell	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0486-R	establishing an inventory and use tax.	Dennis P Vachon	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0487-R	establishing an inheritance tax on property received by collateral heirs.	Dennis P Vachon	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0501-R	relative to the insurance premium tax.	Susan W Almy	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0508-R	relative to medical records and patient information.	Cindy Rosenwald	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0509-R	relative to revisions to the laws regulating the practice of medicine.	Cindy Rosenwald	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0530-R	establishing a spending cap on state budget requests.	David J Bettencourt	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0537-R	increasing the rate of the gas tax and changing gas tax assessment and collection procedures.	David B Campbell	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0541-R	relative to a registry for joint replacement devices.	Peter F Bergin	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0546-R	relative to relevant information in a workers' compensation claim.	Tara G Reardon	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0563-R	adopting the uniform emergency volunteer health practitioners act.	Laurie Harding	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0586-R	relative to membership of the board of medicine.	Russell C Day	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0587-R	requiring physicians to disclose to their patients that they do not make hospital visits.	Patricia A Dowling	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0589-R	requiring the bureau of emergency communications to develop and maintain a statewide emergency notification system.	Melanie A Levesque	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0597-R	relative to the automatic external defibrillator advisory commission.	Christine C Hamm	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0600-R	establishing a committee relative to medical, mental health and substance abuse treatment services in corrections facilities.	Joan H Schulze	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0601-R	establishing a committee to study the certificate of need process.	Joan H Schulze	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0611-R	increasing the tobacco tax and dedicating certain tobacco tax revenues to the comprehensive cancer plan fund.	William Butynski	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0635-R	relative to insurance payments for ambulance services.	Thomas L Buco	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0701-R	relative to application of the tobacco tax to tobacco products other than cigarettes.	William A Hatch	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0703-R	relative to time limits on eligibility for Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF).	Fran Wendelboe	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0709-R	waiving medical records fees for persons applying for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Social Security Disability Income (SSDI).	Sponsors: (Prime) Thomas E Donovan	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0711-R	relative to retail health clinics.	Larry A Emerton	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0723-R	redefining tobacco products and increasing the tax on tobacco products other than cigarettes.	Jill Shaffer Hammond	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0731-R	relative to life, accident, and health insurance.	Tara G Reardon	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0766-R	relative to insurance for dependent children.	Gilman C Shattuck	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0787-R	relative to the use of health care revenues.	Susi Nord	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-H-0799-R	relative to the New Hampshire estate tax.	Paul McEachern	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-S-0184-R	relative to rulemaking authority of the governing boards of licensed allied health professionals.	Betsi DeVries	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-S-0451-R	relative to ensuring consumer access to care upon the termination of a participating provider.	Kathleen G Sgambati	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-S-0847-R	establishing a committee to study the cost and feasibility of implementing a hospice benefit under Medicaid.	Peggy Gilmour	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-S-0872-R	relative to the joint health council.	Lou D'Allesandro	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-S-0886-R	relative to standardizing health insurance claim forms.	Jacalyn L Cilley	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-S-0896-R	relative to disclosure of financial interests by health care practitioners.	Martha Fuller Clark	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-S-0906-R	relative to insurance coverage for telemedicine services.	Kathleen G Sgambati	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-S-0907-R	relative to eligibility for the healthy kids program.	Kathleen G Sgambati	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-S-0938-R	establishing professional guardians and removing the oath requirement in annual reports of the guardian.	Deborah R Reynolds	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

2009-S-0957-R	relative to nonemergency involuntary admissions and permitted condition of conditional discharge from a mental health facility.	Sponsors: (Prime) Bette R Lasky	BILL TEXT NOT AVAILABLE

HB040	requiring sanctions against hospitals for failing to report infection rates.	David W Hess	BILL REFERRED TO HOUSE EXECUTIVE DEPTS COMM	OPPOSE

HB050	repealing the laws relative to screening panels for medical injury claims.	Robert H Rowe	BILL REFERRED TO HOUSE JUDICIARY COMM	OPPOSE

HB064-FN	relative to responsibility for public medical assistance.	John DeJoie	BILL REFERRED TO HOUSE HEALTH & HUMAN SVCS COMM

HB069	relative to submission of health care data.	Maurice L Pilotte	BILL REFERRED TO HOUSE HEALTH & HUMAN SVCS COMM	SUPPORT

HB080	requiring one member of the pharmacy board to be a hospital pharmacist.	Frank G Case	BILL REFERRED TO HOUSE EXECUTIVE DEPTS COMM	SUPPORT

HB103	relative to paying discharged employees in full at the time of discharge.	Thomas L Buco	BILL REFERRED TO HOUSE LABOR COMM

HB108	establishing an employer's private right of action to enforce the payment of workers' compensation coverage.	Patrick T Long	BILL REFERRED TO HOUSE LABOR COMM

HB109	relative to consumer choice in health insurance.	Thomas L Buco	BILL REFERRED TO HOUSE COMMERCE COMM

HB113	extending the moratorium on nursing home beds.	Fran Wendelboe	BILL REFERRED TO HOUSE HEALTH & HUMAN SVCS COMM