CHAPTER 228
HB 1319 - FINAL VERSION
2000 SESSION
01/09
HOUSE BILL 1319
AN ACT extending the reporting date of the committee studying negotiated risk agreements and requiring the department of health and human services to conduct a study.
SPONSORS: Rep. Dalrymple, Rock 26; Rep. Seldin, Merr 17; Rep. Chabot, Hills 48; Rep. Alger, Graf 9; Sen. Disnard, Dist 8; Sen. Krueger, Dist 16
COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
This bill extends the reporting date of the committee studying negotiated risk agreements. The bill also requires the department of health and human services to conduct a study of negotiated risk agreements and make quarterly reports to the committee.
This bill was requested by the committee studying negotiated risk agreements, established in 1999, 24.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
00-2484
01/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand
AN ACT extending the reporting date of the committee studying negotiated risk agreements and requiring the department of health and human services to conduct a study.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
228:1 Report Date Extended. Amend 1999, 24:5 to read as follows:
228:24:5 Report. The committee shall report its findings and any recommendations for proposed legislation to the speaker of the house of representatives, the senate president, the house clerk, the senate clerk, the governor, and the state library on or before November 1, [1999] 2000.
228:2 Study Required; Department of Health and Human Services.
I. The department of health and human services shall conduct a study of the feasibility and desirability of negotiated risk agreements. The department shall consider ways to allow people, together with their family and friends, to manage long-term care services in a manner which promotes personal dignity and choice and the individual's right to make choices about his or her quality of life. Specifically, the department shall consider the following:
(a) Legal rights.
(b) Health and safety issues.
(c) Concerns of family members.
(d) The requirements of laws governing the protection of vulnerable adults from abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
(e) The laws relative to substitute decision-making.
(f) The ability of facilities to provide adequate safety, supervision, treatment, and services for individuals whose care needs may be increasing beyond the capacity or authority of the facility to provide.
(g) The impact of implementation of the provisions of 1998, 388.
II. The department shall report quarterly during the study to the committee established in 1999, 24. The final report together with any recommendations shall be submitted to the committee and to the chairpersons of the house health, human services and elderly affairs committee and the senate public institutions, health and human services committee before November 1, 2000.
228:3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
(Approved: June 1, 2000)
(Effective Date: June 1, 2000)