HB 227 - AS INTRODUCED
2001 SESSION
01/09
HOUSE BILL 227
COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
This bill clarifies the term "local option" for the purpose of issuing protocols by the emergency medical services medical control board. The bill also clarifies a provision in rulemaking under RSA 153-A.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
01-0339
01/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One
AN ACT clarifying certain definitions relating to emergency medical and trauma services.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Term "Local Control" Clarified. Amend RSA 153-A:2, XII to read as follows:
XII. "Local option" means a protocol for which a medical resource hospital and the local medical control physician have complete authority and jurisdiction, including training, implementation, and quality assurance. A local option may be more restrictive but shall not be less restrictive than the [minimum state standard] local option protocols approved and issued by the emergency medical services medical control board.
2 Rulemaking Clarified. Amend RSA 153-A:20, XIV to read as follows:
XIV. Operation of emergency medical [care] service units.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.