HB 345 - AS INTRODUCED
2001 SESSION
01/09
HOUSE BILL 345
COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services & Elderly Affairs
This bill requires hospitals to maintain permanent medical records of stillborn infants.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
01-0059
01/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One
AN ACT requiring hospitals to maintain permanent medical records of stillborn infants.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Subdivision; General Provisions. Amend RSA 151 by inserting after section 31 the following new subdivision:
151:31-a Records of Stillborn Infants. Hospitals, as defined in RSA 151-C:2 and licensed pursuant to this chapter, shall, with the parent or parents' consent, maintain permanent medical records of stillborn infants.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.