HB 697 - AS INTRODUCED
2001 SESSION
05/01
HOUSE BILL 697
AN ACT extending the reporting date for the healthy kids subcommittee and clarifying the mission statement of the healthy kids corporation.
This bill updates the mission statement of the healthy kids corporation and extends the reporting date for the healthy kids subcommittee studying affordable health insurance options for low income, working adults.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
01-0674
05/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One
AN ACT extending the reporting date for the healthy kids subcommittee and clarifying the mission statement of the healthy kids corporation.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Healthy Kids Subcommittee Reporting Date Extended. Amend 1999; 324:6, IV to read as follows:
IV. The subcommittee 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 30, [2000] 2002.
2 Purpose and Scope of Healthy Kids Corporation Expanded. Amend RSA 126-H:2 to read as follows:
126-H:2 Corporation Established.
I. There is hereby created a body politic and corporate having a distinct legal existence separate from the state and not constituting a department of state government, to be known as the New Hampshire healthy kids corporation to carry out the provisions of this chapter. The corporation is hereby deemed to be a public instrumentality and the exercise by the authority of the powers conferred by this chapter shall be deemed and held to be the performance of public and essential governmental functions of the state. [The corporation shall operate at no more than 5 pilot sites to be designated by the corporation, which sites may include multiple school districts.] The corporation shall be a private nonprofit corporation and shall have all the powers necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter, including, but not limited to, the power to receive and accept grants, loans, or advances of funds from any public or private agency and to receive and accept from any source, contributions of money, property, labor, or any other thing of value, to be held, used, and applied for the purposes of this chapter. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any payments made by the corporation for insurance coverage for children under this chapter, either directly or indirectly, shall be exempt from the premium tax under RSA 400-A:32.
II. The purpose of the corporation is to provide access to affordable health care and health coverage and to facilitate programs of preventive health care services for low-income and vulnerable populations with a focus on the needs of children.
3 Effective Date.
I. Section 1 of this act shall take effect upon its passage.
II. Section 2 of this act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.