HB 751 - AS INTRODUCED
2001 SESSION
10/01
HOUSE BILL 751
AN ACT authorizing an advisory committee and establishing a conflict of interest policy regarding grant awards from the health care fund.
SPONSORS: Rep. Gorman, Hills 29; Rep. Clemons, Hills 31; Rep. D. Cote, Hills 29
COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
This bill authorizes the commissioner of health and human services to utilize an advisory committee in determining health care fund grant awards and establishes a conflict of interest policy for members of the advisory committee.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
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10/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One
AN ACT authorizing an advisory committee and establishing a conflict of interest policy regarding grant awards from the health care fund.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Health Care Fund Grants; Advisory Committee; Conflicts of Interest. Amend RSA 167 by inserting after section 75 the following new section:
167:75-a Advisory Committee Authorized; Conflicts of Interest Prohibited.
I. The commissioner may utilize an advisory committee for the review of funding requests and the recommendation of grant awards under RSA 167:75. Membership on an advisory committee may include persons involved in the provision of health care and social service programs in the state.
II. No person with a substantial involvement in an organization requesting funding or applying for a grant under this subdivision shall be appointed to an advisory committee. Persons with a substantial involvement shall include managers, board members, directors, employees, and volunteers. No member of an advisory committee established under paragraph I shall participate in any way in the consideration, discussion, investigation, decision, and administration of an application for a grant of funds where the member, the member's employer, or any person in the member's household, has any interest, financial or otherwise, direct or indirect, or which may appear to compromise the public purpose of the health care fund initiatives. All persons named by the commissioner to be members of an advisory committee shall disclose all organizations, affiliations, and other interests for which a conflict would exist. The commissioner shall maintain a list of organizations, affiliations, and other conflicts of interest disclosed by each advisory committee member. The lists shall be available to the public.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.