SB 379 - AS INTRODUCED
2002 SESSION
06/10
SENATE BILL 379
COMMITTEE: Public Institutions, Health and Human Services
This bill prohibits a licensed health care facility from restricting or forbidding the use of immune system therapy when it is requested by a patient and prescribed by a physician. Health care facilities are exempted from liability for damages resulting from the introduction and use of immune system therapy.
This bill also exempts physicians from disciplinary action by the board of medical examiners for the use of immune system therapy.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
02-3119
06/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Two
AN ACT relative to immune system therapy.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; Immune System Therapy. Amend RSA 151:20 by inserting after paragraph III the following new paragraph:
IV. No facility required to be licensed under this chapter may restrict or forbid the use of immune system therapy when requested by the patient and prescribed or administered by a physician. This provision shall not be construed to require any facility to stock immune system therapy in its pharmacy. A facility shall not be liable for any damages resulting from the introduction or use of immune system therapy by a physician which is contrary to any regulation of the facility.
2 New Subparagraph; Use of Immune System Therapy not Cause for Discipline. Amend RSA 329:17 by inserting after paragraph VI the following new paragraph:
VI-a. The board shall not take disciplinary action against any person licensed by it for prescribing or administering immune system therapy to a patient under his or her care when the patient has requested it.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.