2003 SESSION

03-0147

01/09

HOUSE BILL 237

COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

ANALYSIS

This bill authorizes a patient's personal representative to make health care requests on behalf of the patient if the patient is temporarily incapacitated due to anesthesia or other drugs after surgery.

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

03-0147

01/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Three

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

1 New Section; Standard of Care in Heath Care Facilities. Amend RSA 151 by inserting after section 29 the following new section:

151:29-a Standard of Care in Health Care Facilities. A patient in a health care facility who is temporarily incapacitated due to anesthesia or other drugs resulting from surgery may designate the patient's personal representative to make health care requests on behalf of such patient for the period during which such anesthesia or drugs are in effect.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2004.