HB 1503-FN-A – AS INTRODUCED
2008 SESSION
01/03
HOUSE BILL 1503-FN-A
AN ACT making an appropriation to fund the reporting of hospital infections by the department of health and human services.
SPONSORS: Rep. Hess, Merr 9; Rep. Lund, Rock 5; Rep. Batula, Hills 19
This bill makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services to fund the reporting of hospital infections.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
08-2331
01/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eight
AN ACT making an appropriation to fund the reporting of hospital infections by the department of health and human services.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Appropriation; Department of Health and Human Services; Reporting of Hospital Infections. In addition to any other sums appropriated to PAU 05-01-05-04-02, class 99, department of health and human services, the sum of $137,042, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009 is hereby appropriated to the department of health and human services for the purpose of reporting hospital acquired infections. The governor is authorized to draw a warrant for said sum out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect July 1, 2008.
LBAO
08-2331
11/30/07
HB 1503-FN-A - FISCAL NOTE
AN ACT making an appropriation to fund the reporting of hospital infections by the department of health and human services.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Department of Health and Human Services states this bill would increase state general fund expenditures by $137,042 in FY 2009. This bill will have no fiscal impact on state, county, and local revenue, or county and local expenditures.
This bill appropriates $137,042 in FY 2009 from the state general fund to the Department for the purposes of this bill.
METHODOLOGY:
The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) states this bill appropriates $137,042 in FY 2009 from the state general fund in order to fund the reporting of hospital acquired infections by the Department as is currently required pursuant to RSA 151 (as amended by Chapter 292, Laws of 2006). The Department states the scope of data collection in the new reporting system is broad based and currently not developed within DHHS. The Department states that to effectively design, develop, implement and maintain the new surveillance system, program staff must be dedicated to successfully achieve the extent of the project. The Department states it would need one Senior Management Analyst (Labor Grade 26) and one Program Planner III (Labor Grade 25), and a vendor to support new hardware and software capacity to collect these data effectively. The Department maintains that resources from a contractor to develop appropriate software application must be considered to implement and store the newly required data elements and reporting system. The Department has recently learned of other systems for reporting hospital infections, and based upon recent experience with system development estimate software and hardware development and maintenance costs at $75,000 in FY 2009. Assuming benefits at 48.3% of salary, and associated costs, the Department estimates the cost of reporting hospital acquired infections in FY 2009 as follows:
LBAO
08-2331
11/30/07
FY 2009
Salaries $83,753
Benefits 40,452
Current Expenses 4,000
Rent 8,926
In-State Travel 750
Development & Maintenance 75,000
Total Expenditures $212,881
As a result, the Department states the proposed appropriation would not adequately meet the need to successfully implement the program.