CHAPTER 167
HB 298 – FINAL VERSION
2007 SESSION
05/09
HOUSE BILL 298
This bill provides that the healthy kids corporation shall be the program administrator for the expanded children’s health insurance program under the Social Security Act.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
07-0797
05/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seven
AN ACT relative to the healthy kids corporation.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
167:1 Healthy Kids Corporation Established; Administrator of Expanded Children’s Health Insurance Program. Amend RSA 126-H:2 to read as follows:
126-H:2 Corporation Established. 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 be the program administrator for the state children’s health insurance program under Title XXI of the Social Security Act. 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.
167:2 Repeal. RSA 126-A:5, XIV, relative to the contract for the state children’s health insurance program, is repealed.
167:3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: June 18, 2007
Effective: August 17, 2007