HB 597-FN – AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE
11Apr2007… 0674h
05/24/07 1846s
2007 SESSION
01/09
HOUSE BILL 597-FN
AN ACT requiring the health services and planning review board to accept the application and provide an expedited hearing and review process for the request by Elliot Hospital for approval of a new facility in Londonderry.
SPONSORS: Rep. MacKay, Merr 11
COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
This bill requires the health services and planning review board to accept the application and provide an expedited hearing and review process for the request by Elliot Hospital for approval of a new facility in Londonderry.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
11Apr2007… 0674h
05/24/07 1846s
07-0995
01/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seven
AN ACT requiring the health services and planning review board to accept the application and provide an expedited hearing and review process for the request by Elliot Hospital for approval of a new facility in Londonderry.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Expedited Hearing and Review Process. The health services planning and review board shall accept the application and provide an expedited hearing and review process for the request by Elliot Hospital for approval of a new facility in Londonderry.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
LBAO
07-0995
Revised 03/09/07
HB 597 FISCAL NOTE
AN ACT relative to expenditure caps for institutional health facilities under the certificate of need law.
FISCAL IMPACT
The Department of Health and Human Services states this bill may have an indeterminable fiscal impact on state and county expenditures in FY 2007 and each year thereafter. This bill would have no fiscal impact on state, county, and local revenue, or local expenditures.
METHODOLOGY
The Department states this bill could result in a fiscal impact for the Department. The state and counties, through the current nursing home rate structure, pay the costs of capital improvement up to a prescribed cap. This bill would raise the dollar amount of the threshold for which Certificate of Need (CON) approval is required before construction, development, expansion, renovation or addition of any nursing home, and other types of health facilities can take place. The proposed bill may result in an increase in renovations and alterations in nursing homes, and because the state and counties pay for capital improvements as part of the Medicaid rate, may increase state and county expenditures by an indeterminable amount.