CHAPTER 369
HB 1637 – FINAL VERSION
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2008 SESSION
01/09
HOUSE BILL 1637
AN ACT relative to reports to the cancer registry and requiring the oversight committee on health and human services to study the frequency of unfilled prescriptions due to inadequate staffing in pharmacies and pharmacy closures.
SPONSORS: Rep. MacKay, Merr 11
COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
This bill requires reports to the cancer registry to include items listed in rules adopted under RSA 541-A and certain other information.
This bill also requires the oversight committee on health and human services, in conjunction with the New Hampshire pharmacy board to study the frequency of unfilled prescriptions due to inadequate staffing in pharmacies and pharmacy closures.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
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08-2891
01/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eight
AN ACT relative to reports to the cancer registry and requiring the oversight committee on health and human services to study the frequency of unfilled prescriptions due to inadequate staffing in pharmacies and pharmacy closures.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
369:1 Cancer Registry; Reports. Amend RSA 141-B:7 to read as follows:
141-B:7 Reporting. All facilities shall provide a report to the cancer registry, including social security numbers if persons were given the option at the original point of collection to provide social security numbers voluntarily, containing information regarding a cancer diagnosed or being treated. Each report of cancer shall include items listed in rules adopted under RSA 541-A in accordance with the elements listed in the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries, Standards for Cancer Registries as amended from time to time and available. The department shall review any such amendment and if it determines that an amendment is not appropriate for New Hampshire, the amendment shall not be incorporated into the rules or be implemented by the department.
369:2 Study and Report Required. The oversight committee on health and human services, established in RSA 126-A:13, shall, in conjunction with the New Hampshire pharmacy board, study the frequency of unfilled prescriptions due to inadequate staffing in pharmacies and pharmacy closures. The oversight committee on health and human services shall make a report, together with its recommendations, to the speaker of the house of representatives, the president of the senate, the governor, the house health, human services and elderly affairs committee, and the senate health and human services committee on or before November 1, 2009.
369:3 Effective Date.
I. Section 1 of this act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
II. The remainder of this act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved: July 11, 2008
Effective Date: I. Section 1 shall take effect September 9, 2008.
II. Remainder shall take effect July 11, 2008.