Revision: Dec. 10, 2009, midnight
HB 1164 – AS INTRODUCED
2010 SESSION
01/05
HOUSE BILL 1164
AN ACT relative to newborn screening tests.
SPONSORS: Rep. Millham, Belk 5
COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
This bill deletes the requirement that the department of health and human services enter into a contract competitively bid and approved by the governor and council for the moneys from the newborn screening fund.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
10-2343
01/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Ten
AN ACT relative to newborn screening tests.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Newborn Screening. Amend RSA 132:10-a, II and III to read as follows:
II. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the commissioner of the department of health and human services shall establish fees, pursuant to RSA 541-A, to be paid by hospitals for the tests required under paragraph I. All such fees shall be paid into the newborn screening fund, hereby established in the state treasury. Moneys from the newborn screening fund established under this section shall be nonlapsing and shall be continually appropriated for use by the department to cover laboratory analysis and related newborn screening program costs [under a contract competitively bid and approved by governor and council].
III. The department of health and human services shall establish a newborn screening advisory committee which shall include a member of the oversight committee on health and human services, established in RSA 126-A:13, and representation from health care subspecialties, as determined by the department. [Any proposals for recommending new tests or fees shall require a public hearing to be held on the proposal by the newborn screening advisory committee.]
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.