HB 1250 – AS INTRODUCED
2012 SESSION
01/09
HOUSE BILL 1250
AN ACT allowing designated persons to provide emergency medical treatment to another person.
SPONSORS: Rep. Bergevin, Hills 17; Rep. Gidge, Hills 24; Rep. Marshall Quandt, Rock 13; Rep. Greazzo, Hills 17
COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
This bill allows designated persons to provide emergency medical treatment to another person.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
12-2018
01/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twelve
AN ACT allowing designated persons to provide emergency medical treatment to another person.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Designated Persons May Provide Emergency Treatment. Amend RSA 508 by inserting after section 12-b the following new section:
508:12-c Designated Person May Provide Emergency Medical Aid. A person who has a chronic or acute medical condition for which his or her physician has approved self-treatment for such condition may designate by mutual agreement another person or persons to administer the self-treatment medication by the method prescribed in an emergency situation. The authorization shall include oral and written instruction for the purpose of administering the medication in accordance with this section. No person acting as authorized in this section, including licensed or certified medical professionals acting in accordance with licensing and certification shall be held liable for any harm done to the patient if acting in good faith, as directed in said authorization, unless his or her actions are grossly negligent.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2013.