Revision: April 6, 2017, 1:42 p.m.
HB 264 - VERSION ADOPTED BY BOTH BODIES
15Feb2017... 0119h
2017 SESSION
17-0632
01/09
HOUSE BILL 264
SPONSORS: Rep. Murphy, Hills. 7
COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
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This bill establishes a commission to study allowing pharmacists to prescribe or make available via protocol oral contraceptives and certain related medications.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
15Feb2017... 0119h 17-0632
01/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Commission to Study Allowing Pharmacists to Prescribe or Make Available via Protocol Oral Contraceptives and Certain Related Medications. Amend RSA 318 by inserting after section 47-j the following new section:
318:47-k Commission to Study Allowing Pharmacists to Prescribe or Make Available via Protocol Oral Contraceptives and Certain Related Medications.
I. There is established a commission to study allowing pharmacists to prescribe or make available via protocol oral contraceptives and certain related medications.
II.(a) The members of the commission shall be as follows:
(1) Three members of the house of representatives, appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives, at least one of whom shall be a member of the house health, human services and elderly affairs committee and one of whom shall be a member of the executive departments and administration committee.
(2) One member of the senate, appointed by the president of the senate.
(3) The commissioner of the department of health and human services, or designee.
(4) A representative of the New Hampshire Society of Health-System Pharmacists, appointed by the society.
(5) A representative of the New Hampshire Pharmacists Association, appointed by the association.
(6) A representative of the New Hampshire board of pharmacy, appointed by the board.
(7) A representative from the Coalition of New Hampshire Chain Drug Stores, appointed by the coalition.
(8) A representative from the New Hampshire Independent Pharmacy Association, appointed by the association.
(9) A representative of the New Hampshire Medical Society, appointed by the society.
(10) A representative of the board of nursing, appointed by the board.
(11) A representative of the New Hampshire Nurse Practitioner Association, appointed by the association.
(12) A family physician, appointed by the board of medicine.
(13) A representative of the New Hampshire Nurses Association, appointed by the association.
(14) A physician who is a member of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, appointed by the New Hampshire Medical Society.
(15) A physician licensed under RSA 329, appointed by the New Hampshire Hospital Association.
(16) A representative of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, appointed by that organization.
(17) A representative of a health clinic which receives Title X funding, appointed by the Bi-State Primary Care Association.
(b) Legislative members of the commission shall receive mileage at the legislative rate when attending to the duties of the commission.
III. The commission's study shall include, but not be limited to, allowing pharmacists to prescribe or make available via protocol oral contraceptives and certain related medications. The commission shall solicit information from any person or entity the commission deems relevant to its study.
IV. The members of the commission shall elect a chairperson from among the members. The first meeting of the commission shall be called by the first-named house member. The first meeting of the commission shall be held within 45 days of the effective date of this section. Nine members of the commission shall constitute a quorum.
V. The commission shall make a report of its findings and any recommendations for proposed legislation to the speaker of the house of representatives, the president of the senate, the house clerk, the senate clerk, the governor, and the state library on or before December 1, 2017.
2 Repeal. RSA 318:47-k, relative to the commission to study allowing pharmacists to prescribe or make available via protocol contraceptives and certain related medications, is repealed.
I. Section 2 of this act shall take effect December 1, 2017.
II. The remainder of this act shall take effect upon its passage.