Bill Text - HB362 (2017)

Prohibiting certain immunization requirements for noncommunicable diseases.


Revision: March 30, 2017, 12:02 p.m.

HB 362 - AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

 

9Mar2017... 0638h

2017 SESSION

17-0425

01/06

 

HOUSE BILL 362

 

AN ACT prohibiting certain immunization requirements for noncommunicable diseases.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Fraser, Belk. 1; Rep. Gould, Hills. 7; Rep. Murphy, Hills. 7; Rep. W. Marsh, Carr. 8; Sen. Avard, Dist 12

 

COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

 

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AMENDED ANALYSIS

 

This bill declares that immunization/vaccine requirements shall not be required  for diseases that are noncommunicable.

 

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

9Mar2017... 0638h 17-0425

01/06

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

 

AN ACT prohibiting certain immunization requirements for noncommunicable diseases.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  New Paragraph; Communicable Disease; Child Immunization.  Amend RSA 141-C:20-a by inserting after paragraph II the following new paragraph:

III.  Nothing in this section shall require an immunization/vaccination requirement for diseases that are noncommunicable.  "Noncommunicable disease" means a disease that is not infectious or transmissible from person-to-person.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.