Revision: Feb. 23, 2018, 9:05 a.m.
HB 1356 - AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
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2018 SESSION
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05/01
HOUSE BILL 1356
SPONSORS: Rep. M. Pearson, Rock. 34; Rep. Messmer, Rock. 24; Rep. Guthrie, Rock. 13; Rep. McConnell, Ches. 12; Rep. W. Marsh, Carr. 8; Rep. Pantelakos, Rock. 25; Rep. P. Gordon, Rock. 29; Sen. Innis, Dist 24; Sen. Fuller Clark, Dist 21
COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration
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ANALYSIS
This bill requires the department of environmental services and the department of health and human services to establish a data sharing protocol regarding certain health and environmental information collected by each agency.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Subdivision; Data Sharing Between the Department of Environmental Services and the Department of Health and Human Services. Amend RSA 126-A by inserting after section 74 the following new subdivision:
Data Sharing Between the Department of Environmental Services
and the Department of Health and Human Services
126-A:75 Data Sharing Between the Department of Environmental Services and the Department of Health and Human Services.
I. The department of environmental services and the department of health and human services shall develop and implement a method by which the departments share certain health outcome and environmental data. On or before September 1, 2018, the commissioners of the department of environmental services and the department of health and human services shall:
(a) Enter into an updated memorandum of agreement on cooperation regarding data sharing between the department of health and human services and the department of environmental services.
(b) Sign a joint standard operating procedure on how data layers can be shared between the 2 departments to identify linkages between environmental contaminants and health outcomes in a collaborative fashion.
(c) Hold a presentation on the departments' ongoing, joint efforts under the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention environmental public health tracking cooperative agreement.
(d) Make a presentation to the commission to study environmentally-triggered chronic illness, established in RSA 126-A:73, regarding the departments' use of the standard operating procedure developed under subparagraph (b) to compare data, analyze community impacts, and communicate the results to the community.
II. Nothing in this section shall require the disclosure of confidential or personally identifiable information otherwise protected by state or federal law. In order to assure the privacy of protected health information, only non-protected health information or aggregated data shall be made available where it is pertinent to the matter being assessed.
III. On or before September 1, 2018, the commissioners of the department of environmental services and the department of health and human services shall submit a report regarding the data sharing practices required under paragraph I to the speaker of the house of representatives, the senate president, the state library, and the commission to study environmentally-triggered chronic illness, established in RSA 126-A:73. The report shall include a description and estimate of the cost to perform a 2-way pilot project between the departments on arsenic in drinking water, where both health effects and environmental data exist.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.