Bill Text - HB1356 (2018)

(Second New Title) relative to data sharing between the department of environmental services and the department of health and human services; making an appropriation to the department of business and economic affairs for relocation costs; and relative to the exemption for recreational vehicles from property taxation.


Revision: June 6, 2018, 12:31 p.m.

HB 1356 - VERSION ADOPTED BY BOTH BODIES

 

22Feb2018... 0374h

04/19/2018   1465s

05/03/2018   1869s

23May2018... 2038-CofC

23May2018... 2105-EBA

 

2018 SESSION

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05/01

 

HOUSE BILL 1356

 

AN ACT relative to data sharing between the department of environmental services and the department of health and human services; making an appropriation to the department of business and economic affairs for relocation costs; and relative to the exemption for recreational vehicles from property taxation.

 

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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AMENDED ANALYSIS

 

This bill:

 

I.  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.

 

II.  Makes a supplemental appropriation to the department of business and economic affairs for relocation costs.

 

III.  Clarifies that a campground owner shall not be responsible for payment of any taxes on a recreational vehicle located at the campground unless the campground owner is the owner of the recreational vehicle.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

22Feb2018... 0374h

04/19/2018   1465s

05/03/2018   1869s

23May2018... 2038-CofC

23May2018... 2105-EBA 18-2419

05/01

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen

 

AN ACT relative to data sharing between the department of environmental services and the department of health and human services; making an appropriation to the department of business and economic affairs for relocation costs; and relative to the exemption for recreational vehicles from property taxation.

 

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 75 the

following new subdivision:

Data Sharing Between the Department of Environmental Services and

the Department of Health and Human Services

126-A:76  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  Department of Business and Economic Affairs; Appropriation:  Relocation and Lease Costs.  The sum of $75,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, and the sum of $392,304 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019, are hereby appropriated to the department of business and economic affairs for the costs of relocating the department's operations to a new premises and for the costs of leasing the premises.  The department of administrative services shall be responsible, in collaboration with the department of business and economic affairs, for signing the lease.  The governor is authorized to draw a warrant for said sums out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

3  Taxation of Property; Exemption; Recreation Vehicles.  Amend RSA 72:7-d, I(c) to read as follows:

[(c)] II.  Notwithstanding RSA 75:3, campground owners shall not be responsible for payment of any taxes imposed on a recreational vehicle located at the campground unless the campground owner is the owner of the recreational vehicle.

4  Effective Date.

I.  Section 1 of this act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

II.  The remainder of this act shall take effect upon its passage.