Revision: Jan. 8, 2019, 8:30 a.m.
HB 422 - AS INTRODUCED
2019 SESSION
19-0605
01/05
HOUSE BILL 422
AN ACT relative to certain procedures performed in teaching hospitals.
SPONSORS: Rep. Torosian, Rock. 14; Rep. Janigian, Rock. 8
COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
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ANALYSIS
This bill prohibits a physician or surgeon or a student undertaking a course of professional instruction from performing a pelvic examination on an anesthetized or unconscious female patient unless such examination is within the scope of care for the surgical procedure.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
19-0605
01/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nineteen
AN ACT relative to certain procedures performed in teaching hospitals.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Physicians and Surgeons; Certain Examination Prohibited. Amend RSA 329 by inserting after section 1-d the following new section:
329:1-e Pelvic Examination on Anesthetized or Unconscious Female Patient Prohibited. A physician and surgeon or a student undertaking a course of professional instruction or a clinical training program, shall not perform a pelvic examination on an anesthetized or unconscious female patient unless the patient gave informed consent to the pelvic examination, or the performance of a pelvic examination is within the scope of care for the surgical procedure or diagnostic examination to be performed on the patient or, in the case of an unconscious patient, the pelvic examination is required for diagnostic purposes.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2020.