Revision: Jan. 17, 2019, 2:38 p.m.
HB 695 - AS INTRODUCED
2019 SESSION
19-0735
01/04
HOUSE BILL 695
AN ACT relative to transparency of nonprofit patient advocacy organizations.
SPONSORS: Rep. McBeath, Rock. 26
COMMITTEE: Commerce and Consumer Affairs
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ANALYSIS
This bill requires nonprofit organizations advocating on behalf of patients or that fund medical research to compile a report relative to payments received from certain manufacturers and carriers. The nonprofit organization shall post the report on its Internet website or file it with the insurance commissioner.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
19-0735
01/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nineteen
AN ACT relative to transparency of nonprofit patient advocacy organizations.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Transparency of Nonprofit Patient Advocacy Organizations. Amend RSA 400-A by inserting after section 30 the following new section:
400-A:30-a Transparency of Nonprofit Patient Advocacy Organizations.
I. On or before January 1 of each year, a nonprofit organization which is tax exempt pursuant to section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code that advocates on behalf of patients or funds medical research in New Hampshire and has received a payment, donation, subsidy or anything else of value from a pharmaceutical manufacture, health insurance carrier, or pharmacy benefit manager, or a trade or advocacy group for pharmaceutical manufactures, health insurance carrier, or pharmacy benefit managers during the immediately preceding calendar year shall compile a report which includes:
(a) For each such contribution, the amount of the contribution and the pharmaceutical manufacturer, affiliated third party, pharmacy benefit manager or group that provided the payment, donation, subsidy, or other contribution;
(b) The percentage of the total gross income of the organization during the immediately preceding calendar year attributable to payments, donations, subsidies, or other contributions from each pharmaceutical manufacturer, health insurance carrier, pharmacy benefit manager, or group; and
(c) A disclosure that the nonprofit organization has received a payment, donation, subsidy, or other contribution from a pharmaceutical manufacture, health insurance carrier, pharmacy benefit manager, or group when testifying, lobbying, or otherwise engaging with a member of the New Hampshire house of representatives or senate.
II. The nonprofit organization shall post the report on the Internet website that is maintained by the nonprofit organization and accessible to the public. If the nonprofit organization does not maintain an Internet website that is accessible to the public, the nonprofit organization shall submit the report complied pursuant to paragraph I to the insurance commissioner.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.