Bill Text - HB366 (2020)

Adding opioid addiction, misuse, and abuse to qualifying medical conditions under therapeutic use of cannabis.


Revision: Jan. 7, 2019, 2:34 p.m.

HB 366 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2019 SESSION

19-0140

01/04

 

HOUSE BILL 366

 

AN ACT adding opioid addiction, misuse, and abuse to qualifying medical conditions under therapeutic use of cannabis.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Cushing, Rock. 21; Sen. Reagan, Dist 17

 

COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill adds opioid addiction, misuse, and abuse to the qualifying medical conditions under therapeutic use of cannabis.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

19-0140

01/04

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nineteen

 

AN ACT adding opioid addiction, misuse, and abuse to qualifying medical conditions under therapeutic use of cannabis.

 

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

 

1  Use of Cannabis for Therapeutic Purposes; Definitions.  Amend RSA 126-X:1, IX(a)(1) to read as follows:

(1)  Cancer, glaucoma, positive status for human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, hepatitis C, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis, chronic pancreatitis, spinal cord injury or disease, traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, lupus, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, ulcerative colitis, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, opioid addiction, misuse, and abuse, or one or more injuries or conditions that has resulted in one or more qualifying symptoms under subparagraph (2); and

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