Revision: Jan. 4, 2021, 3:25 p.m.
HB 221 - AS INTRODUCED
2021 SESSION
21-0205
05/08
HOUSE BILL 221
AN ACT making the state vaccine registry an opt-in program.
SPONSORS: Rep. Lang, Belk. 4; Rep. Nunez, Hills. 37; Rep. Rice, Hills. 37; Rep. Binford, Graf. 15; Rep. Harvey-Bolia, Belk. 4; Rep. Notter, Hills. 21; Rep. T. Lekas, Hills. 37; Rep. Bordes, Belk. 3; Rep. Pauer, Hills. 26; Sen. Avard, Dist 12; Rep. Trottier, Belk. 6
COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
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ANALYSIS
This bill makes the state immunization registry an opt-in program rather than an opt-out program.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
21-0205
05/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty One
AN ACT making the state vaccine registry an opt-in program.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; Communicable Disease; Immunization Registry; Opportunity to Opt-In to the Registry. Amend RSA 141-C:20-f by inserting after paragraph II the following new paragraph:
II-a. Each patient, or the patient's parent or guardian if the patient is a minor, shall be given the opportunity to opt-in to the immunization registry. No patient’s immunization or vaccination information shall be entered into the registry without the explicit, written, opt-in consent of the patient, or the patient’s parent or guardian.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.