Bill Text - SB162 (2021)

Relative to the department of health and human services, the New Hampshire granite advantage health care trust fund, and health facility licensure.


Revision: June 1, 2021, 3:31 p.m.

Rep. Cushman, Hills. 2

Rep. Folsom, Graf. 11

June 1, 2021

2021-1837h

04/04

 

 

Floor Amendment to SB 162-FN

 

Amend the bill by deleting sections 48-50 and renumbering the original sections 51-72 to read as 48-69, respectively.

 

Amend the bill by replacing section 66 with the following:

 

66  Applicability.  Sections 64-65 of this act shall apply to affidavits or claims filed on or after the effective date of this section.

 

Amend the bill by replacing section 69 with the following:

 

69  Effective Date.

I.  Sections 3-4, 6, 10, 12-32, and 67 of this act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

II.  Sections 39-40 and 64-66 of this act shall take effect July 1, 2021.

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

2021-1837h

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill makes numerous revisions to funds, positions, and programs within the department of health and human services, including the therapeutic cannabis program; youth tobacco use; residential care and child placement licensing procedures; availability of epinephrine auto-injectors and asthma inhalers at recreation camps; the developmentally disabled wait list; the New Hampshire granite workforce program; and child protection investigations.  The bill also establishes a public health services special fund and directs certain fees to that fund to be used by the department for program oversight.