Bill Text - HB1099 (2022)

(Fourth New Title) relative to medical freedom in immunizations, re-establishing the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Farmers Market Nutrition Program, establishing an association health plan pilot program, and relative to expanding Medicaid to include certain postpartum health care services and making an appropriation therefor.

Revision: Nov. 16, 2021, 10:45 a.m.

HB 1099  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2022 SESSION

22-2422

05/10

 

HOUSE BILL 1099

 

AN ACT prohibiting the department of health and human services from requiring vaccine passports for services.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Torosian, Rock. 14; Rep. Littlefield, Belk. 3; Rep. Andrus, Merr. 1; Rep. J. Smith, Carr. 5; Rep. True, Rock. 4; Rep. Green, Rock. 13; Rep. Blasek, Hills. 21

 

COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill provides that the department of health and human services shall not require a vaccine passport for services.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

22-2422

05/10

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Two

 

AN ACT prohibiting the department of health and human services from requiring vaccine passports for services.

 

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

 

1  Communicable Disease; Medical Freedom in Immunizations; Vaccine Passports Prohibited.  Amend RSA 141-C:1-a, I to read as follows:

I.  Every person has the natural, essential, and inherent right to bodily integrity, free from any threat or compulsion by government to accept an immunization.  Accordingly, no person may be compelled to receive an immunization for COVID-19 in order to secure, receive, or access any public facility, any public benefit, or any public service from the state of New Hampshire, or any political subdivision thereof, including but not limited to counties, cities, towns, precincts, water districts, school districts, school administrative units, or quasi-public entities.  The department of health and human service shall not require a vaccine passport as a condition of eligibility for or access to department programs, benefits, or services.  In this section, "vaccine passport" means standardized documentation that an individual has been vaccinated against COVID-19.

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