Bill Text - HB1162 (2022)

Relative to requiring insurance coverage for vaccinations, devices, and medications authorized for emergency use by the United States Food and Drug Administration.


Revision: Nov. 17, 2021, 11 a.m.

HB 1162  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2022 SESSION

22-2363

11/10

 

HOUSE BILL 1162

 

AN ACT relative to requiring insurance coverage for vaccinations, devices, and medications authorized for emergency use by the United States Food and Drug Administration.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Gay, Rock. 8; Rep. Bernardy, Rock. 16; Rep. Greeson, Graf. 16; Rep. Woods, Merr. 23; Rep. Rung, Hills. 21; Rep. Stapleton, Sull. 5

 

COMMITTEE: Commerce and Consumer Affairs

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill prohibits insurers from excluding coverage for any vaccination, device, or medication that has been authorized for emergency use by the United States Food and Drug Administration.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

22-2363

11/10

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Two

 

AN ACT relative to requiring insurance coverage for vaccinations, devices, and medications authorized for emergency use by the United States Food and Drug Administration.

 

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

 

1  Accident and Health Insurance; Off-label Prescription Drugs; Individual.  Amend RSA 415:6-g, III(b) to read as follows:

(b) Coverage for experimental or investigational drugs, vaccinations, devices, or medications, or the reactions to them, not approved for any indication by the FDA, provided that reactions to any vaccination, device, or medication that has been authorized for emergency use by the FDA shall not be excluded; and

2  Accident and Health Insurance; Off-label Prescription Drugs; Group.  Amend RSA 415:18-j, III(b) to read as follows:

(b) Coverage for experimental or investigational drugs, vaccinations, devices, or medications, or the reactions to them, not approved for any indication by the FDA, provided that reactions to any vaccination, device, or medication that has been authorized for emergency use by the FDA shall not be excluded; and

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