Bill Text - SB121 (2022)

Relative to a state-based health exchange.


Revision: Jan. 29, 2021, 10:27 a.m.

SB 121  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2021 SESSION

21-0960

10/08

 

SENATE BILL 121

 

AN ACT relative to a state-based health exchange.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Rosenwald, Dist 13; Sen. Bradley, Dist 3; Sen. Sherman, Dist 24; Rep. Marsh, Carr. 8; Rep. Bartlett, Merr. 19; Rep. Weber, Ches. 1; Rep. Hunt, Ches. 11

 

COMMITTEE: Health and Human Services

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires the insurance department  to examine the implementation of a state health exchange and implement such an exchange upon approval of the joint health care reform oversight committee.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

21-0960

10/08

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty One

 

AN ACT relative to a state-based health exchange.

 

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

 

1  New Section; Federal Health Care Reform; Health Exchange.  Amend RSA 420-N by inserting after section 10 the following new section:

420-N:11 Implementation of State-Based Exchange.  Notwithstanding the provisions of RSA 420-N:7, the insurance department is authorized to examine the potential benefits of implementing a state-based exchange, including potential strengthening of state control over health insurance reform, potential health policy benefits, and potential economic benefits to the individual and group health insurance markets. If, in the department’s opinion, implementation of a state-based exchange would strengthen state control and provide significant health policy benefits and economic benefits, the department may implement a state-based exchange upon approval of the joint health care reform oversight committee established in RSA 420-N:3.

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