Bill Text - HB1010 (2024)

Relative to expanding maternity options and midwifery access.


Revision: Nov. 28, 2023, 8:09 a.m.

HB 1010  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2024 SESSION

24-2020

05/08

 

HOUSE BILL 1010

 

AN ACT relative to expanding maternity options and midwifery access.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Cushman, Hills. 28; Rep. Potucek, Rock. 13; Rep. Monteil, Ches. 15; Rep. Phillips, Rock. 7; Rep. Santonastaso, Ches. 18; Rep. Edwards, Rock. 31; Rep. T. Lekas, Hills. 38; Rep. Reid, Hills. 27; Sen. Avard, Dist 12; Sen. Pearl, Dist 17

 

COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill provides that the midwifery council shall not adopt rules limiting care by a midwife based on the patient being pregnant with multiple fetuses, malpresentation of the fetus, the number of prior cesarean sections, or distance from a hospital.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-2020

05/08

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to expanding maternity options and midwifery access.

 

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

 

1  New Paragraph; Midwifery; Rulemaking.  Amend RSA 326-D:5 by inserting after paragraph II the following new paragraph:

II-a. No rule shall be adopted that requires a denial or transfer of care by a midwife for reasons of the patient being pregnant with multiple fetuses, malpresentation of the fetus, or the patient having had fewer than 3 previous cesarean sections. Additionally, no rule shall be adopted which prohibits the acceptance of a client for midwifery care based on the patient’s distance from a hospital.

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