Bill Text - HB1638 (2024)

Relative to requiring case reviews and remedial measures for any department of health and human services employee who improperly performs their job.


Revision: Oct. 19, 2023, 10:55 a.m.

 

2024 SESSION

24-2786.0

11/05

 

HOUSE BILL [bill number]

 

AN ACT relative to requiring case reviews and remedial measures for any department of health and human services employee who improperly performs their job.

 

SPONSORS: [sponsors]

 

COMMITTEE: [committee]

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires case reviews and remedial measures for any department of health and human services employee who improperly performs their job.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-2786.0

11/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to requiring case reviews and remedial measures for any department of health and human services employee who improperly performs their job.

 

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

 

1  New Section; Oversight and Review of Department Employees.  Amend RSA 126-A by inserting after section 3 the following new section:

126-A:3-a  Oversight and Review of Department Employees.  The commissioner shall direct the department to adopt rules that require all employees who have been found, by virtue of a complaint filed in the normal course, to have failed to perform their jobs properly, according to their job descriptions and duties, to submit to a thorough job review.  Where an employee manages cases as part of the employee's duties, the job review shall include a case review.  The review shall encompass a detailed examination of the all of the records related to their job performance, including their responses to delegated tasks, for the prior 3 years.  If the examination reveals a pattern of failure to perform their duties as required, the employee shall be placed on probation and receive remedial training.  In the event that an employee has a pattern of putting lives at great risk, the employee shall be terminated.  The commissioner is directed to require that all administrative rules that contradict this section be amended or repealed.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect January 1, 2025.