Bill Text - HB1660 (2024)

Relative to coverage of certain procedures for minor children under the state’s Medicaid program.


Revision: Oct. 17, 2023, 10:16 a.m.

 

2024 SESSION

24-2634.0

05/10

 

HOUSE BILL [bill number]

 

AN ACT relative to coverage of certain procedures for minor children under the state’s Medicaid program.

 

SPONSORS: [sponsors]

 

COMMITTEE: [committee]

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill provides that the state Medicaid plan shall not include gender reassignment treatment for minors.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-2634.0

05/10

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to coverage of certain procedures for minor children under the state’s Medicaid program.

 

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

 

1  New Section; Coverage of Gender Reassignment Procedures for Minors Excluded Under State Medicaid Program.  Amend RSA 167 by inserting after section 3-m the following new section:

167:3-n  State Medicaid Plan; Sex Reassignment Excluded.  Medical assistance provided under the state Medicaid plan shall not include any form of gender reassignment surgery for a person under 18 years of age.

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