Bill Text - SB302 (2024)

Adding an additional exemption from the regulation of physicians and surgeons.


Revision: Dec. 4, 2023, 9:10 a.m.

SB 302  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2024 SESSION

24-2817

09/08

 

SENATE BILL 302

 

AN ACT adding an additional exemption from the regulation of physicians and surgeons.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Rosenwald, Dist 13; Sen. Perkins Kwoka, Dist 21; Sen. Carson, Dist 14; Sen. Pearl, Dist 17; Sen. Altschiller, Dist 24; Rep. Grote, Rock. 24; Rep. Ming, Hills. 35; Rep. Nagel, Belk. 6

 

COMMITTEE: Health and Human Services

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill exempts from application of the chapter a physician licensed in another state providing care to a patient in New Hampshire when there is a physician-patient relationship in the physician's home state of licensing with in-person examinations conducted by the physician at intervals appropriate for the patient and the patient's medical condition, but not less than annually.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-2817

09/08

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT adding an additional exemption from the regulation of physicians and surgeons.

 

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

 

1 New Paragraph; Occupations and Professions; Physicians and Surgeons; Limitations Upon Operation of Chapter; Persons Excepted.  Amend RSA 329:21 by inserting after paragraph IV the following new paragraph:

IV-a.  To a physician licensed in another state providing care to a patient in New Hampshire when there is a physician-patient relationship in the physician's home state of licensing with in-person examinations conducted by the physician at intervals appropriate for the patient and the patient's medical condition, but not less than annually; or

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect upon its passage.