Bill Text - SB350 (2024)

Relative to gap health insurance coverage for prima facie presumptive conditions for emergency response/public safety workers.


Revision: July 9, 2024, 1:50 p.m.

CHAPTER 151

SB 350-FN - FINAL VERSION

 

02/08/2024   0260s

04/05/2024   1270s

2024 SESSION

24-2828

10/05

 

SENATE BILL 350-FN

 

AN ACT relative to gap health insurance coverage for prima facie presumptive conditions for emergency response/public safety workers.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Soucy, Dist 18; Sen. Birdsell, Dist 19; Sen. Carson, Dist 14; Sen. Chandley, Dist 11; Rep. Goley, Hills. 21; Rep. O'Brien, Hills. 10; Rep. Soucy, Merr. 21

 

COMMITTEE: Health and Human Services

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires that emergency response/public safety workers denied workers' compensation claims related to any claim of injury to which a prima facie presumption applies shall maintain their health insurance benefit until a final determination is made.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

02/08/2024   0260s

04/05/2024   1270s 24-2828

10/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to gap health insurance coverage for prima facie presumptive conditions for emergency response/public safety workers.

 

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

 

151:1  New Section; Workers' Compensation; Emergency Responders; Health Insurance. Amend RSA  281-A by inserting after section 17-e the following new section:

281-A:17-f  Emergency Response/Public Safety Worker; Insurance Coverage.  If an emergency response/public safety worker, as defined in RSA 281-A:2, V-c, petitions for hearing in response to a memorandum of denial filed under RSA 281-A:42, I(b) related to any claim of injury to which a prima facie presumption applies:

I.  The employer shall maintain any health insurance benefit at the value of a single employee insurance premium until such time that the commissioner makes a final determination, including any appeal.

II.  Once claimed, the period for which this benefit is payable shall not exceed 18 months.

III.  The employee shall be eligible for this benefit starting at the beginning of his or her employment and for a period of 20 years from the effective date of separation from service.

151:2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

 

Approved: July 03, 2024

Effective Date: September 01, 2024