Revision: July 29, 2024, 4:12 p.m.
CHAPTER 298
SB 497-FN - FINAL VERSION
11Apr2024... 1294h
2024 SESSION
24-2891
05/10
SENATE BILL 497-FN
AN ACT relative to establishing the disproportionate share hospital fund.
SPONSORS: Sen. Bradley, Dist 3
COMMITTEE: Health and Human Services
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ANALYSIS
This bill establishes a disproportionate share hospital fund in the department of health and human services for the purpose of distributing funds to hospitals for completion of federally required disproportionate share hospital examinations.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
11Apr2024... 1294h 24-2891
05/10
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four
AN ACT relative to establishing the disproportionate share hospital fund.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
298:1 State Treasurer; Application of Receipts. Amend RSA 6:12, I(b)(338) to read as follows:
(338) Moneys deposited in the uncompensated care and Medicaid fund established in RSA 167:64, I.
298:2 New Subparagraph; State Treasurer; Application of Receipts. Amend RSA 6:12, I(b) by inserting after subparagraph (394) the following new subparagraph:
(395) Moneys deposited in the disproportionate share hospital fund established in RSA 167:64, V.
298:3 New Paragraph; Uncompensated Care and Medicaid Fund; Disproportionate Share Hospital Fund Added. Amend RSA 167:64 by inserting after paragraph IV the following new paragraph:
V. There is hereby established in the department of health and human services the disproportionate share hospital fund, which shall be kept separate and distinct from all other funds. All disproportionate hospital share hospital revenue received by the department shall be credited to the fund. The moneys in the fund shall be nonlapsing and continually appropriated to the department for the purpose of redistributing disproportionate share hospital funds between and among hospitals for compliance with the federally required disproportionate share hospital examinations.
298:4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved: July 26, 2024
Effective Date: July 26, 2024