Revision: March 17, 2025, 12:59 p.m.
Rep. Lynn, Rock. 17
March 13, 2025
2025-0990h
08/05
Amendment to HB 584-FN
Amend the bill by replacing section 3 with the following:
3 New Section; Claims Arising from Government Entities Enforcing Mandates of the World Health Organization, the United Nations, or the World Economic Forum. Amend RSA 541-B by inserting after section 21-a the following new section:
541-B:21-b Claims Arising from the Government Entities Enforcing Mandates of the World Health Organization, the United Nations, or the World Economic Forum.
I. Without otherwise limiting or defining the sovereign immunity of the state and its agencies, this chapter shall apply to all claims against any counties, cities, towns, precincts, water districts, school districts, school administrative units, or quasi-public entities or any employee, trustee, or director of such when acting in the scope of such person's elected or appointed capacity, who enforces policies, mandates, orders, requirements, edicts, or directives of the World Health Organization, the United Nations, or the World Economic Forum.
II. The limitations on awards provided in RSA 541-B:14 shall not be increased by the proceeds from any insurance policy procured by a nonprofit entity, or any employee of such entity, included under RSA 541-B:21-b, I.
Amend the bill by inserting after section 3 the following and renumbering the original section 4 to read as 5:
4 Definitions; Foreign Pharmacy Graduate. Amend RSA 318:1, VI-c to read as follows:
VI-c. "Foreign pharmacy graduate" is a pharmacist whose undergraduate pharmacy degree was conferred outside the United States by a pharmacy school, notwithstanding RSA 541-B:21-b, listed in the World Directory of Schools of Pharmacy published by the World Health Organization.
2025-0990h
AMENDED ANALYSIS
This bill:
I. Provides that the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum shall have no jurisdiction in New Hampshire.
II. Removes a reference to medical schools recognized by the World Health Organization and replaces it with a reference to the World Directory of Medical Schools.
III. Creates a cause of action against counties, cities, towns, precincts, water districts, school districts, school administrative units, or quasi-public entities who create and enforce policies based on the claims of the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum.
IV. Provides that in a claim against the state or a local government agency for enforcing policies or directives of the World Health Organization, the United Nations, or the World Economic Forum, the limits of awards under RSA 541-B shall apply and shall not be increased by the proceeds of an insurance policy held by such entity.