Revision: May 22, 2025, 1:38 p.m.
Rep. Layon, Rock. 13
Rep. Grote, Rock. 24
May 22, 2025
2025-2376h
05/08
Floor Amendment to SB 178
Amend the bill by replacing section 1 with the following:
1 Department of Health and Human Services; Laboratory Services; Reimbursements; Rulemaking. RSA 131:4 is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:
131:4 Laboratory Services, Fees, and Rulemaking; Lab Equipment and Replacement Fund Established.
I. The commissioner of the department of health and human services shall adopt rules pursuant to RSA 541-A relative to a list of laboratory services to be provided under this chapter and a schedule of fees for such services. The fees may be waived by the commissioner when the commissioner determines it is in the best interests of the health of the public to do so.
II. Fees for analyses required by the federal Safe Drinking Water Act or offered as a service shall be set by following the cost allocation method established for reimbursements to the state from grants funded by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
III. Fees collected from state agencies shall be credited against the operating costs of the laboratory.
IV. Fees collected from all others shall be deposited 50 percent in the general fund and 50 percent in a special nonlapsing lab equipment and replacement fund established in the state treasury and kept separate and distinct from all other funds. The fund shall be continually appropriated to the commissioner of the department of health and human services for the purchase or replacement of laboratory equipment designed to improve service. The commissioner may, with prior approval of the governor and council, use funds in the lab equipment and replacement fund for unanticipated personnel or supply expenditures made necessary by unexpected changes in or additions to federal or state required laboratory analyses or unusual volume of samples.