Bill Text: NH HB1246 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to reporting of health care associated infections, establishing a COVID-19 nursing home and long-term care fund, relative to an independent COVID-19 nursing home and long-term care review, needs assessment, and recommendations, authorizing pharmacists to administer a COVID-19 vaccine, and relative to the reimbursement of costs of training nursing assistants.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2020-09-17 - Veto Sustained 09/16/2020: Regular Calendar 196-139 Lacking Necessary Two-Thirds Vote [HB1246 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2020-HB1246-Introduced.html

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HB 1246 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2020 SESSION

20-2516

01/05

 

HOUSE BILL 1246

 

AN ACT relative to reporting of health care associated infections.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Woods, Merr. 23; Rep. Marsh, Carr. 8

 

COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill clarifies the information that hospitals must report regarding infections.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

20-2516

01/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty

 

AN ACT relative to reporting of health care associated infections.

 

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

 

1  Residential Care and Health Facility Licensing; Reporting of Health Care Associated Infections.  Amend RSA 151:33, II(b) to read as follows:

(b)  Hospitals shall also initially identify, track, and report process measures including[:

(1)  Adherence rates of central line insertion practices;

(2)  Surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis; and

(3)] coverage rates of influenza vaccination for health care personnel and patients/residents.

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