Bill Text: NH HB1356 | 2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relative to data sharing between the department of environmental services and the department of health and human services; making an appropriation to the department of business and economic affairs for relocation costs; and relative to the exemption for recreational vehicles from property taxation.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2018-06-26 - Signed by Governor Sununu 06/25/2018; Chapter 296; I. Sec. 1 eff. 8/24/2018; II. Rem. eff. 6/25/2018 [HB1356 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2018-HB1356-Amended.html
HB 1356 - AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE
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HOUSE BILL 1356
SPONSORS: Rep. M. Pearson, Rock. 34; Rep. Messmer, Rock. 24; Rep. Guthrie, Rock. 13; Rep. McConnell, Ches. 12; Rep. W. Marsh, Carr. 8; Rep. Pantelakos, Rock. 25; Rep. P. Gordon, Rock. 29; Sen. Innis, Dist 24; Sen. Fuller Clark, Dist 21
COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration
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AMENDED ANALYSIS
This bill:
I. Requires the department of environmental services and the department of health and human services to establish a data sharing protocol regarding certain health and environmental information collected by each agency.
II. Makes a supplemental appropriation to the department of business and economic affairs for relocation costs.
III. Removes the requirement that recreational vehicles exempt from property taxation have a valid motor vehicle registration and number plate; removes the requirement that campground owners provide local assessing officials with the name and address of recreational vehicles at the campground that fall within the tax exemption; and amends the definition of recreational campground or camping park to mean campsites intended for temporary occupancy for an undetermined or indefinite amount of time.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Subdivision; Data Sharing Between the Department of Environmental Services and the Department of Health and Human Services. Amend RSA 126-A by inserting after section 74 the following new subdivision:
Data Sharing Between the Department of Environmental Services
and the Department of Health and Human Services
126-A:75 Data Sharing Between the Department of Environmental Services and the Department of Health and Human Services.
I. The department of environmental services and the department of health and human services shall develop and implement a method by which the departments share certain health outcome and environmental data. On or before September 1, 2018, the commissioners of the department of environmental services and the department of health and human services shall:
(a) Enter into an updated memorandum of agreement on cooperation regarding data sharing between the department of health and human services and the department of environmental services.
(b) Sign a joint standard operating procedure on how data layers can be shared between the 2 departments to identify linkages between environmental contaminants and health outcomes in a collaborative fashion.
(c) Hold a presentation on the departments' ongoing, joint efforts under the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention environmental public health tracking cooperative agreement.
(d) Make a presentation to the commission to study environmentally-triggered chronic illness, established in RSA 126-A:73, regarding the departments' use of the standard operating procedure developed under subparagraph (b) to compare data, analyze community impacts, and communicate the results to the community.
II. Nothing in this section shall require the disclosure of confidential or personally identifiable information otherwise protected by state or federal law. In order to assure the privacy of protected health information, only non-protected health information or aggregated data shall be made available where it is pertinent to the matter being assessed.
III. On or before September 1, 2018, the commissioners of the department of environmental services and the department of health and human services shall submit a report regarding the data sharing practices required under paragraph I to the speaker of the house of representatives, the senate president, the state library, and the commission to study environmentally-triggered chronic illness, established in RSA 126-A:73. The report shall include a description and estimate of the cost to perform a 2-way pilot project between the departments on arsenic in drinking water, where both health effects and environmental data exist.
2 Department of Business and Economic Affairs; Appropriation: Relocation and Lease Costs. The sum of $75,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, and the sum of $392,304 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019, are hereby appropriated to the department of business and economic affairs for the costs of relocating the department's operations to a new premises and for the costs of leasing the premises. The governor is authorized to draw a warrant for said sums out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
3 Taxation of Property; Exemption; Recreational Vehicles. RSA 72:7-d is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:
72:7-d Exemption; Recreational Vehicles. For purposes of this chapter, recreational vehicles, as defined in RSA 216-I:1, VIII, having a maximum width of 8 feet and 6 inches while being transported, and located at a "recreational campground or camping park,'' as those terms are defined in RSA 216-I:1 VII, shall not be taxable as real estate.
4 Definition of Recreational Campground or Camping Park. Amend RSA 216-I:1, VII to read as follows:
VII. "Recreational campground or camping park'' means a parcel of land on which 2 or more campsites are occupied or are intended for temporary occupancy for recreational dwelling purposes only for an undetermined or indefinite amount of time, and not for permanent year-round residency, excluding recreation camps as defined in RSA 485-A:23.
I. Section 1 of this act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
II. Sections 3 and 4 of this act shall take effect April 1, 2019.
III. The remainder of this act shall take effect upon its passage.
