Bill Text: NH HB1626 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requiring the governor's commission on alcohol and drug abuse prevention, treatment, and recovery to report on the cost effectiveness of funded programs, and relative to liquor commission shortfalls.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-06-26 - Signed by Governor Sununu 06/25/2018; Chapter 302; Eff. 6/25/2018 [HB1626 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2018-HB1626-Introduced.html

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HB 1626 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2018 SESSION

18-2552

01/03

 

HOUSE BILL 1626

 

AN ACT requiring the governor's commission on alcohol and drug abuse prevention, treatment, and recovery to report on the cost effectiveness of funded programs.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Kurk, Hills. 2; Rep. Itse, Rock. 10; Rep. Rouillard, Hills. 6

 

COMMITTEE: Finance

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires the commissioner of the department of health and human services, in conjuction with the governor's commission on alcohol and drug abuse prevention, treatment and recovery, to make an annual report relative to the cost effectiveness and outcomes of programs funded in whole or in part by the governor's commission.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

18-2552

01/03

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen

 

AN ACT requiring the governor's commission on alcohol and drug abuse prevention, treatment, and recovery to report on the cost effectiveness of funded programs.

 

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

 

1  New Paragraph; Governor's Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery.  Amend RSA 126-A:5 by inserting after paragraph XXX the following new paragraph:

XXXI.  The commissioner, in conjuction with the governor's commission on alcohol and drug abuse prevention, treatment, and recovery, shall make an annual report, commencing on November 1, 2018, relative to the cost effectiveness of each program funded in whole or in part by the governor's commission and the outcomes of each such program and its cost in total  and  on a per participant basis in such a format as shall permit comparisons to the speaker of the house of representatives, the senate president, and the chairpersons of the house and senate committees having jurisdiction over health and human services issues.  For the purposes of this paragraph:

(a)  "Cost effectiveness" means a determination as set forth in the Pew Trust's "Results First" program.  

(b)  "Outcomes" means the final results of a program with respect to each participant and shall exclude outputs.

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