Bill Text: NH HB1740 | 2018 | Regular Session | Enrolled


Bill Title: Relative to costs of blood testing orders.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-06-13 - Signed by Governor Sununu 06/08/2018; Chapter 201; Eff. 6/8/2018 [HB1740 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2018-HB1740-Enrolled.html

HB 1740 - VERSION ADOPTED BY BOTH BODIES

 

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2018 SESSION

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01/10

 

HOUSE BILL 1740

 

AN ACT relative to costs of blood testing orders.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Hunt, Ches. 11; Sen. French, Dist 7; Sen. Carson, Dist 14

 

COMMITTEE: Commerce and Consumer Affairs

 

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AMENDED ANALYSIS

 

This bill  clarifies the provision of law relating to the costs of blood testing orders when certain individuals have been exposed to another person's bodily fluids.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.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

 

AN ACT relative to costs of blood testing orders.

 

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

 

1  Notification After Exposure to Infectious Disease; Costs.  Amend RSA 141-G:15 to read as follows:

141-G:15 Costs.  Subject to rules adopted by the commissioner under RSA 141-G:19, an applicant's workers' compensation insurance carrier shall be responsible for paying the costs [relating to a testing order.  Subject to rules adopted by the commissioner under RSA 141-G:19, the private health or automobile insurance of an applicant who does not have access to workers' compensation insurance which would cover medication for prophylaxis against potential bloodborne pathogens shall be responsible for paying the costs relating to a testing order] of the test, including charges of the health care facility taking the blood sample and the charges of the laboratory for the analysis of the sample.  An applicant without insurance coverage may request testing under this subdivision, however, he or she shall be responsible for paying for the testing order and may be required to pay for testing in advance.

2  Notification After Exposure to Infectious Disease; Rules.  Amend RSA 141-G:19, II(k) to read as follows:

(k)  Circumstances in which workers' compensation insurance[,] and the government[, and private health or automobile insurance] shall be responsible for paying the costs referred to in RSA 141-G:15.

3  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect upon its passage.

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