Bill Text: NH HB58 | 2011 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Relative to inter-facility transfers of critical access hospital patients.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2011-05-19 - House Signed by Governor 05/16/2011; Effective 07/15/2011; Chapter 0062 [HB58 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2011-HB58-Chaptered.html

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CHAPTER 62

HB 58 – FINAL VERSION

2011 SESSION

11-0619

01/04

HOUSE BILL 58

AN ACT relative to inter-facility transfers of critical access hospital patients.

SPONSORS: Rep. White, Graf 11

COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

ANALYSIS

This bill deletes the exception for emergency medical and trauma services to allow certain providers to provide care during an inter-facility transfer of a critical access hospital patient in an urgent situation.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

11-0619

01/04

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eleven

AN ACT relative to inter-facility transfers of critical access hospital patients.

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

62:1 Repeal. RSA 153-A:16, III, relative to exception for inter-facility transfers, is repealed.

62:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

Approved: May 16, 2011

Effective Date: July 15, 2011