Bill Text: NH SB235 | 2014 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Relative to the patients trust fund and relative to a 10-bed psychiatric crisis unit.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2014-08-05 - Signed by the Governor on 08/01/2014; Chapter 0315; Effective 07/01/2014 [SB235 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2014-SB235-Chaptered.html
CHAPTER 315
SB 235 – FINAL VERSION
01/30/14 0150s
03/27/14 1077s
15May2014… 1661h
06/04/14 1964CofC
2014 SESSION
01/05
SENATE BILL 235
AN ACT relative to the patients’ trust fund and relative to a 10-bed psychiatric crisis unit.
SPONSORS: Sen. Reagan, Dist 17
COMMITTEE: Health, Education and Human Services
This bill clarifies the person to whom the facility is to give the quarterly reports of funds and possessions in the patients’ trust fund. This bill also requires the department of health and human services to open the 10-bed psychiatric crisis unit established in 2013, 195:1, VII, H.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
01/30/14 0150s
03/27/14 1077s
15May2014… 1661h
06/04/14 1964CofC
14-2654
01/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fourteen
AN ACT relative to the patients’ trust fund and relative to a 10-bed psychiatric crisis unit.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
315:1 Patients’ Trust Fund. Amend RSA 151:24, III to read as follows:
III. A written receipt shall be given to a patient or a personal representative of the patient when personal funds and possessions are received by a facility [and]. The facility shall furnish the patient or a personal representative of the patient with a quarterly statement of the funds and possessions; except that the New Hampshire hospital shall furnish a quarterly statement only upon request made by the patient or the personal representative of the patient. The statement shall contain the items and amounts received, the sources, the disposition, and the date of each transaction. Upon the discharge of a patient, the facility shall furnish the patient or a personal representative with a final statement and return all personal funds and possessions not later than 10 days after discharge. Upon the death of a patient, the facility shall furnish the executor, administrator, or voluntary administrator, upon proof of appointment, all personal funds and possessions of the deceased patient.
315:2 Department of Health and Human Services; New Hampshire Hospital 10-Bed Psychiatric Crisis Unit. The department shall open the 10-bed psychiatric crisis unit established by 2013, 195:1, VII, H no later than July 1, 2015. The department shall use existing appropriations to support any necessary operating costs for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015.
315:3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect July 1, 2014.
Approved: August 1, 2014
Effective Date: July 1, 2014
