HB 1194  - AS INTRODUCED

2024 SESSION

24-2425

05/08

HOUSE BILL 1194

AN ACT relative to the definition of noncommunicable disease.

SPONSORS: Rep. Phillips, Rock. 7; Rep. T. Mannion, Hills. 1; Rep. Potenza, Straf. 19; Rep. Cushman, Hills. 28; Rep. Layon, Rock. 13

COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

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ANALYSIS

This bill removes the word infectious from the definition of noncommunicable disease.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-2425

05/08

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

AN ACT relative to the definition of noncommunicable disease.

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

1  Immunization; Definition of Noncommunicable Disease.  Amend RSA 141-C:20-a, III to read as follows:

III.  Nothing in this section shall require an immunization/vaccination requirement for diseases that are noncommunicable.  Noncommunicable disease means a disease that is not [infectious or] transmissible from person-to-person.

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