Bill Text: NH HB1654 | 2018 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relative to automobile medical payments.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-06-12 - Signed by Governor Sununu 06/08/2018; Chapter 195; Eff. 8/7/2018 [HB1654 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2018-HB1654-Enrolled.html

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HB 1654 - VERSION ADOPTED BY BOTH BODIES

 

 

2018 SESSION

18-2648

03/01

 

HOUSE BILL 1654

 

AN ACT relative to automobile medical payments.

 

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

 

COMMITTEE: Commerce and Consumer Affairs

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill prohibits holding an injured driver or passenger responsible for medical costs determined to not be reasonable.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

18-2648

03/01

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eighteen

 

AN ACT relative to automobile medical payments.

 

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

 

1  Motor Vehicle Liability Policy; Medical Payments; Reasonableness.  Amend RSA 264:16, I to read as follows:

I.  Any motor vehicle liability policy, as defined in RSA 259:61, covering a private passenger automobile and issued with respect to any motor vehicle registered or principally garaged in this state, shall provide medical payments coverage therein or supplemental thereto in an amount equal to or greater than $1,000 per person for reasonable medical costs incurred as a result of injuries sustained in an accident involving the insured vehicle by the driver and passengers in said vehicle.  Such coverage shall apply only to medical costs incurred during 3 years following the date the injuries are sustained and the injured driver or passenger shall not be responsible for medical costs that have been determined by the motor vehicle liability insurer to not be reasonable.

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