Bill Text: NH HB473 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requiring the board of managers of the veterans home to adopt a policy relative to therapeutic use of cannabis by residents of the home.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-06-18 - Conference Committee Report; Not Signed Off; Senate Journal 19 [HB473 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2015-HB473-Introduced.html
HB 473 - AS INTRODUCED
2015 SESSION
15-0429
09/06
HOUSE BILL 473
AN ACT relative to the smoking policy at the New Hampshire veterans’ home.
SPONSORS: Rep. Moffett, Merr 9; Rep. Baldasaro, Rock 5; Rep. Notter, Hills 21; Rep. Rollins, Sull 6; Rep. Ebel, Merr 5; Rep. Richardson, Coos 4
COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration
This bill prohibits the New Hampshire veterans’ home from denying admission to a veteran solely because the veteran is a smoker and is not willing to give up smoking on a voluntary basis.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
15-0429
09/06
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fifteen
AN ACT relative to the smoking policy at the New Hampshire veterans’ home.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Intent. The general court recognizes and applauds the veterans’ home’s recent policy change to a smoke-free campus, including the prohibition against smoking inside the home itself and the designation of limited outside smoking areas for grandfathered residents who came to the home as smokers and who have not successfully completed the home’s voluntary smoking cessation program. However, the general court finds that New Hampshire veterans otherwise qualified for admission to the veterans’ home should not be forced to give up smoking involuntarily in order to be admitted to the home, but should rather be allowed to use the home’s designated outdoor smoking areas in the same manner as smoking residents grandfathered at the time of the home’s change to a smoke-free campus.
2 New Hampshire Veterans’ Home; Admission. Amend RSA 119:9 to read as follows:
119:9 Admission. A veteran who desires admission shall make application on forms furnished by the home. Rules relative to admittance or rejection of an applicant, including an appeal process, shall be adopted pursuant to RSA 541-A, by the board of managers. No veteran shall be denied admission solely because he or she is a smoker who is unwilling to give up smoking on a voluntary basis.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
