Bill Text: NH HB527 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to confidentiality of forms and rates and relative to the length of docks on a water body, water body size.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-06-15 - Conference Committee Report; Not Signed Off; Senate Journal 20 [HB527 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2017-HB527-Introduced.html
HB 527 - AS INTRODUCED
2017 SESSION
17-0991
01/08
HOUSE BILL 527
AN ACT relative to confidentiality of forms and rates.
SPONSORS: Rep. Hunt, Ches. 11
COMMITTEE: Commerce and Consumer Affairs
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ANALYSIS
This bill clarifies when forms and rates filed with the insurance department are open to public inspection.
This bill is a request of the insurance department.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
17-0991
01/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen
AN ACT relative to confidentiality of forms and rates.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Insurance Department; Confidentiality; Forms and Rates. Amend RSA 400-A by inserting after section 15-d the following new section:
400-A:15-e Confidentiality; Forms and Rates.
I. Forms and rates that are filed for review in accordance with Title XXXVII shall be confidential pending approval.
II. An approved filing and any supporting information that is not otherwise exempt from disclosure by law or rule, shall be open to public inspection on or after the date the filing is approved or its effective date, whichever is later, provided however, that for health filings for individual and small group market plans, including stand-alone certified dental plans, forms and rates shall be available for public review no later than the start of the annual open enrollment period set by the United States Department of Health and Human Services pursuant to 42 U.S.C. section 1803 l (c)(6)(B).
III. In accordance with RSA 91-A:5, IV, any information submitted as part of the form and rate review process that is required to be held confidential by law, including commercial and proprietary trend assumptions, proprietary predictive models, and any other commercial or proprietary information and supporting documentation, shall not be disclosed.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 90 days after its passage.
