Bill Text: NH HB629 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to the uninsured health care database.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-01 - House Signed By Governor 05/31/2011; Effective 07/30/2011; Chapter 0115 [HB629 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2011-HB629-Introduced.html
HB 629-FN – AS INTRODUCED
2011 SESSION
01/03
HOUSE BILL 629-FN
AN ACT relative to the uninsured health care database.
COMMITTEE: Commerce and Consumer Affairs
This bill repeals the uninsured health care database.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
11-0799
01/03
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Eleven
AN ACT relative to the uninsured health care database.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Repeal. The following are repealed:
I. RSA 126:25, IV and V, relative to data to be submitted pursuant to RSA 126-S.
II. RSA 126-S:1 through RSA 126-S:3, relative to the uninsured health care database.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
LBAO
11-0799
Revised 01/27/11
HB 629 FISCAL NOTE
AN ACT relative to the uninsured health care database.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Insurance stated this bill will decrease state expenditures and revenue by indeterminable amounts in FY 2012 and in each year thereafter. There will be no fiscal impact on county and local revenues or expenditures.
METHODOLOGY:
The Department of Health and Human Services stated the bill repeals the 2009 state law requiring the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Insurance to develop an uninsured health care database. With the repeal this of requirement the Department will avoid the development costs. These costs are not known. To date, only rules have been promulgated and those rules were written using existing resources.
The Department of Insurance stated this bill will decrease state expenditures and may decrease state revenue. The Insurance Department assumed the cost of collecting and consolidating the data would have been approximately $40,000 in the first year and lower in the following years. Administrative costs related to the community health centers were estimated at $200,000 over the first two years. The Department stated there may be a decrease in restricted revenue associated with the savings, as the Department would not have to assess these costs to fund their administrative expenses.
