CHAPTER 306
SB 496-FN - FINAL VERSION
20Apr2016... 1342h
11May2016... 1679h
06/01/2016 2039CofC
2016 SESSION
16-2868
01/05
SENATE BILL 496-FN
AN ACT relative to personal care attendant services.
SPONSORS: Sen. Sanborn, Dist 9; Sen. Avard, Dist 12; Sen. Birdsell, Dist 19; Sen. Boutin, Dist 16; Sen. Carson, Dist 14; Sen. Feltes, Dist 15; Sen. Kelly, Dist 10; Sen. Reagan, Dist 17
COMMITTEE: Health and Human Services
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AMENDED ANALYSIS
This bill clarifies the definition of a severely physically disabled person and allows access to the community for such persons under the law governing personal care for the severely physically disabled.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
20Apr2016... 1342h
11May2016... 1679h
06/01/2016 2039CofC 16-2868
01/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen
AN ACT relative to personal care attendant services.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
306:1 Personal Care for the Severely Physically Disabled; Definitions. Amend RSA 161-E:1, III to read as follows:
III. "Severely physically disabled person'' shall mean an adult individual over the age of 18 who has been approved to participate in an independent living program and who requires a minimum of 2 hours of medically [oriented] necessary personal care per day in order to maintain himself or herself in a noninstitutional setting. Such care may include [hands-on] assistance in the following areas: basic personal care and grooming, assistance with bladder and bowel care, assistance with medications, assistance with nutrition including meal preparation and essential household services.
306:2 Personal Care for the Severely Physically Disabled; Personal Care Attendant Services Program. Amend RSA 161-E:2 to read as follows:
161-E:2 Services Provided. The commissioner of the department of health and human services shall develop a program under which severely physically disabled persons eligible for coverage under medical assistance programs are provided with personal care attendants to provide [on a periodic basis] medically [oriented] necessary long-term maintenance and supportive care to assist them, as is required in each individual case, to maintain themselves in their homes and gain greater control over their own lives. Personal care services under this chapter may be delivered in noninstitutional locations in which normal life activities occur.
306:3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: June 21, 2016
Effective Date: August 20, 2016