Bill Text: NH HB1131 | 2024 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Relative to mental health practice.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)
Status: (Passed) 2024-07-22 - Signed by Governor Sununu 07/03/2024; Chapter 110; eff. 09/01/2024 [HB1131 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2024-HB1131-Enrolled.html
HB 1131 - VERSION ADOPTED BY BOTH BODIES
28Mar2024... 1071h
2024 SESSION
24-2695
09/05
HOUSE BILL 1131
AN ACT relative to mental health practice.
SPONSORS: Rep. Gregg, Hills. 7; Rep. Manos, Rock. 12; Rep. Grossman, Rock. 11; Rep. Kuttab, Rock. 17; Rep. Devine, Hills. 5; Rep. Nutter-Upham, Hills. 8
COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
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AMENDED ANALYSIS
This bill expands the persons exempted list to include any organization which provides clinical mental health services, employs licensed mental health practitioners, provides clinical supervision of its staff, and which assumes professional, ethical, and legal responsibility for such mental health services.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
28Mar2024... 1071h 24-2695
09/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four
AN ACT relative to mental health practice.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Mental Health Practice; Persons Exempted. Amend RSA 330-A:34, I(d) to read as follows:
(d) The psychotherapy activities and services of any other person providing mental health services as an employee of or consultant [to] of an [institution, facility, or nonprofit institution or agency] organization which provides clinical mental health services, employs licensed mental health practitioners, [and which] provides clinical supervision of its staff, and [which] assumes professional, ethical, and legal responsibility for such mental health services.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
