Bill Text: NH HB455 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to reports by the department of health and human services regarding Medicaid enhancement for children and pregnant women.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-10 - Introduced (in recess of) 01/09/2025 and referred to Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs House Journal 3 [HB455 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2025-HB455-Introduced.html
HB 455 - AS INTRODUCED
2025 SESSION
25-0913
05/11
HOUSE BILL 455
SPONSORS: Rep. Edwards, Rock. 31; Rep. M. Pearson, Rock. 34
COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
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ANALYSIS
This bill requires the department of health and human services to provide quarterly reports regarding Medicaid enhancement for children and pregnant women for the biennium ending June 30, 2027. The bill repeals an indefinite, quarterly reporting requirement.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
25-0913
05/11
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Medicaid Enhancement for Children and Pregnant Women; Quarterly Reports. Beginning October 1, 2025, and for the remainder of the biennium ending June 30, 2027, the commissioner of the department of health and human services shall submit quarterly reports to the oversight committee on health and human services, the legislative committees with jurisdiction over health and human services, and the governor regarding the department’s administration of the Medicaid enhancement for children and pregnant women for 12 months of continuous coverage for the entire postpartum period as established in Chapter 79:412 Laws of 2023. The quarterly reports shall include status updates on the department's efforts in reducing administrative burdens for enrollees and the department’s progress to expand access and participation to voluntary, evidence-based maternal home visiting programs. Reports submitted under this section shall also be posted on the department's website.
2 Repeal. RSA 167:68, IV(d), establishing a quarterly reporting requirement regarding Medicaid enhancements for children and pregnant women, is repealed.
