Bill Text: NH HB606 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to a patient's right to medically appropriate care for reproductive disorders.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-16 - Introduced (in recess of) 01/09/2025 and referred to Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs House Journal 3 P. 18 [HB606 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2025-HB606-Introduced.html
HB 606 - AS INTRODUCED
2025 SESSION
25-0879
05/11
HOUSE BILL 606
AN ACT relative to a patient's right to medically appropriate care for reproductive disorders.
SPONSORS: Rep. Read, Rock. 10; Rep. Layon, Rock. 13; Rep. Newell, Ches. 4; Rep. Popovici-Muller, Rock. 17; Rep. Spahr, Graf. 12
COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
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ANALYSIS
This bill affirms a patient's right to medically appropriate care for certain reproductive disorders.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
25-0879
05/11
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five
AN ACT relative to a patient's right to medically appropriate care for reproductive disorders.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Physicians and Surgeons; Right to Medically Appropriate Care for Reproductive Disorders. Amend RSA 329 by inserting after section 31-b the following new section:
329:31-c Right to Medically Appropriate Care for Reproductive Disorders.
I. If a patient who is 18 years of age or older has a physiological medical condition for which a medically advisable course of treatment may include a procedure that leaves the patient sterile and unable to have children, the physician shall not deny the procedure on the basis of age, number of children, or the physician's perception of the patient's future reproductive desires despite the patient's statement to the contrary. The physician may require the patient to sign an informed consent and waive all damages from the procedure related to sterilization only. A physician who violates this right may be disciplined pursuant to chapter.
II. A patient who has signed an informed consent or a waiver of medical advice and proceeds with medically appropriate care for a reproductive disorder against medical advice shall have no civil right of action against any health care provider or health care institution on the basis of the patient being rendered sterile and unable to have children. This paragraph shall not provide immunity against any purposeful, reckless, or negligent act of a health care provider or health care institution.
III. For purposes of this section, "medically appropriate care for a reproductive disorder" shall include the following procedures: a hysterectomy (uterus), oophorectomy (ovaries), orchiectomy (testicles), salpingectomy (fallopian tubes), and endometrial ablation.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
