Bill Text: NH SB197 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to the medical supervision of the licensed registered nurse employed by the legislative facilities committee.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-23 - Introduced 01/09/2025 and Referred to Executive Departments and Administration; Senate Journal 3 [SB197 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2025-SB197-Introduced.html
SB 197 - AS INTRODUCED
2025 SESSION
25-0315
05/02
SENATE BILL 197
SPONSORS: Sen. Pearl, Dist 17; Sen. Birdsell, Dist 19; Sen. Rosenwald, Dist 13; Rep. Grote, Rock. 24; Rep. M. Pearson, Rock. 34
COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration
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ANALYSIS
This bill removes supervision of the nurse employed by the legislative facilities committee from the department of health and human services and provides that the nurse shall act within the scope of practice provided by the board of nursing and RSA 326-B, the Nurse Practices Act. The bill is a request of the department of health and human 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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
25-0315
05/02
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five
AN ACT relative to the medical supervision of the licensed registered nurse employed by the legislative facilities committee.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 ?Public Health; Health Services Room. ?Amend RSA 125:13-a to read as follows:
125:13-a Health Service Room. The legislative facilities committee shall equip and maintain a health service room in such location in the state house as may be assigned for such purpose. Said room shall be staffed by a licensed registered nurse employed by the legislative facilities committee, and the room shall be kept open at all times when the state house is open for business. The expense of the health service room, including a contract nurse, shall be a charge upon the joint expenses appropriation to the general court. The department of health and human services may, in the event of the absence of the employed nurse, provide from its staff a licensed registered nurse on a temporary basis. The department of health and human services is further authorized, in the event the department cannot provide a licensed registered nurse, to negotiate a contract for the legislative facilities committee with a nursing service for the purpose of staffing the health service room in the event of an absence of the employed nurse. The daily coordination of the contract nurse shall be accomplished jointly with the house chief of staff and the department of health and human services. [The commissioner of the department of health and human services shall provide medical supervision for the employed nurse, for any temporarily assigned nurse and, if necessary, for any contracted nursing service.] The licensed registered nurse employed or contracted under this section shall act within the scope of his or her practice as authorized and regulated by RSA 326-B.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
