Bill Text: NH SB253 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to parental access to a minor child's medical records.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2024-01-03 - Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Voice Vote 01/03/2024 House Journal 1 P. 34 [SB253 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2024-SB253-Introduced.html
SB 253 - AS INTRODUCED
2023 SESSION
23-1031
06/05
SENATE BILL 253
AN ACT relative to parental access to a minor child's medical records.
SPONSORS: Sen. Innis, Dist 7; Sen. Avard, Dist 12; Sen. Murphy, Dist 16; Sen. Gray, Dist 6; Sen. Ward, Dist 8; Rep. Sellers, Graf. 18; Rep. J. Harvey-Bolia, Belk. 3
COMMITTEE: Judiciary
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ANALYSIS
This bill provides parents of minor children full access to their minor children's medical record.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
23-1031
06/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three
AN ACT relative to parental access to a minor child's medical records.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; Medical Records; Parental Access. Amend RSA 332-I:1 by inserting after paragraph I the following new paragraph:
I-a. Except when specifically protected under RSA 141-C:18, RSA 141-F:7, RSA 135-C:19-a, or 45 C.F.R. § 160.502, or prohibited by an order of a court of competent jurisdiction, a parent of a minor child shall be entitled to have full and complete access to the medical records of the minor child.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
