Bill Text: NH SB36 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relative to the collection and reporting of abortion statistics by health care providers and medical facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-16 - ==ROOM CHANGE== Hearing: 01/22/2025, Room 100, State House, 10:00 am; Senate Calendar 6 [SB36 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2025-SB36-Introduced.html
SB 36 - AS INTRODUCED
2025 SESSION
25-0325
05/11
SENATE BILL 36
SPONSORS: Sen. Avard, Dist 12; Sen. Ward, Dist 8; Sen. Lang, Dist 2; Sen. Sullivan, Dist 18; Sen. Birdsell, Dist 19; Sen. Gannon, Dist 23; Sen. Murphy, Dist 16; Rep. Notter, Hills. 12; Rep. Mooney, Hills. 12; Rep. Rice, Hills. 38; Rep. Pauer, Hills. 36
COMMITTEE: Health and Human Services
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ANALYSIS
This bill requires the collection and reporting of abortion statistics by health care providers and medical facilities.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
25-0325
05/11
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Five
AN ACT relative to the collection and reporting of abortion statistics by health care providers and medical facilities.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Health Care Provider Reporting of Abortion Performed. RSA 329:49 is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:
329:49 Reporting.
I. Nothing in paragraph II of this section shall be construed as requiring the communication or disclosure of personally identifiable health care information to the department.
II. Any health care provider who performs an abortion as defined in RSA 329:43, I, shall report the following information in writing to the medical facility in which the abortion is performed:
(a) Date and place of the abortion performed;
(b) Age of the pregnant patient;
(c) State of residence of pregnant patient;
(d) Method used to perform the abortion;
(e) Gestational age when the abortion was performed; and
(f) Any prescriptions written for the purpose of inducing abortion.
III. The medical facility shall report the information disclosed pursuant to paragraph II at least annually, or as required by the commissioner, to the department of health and human services. The commissioner shall prepare from these data such statistical tables with respect to maternal health, abortion procedures, and gestational age, as the commissioner deems useful and shall make an annual report thereof to the general court.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
