Bill Text: NH SB461 | 2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Requiring health care providers to report certain information about abortions performed to their medical facility, and requiring those medical facilities to report the information to the department of health and human services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-23 - Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted DV 201-164 05/23/2024 [SB461 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2024-SB461-Amended.html
SB 461 - AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE
04/11/2024 1419s
2024 SESSION
24-3014
05/02
SENATE BILL 461
SPONSORS: Sen. Rosenwald, Dist 13; Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Sen. Soucy, Dist 18; Sen. Perkins Kwoka, Dist 21; Sen. D'Allesandro, Dist 20; Sen. Whitley, Dist 15; Sen. Altschiller, Dist 24; Sen. Fenton, Dist 10; Sen. Chandley, Dist 11; Sen. Prentiss, Dist 5; Rep. M. Smith, Straf. 10; Rep. Simpson, Rock. 33; Rep. Wilhelm, Hills. 40; Rep. Weber, Ches. 5; Rep. Ebel, Merr. 7
COMMITTEE: Judiciary
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AMENDED ANALYSIS
This bill requires health care providers to report certain information about abortions performed to their medical facility, and requiring those medical facilities to report the information to the department of health and human services for statistical purposes.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
04/11/2024 1419s 24-3014
05/02
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four
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 RSA 329:49 is repealed and reenacted to read as follows: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.
