Title X, Public Health

The commissioner may adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to: I. With the exception of vital records, guidance and direction in the collection and accuracy of statistical and medical information by data collectors. II. Procedures, conditions, and criteria for release of i…

Any person shall be guilty of a class B felony if he or she willfully and knowingly furnishes or disseminates vital records information in a manner inconsistent with the purposes for which it was released.

The purpose of this subdivision is to assist in maintaining and making available additional emergency shelter facilities and other supportive and preventive services and to assist in meeting the operating costs of such shelters and services.

I. This subdivision establishes a system for the collection of health care data and for the disclosure of data consistent with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), 45 C.F.R. sections 160, 162, and 164, limited to public health activities, healt…

There is hereby established an emergency shelter program to assist in providing safe and sanitary shelters on a short-term emergency or transitional basis for persons who are destitute, mentally ill, abandoned, or developmentally disabled, and other poor persons.

Such funds as the general court may specifically appropriate from time to time may be granted to private nonprofit organizations on an equal matching grant formula basis for the capital costs of renovation, major rehabilitation, or conversion of buildings for use as emergency she…

The commissioner of health and human services shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to: I. The types of data which each facility shall be required to file under RSA 126:25. II. The form in which data shall be filed under RSA 126:25. III. The times at which data shall…

Such funds as the general court may specifically appropriate from time to time may be granted to private nonprofit organizations on an equal matching formula basis to provide essential services including, but not limited to, maintenance, operation, utilities, and furnishings, and…

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, data collected under RSA 126:25 shall be made available: I. To the public upon request, provided that individual patients or health care practitioners shall not be directly or indirectly identifiable. II. To individuals or entities for …

I. For the purposes of this subdivision, the term "private nonprofit organization" means a secular or religious organization described in section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 which is exempt from taxation under subtitle A of such code. Such organization shall also …

In addition to any other penalties provided by law, any health care facility which willfully fails to comply with the provisions of this subdivision shall be subject to a civil penalty of $100 for each day of noncompliance, which shall not be reimbursable by a commercial insurer,…

The commissioner shall establish within the department peer support programs. Peer support programs shall: I. Foster the self advocacy skills, autonomy, and independence of individuals who receive services from the department. II. Ensure that individuals with disabilities are inf…

The department shall administer this chapter and shall coordinate family mutual support services with existing services for individuals with mental conditions and their families.

The council shall: I. Promote the organized assessment of the needs of youths with chronic conditions and their families. II. Serve in an advisory capacity to the department of health and human services, department of education, and insurance department for policy and program dev…

I. For the purposes of this chapter, any person responsible for monitoring sales from a tobacco vending machine or any person making the sale of tobacco products, e-cigarettes, or e-liquid which vending machine or other sale is to be made to any person who does not appear to be a…

The commission shall plan and advocate for policy changes related to maintaining and strengthening an effective primary care workforce in New Hampshire, with special concern for rural and other underserved areas. The committee's duties shall include, but not be limited to: I. Rev…

I. As soon as possible after admission to a facility, the treatment staff of the facility, the child, and the child's parent or guardian shall develop a plan to: (a) Identify the child's history of physical, sexual, or emotional trauma, if any. (b) Identify effective responses to…

I. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the commissioner is hereby authorized to: (a) [Repealed.] (b) Transfer or reassign personnel within and between any division, office, unit, or other component of the department. Upon written notice to the commissioner of ad…

I. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the board of medicine shall not revoke, fail to renew, or take any other action against a physician's license issued pursuant to RSA 329 based primarily on a physician's recommendation to an eligible patient regarding or pr…

The department shall administer this chapter and shall coordinate family support services with existing services to families and individuals. Family support services shall be provided in a manner which develops comprehensive, responsive and flexible support to families in their r…

I. There is hereby established a wellness and primary prevention council which shall consist of the following members: (a) Six members appointed by the governor, 4 of whom shall be representatives of family resource centers from geographically distinct areas, one of whom shall be…

I. The New Hampshire vaccine association shall be comprised of all assessable entities. II. The New Hampshire vaccine association shall be a not-for-profit, voluntary corporation under RSA 292 and shall possess all general powers of a not-for-profit corporation. III. The board of…

The commissioner, department of health and human services, or his designee, is hereby authorized to develop, participate in the development of, negotiate, enter into and execute one or more interstate compacts on behalf of this state with other states to implement the purposes se…

Prior to operating the program, the state agency designated to oversee the program pursuant to this chapter shall: I. Become a licensed drug wholesaler or enter into a contract with a licensed drug wholesaler in the state. II. Contract with one or more distributors licensed in th…

The department of health and human services may negotiate and enter into contracts on behalf of this state pursuant to Article III of the compact and may perform such contracts; provided that no funds, personnel, facilities, equipment, supplies, or materials shall be pledged for,…

I. There is hereby established the New Hampshire granite advantage health care trust fund which shall be accounted for distinctly and separately from all other funds and shall be non-interest bearing. The fund shall be administered by the commissioner and shall be used solely to …

I. The members of the council shall be as follows: (a) One member of the senate, appointed by the president of the senate. (b) Two members of the house of representatives who shall be members of the health, human services and elderly affairs committee, appointed by the speaker of…

I. A qualifying patient may use cannabis on privately-owned real property only with written permission of the property owner or, in the case of leased property, with the permission of the tenant in possession of the property, except that a tenant shall not allow a qualifying pati…

Notwithstanding RSA 91-A:2, IV, or any other law to the contrary, at least one-seventh of the total appointed membership of the commission shall be present at the physical location of the meeting. Each member participating electronically or otherwise shall be able to contemporane…

Persons receiving short-term emergency housing under this subdivision shall continue to maintain their legal residence as it existed at the time of entering the emergency shelter.

Any person requesting copies of data or statistical information filed with the department of health and human services under RSA 126 or RSA 141-B shall pay to the department a fee established by the commissioner of health and human services pursuant to RSA 126:27, IV. The fee sha…

The commissioner may adopt such rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, as the commissioner deems reasonable and necessary to carry out the provisions of this subdivision.

I. In this section: (a) "Shelter or housing": (1) Means emergency shelter or housing provided exclusively to specified aliens under order of the federal government, a state, or a unit of local government; and (2) Does not include short-term emergency shelter made necessary by a s…

There shall be an office of reimbursements within the department of health and human services.

I. Subject to the direction and supervision of the commissioner, the office of reimbursements shall: (a) Review and investigate all records of the New Hampshire hospital, the secure psychiatric unit, the Glencliff home, and the Hampstead hospital or other state-owned facilities t…

The office of reimbursements, with the approval of the commissioner, may, upon request, act on behalf of any state department, as defined in RSA 9:1, to recover any moneys due such department. The office of reimbursements shall not be liable for any expenses or costs incurred in …

Except as limited in RSA 126-A:43, II, expenses incurred in the institutions named in RSA 126-A:34 or at the direction of the commissioner in any public or private institution or elsewhere, may be recovered in any action in the name of the state from the person, or the person's s…

Except as limited in RSA 126-A:39, expenses incurred by anyone in the institutions named in RSA 126-A:34, or, at the direction of the commissioner in any public or private institution, or elsewhere, may be recovered in any action in the name of the state from the estate of the pe…

I. (a) Within 60 days after admittance, except as provided in paragraph II, and annually thereafter if requested by the commissioner, a financial statement shall be filed under penalty of perjury by a person legally chargeable for expenses pursuant to RSA 126-A:36 on forms provid…

I. Educational expenses of any resident or patient, who is capable of being benefited by instruction and who is between 3 and 21 years of age, as required under statute and incurred in the institutions named in or at the direction of the commissioner in any public or private inst…

The department of health and human services, department of education, and the insurance department shall provide to the council available data, consistent with confidentiality requirements, relevant to the needs of this population.

I. There is hereby established the suicide fatality review committee, which shall be a committee of the council on suicide prevention established in RSA 126-R:2. II. The council shall appoint members and alternate members to the suicide facility review committee. The members of t…

I. No person shall sell, give, or furnish or cause or allow or procure to be sold, given, or furnished tobacco products, e-cigarettes, e-liquid, or alternative nicotine products to a person who has not attained 21 years of age. The prohibition established by this paragraph shall …

The commissioner shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to the proper administration of this chapter.

I. There shall be a department of health and human services under the executive direction of a commissioner of health and human services, which department shall be organized to provide a comprehensive and coordinated system of health and human services as needed to promote and pr…

The commission shall make an interim report on November 1, 2026, which shall focus on the status of the New Hampshire state loan repayment program and the New Hampshire division of public health service's health professions survey, and a final report on November 1, 2029, includin…