New Hampshire HB 1584: relative to a landlord's ability to sell personal property of a commercial tenant.

Bill Text

HB 1584-FN - AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

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HOUSE BILL 1584-FN

AN ACT directing the department of health and human services to provide notice of medical and religious exemptions from immunization requirements, relative to income eligibility for the New Hampshire child care scholarship program and reallocating certain revenues to fund the program, and relative to notice of drug pricing options. 

SPONSORS: Rep. Potenza, Straf. 19; Rep. Kofalt, Hills. 32; Rep. Layon, Rock. 13; Rep. Mazur, Hills. 44

COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

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AMENDED ANALYSIS

 I. This bill directs the department of health and human services to include in certain materials relative to childhood immunization requirements a statement indicating that medical and religious exemptions to such requirements are available under state law.

 II. Directs the department of health and human services to amend its policy to increase eligibility for the child care scholarship program and directs revenues to fund the eligibility increase.

 III. Requires pharmacies to make efforts to notify consumers of their right to request the lowest available price for prescription drugs.

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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 Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty-Six

AN ACT directing the department of health and human services to provide notice of medical and religious exemptions from immunization requirements, relative to income eligibility for the New Hampshire child care scholarship program and reallocating certain revenues to fund the program, and relative to notice of drug pricing options. 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 1 New Paragraph; Notice of Medical and Religious Exemptions. Amend RSA 141-C by inserting after section 20-f the following new section: 

 141-C:20-g Notice of Medical and Religious Exemptions.

 I. Any printed or electronic materials relative to required childhood immunizations in RSA 141-C:20-a produced by the department of health and human services and distributed in connection with school and child care enrollment on or after the effective date of this section shall include the following statement: "Medical and religious exemptions are available under New Hampshire law." The department shall include a website link on an existing webpage detailing the current immunization exemptions under New Hampshire law.

 II. The department of health and human services may adopt rules under RSA 541-A to implement this section.

 2 New Subparagraph; Public Assistance To Blind, Aged, Or Disabled Persons, And To Dependent Children; New Hampshire Employment Program and Family Assistance Program; Administration; Duties; Rulemaking. Amend RSA 167:83, II(r) by inserting after subparagraph (3) the following new subparagraph: 

 (4) Providing eligibility for the child care scholarship program for families whose gross monthly income is less than or equal to 95 percent of state median income for their respective family size, subject to the availability of funds. 

 3 Taxation; Tobacco Tax; Distribution of Funds. Amend RSA 78:24, I to read as follows: 

 I. Tax revenue on all tobacco products sold at retail in this state imposed by RSA 78:2 shall be divided with 39 percent of that total revenue deposited in the education trust fund established by RSA 198:39 and the remaining revenue deposited in the general fund, except that for any surplus funds over that year's planned revenue, 50 percent of the surplus shall be transferred to the department of health and human services for the purposes of administering and expanding eligibility for the child care scholarship program pursuant to RSA 167:83, II(r)(4), and the remainder shall be deposited in the general fund. 

 4 Alcoholic Beverages; The Liquor Commission; Funds. Amend RSA 176:16, I to read as follows: 

 I. Except as provided in paragraph II, the state treasurer shall credit all gross revenue derived by the commission from the sale of liquor, or from license fees, and interest received on such moneys, to a special fund, to be known as the liquor commission fund, from which the treasurer shall pay all expenses of the commission incident to the administration of this title. Any balance left in such fund after such expenses are paid shall be deposited in the general fund on a monthly basis, except that for any su