HB463: adding certain health care providers to certain statutes.

HB 463 - AS INTRODUCED

2003 SESSION

03-0723

01/09

HOUSE BILL 463

AN ACT adding certain health care providers to certain statutes.

SPONSORS: Rep. French, Merr 34; Rep. Sokol, Graf 17

COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

ANALYSIS

This bill adds licensed physician assistants, and licensed advanced registered nurse practitioners to the statutes on walking disability plates and placards, resuscitation orders, and death records.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

03-0723

01/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Three

AN ACT adding certain health care providers to certain statutes.

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

1 Walking Disability; Certain Health Care Providers Added. Amend the introductory paragraph of RSA 261:88, I(c) to read as follows:

(c) "Walking disability" means a disability which limits or impairs a person's ability to walk, as determined by a licensed physician, licensed physician's assistant, or licensed advanced registered nurse practitioner, to such an extent that such person:

2 Walking Disability; Certain Health Care Providers Added. Amend RSA 261:88, III to read as follows:

III. An applicant for such special plates shall furnish the director with satisfactory proof, as the director may require, that the applicant meets the requirements of paragraph II. Such proof must be submitted every 4 years except in the case of a veteran who has been evaluated by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to be permanently and totally disabled from service-connected disability. Such proof shall only have to be made upon initial application. Satisfactory proof of a walking disability, at a minimum, shall consist of the certification of a licensed physician, licensed physician's assistant, or licensed advanced registered nurse practitioner that the applicant meets the definition, set forth in paragraph I, of persons with walking disabilities. Upon request and for a fee of $1.50 per plate, the director shall exchange special plates for regular plates currently issued to an applicant who qualifies for special plates.

3 Walking Disability; Certain Health Care Providers Added. Amend RSA 261:88, VI to read as follows:

VI. Upon the application of a person with a temporary walking disability, the director shall issue a temporary removable windshield placard. The placard shall comply with the standards set forth in 23 CFR Part 1235, Appendix B. The temporary removable windshield placard shall be displayed in such a manner that it may be viewed from the front and the rear of the vehicle by hanging it from the front windshield rearview mirror of a vehicle utilizing a parking space reserved for persons with disabilities. When there is no rearview mirror, the placard shall be displayed on the dashboard. Upon request, the director shall issue one additional temporary removable windshield placard to applicants. Application for a temporary removable windshield placard shall be accompanied by the certification of a licensed physician, licensed physician's assistant, or licensed advanced registered nurse practitioner that the applicant meets the definition set forth in paragraph I of persons with walking disabilities. The certification shall also include the period of time that the physician determines the applicant will have the disability, which period of time shall not exceed 6 months. The expiration date of the temporary placard shall be noted on the placard.

4 Emergency Medical and Trauma Services; Rulemaking. Amend RSA 153-A:20, II to read as follows:

II. Protocols recommended by the emergency medical services medical control board for provision of emergency medical care, which shall provide for the provision of local options under medical control. The protocols shall address living wills established under RSA 137-H, durable powers of attorney for health care established under RSA 137-J, and patient-requested, physician, licensed physician's assistant, or licensed advanced registered nurse practitioner generated orders relative to resuscitation.

5 Death Records; Certain Health Care Providers Added. Amend RSA 290:1 to read as follows:

290:1 Death Records. Whenever a person shall die, the physician, licensed physician's assistant, or licensed advanced registered nurse practitioner attending at the last sickness shall complete and deliver to the funeral director, town clerk, next-of-kin as defined in RSA 290:16, IV, or designated agent under RSA 290:17 or shall complete electronically and forward immediately to the bureau of vital records and health statistics, a death record, duly signed, setting forth, as far as may be, the facts required by rules of the department of health and human services as provided in RSA 126:2. The cause or causes of death shall be printed or typed on all records required to be furnished under this section. The funeral director, town clerk, next-of-kin, or designated agent shall transmit electronically the record of death to the bureau of vital records and health statistics.

6 Fetal Death Records; Certain Health Care Providers Added. Amend RSA 290:1-a to read as follows:

290:1-a Fetal Death Records. Whenever a fetal death shall occur, the attending physician, licensed physician's assistant, or licensed advanced registered nurse practitioner shall fill out a fetal death record. This will be solely a statistical report.

7 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.