HB1277: providing limited immunity to mental health care providers caring for voluntarily admitted patients.

HB 1277 – AS INTRODUCED

2006 SESSION

06-2142

01/09

HOUSE BILL 1277

AN ACT providing limited immunity to mental health care providers caring for voluntarily admitted patients.

SPONSORS: Rep. Buzzell, Coos 4

COMMITTEE: Judiciary

ANALYSIS

This bill provides limited immunity to mental health care providers caring for voluntarily admitted patients.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

06-2142

01/09

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Six

AN ACT providing limited immunity to mental health care providers caring for voluntarily admitted patients.

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

1 New Section; Liability Limited; Mental Health Care Providers; Facilities. Amend RSA 508 by inserting after section 18-a the following new section:

508:18-b Liability Limited; Mental Health Care Providers. No mental health care provider or facility licensed under RSA 151 shall be liable in a suit for damages as a result of any act or omission related to caring for persons who are voluntarily admitted to any mental health care facility for treatment, if such mental health care provider or facility exercises reasonable care and follows the provider’s or facility’s standard of care in the treatment of such persons. This section shall not limit civil liability protection provided by any other law.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2007.