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SB62: relative to rulemaking of the midwifery council on the scope of practice.

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SB 62 - AS INTRODUCED

2017 SESSION

17-0805

10/06

SENATE BILL 62

AN ACT relative to rulemaking of the midwifery council on the scope of practice.


ANALYSIS

This bill provides that the rules of the midwifery council on the scope of practice for midwives shall not prohibit a certified midwife from choosing to assist in a vaginal birth after a cesarean delivery.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

17-0805

10/06

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

AN ACT relative to rulemaking of the midwifery council on the scope of practice.

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

1 Midwifery Council; Rulemaking; Vaginal Birth After Cesarean. Amend RSA 326-D:5, II to read as follows:

II. No rule relative to the scope of midwifery practice shall exceed the parameters of the definition of "midwifery'' under RSA 326-D:2, V, and no rule shall prohibit a certified midwife from choosing to assist in a vaginal birth after cesarean delivery.

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