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SB467: relative to certain procedures conducted in teaching hospitals.

Citation
2020 SB467
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Senate status
Laid on Table
Committee
Senate Health and Human Services
Hearing
01/14/2020 at 02:30 PM
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Topics

Health and Human Services Health care

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SB 467 - AS INTRODUCED

2020 SESSION

20-2914

01/05

SENATE BILL 467

AN ACT relative to certain procedures conducted in teaching hospitals.

SPONSORS: Sen. Bradley, Dist 3; Sen. Ward, Dist 8; Sen. Gray, Dist 6; Sen. Carson, Dist 14; Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Sen. Starr, Dist 1; Sen. Reagan, Dist 17; Sen. Giuda, Dist 2; Sen. Birdsell, Dist 19; Sen. Kahn, Dist 10

COMMITTEE: Health and Human Services

ANALYSIS

This bill prohibits a physician, surgeon, nurse or student undertaking a course of professional instruction from performing a pelvic examination on an anesthetized or unconscious female patient unless such examination is within the scope of care for the surgical procedure.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

20-2914

01/05

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty

AN ACT relative to certain procedures conducted in teaching hospitals.

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

1 New Section; Physicians and Surgeons; Certain Examination Prohibited. Amend RSA 329 by inserting after section 1-e the following new section:

329:1-f Pelvic Examination on Anesthetized or Unconscious Female Patient Prohibited. A physician, surgeon, nurse as defined in RSA 326-B:2, VII-a, or student undertaking a course of professional instruction or a clinical training program, shall not perform a pelvic examination on an anesthetized or unconscious female patient unless the patient gave informed consent to the pelvic examination, or the performance of a pelvic examination is within the scope of care for the surgical procedure or diagnostic examination to be performed on the patient or, in the case of an unconscious patient, the pelvic examination is required for diagnostic purposes.

2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2021.