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SB750: providing for premium-free insurance to persons who donate a kidney.
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Version history, amendments, and roll-call votes were not present in the imported local bill data.
Sponsors
- Fuller Clark Senate · Dist 21
- Hennessey Senate · Dist 5
- Jeb Bradley Senate · Dist 3
- Melanie Levesque Senate · Dist 12
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SB 750-FN-A - AS INTRODUCED
2020 SESSION
20-3134
10/01
SENATE BILL 750-FN-A
AN ACT providing for premium-free insurance to persons who donate a kidney.
ANALYSIS
This bill provides that any New Hampshire resident who donates a kidney shall have his or her health insurance premiums for a gold level plan in the state health marketplace paid for life by the state.
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20-3134
10/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty
AN ACT providing for premium-free insurance to persons who donate a kidney.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Health and Human Services; Health Insurance for Kidney Donors. Amend RSA 126-A by inserting after section 18-b the following new section:
126-A:18-c Health Insurance for Kidney Donors; Fund Established.
I. Any New Hampshire resident who donates a kidney as a live kidney donor on or after the effective date of this section shall be eligible after such donation to receive health insurance through the New Hampshire state health insurance marketplace with the cost of the premium paid for by the state for the duration of such donor's life. The department shall be responsible for the payment of all premiums in connection with the insurance and neither the donor nor his or her employer shall be liable for the premiums.
II. Insurance and premium payments provided pursuant to this section shall be made for the highest level of services available through a gold level plan available on the New Hampshire health insurance marketplace, and shall include prescription drug coverage.
III. Such insurance premium payment shall be paid from the kidney donor insurance fund established under paragraph IV.
IV. There is hereby established in the state treasury the kidney donor insurance fund. The fund shall consist of all moneys appropriated for its purpose, all moneys transferred to the fund, all moneys required by any other provision of law to be credited to the fund, any grants, gifts or bequests received by the department for the purposes of the fund, and any interest earnings which may accrue from the investment of moneys in the fund.
V. The fund shall be nonlapsing and continually appropriated to the department of health and human services and shall be available for all costs of supplying kidney donors with health insurance under section.
2 New Subparagraph; Application of Receipts; Kidney Donor Insurance Fund. Amend RSA 6:12, I(b) by inserting after subparagraph (358) the following new subparagraph:
(359) Moneys deposited in the kidney donor insurance fund established in RSA 126-A:18-c.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
LBAO
20-3134
Revised 3/10/20
SB 750-FN-A- FISCAL NOTE
AS INTRODUCED
AN ACT providing for premium-free insurance to persons who donate a kidney.
FISCAL IMPACT: [ X ] State [ ] County [ ] Local [ ] None
Estimated Increase / (Decrease)
STATE:
FY 2020
FY 2021
FY 2022
FY 2023
Appropriation
$0
$0
$0
$0
Revenue
$0
$0
$0
$0
Expenditures
$0
Indeterminable Increase
Indeterminable Increase
Indeterminable Increase
Funding Source:
[ X ] General [ ] Education [ ] Highway [ ] Other
METHODOLOGY:
This bill provides that any New Hampshire resident who donates a kidney shall have his or her health insurance premiums for a gold level plan in the state health marketplace paid for life by the State. The bill establishes the Health Insurance for Kidney Donors Fund and would require the Department of Health and Human Services to pay insurance premiums from the fund for a gold level plan available on the New Hampshire Health Insurance Marketplace. The Department assumes:
Any New Hampshire Resident would include a kidney donor who donates a live kidney on or after the effective date in another state and subsequently becomes a New Hampshire resident.
The New Hampshire state health insurance marketplace means the qualified health plans offered in the individual market through the federally facilitated marketplace and such a plan would include prescription drug coverage.
The Department indicates the cost of implementing this benefit is indeterminable because there is no way to determine: how many New Hampshire residents will donate a kidney, the number of individuals who will donate a kidney after the effective date of the bill and choose to become New Hampshire residents, the length of time the Department would be paying the insurance premiums, or what the cost of a gold level plan will be in future years.
The Insurance Department assumes the bill would have no impact on premium tax revenue and no impact on the New Hampshire Insurance Department Administrative Fund.
It is assumed the fiscal impact of the bill would not occur until FY 2021.
AGENCIES CONTACTED:
Departments of Health and Human Services and Insurance