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HB1390: relative to access to language translation services in telemedicine.

Bill status: Signed by Governor

Citation
2022 HB1390
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Bill details

Version history, amendments, and roll-call votes were not present in the imported local bill data.

House status
Concurred
Senate status
Passed/Adopted with Amendment
Committee
Senate Health and Human Services
Hearing
03/17/2026 at 10:00 AM
Selected version
Current official bill text

Sponsors

Topics

Health and Human Services

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CHAPTER 197

HB 1390 - FINAL VERSION

16Feb2022... 0409h

03/24/2022 1130s

2022 SESSION

22-2669

05/04

HOUSE BILL 1390

AN ACT relative to access to language translation services in telemedicine.

SPONSORS: Rep. M. Murray, Hills. 22; Rep. Espitia, Hills. 31; Rep. Query, Hills. 16; Rep. Wazir, Merr. 17; Rep. Grossman, Rock. 18; Rep. Marsh, Carr. 8; Rep. Knirk, Carr. 3; Sen. Kahn, Dist 10; Sen. Prentiss, Dist 5

COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill requires language access services for limited-English proficient speakers and deaf or heard of hearing individuals when healthcare services are provided through telemedicine.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

16Feb2022... 0409h

03/24/2022 1130s 22-2669

05/04

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Two

AN ACT relative to access to language translation services in telemedicine.

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

197:1 Telemedicine and Telehealth Services; Language Access Services. Amend RSA 310-A:1-g, V(b) and (c) to read as follows:

(b) Maintain a medical record; [and]

(c) Subject to the patient's consent, forward the medical record to the patient's primary care or treating provider, if appropriate; and

(d) Provide meaningful language access if the individual is practicing in a facility that is required to ensure meaningful language access to limited-English proficient speakers pursuant to 45 C.F.R. section 92.101 or RSA 354-A, or to deaf or hard of hearing individuals pursuant to 45 C.F.R. section 92.102, RSA 521-A, or RSA 354-A.

197:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved: June 17, 2022

Effective Date: June 17, 2022