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HB1131: relative to mental health practice.

Bill status: Signed by Governor

Citation
2024 HB1131
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House status
Passed/Adopted with Amendment
Senate status
Passed/Adopted
Committee
Senate Health and Human Services
Hearing
05/01/2024 at 09:00 AM
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Health and Human Services Health care

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CHAPTER 110

HB 1131 - FINAL VERSION

28Mar2024... 1071h

2024 SESSION

24-2695

09/05

HOUSE BILL 1131

AN ACT relative to mental health practice.

SPONSORS: Rep. Gregg, Hills. 7; Rep. Manos, Rock. 12; Rep. Grossman, Rock. 11; Rep. Kuttab, Rock. 17; Rep. Devine, Hills. 5; Rep. Nutter-Upham, Hills. 8

COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill expands the persons exempted list to include any organization which provides clinical mental health services, employs licensed mental health practitioners, provides clinical supervision of its staff, and which assumes professional, ethical, and legal responsibility for such mental health services.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

28Mar2024... 1071h 24-2695

09/05

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

AN ACT relative to mental health practice.

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

110:1 Mental Health Practice; Persons Exempted. Amend RSA 330-A:34, I(d) to read as follows:

(d) The psychotherapy activities and services of any other person providing mental health services as an employee of or consultant [to] of an [institution, facility, or nonprofit institution or agency] organization which provides clinical mental health services, employs licensed mental health practitioners, [and which] provides clinical supervision of its staff, and [which] assumes professional, ethical, and legal responsibility for such mental health services.

110:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.

Approved: July 03, 2024

Effective Date: September 01, 2024