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SB350: relative to gap health insurance coverage for prima facie presumptive conditions for emergency response/public safety workers.
Bill details
Version history, amendments, and roll-call votes were not present in the imported local bill data.
Sponsors
- Donna Soucy Senate · Dist 18
- Regina Birdsell Senate · Dist 19
- Sharon M. Carson Senate · Dist 14
- Shannon Chandley Senate · Dist 11
- Jeffrey Goley House · Hills 21
- O’Brien House · Hills 10
- Timothy A. Soucy House · Merr 21
Topics
Business and labor Health care Insurance Public safety
Official links
CHAPTER 151
SB 350-FN - FINAL VERSION
02/08/2024 0260s
04/05/2024 1270s
2024 SESSION
24-2828
10/05
SENATE BILL 350-FN
AN ACT relative to gap health insurance coverage for prima facie presumptive conditions for emergency response/public safety workers.
ANALYSIS
This bill requires that emergency response/public safety workers denied workers' compensation claims related to any claim of injury to which a prima facie presumption applies shall maintain their health insurance benefit until a final determination is made.
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Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
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02/08/2024 0260s
04/05/2024 1270s 24-2828
10/05
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four
AN ACT relative to gap health insurance coverage for prima facie presumptive conditions for emergency response/public safety workers.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
151:1 New Section; Workers' Compensation; Emergency Responders; Health Insurance. Amend RSA 281-A by inserting after section 17-e the following new section:
281-A:17-f Emergency Response/Public Safety Worker; Insurance Coverage. If an emergency response/public safety worker, as defined in RSA 281-A:2, V-c, petitions for hearing in response to a memorandum of denial filed under RSA 281-A:42, I(b) related to any claim of injury to which a prima facie presumption applies:
I. The employer shall maintain any health insurance benefit at the value of a single employee insurance premium until such time that the commissioner makes a final determination, including any appeal.
II. Once claimed, the period for which this benefit is payable shall not exceed 18 months.
III. The employee shall be eligible for this benefit starting at the beginning of his or her employment and for a period of 20 years from the effective date of separation from service.
151:2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
Approved: July 03, 2024
Effective Date: September 01, 2024