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PIANH bill tracking and priority bills—Feb. 13, 2013
PIA priority bills will be highlighted in grey.
Bill No. |
Status |
PIA position |
| Life/Health | H.B. 355 | Renzullo—This bill establishes a committee to study the feasibility of cities and towns transferring insurance under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. An act establishing a committee to study the feasibility of cities and towns transferring insurance under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee |
H.B. 356 | Renzullo—This bill establishes a committee to study the feasibility of the state transferring insurance under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. An act establishing a committee to study the feasibility of the state transferring insurance under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee |
H.B. 400 | Butler/Hunt/Flanders—This bill authorizes life insurance companies to issue funding agreements. This bill was requested by the Insurance Department. An act relative to funding agreements issued by life insurance companies. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee |
H.B. 476 | Garcia/Ulery/Kappler/Lambert—This bill requires health-care professionals and health-care facilities to provide the expected direct-care price for medical services upon the request of an uninsured patient or a prospective patient. An act relative to medical-care price disclosure and transparency. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee |
H.B. 526 | Butler—This bill requires the insurance commissioner to seek approval from the United States Department of Health and Human Services to administer the Federal Reinsurance Program for the individual market under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009. This bill was a request of the Insurance Department. An act relative to a reinsurance mechanism for the individual health insurance market. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Commerce and Consumer Affairs |
H.B. 544 | Butler—This bill deletes the prohibition on a state-based health exchange. An act repealing the prohibition on a state-based health exchange. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Commerce and Consumer Affairs |
H.B. 551 | Gile/Gilmour/Fuller-Clark/Hammond—This bill establishes a commission to study the establishment of a paid family leave insurance program, contingent on the availability of federal funds to be administered through the Department of Employment Security and supported by a payroll deduction or other revenue source. An act establishing a commission to study the establishment of a paid family leave insurance program, contingent on the availability of federal funds to be administered through the Department of Employment Security and supported by a payroll deduction or other revenue source. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Children and Family Law Committee |
H.B. 668 | Schlachman—This bill makes changes to the statute applicable to health insurance carriers offering major medical health insurance coverage in the group and individual markets in New Hampshire. This bill is a request of the insurance department. An act relative to group and individual health insurance market rules. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee |
| Miscellaneous | H.B. 107 | Vaillancourt—The bill requires the losing party to pay the prevailing party’s attorney’s fees and court costs in An act relative to the losing party's payment of the prevailing party's costs in tort actions. Last Action: 1/24/13 Report Filed |
H.B. 200 | Smith—This bill requires employers to provide corroborating testimony, documentation or physical evidence of misconduct when alleging an employee was dismissed for misconduct. An act relative to an employer's burden of proof in unemployment compensation hearings. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Committee |
Flanders/Butler/Hunt—This bill makes certain changes in the laws relative to property and casualty insurance. An act relative to property and casualty insurance. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee |
H.B. 228 | Butler/Hunt/Flanders—This bill establishes venue for offenses relating to insurance fraud. This bill is a request of the Insurance Department. An act relative to insurance fraud. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee |
H.B. 229 | Butler/Hunt/Flanders—This bill requires the insurance commissioner to appoint a financial examinations supervisor. An act relative to a financial examination supervisor. Last Action: 2/6/13 In Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee |
H.B. 230 | Butler/Hunt/Flanders—This bill authorizes the insurance commissioner to administratively supervise an insurer under certain circumstances. This bill is a request of the Insurance Department. An act relative to adminsitrative supervision of insurers. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee |
H.B. 231 | Schlachman/Hunt—This bills amends the existing law regarding reinsurance to conform to the National Association of Insurance Commissioner's model. This bill is a request of the Insurance Department. An act relative to reinsurance. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee |
H.B. 234 | Baldasaro/Tamburello/Griffin/Kappler/L. Ober/R. Ober/LeBrun/Theberge/O'Brien/Shurtleff—This bill requires boards and commissions granting licenses, certificates or registrations to credit acceptable military education training or service; to continue the validity of licenses, certificates or registrations for 90 days after the end of service and to provide for expedited and temporary licenses, certificates or registrations for a spouse of a member of the Armed Forces. An act relative to occupational and professional boards and commissions procedures concerning military service and occupational experience or training. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Executive Departments and Administration Committee |
H.B. 241 | Robertson—This beill establishes a state minimum hourly rate. An act establishing a state minimum hourly rate. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Committee |
H.B. 246 | White—This bill makes refusing to submit certain reports a criminal offense. This bill is a request of the Department of Employment Security. An act relative to falsity by employer. Last Action: 2/7/13 In Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services |
H.B. 249 | Duarte/Tamburello/Rappaport/Pitre/Renzull/Reagan/Boutin—This bill requires employers to verify employees' eligiblity to work in the United States by using a status verification system. An act requiring employers to verify an employee's eligibility to work in the United States. Last Action: 1/30/13 In Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services |
H.B. 266 | McGuire/Jones—This bill repeals certain specific exceptions for rules adopted by an agency from compliance with the procedures of RSA 541-A, the Administrative Procedures Act. An act repealing certain agency rulemaking exceptions from the Administrative Procedures Act. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Executive Departments and Administration Committee |
H.B. 330 | Burriddge—This bill establishes requirements and procedures for a county income tax administered by the Department of Revenue Administration which may be implemented by counties by adoption of the provisions of RSA 76-A by majority vote of the county convention. The revenues received by each town or city in the county are used to fund local education costs, reducing the revenues needed to calculate the local property tax rate. The authorization is repealed in six years. An act allowing counties to adopt a county income tax to be administratered by the Department of Revenue Administration. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Municipal and County Government |
H.B. 339 | Rice/Davis—This bill requires debt collectors to provide documentation of certain consumer debts before collecting them. This bill also requires debt collectors to give notice to consumers before initiating a suit or arbitration. An act relative to consumer credit. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee |
H.B. 350 | Copeland—This bill prohibits hiring discrimination by employers based upon an individual's unemployment status. An act prohibiting discrimination agains the unemployed. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Committee |
H.B. 354 | Rideout/Richardson/Tucker/Baldasaro—This bill reduces the rate of the business enterprise tax over a five-year period and repeals the tax July 1, 2018. An act reducing the rate of the business enterprise tax over a five-year period and repealing the tax. Last Action: 2/14/13 In Ways and Means Committee |
H.B. 357 | Cushing—This bill prohibits employers from using credit history uin employment decisions. An act prohibiting an employer from using credit history in employment decisions. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Committee |
H.B. 361 | White—This bill makes changes to worksharing reporting requirements in order to conform to the Federal Unemployment Tax Act. An act relative to worksharing. Last Action: 2/12/13 In Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Committee |
H.B. 364 | Copeland/Turcotte/St. James—This bill requires New Hampshire retirement system employers to notify prospective part-time employees who are retired members in the retirement system of the annual limitations on hours for part-time employment. An act requiring New Hampshire retirement system employers to notify prospective part-time employees who are retired member of the limitations on part-time employment. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Executive Departments and Administration Committee |
H.B. 386 | Lambert—This bill establishes a committee to study streamlining inspections and licensing of businesses. An act establishing a committee to study streamlining inspections and licensing of businesses. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee |
H.B. 401 | Schlachman/Hunt/Flanders/Butler—This bill clarifies the risk-based capital law as it applies to property/casualty insurers. This bill is a request of the Insurance Department. An act relative to property/casualty insurers under the risk-based capital law.. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee |
H.B. 430 | Chirichiello/Thompson/Webb—This bill requires insurance companies sending out solicitations for marketing purposes to include their insurance license number on such solicitations. An act requiring insurance companies sending out solicitations for marketing purposes to include their insurance license number on such solicitations. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee |
H.B. 434 | Hoell/Itse—This bill renames the business enterprise tax as the business income tax, requires that a taxpayer of the business income tax not pay greater amounts in any subsequent year and lowers the rate of the tax incrementally over 20 years. An act relative to renaming the business enterprise tax, capping the amount an employer is liable to pay under such tax and annually reducing the rate of the tax. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee |
H.B. 467 | McGuire—This bill changes the number of enrollees permitted by a qualified purchasing alliance from 3,000 to 250. An act relative to purchasing alliances. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee |
H.B. 469 | McGuire—This bill provides that occupational and professional regulatory boards will lose jurisdiction over a disciplinary matter when statutory time limits for holding hearings on disciplinary actions are not met. An act relative to time limits for regulatory boards and commissions to hold disciplinary proceedings. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Executive and Administration Committee |
H.B. 530 | McGuire—This bill allows business entities to file annual reports only once every three years. This bill also changes when reports by voluntary corporations are due. An act relative to annual reporting requirements for business entities. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee |
H.B. 591 | Schuett/Turcotte/Gale/Schmidt/Emerson/Alicea/Davis/Irwin—This bill prohibits abusive work environments for public employees. An act relative to an abusive work environment and the health and safety of public employees. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Committee |
H.B. 598 | Hess—This bill increases the amount of the record-keeping safe harbor deduction under the business profits tax, which may be taken in lieu of a deduction for substantiated value of compensation. An act relative to the reasonable compensation deduction under the business profits tax. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Ways and Means Committee |
H.B. 654 | McGuire/Roberts/Cebrowski/Rice/Hansen/Jones/Sullivan—This bill establishes licensure and renewal fees by statute rather than by administrative rule for acupuncturists, alcohol and drug counselors, boxing and wrestling promoters and participants, dietitians, electrologists, funeral directors and embalmers, hearing care providers, massage therapists, midwives, naturopaths, nursing home administrators, optometrists, podiatrists, reflexologists, and individuals registered as home health-care providers. An act relative to licensure and renewal fees. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Executive Departments and Administration Committee |
S.B. 1 | Odell/Reagan/Pierce/Cebrowski/Cataldo/Kelly/Grenier/Bradley/ An act increasing the research and development tax credit against the business profits tax. Last Action: 1/31/13 In Ways and Means Committee |
S.B. 2 | Boutin/Bradley/Ladd/Forrester/Rausch/Chandler/Stiles/Smith/ An act relative to the calculation of the local tax cap. Last Action: 1/31/13 In Public and Municipal Affairs Committee |
S.B. 40 | Kelly/Hosmer/Woodburn/Boutin/Larsen/Wallner/Bradley/ An act relative to distribution of education funds for fiscal year 2013. Last Action: 1/31/13 In Finance Committee |
| Privacy | H.B. 311 | Kurk—This bill establishes a statutory expectation of privacy in personal materials. An act establishing a statutory expectation of privacy in personal materials. Last Action: 2/6/13 In Judiciary Committee |
H.B. 379 | Sullivan/Soucy/Smith/Rogers—This bill prohibits an employer from requiring an employee or prospective employee to disclosure his or her social media passwords. An act prohibiting an employer from requiring an employee or prospective employee to disclose his or her social media passwords. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Committee |
H.B. 414 | Rogers/Soucy/Sullivan—This bill prohibits an employer from requiring an employee or prospective employee to disclose his or her social media passwords. An act relative to privacy in the workplace. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Committee |
H.B. 592 | Kurk/Ginsburg/Winters—This bill prohibits the use of electronic tracking devices to track an individual without the consent of the individual or a court order. An act regulating the use of electronic tracking devices. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee |
| Producer issues | ||
Sanborn—This bill clarifies the process of appointing insurance producers as agents of insurers. This bill also repeals the termination fee for insurance producers. An act relative to the appointment of insurance agents and repealing a fee for insurance producers. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Commerce Committee |
Supporting comment | H.B. 222 | McGuire—This bill allows a business to use a name that is similar to the name of an existing business or other entity. An act relative to business names registered with the Secretary of State. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Commerce and Consumer Affairs |
| Workers' compensation | H.B. 169 | Weed—The bill establishes procedures for a private right of action to recover workers' compensation coverage payments. An act establishing an employers' private right of action to enforce the payment of workers' compensation coverage. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Committee |
H.B. 171 | Webb—The bill requires the labor commissioner to assess a civil penalty on any insurance carrier or self-insurer who fails to make payment of workers' compensation. Current law allows the commissioners discretion in assessing such penalty. An act relative to the civil penalty for failure to make payment of workers' compensation. Last Action: 2/7/13 In Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Committee |
H.B. 172 | Webb—This bill requires the labor commissioner to maintain certain records and statistical information relating to payment of workers' compensation. An act requiring the labor commissioner to maintain certain statistical information regarding payment of workers' compensation. Last Action: 2/7/13 In Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Committee |
H.B. 203 | Graham/Bouchard—This bill clarifies certain workers' compensation procedures relating to state projects and state land timber sales. An act relative to workers' compensation coverage for contractors on state projects and state land timber sales Last Action: 2/6/13 In Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Committee |
H.B. 373 | Goley—This bill establishes a right of discovery to a carrier's investigation of claims in workers' compensation cases. The bill also allows reasonable attorneys fees to be paid to the claimant in certain circumstances. An act establishing a right of discovery to a carrier's investigation of claims in workers' compensation cases. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Committee |
H.B. 439 | Richardson—This bill changes the weekly compensation for temporary total disability, permanent total disability and temporary partial and permanent partial disability. An act relative to weekly workers' compensation payments. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Committee |
H.B. 546 | Goley/Soucy/Copeland/Lasky/Wall/Richardson—This bill clarifies the conduct of independent medical examinations under workers' compensation. An act relative to medical examinations under workers' compensation. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Committee |
H.B. 647 | Richardson—This bill allows any party in interest aggrieved by a decision of the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board to appeal to the superior court. Such appeal shall be limited to issues of law. Current law allows appeals from the board to go directly to the supreme court. An act relative to appeals from the Compensation Appeals Board. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Committee |
S.B. 71 | D'Allesandro—This bill establishes a committee to study the use and misuse of prescription drugs in workers’ compensation cases. An act establishing a committee to study the use and misuse of prescription drugs in workers' compensation cases. Last Action: 2/14/13 In Commerce Committee |
S.B. 147 | D'Allesandro—This bill requires pharmacies to substitute generic drugs or appropriate over-the-counter alternatives to prescription drugs unless the prescribing physician indicates that the brand name drug is medically necessary. The bill also requires the commissioner of the Department of Labor to establish a pharmacy closed formulary and an appeals process for drugs not included in the formulary. An act relative to prescription drugs in workers' compensation cases. Last Action: 1/3/13 In Commerce Committee |
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