HB 1488  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2022 SESSION

22-2369

05/10

 

HOUSE BILL 1488

 

AN ACT expanding the prohibition against discrimination based on an individual's election not to participate in the state vaccine registry.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Prout, Hills. 37; Rep. Blasek, Hills. 21; Rep. Binford, Graf. 15; Rep. Johnson, Belk. 3; Rep. T. Lekas, Hills. 37

 

COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill expands the prohibition against discrimination based on an individual's election not to participate in the state immunization/vaccination registry to include schools, child care agencies, and government health agencies.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

22-2369

05/10

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Two

 

AN ACT expanding the prohibition against discrimination based on an individual's election not to participate in the state vaccine registry.

 

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

 

1  Communicable Disease; Immunization Registry.  Amend RSA 141-C:20-f, X to read as follows:

X.  No health care provider or any other entity identified in paragraph IV shall discriminate in any way against a person solely because that person elects not to participate in the immunization registry.

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