CHAPTER 270

HB 1606 - FINAL VERSION

15Mar2022... 0919h

05/05/2022   1687s

2022 SESSION

22-2150

05/10

HOUSE BILL 1606

AN ACT relative to administration of the state immunization registry.

SPONSORS: Rep. Lang, Belk. 4; Rep. Nunez, Hills. 37; Rep. Rice, Hills. 37; Rep. Binford, Graf. 15; Rep. Harvey-Bolia, Belk. 4; Rep. Notter, Hills. 21; Rep. T. Lekas, Hills. 37; Rep. Bordes, Belk. 3; Rep. Pauer, Hills. 26; Rep. McLean, Hills. 44; Sen. Avard, Dist 12; Sen. Giuda, Dist 2; Sen. Ricciardi, Dist 9

COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

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AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill requires a patient to have the opportunity to opt-out or opt-in to the immunization registry.  The bill also provides that a patient's personal data shall not be entered into the registry without their explicit consent.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

15Mar2022... 0919h

05/05/2022   1687s 22-2150

05/10

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Two

AN ACT relative to administration of the state immunization registry.

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

270:1  New Paragraph; Communicable Disease; Immunization Registry; Opportunity to Opt-out or Opt-in to the Registry.  Amend RSA 141-C:20-f by inserting after paragraph II the following new paragraph:

II-a.  Each patient, or the patient's parent or guardian if the patient is a minor, shall be given the opportunity to opt-out or opt-in to the immunization registry.  No patient’s personal data, such as name, address, date of birth, immunization, or vaccination information, shall be entered into the registry without the explicit, written or electronic consent of the patient, or the patient’s parent or guardian.  

270:2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2023.

Approved: June 24, 2022

Effective Date: July 01, 2023