HCR 30 – FINAL VERSION
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2010 SESSION
01/04
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 30
A RESOLUTION urging the attorney general to fully investigate the proposed transaction between Catholic Medical Center Healthcare System and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health.
SPONSORS: Rep. Winters, Hills 17; Rep. C. Soucy, Hills 17; Rep. Infantine, Hills 13
COMMITTEE: Commerce and Consumer Affairs
AMENDED ANALYSIS
This house concurrent resolution urges the attorney general to fully investigate the proposed transaction between Catholic Medical Center Healthcare System and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health.
03Feb2010… 0279h
05/12/10 2035s
10-2618
01/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Ten
A RESOLUTION urging the attorney general to fully investigate the proposed transaction between Catholic Medical Center Healthcare System and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health.
Whereas, Catholic Medical Center Healthcare System and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health, 2 health care charitable trusts, are proposing to affiliate in order to create an integrated health care system that will enhance and improve the availability of health care services in the greater Manchester area; and
Whereas, it is the duty and obligation of the attorney general through the director of charitable trusts to oversee New Hampshire charitable institutions and to preserve and protect New Hampshire charitable assets; and
Whereas, the general court enacted RSA 7:19-b, regulating acquisition transactions involving health care charitable trusts, which statute applies to this proposed transaction; and
Whereas, the attorney general is presently in the process of reviewing the transaction under RSA 7:19-b, and has hired special counsel to assist in this review as provided by law; and
Whereas, the provisions of RSA 7:19-b do not supplant or restrict the general powers of the probate courts with respect to charitable trusts under existing law; now therefore be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:
That the New Hampshire general court hereby urges the attorney general to bring this proposed transaction before the probate court for Hillsborough county in the event that the attorney general determines there are unresolved legal questions within the jurisdiction of the probate court that relate to charitable missions and assets of the 2 health care charitable trusts; and
That the attorney general file a formal report of his or her actions and decisions taken pursuant to RSA 7:19-b with the general court within a reasonable time so that the public may be satisfied that the director of charitable trusts has fulfilled his or her statutory and common law obligations to the community and to this state; and
That the house clerk deliver a copy of this resolution to the attorney general.
Approved: May 13, 2010