HB 188 - AS INTRODUCED

2015 SESSION

15-0295

09/10

HOUSE BILL 188

AN ACT allowing the department of health and human services to share certain Medicaid enhancement tax information with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

SPONSORS: Rep. Major, Rock 14; Rep. Almy, Graf 13

COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

ANALYSIS

This bill allows the department of health and human services to share certain Medicaid enhancement tax information with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for purposes of calculations of the federal waiver process under 42 C.F.R. section 433.68.

This bill was requested by the department of revenue administration.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

15-0295

09/10

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Fifteen

AN ACT allowing the department of health and human services to share certain Medicaid enhancement tax information with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

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

1 Medicaid Enhancement Tax; Confidentiality of Records. Amend RSA 84-A:10 to read as follows:

84-A:10 Confidentiality of Records.

I. Notwithstanding the provisions of RSA 21-J:14, the commissioner shall not be prohibited from providing tax information to the commissioner of health and human services with respect to the tax imposed by this chapter, provided that the commissioner of health and human services and his agents and employees shall be subject to the provisions of RSA 21-J:14 with respect to any tax information provided by the commissioner.

II. Notwithstanding paragraph I and the provisions of RSA 21-J:14, the commissioner of health and human services shall not be prohibited from providing tax information in accordance with department of revenue administration compacts for the exchange of information between the department of health and human services and the United States Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, but only for the purpose of, and to the extent necessary for, the calculations of the federal waiver process under 42 C.F.R. Section 433.68.

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