HB 1131  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2024 SESSION

24-2695

09/05

 

HOUSE BILL 1131

 

AN ACT relative to mental health practice.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Gregg, Hills. 7; Rep. Manos, Rock. 12; Rep. Grossman, Rock. 11; Rep. Kuttab, Rock. 17; Rep. Devine, Hills. 5; Rep. Nutter-Upham, Hills. 8

 

COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill expands the persons exempted list to include the psychotherapy activities and services of any person providing mental health services as an employee of, or consultant to an outpatient private practice.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-2695

09/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to mental health practice.

 

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

 

1  Mental Health Practice; Persons Exempted.  Amend RSA 330-A:34, I(d) to read as follows:

(d) The psychotherapy activities and services of any other person providing mental health services as an employee of, or consultant to an institution, facility, outpatient private practice, or nonprofit institution or agency which provides clinical mental health services and which provides clinical supervision of its staff and which assumes professional, ethical, and legal responsibility for such mental health services.

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