HB 221  - AS INTRODUCED
 
 
2021 SESSION
21-0205
05/08
 
HOUSE BILL 221
 
AN ACT making the state vaccine registry an opt-in program.
 
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; Sen. Avard, Dist 12; Rep. Trottier, Belk. 6
 
COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
 
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ANALYSIS
 
This bill makes the state immunization registry an opt-in program rather than an opt-out program.
 
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
21-0205
05/08
 
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
 
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty One
 
AN ACT making the state vaccine registry an opt-in program.
 
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
 
1  New Paragraph; Communicable Disease; Immunization Registry; Opportunity to 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-in to the immunization registry.  No patient   s immunization or vaccination information shall be entered into the registry without the explicit, written, opt-in consent of the patient, or the patient   s parent or guardian.
2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.