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SB 129 · 2025 · Senate · Health and Human Services Committee

Uncompensated health care fund

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relative to establishing an uncompensated health care fund to be administered by the department of insurance and assessed by a surcharge on commercial insurers, reinsurers, and trusts overseeing self-insured plans.

Establishes an uncompensated health care fund administered by the department of insurance and funded by a surcharge on commercial insurers, reinsurers, and self-insured plan trusts.AI-generated

Status

Killed in the Senate — Inexpedient to Legislate · March 6, 2025
  1. ✓Introduced
  2. ✕Senate
  3. House
  4. Governor
  5. Law

Analysis

This bill establishes an uncompensated health care fund to be administered by the department of insurance and assessed by a surcharge on commercial insurers, reinsurers, and trusts overseeing self-insured plans.

From the bill's official ANALYSIS section.

In the bill's words

Quoted verbatim from the bill as introduced. Passages chosen from the operative text.Computed by this site

“There is hereby established in the state treasury an uncompensated health care fund, which shall be kept separate and distinct from all other funds.”
RSA 400-A:39-c
“All moneys in the fund shall be nonlapsing and continually appropriated to the insurance department for the purposes of this section.”
RSA 400-A:39-c
“The insurance department shall establish an uncompensated health care assessment charged to licensed health insurance carriers, reinsurers, and trusts overseeing self-insured plans in the state of New Hampshire.”
RSA 400-A:39-c
“Self-insured plans subject to the assessment shall include the state of New Hampshire health plan; municipal self-insured health plans; any trust or association health plan registered in the state of New Hampshire; self-insured plans that contract for reinsurance services with New Hampshire-regulated carriers; and self-insured companies with more than 100 employees who contract with the state of New Hampshire.”
RSA 400-A:39-c

Official record

Bill page — docket & status

gc.nh.gov · the authoritative source

Sponsors

Sen. Daniel InnisRPrimeChair, Majority Policy Conference

Public testimony

No one submitted online testimony on this bill. See the record

Votes

yeanay
Starting text: Bill as introduced
  • Mar 6, 2025SenateCommittee reportCommittee report: Inexpedient to Legislate4–0
    Overall
    100% yea
  • Mar 6, 2025SenateVoice voteInexpedient to Legislateadopted

Hearings and debates

  • Feb 10, 2025Public hearingSenate Health and Human Services1:40–5:183m 38slocated in the stream transcript==TIME CHANGE== Hearing
  • Mar 6, 2025Floor debateSenate floorWatchnot located in the transcript — opens the full streamCommittee Report: Inexpedient to Legislate; Inexpedient to Legislate — adopted, voice vote

Timestamps locate where this bill is taken up in the chamber's YouTube stream.

Legislative history

  1. Jan 9, 2025SenIntroduced 01/09/2025 and Referred to Health and Human Services; SJ 3
  2. Feb 10, 2025Sen==TIME CHANGE== Hearing: 02/10/2025, Room 100, SH, 10:15 am; SC 9
  3. Mar 6, 2025Sen: Inexpedient to Legislate, 03/06/2025, Vote 4-0, CC; SC 11
  4. Mar 6, 2025SenInexpedient to Legislate, MA, VV === BILL KILLED ===; 03/06/2025; SJ 6

Coverage

No reporting linked yet.

Documents (PDF)

  • Introducedversion

Bill text & amendments link direct to gc.nh.gov; committee reports stream from the state record.