Insurance

The Senate Committee on Insurance.

Bills Referred, 2003-2004

• HB 164-FN-A: increasing the gross premiums tax on insurance provided by certain unlicensed companies. (Vetoed, override failed)
• HB 182: relative to unclaimed shares and advancements to heirs. (Signed into law)
• HB 228: relative to conduct after an accident. (Killed)
• HB 265: relative to the health care delivery system. (Killed)
• HB 269-FN: relative to claims arising from clinical services provided to the department of health and human services. (Signed into law)
• HB 287: establishing a professional malpractice claims study commission and establishing a commission to identify medical errors and their causes. (Signed into law)
• HB 302-FN: relative to the funding and use of the retirement system special account. (Became law unsigned)
• HB 303: relative to life, accident, and health technicals and relative to minimum standards for claim review. (Signed into law)
• HB 316-FN: relative to insurance coverage for anesthesia for child dental care. (Signed into law)
• HB 356-FN: relative to including medical benefits costs in the purchase of creditable service in the retirement system. (Signed into law)
• HB 460-FN: relative to property and casualty insurance. (Signed into law)
• HB 468: relative to enforcement of labor protection statutes. (Killed)
• HB 470: relative to health insurance providers. (Signed into law)
• HB 507: relative to certain statutes that set minimum requirements for employee benefit plan procedures pertaining to the filing of benefit claims, notification of benefit determinations, and appeal of adverse benefit determinations. (Signed into law)
• HB 546: relative to uniform prescription drug information cards. (Signed into law)
• HB 591-FN: allowing a certain former state employee to apply for accidental disability benefits. (Became law unsigned)
• HB 596-FN: relative to health plan loss information. (Signed into law)
• HB 601: relative to the long-term care insurance act. (Signed into law)
• HB 651-FN: relative to the purchase of prior service credit in the retirement system, and repealing certain provisions permitting additional contributions. (Died: conferees could not agree)
• HB 652-FN: relative to qualified wellness or disease management programs. (Signed into law)
• HB 669-FN: relative to eligibility for medical benefits for retired state employees. (Signed into law)
• HB 671-FN-A: establishing a contributory defined benefit judicial retirement plan. (Signed into law)
• HB 684-FN: relative to the insurance rating law. (Signed into law)
• HB 702-FN: relative to payment of medical benefits costs for disabled group II members of the retirement system. (Signed into law)
• HB 725: relative to fraternal benefit societies. (Signed into law)
• HB 730-FN-LOCAL: establishing a committee to study workers' compensation benefits for firefighters, rescue workers, and safety workers who contract certain communicable diseases. (Signed into law)
• HB 770-FN-A: establishing a committee to study using tax policy to create incentives to encourage employers to hire disabled persons. (Signed into law)
• HB 776: relative to emergency medical care for pregnant women. (Died on the table)
• HB 788-FN-A: transferring the duties of the health services planning and review board. (Killed)
• HB 1130: relative to certain insurance agents. (Signed into law)
• HB 1161: relative to solicitation and marketing of insurance products. (Signed into law)
• HB 1202: relative to third-party payment of covered services ordered by the juvenile court. (Signed into law)
• HB 1282: authorizing the commissioner of insurance and the commissioner of banking to order the payment of restitution to individuals harmed by unfair or deceptive practices of licensees. (Signed into law)
• HB 1335-LOCAL: establishing a commission to examine the workers' compensation system in New Hampshire. (Died: conferees could not agree)
• HB 1408-FN: relative to reporting requirements for certain nonprofit organizations, including health care charitable trusts. (Signed into law)
• SB 21: relative to health insurance riders. (Signed into law)
• SB 37-FN: increasing the amount paid to the firemen's relief fund from insurance department revenues. (Died on the table)
• SB 42: relative to the insurance rebating laws. (Signed into law)
• SB 53: establishing an advisory board to the labor commissioner and relative to the terms of the members of the compensation appeals board. (Became law unsigned)
• SB 81-FN: granting a retirement system annuity to the surviving spouse of Carl Morin. (Killed)
• SB 82-FN: relative to awards of fees and interest under workers' compensation. (Signed into law)
• SB 84-FN: relative to eligibility for payment of medical benefits by the retirement system. (Killed)
• SB 110: relative to small group health insurance coverage and relative to health plan loss information. (Signed into law)
• SB 119: relative to medical and hospital liability insurance. (Signed into law)
• SB 135: relative to hotelkeeper or innkeeper liability for personal child care services. (Signed into law)
• SB 152: relative to health insurance coverage for prosthetic devices. (Became law unsigned)
• SB 158: adding a county commissioner member to the New Hampshire retirement system board of trustees. (Killed)
• SB 174: relative to scheduled permanent impairment awards and remedial care under workers' compensation. (Signed into law)
• SB 183-FN: relative to membership in the retirement system for part-time attorneys general. (Killed)
• SB 184: relative to reinsurance and relative to the unclaimed property of a demutualized insurance company. (Became law unsigned)
• SB 189: relative to certain automobile accidents. (Died on the table)
• SB 197-FN: relative to extended unemployment benefits and making an appropriation therefor. (Became law unsigned)
• SB 201: establishing a committee to study insurance practices relative to homeowner's insurance. (Killed)
• SB 223-FN-A: relative to fees for copies of motor vehicle records, relative to the fire standards and training and emergency medical services fund, and relative to the fire standards and training and emergency medical services report and budget. (Signed into law)
• SB 314: relative to access to medical records. (Signed into law)
• SB 316: relative to the payment of salaried employees. (Signed into law)
• SB 322-FN: relative to payment of medical benefits costs for disabled group II members of the retirement system. (Killed)
• SB 326-FN: relative to contributions by political subdivision employers for certain employee service, and repealing certain retirement system provisions permitting additional contributions by members. (Killed)
• SB 329-FN: relative to the recovery by the retirement system of the overpayment of benefit amounts, relative to payment of medical benefits costs for disabled group II members of the retirement system, and making technical changes to the judicial retirement plan. (Signed into law)
• SB 330-FN: relative to creditable service of retirement system members reemployed after qualifying military service. (Signed into law)
• SB 331-FN: relative to the offset of workers' compensation lump sum payments against retirement system disability allowances and death benefits. (Killed)
• SB 338-FN: relative to the purchase of prior service credit in the retirement system, and repealing certain provisions permitting additional contributions. (Signed into law)
• SB 363: relative to notification of cancellation of insurance coverage. (Killed)
• SB 366-FN: relative to the Interstate Insurance Product Compact. (Signed into law)
• SB 367: relative to the New Hampshire Insurance Guaranty Association Act of 2004. (Signed into law)
• SB 368: relative to reinsurance. (Signed into law)
• SB 369: relative to examinations of insurance companies by the insurance department. (Signed into law)
• SB 370: relative to the insurance rating law. (Signed into law)
• SB 371: relative to certain technical changes in the insurance laws. (Signed into law)
• SB 389: relative to certain insurance contracts. (Killed)
• SB 390: relative to liability of third person under workers' compensation. (Died on the table)
• SB 395: relative to wireless communications equipment insurance. (Killed)
• SB 402: relative to an optional retirement annuity benefit for members of the Manchester retirement system. (Signed into law)
• SB 419: relative to the use of standardized health statements and relative to renewals of certain policies. (Killed)
• SB 420-FN: relative to the payment of medical benefits costs for certain group II permanent firemen members injured in the performance of duty. (Killed)
• SB 423: relative to confidentiality and workers' compensation. (Signed into law)
• SB 425-FN: relative to payment of medical benefits costs for certain group I retirement system members. (Killed)
• SB 430-FN: relative to mandated insurance benefits and establishing a committee to study the feasibility of mandating that health insurers provide medical loss information to small group employers. (Signed into law)
• SB 431: prohibiting the waiver of workers' compensation subrogation rights and prohibiting certain indemnification provisions in construction-related contracts. (Signed into law)
• SB 437: relative to unemployment compensation. (Killed)
• SB 460: relative to insurance compliance self-audits. (Killed)
• SB 475: relative to employee leasing companies. (Referred for interim study)
• SB 482-FN: relative to captive insurance companies and reciprocal insurers. (Referred for interim study)
• SB 502: establishing a committee to study the feasibility of allowing certain groups to join together for purposes of small group insurance. (Killed)
• SB 515-FN: relative to benefit options for surviving spouses and designated beneficiaries of deceased members of the retirement system. (Killed)
• SB 528: establishing a right to work act which provides for freedom of choice on whether to join a labor union. (Referred for interim study)

And 582 bills in 7 earlier terms.

Recent Meetings

• The Committee on Insurance met on April 6, 2004 for hearings on HB 265, HB 1202, HB 1282 and HB 1335-LOCAL.
• The Committee on Insurance met on March 30, 2004 for hearings on HB 652-FN and HB 1408-FN.
• The Committee on Insurance met on March 23, 2004 for hearings on HB 651-FN, HB 1130, HB 1161 and HB 730-FN-LOCAL.
• The Committee on Insurance met on March 8, 2004 for a hearing on SB 528.
• The Committee on Insurance met on March 2, 2004 for hearings on SB 502, SB 367, SB 368 and SB 475.
• The Committee on Insurance met on February 17, 2004 for hearings on SB 370, SB 371, SB 389, SB 460, SB 419 and SB 331-FN.
• The Committee on Insurance met on February 10, 2004 for hearings on SB 420-FN, SB 425-FN, SB 482-FN and SB 515-FN.
• The Committee on Insurance met on February 3, 2004 for hearings on SB 366-FN, SB 326-FN and SB 437.
• The Committee on Insurance met on January 20, 2004 for hearings on SB 331-FN, SB 338-FN, SB 423, SB 369 and SB 431.
• The Committee on Insurance met on January 15, 2004 for hearings on SB 322-FN, SB 430-FN, SB 329-FN, SB 330-FN and SB 402.
• The Committee on Insurance met on January 13, 2004 for hearings on SB 390, SB 314, SB 316, SB 363 and SB 395.
• The Committee on Insurance met on May 20, 2003 for hearings on HB 507, HB 468 and HB 601.
• The Committee on Insurance met on May 13, 2003 for hearings on HB 316-FN, HB 302-FN and HB 788-FN-A.
• The Committee on Insurance met on May 6, 2003 for hearings on HB 671-FN-A, HB 702-FN, HB 164-FN-A, HB 303 and HB 684-FN.
• The Committee on Insurance met on April 29, 2003 for hearings on HB 776, HB 725 and HB 546.
• The Committee on Insurance met on April 22, 2003 for hearings on HB 228, HB 287, HB 269-FN and HB 596-FN.
• The Committee on Insurance met on April 15, 2003 for hearings on HB 770-FN-A, HB 303, HB 470 and HB 460-FN.
• The Committee on Insurance met on April 8, 2003 for hearings on HB 182, HB 356-FN, HB 591-FN and HB 669-FN.
• The Committee on Insurance met on April 1, 2003 for hearings on SB 119, SB 184 and SB 189.
• The Committee on Insurance met on March 25, 2003 for hearings on SB 201 and SB 174.
• The Committee on Insurance met on March 18, 2003 for hearings on SB 21, SB 110 and SB 174.
• The Committee on Insurance met on March 4, 2003 for hearings on SB 183-FN, SB 197-FN and SB 223-FN-A.
• The Committee on Insurance met on February 20, 2003 for hearings on SB 152, SB 158, SB 135 and SB 37-FN.
• The Committee on Insurance met on February 11, 2003 for hearings on SB 82-FN, SB 81-FN and SB 84-FN.
• The Committee on Insurance met on February 4, 2003 for hearings on SB 42 and SB 53.
• The Committee on Insurance met on April 10, 2002 for a hearing on HB 1467-FN.
• The Committee on Insurance met on April 3, 2002 for hearings on HB 1194 and HB 672.
• The Committee on Insurance met on March 27, 2002 for hearings on HB 1225 and HB 1203.
• The Committee on Insurance met on March 20, 2002 for hearings on HB 589, HB 1118, HB 1184-FN and HB 1434.
• The Committee on Insurance met on March 13, 2002 for hearings on HB 1223, HB 1422 and HB 1434.

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