The motherload of RebuildNH’s bills of interest are all happening on the same day – Thursday, February 16, 2023. Executive Director Melissa Blasek reviews the bills in committee.
Take Action
We are asking that you please attend as many hearings as possible on Thursday, February 16th in House HHS, LOB, Room 201-203 for the following bills. We are trying to pack the room and this might be the most critical day for hearings of the year.
If you cannot attend the hearings to testify in person, please sign in and email the committee.
Thursday, February 16th, N.H. House
Health, Human Services, and Elderly Affairs
LOB, Room 201-203 ⭐ 9:00 a.m. – SUPPORT – HB 406, relative to parental access to children’s medical records. There is currently a push for medical facilities to cut off parental access to their child’s medical records at 12 years old. I’ve personally heard several reports of parents changing practices due to this policy. This bill requires that parents have access to their children’s medical records until 18 years old.
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Health, Human Services, and Elderly Affairs
LOB, Room 201-203 ⭐ 9:45 a.m. – OPPOSE – HB 114, relative to the age at which a minor may receive mental health treatment without parental consent. This bill seeks to allow children as young as 16 years old to receive mental health treatment without parental permission or notification.
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Health, Human Services, and Elderly Affairs
LOB, Room 201-203 ⭐ 10:30 a.m. – SUPPORT – HB 575, relative to vaccines and pharmaceutical products purchased, promoted, or distributed by the state or its political subdivisions. This bill prohibits the state and its political subdivisions from purchasing, promoting, or distributing vaccines or any pharmaceutical product without human, clinical trials, as we did with the Covid booster.
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✉️ Email the committee.
Health, Human Services, and Elderly Affairs
LOB, Room 201-203 ⭐ 11:15 a.m. – SUPPORT – HB 557, relative to the department of health and human services’ rulemaking authority regarding immunization requirements. Currently there are two ways that a vaccine can be added to the school requirement schedule: either through law, which requires the legislature to pass a bill, or through the rulemaking process, unilaterally proposed by the commissioner of DHHS. This bill seeks to eliminate the ability of the department to add vaccines to the school schedule through rulemaking.
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✉️ Email the committee.
Health, Human Services, and Elderly Affairs
LOB, Room 201-203 ⭐ 1:00 p.m. – SUPPORT – HB 408, relative to foster children and vaccinations. Several years ago, DHHS amended rules regarding vaccines and foster families to require that all the children in the household be fully vaccinated to ACIP standards in order to care for a foster child. As a result, many capable and loving families stopped fostering children. This bill seeks to eliminate this cruel standard by saying that a child living in the home but not in foster care shall be subject to the same vaccination requirements as any other child in the state with the same right to exemption.
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✉️ Email the committee.
Health, Human Services, and Elderly Affairs
LOB, Room 201-203 ⭐ 2:30 p.m. – OPPOSE – HB 425, repealing the statute relative to medical freedom in immunizations. One of RebuildNH’s achievements in 2021 was supporting the passage of the Medical Freedom in Immunizations Act that prohibits Covid vaccine status being a basis to receive public benefit. State universities were one way this law was applied and no student attending a NH state school was required to receive the Covid vaccine. This bill seeks to repeal this law.
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✉️ Email the committee.
