HB 378 - AS INTRODUCED
2023 SESSION
23-0293
05/04
HOUSE BILL 378
SPONSORS: Rep. Read, Rock. 10; Rep. Hynes, Hills. 2; Sen. Perkins Kwoka, Dist 21
COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
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ANALYSIS
This bill requires a health care provider to inform and offer to take and preserve blood and urine samples from a patient who may have been sexually assaulted.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
23-0293
05/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Paragraph; Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights; Health Care Provider's Obligation to Inform Patient. Amend RSA 21-M:18 by inserting after paragraph I the following new paragraph:
I-a. A health care provider shall inform a patient of their rights under this section, including the right to a medical examination and the collection of blood, urine and other evidence as part of a sexual assault evidence collection kit, or the appropriate storing of samples for future evidence submission, if a patient asserts that they may have been drugged, sexually assaulted, or subject to an attempted assault. For purposes of this paragraph, assault includes any unwanted sexual touching.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.