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NO NH CARES Meeting This Week
May 20, 2013 | Author: admin
May 20, 2013
In light of the fact that the Senate Finance Committee is in the home stretch of developing its version of the state budget and is therefore meeting all day nearly every day this week including Friday, the NH CARES meeting normally scheduled for this Friday morning has been canceled. The vast majority of regular attendees of the meeting are likely to need to be at the committee meeting and attendance at CARES is likely to be very low because of that.
The next regularly scheduled NH CARES meeting is set for June 7, 2013 and another flyer will be sent out to announce it.
In the meantime keep up the fight and enjoy the upcoming Memorial Day weekend!
Jeff
The published schedule for Senate Finance this week is as follows:
MONDAY, MAY 20
FINANCE, Room 103, SH
Sen. Morse (C), Sen. Forrester (VC), Sen. Bragdon, Sen. D’Allesandro, Sen. Larsen, Sen. Odell
10:00 a.m. EXECUTIVE SESSION ON PENDING LEGISLATION
TUESDAY, MAY 21
FINANCE, Room 103, SH
Sen. Morse (C), Sen. Forrester (VC), Sen. Bragdon, Sen. D’Allesandro, Sen. Larsen, Sen. Odell
10:00 a.m. EXECUTIVE SESSION ON PENDING LEGISLATION
WEDNESDAY, MAY 22
FINANCE, Room 103, SH
Sen. Morse (C), Sen. Forrester (VC), Sen. Bragdon, Sen. D’Allesandro, Sen. Larsen, Sen. Odell
10:00 a.m. EXECUTIVE SESSION ON PENDING LEGISLATION
THURSDAY, MAY 23
THE SENATE WILL MEET IN SESSION AT 10:00 A.M.
FRIDAY, MAY 24
FINANCE, Room 103, SH
Sen. Morse (C), Sen. Forrester (VC), Sen. Bragdon, Sen. D’Allesandro, Sen. Larsen, Sen. Odell
9:00 a.m. EXECUTIVE SESSION ON PENDING LEGISLATION
Info From 4/12/13 NH CARES Meeting
April 12, 2013 | Author: admin
At the 4/12/13 NH CARES meeting members identified the following NH General Court bills of interest:
SB87 – Prime Sponsor – Peggy Gilmour – Bill clarifies that general patients’ bill of rights doesn’t apply to home health care. Specific home health care version applies. Bill also allows Homecare agencies to discharge a client with little and in some cases notice.
House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee
Public Hearing: 4/16/2013 1:00 PM LOB 205
Executive Session: 4/23/2013 10:00 AM LOB 205
SB138 – Prime Sponsor – Jeanie Forrester – This bill allows an assisted living facility or nursing home facility in certain circumstances to pursue recovery of costs of care rendered to a client from entities or certain other persons.
House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs Committee
Public Hearing: 4/16/2013 2:00 PM LOB 205
Executive Session: 4/30/2013 10:00 AM LOB 205
SB152 – Prime Sponsor – Lou D’Allesandro – Allows video lottery machines and table games at one gaming location in the state pursuant to a competitive application process.
Joint House Committee of Finance and Ways and Means
Public Hearing: 4/16/2013 10:15 AM Representatives Hall
Bill Walk Through and Presentations: 4/17/2013 9:30 AM LOB 210-211
SB100 – Prime Sponsor – Jeb Bradley – Deletes the requirement that an employer who pays wages by electronic fund transfer offer employees the option of being paid by check. Also permits an employer to pay wages with a payroll card after offering employees the option of being paid by direct deposit.
House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Committee
Public Hearing: 4/23/2013 11:00 AM LOB 307
Executive Session: 4/24/2013 1:00 PM LOB 303
SB24 – Prime Sponsor – John Reagan – This bill repeals the law requiring the department of health and human services to review and report relative to Medicaid reimbursement rates.
House Executive Departments and Administration Committee
Public Hearing: 4/17/2013 2:00 PM LOB 205
SB193 – Prime Sponsor – Peggy Gilmour – This bill authorizes licensure of dental therapists who may perform dental services under the supervision of a currently licensed dentist.
Re-referred to Senate Health, Education & Human Services Committee
Click the following links for materials from this NH CARES meeting:
Medicaid Care Management Panel / Update on Medicaid Care Management
NHFPI House Budget Handouts from NH CARES 3.29.13
April 5, 2013 | Author: admin
Click link below for materials from NHFPI’s presentation on the House budget from 3/29/13 NH CARES meeting:
NHFPI Resource Page: An Easy Way to Follow the Medicaid Debate
January 31, 2013 | Author: admin
NHFPI has assembled a number of reports, fact sheets and other information about Medicaid and the proposal to extend Medicaid to low-income adults.
The NHFPI Resource Page now features both parts of the Lewin Group report, their own analysis, basic facts about Medicaid and other materials. They also provide links to other organizations involved in the debate.
Bookmark their Medicaid resource page and you will have easy access to information about Medicaid and the ongoing discussion about extending Medicaid in New Hampshire.
New Report Shows New Hampshire’s Tax Structure Needs Improvement
January 31, 2013 | Author: admin
The poorest New Hampshire taxpayers pay more than three times as much in state and local taxes as the state’s millionaires relative to their incomes, according to a new report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.
ITEP, a non-profit, non-partisan research organization, released today the fourth edition of its report “Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of Tax Systems in All 50 States.”
New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute has created a two-page summary of the findings specific to New Hampshire.