2009 Legislative Updates

NH Oral Health Coalition Legislative Watch for 2009

Bill ID Bill Title Sponsors Committee

HB301

Establishing a task force to study access to dental care.

Prime sponsor:

Peter B. Schmidt

Co-sponsors:

  • John M. Reagan
  • Evalyn S. Merrick
  • Kathleen Sgambati
Health Human Services & Elderly Affairs

HB414

Establishing a commission to study preventing dental disease among New Hampshire’s children.

Prime sponsor:

Larry A. Emerton

Co-sponsors:

  • James P. Pilliod
  • Barbara C. French
  • Mary Stuart Gile
  • Phyllis Katsakiores
  • John T. Gallus
Health Human Services & Elderly Affairs

HB434-FN

Relative to health insurance access program.

Prime sponsor:

Joel F. Winters

Commerce & Consumer Affairs

HB529-FN

Relative to the Healthy Kids program.

Prime sponsor:

Suzanne Butcher

Co-sponsors:

  • Peter L. Batula
  • Thomas Donovan
  • Martha Fuller Clark
  • Margaret W. Hassan
  • Kathleen Sgambati
Commerce & Consumer Affairs

HB568-FN-A

Relative to the taxation of tobacco products other than cigarettes.

Prime sponsor:

Jill Shaffer Hammond

Co-sponsors:

  • Larry Emerton
  • John Kelley
  • William Butynski
Ways & Means


Bill ID Bill Title Sponsors Committee

HB638-FN-A

Increasing the tobacco tax and dedicating certain tobacco tax revenues to the comprehensive cancer plan fund.

Prime sponsor:

William Butysnki

Co-sponsors:

  • William Hatch
  • Robert Bridgham
  • James P. Pilliod
  • Larry Emerton
Ways & Means
SB64-FN NEW TITLE: Relative to increasing dental hygienist membership on the board of dental examiners, and establishing a study of the regulation of dental hygienists. Establishing a board of dental hygienists.

Prime sponsor:

Kathleen Sgambati

Co-sponsors:

  • Bob Odell
  • Peter Schmidt
  • James P. Pilliod
  • Beth Arsenault
  • Barbara C. French
Executive Departments & Administration

SB158

Establishing a commission to study the creation of an uncompensated care fund to provide payments to certain health care providers.

Prime sponsor:

Margaret Hassan

Co-sponsors:

  • Kathleen Sgambati
  • Peggy Gilmour
  • John Gallus
  • Martha Fuller Clark
  • Cindy Rosenwald
  • Tara Reardon
  • Edward Butler
  • Frank Case
  • Jill Hammond
Health & Human Services