Bill > HB1661

This bill: I. Requires sending district schools and career and technical education (CTE) centers to enter into an agreement to include scheduling, access, transportation, and credits for CTE students. II. Makes an appropriation for preliminary design, engineering, and site work for a new legislative parking garage and for costs for relocating the department of justice. III. Establishes a special fund for administration of opioid treatment programs. IV. Establishes a pilot program for individuals with developmental disabilities. V. Permits a physician licensed in another state to provide consultation services or follow up care via telemedicine to an existing patient. VI. Revises the department's authority to recover unauthorized payments by the state. VII. Repeals certain reporting requirements. VIII. Allows for alternative service of process under RSA 169-C when a child's parent cannot be located. IX. Creates a separate category of foster care license for kinship care homes. X. Grants the department guardianship of a child following surrender of parental rights under RSA 170-B. XI. Expands the state Medicaid plan to include preventative health care benefits. XII. Removes the requirement that the department charge premiums for medical assistance provided under MEAD and MOAD. XIII. Allows the department to address the court in guardianship and spousal support cases involving Medicaid recipients or suspected victims of abuse or exploitation. XIV. Directs the department to submit a Medicaid state plan amendment to allow certain family caregivers or legally responsible persons of Medicaid recipients to serve as personal care attendants and makes an appropriation for this purpose. XV. Revises the "look back" period for Medicaid eligibility for long term care. XVI. Removes the criminal background check requirement for designated caregivers in the therapeutic cannabis program and modifies the criminal background check requirement for alternative treatment center agents. XVII. Modifies the blood test requirement for purposes of lead paint poisoning prevention and control. XVIII. Clarifies the food service licensure exemption for recreational camps. XIX. Revises childcare license definitions. XX. Revises certain department of health and human services employee position titles. XXI. Provides shift differential payments to clinical staff at New Hampshire hospital and the Glencliff home and makes an appropriation for this purpose. XXII. Establishes new positions for inpatient treatment of children's behavioral health. XXIII. Permits salary adjustments for recruitment or retention of classified clinical positions at New Hampshire hospital and the Glencliff home. XXIV. Removes references to the Anna Philbrook center, Laconia state school, and Laconia developmental services. XXV. Appropriates a portion of the funds received by the state from the Centene settlement to the department of health and human services for the purpose of completing the Medicaid Care Management SFY 2020 Risk Corridor calculation. XXVI. Lists certain offenses which, if committed by the defendant, create a rebuttable presumption that a defendant is a danger to the public and shall be detained for up to 36 hours. XXVII. Makes changes to the training and procedures for zoning and planning boards offered by the office of planning and development. XXVIII. Creates incentives and establishes requirements for workforce housing and affordable housing development. XXIX. Establishes an extraordinary need grant for schools in addition to regular adequate education grants and relief grants.

Budget and Finance, Education

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