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type: "Bill"
title: "establishing a committee to study the relationship between concierge medicine and New Hampshire and federal health insurance law."
description: "establishing a committee to study the relationship between concierge medicine and New Hampshire and federal health insurance law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nh"
legislature: "New Hampshire General Court"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 485"
citation: "New Hampshire SB 485 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kevin A. Avard"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-12-20"
last_action: "2018-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/53c8df22-cf3a-4241-8a5b-851c15fbcd15"
source_url: "http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_Status/bill_status.aspx?lsr=2983&sy=2018&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2018"
source_hash: "d7142c8184e4e73e35e23ac1f4d9df6822ab511d405755ed71b7054e476d7a2f"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nh"]
---
# New Hampshire SB 485 (2018) — establishing a committee to study the relationship between concierge medicine and New Hampshire and federal health insurance law.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Amendment #2018-0664s** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/billText.aspx?sy=2018&id=2018-0664s&txtFormat=amend)
2. **latest version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/billText.aspx?sy=2018&id=1999&txtFormat=html)
## Sponsors
- Kevin A. Avard — primary (person)
- Bill G. Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Carl W. Seidel — cosponsor (person)
- Chuck W Morse — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel E. Innis — cosponsor (person)
- Donald L. LeBrun — cosponsor (person)
- Frank R. Kotowski — cosponsor (person)
- Harold F. French — cosponsor (person)
- James P. Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Jay Kahn — cosponsor (person)
- Jeb Bradley — cosponsor (person)
- Martha Fuller Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Robert L. Theberge — cosponsor (person)
- Sharon M Carson — cosponsor (person)
- William Gannon — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-12-20** To Be Introduced 01/03/2018 and Referred to Health and Human Services; SJ 1 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-08** Hearing: 02/13/2018, Room 101, LOB, 01:15 pm; SC 7
- **2018-02-15** Committee Report: Ought to Pass with Amendment # 2018-0664s, 02/22/2018; Vote 5-0; CC; SC 8 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-02-22** Committee Amendment # 2018-0664s, AA, VV; 03/08/2018; SJ 5
- **2018-02-22** Ought to Pass with Amendment 2018-0664s, MA, VV; OT3rdg; 03/08/2018; SJ 5 `passage`
- **2018-03-12** Introduced 03/07/2018 and referred to Commerce and Consumer Affairs HJ 7 P. 52 `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2018-03-20** Public Hearing: 03/27/2018 01:15 PM LOB 302
- **2018-03-28** Subcommittee Work Session: 04/04/2018 01:15 PM LOB 302
- **2018-04-04** Executive Session: 04/11/2018 01:15 PM LOB 302
- **2018-04-18** Committee Report: Ought to Pass for 04/26/2018 (Vote 16-3; RC) HC 16 P. 9 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-26** Ought to Pass: MA VV 04/26/2018 `passage`
- **2018-05-09** Enrolled (In recess 05/03/2018); SJ 17
- **2018-05-09** Enrolled 05/03/2018
- **2018-06-04** Signed by the Governor on 05/30/2018; Chapter 0146; Effective 05/30/2018 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/53c8df22-cf3a-4241-8a5b-851c15fbcd15`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New Hampshire legislature records).