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DHHS seeks rulemaking authority to set water-lab fees; bill would move fees from statute into administrative rule
Summary
The Department of Health and Human Services asked the committee to move public water laboratory fees from statute into administrative rulemaking to allow unified, routine updates and to align fee treatment with other public-health lab fees; committee discussion sought clarifying language about where fee revenue is deposited.
The Department of Health and Human Services asked lawmakers to move the list of public-water laboratory fees now spelled out in statute into the department's administrative rules so the department can update fees through the rulemaking process and unify public-health laboratory fees.
Lou Baranelli, water lab program manager in DHHS's Bureau of Laboratory Services, said nearly 70 specific water lab fees currently reside in statute (RSA 1 31, section 3-a as described in committee…
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