NH House Testimony

HB1071

House · 2026 sessionRepublicanKilled in Senate

COVID directive immunity repeal

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Repeals immunity granted to health care facilities for following directives adopted in response to the COVID-19 state of emergency.

repealing immunity afforded health care facilities when following directives adopted in response to the COVID-19 state of emergency.

Public and Mental HealthCivil Actions

Status

Killed in the Senate — Inexpedient to Legislate · May 8, 2026
  1. Introduced
  2. House
  3. Senate
  4. Governor
  5. Law

Division of testimony

152 submissions
Support 129Oppose 23Neutral 0
gary yorkSupporthopkinton, NHfor MyselfFeb 24, 2026

NO healthcare facility should be immune to the atrocities witnessed during the covid plandemic, especially under EUA umbrella. Please support this bill.

Darlene CartierSupportDerry, NHfor MyselfFeb 24, 2026

I support this bill, and I ask that you do too! During the Covid era, a bill passed to give all healthcare facilities in New Hampshire a blanket immunity regarding Covid-19. This bill repeals this liability shield. As far as I'm concerned, this shield should have NEVER been granted to begin with! If they can't be held accountable, what's to stop them from doing this again!

Roger SylvestreSupportclarksville, NHfor MyselfFeb 24, 2026

I support this bill.

Selena GallenSupportKeene, NHfor MyselfFeb 24, 2026

I personally knew 2 people who died within a short time after receiving the shot. The government has no place in deciding what people have to do medically. That is between my doctors and me. You have started something you no right to govern. Medical freedom is a basic human right!!

DEBRA BLAKESupportHOOKSETT, NHfor MyselfFeb 24, 2026

Blanket immunity should not be given to healthcare facilities. If they are doing what is medically the best option, why do they want blanket immunity?

Laura ColquhounSupportNashua, NHfor MyselfFeb 24, 2026

I support HB1071

Susan LaPointeSupportEpping, NHfor MyselfFeb 24, 2026

NO healthcare facility in New Hampshire should have blanket immunity regarding COVID 19. Blanket immunity really? Who thought that one up. No one should have blanket immunity, ever. That's a slap in the face to best practice and do no harm.

Denise MacLeodSupportManchester, NHfor MyselfFeb 24, 2026

Repeal the liability shield.

Tom AllenSupportHollis, NHfor MyselfFeb 24, 2026

Please repeal the blanket liability shield that was granted to New Hampshire healthcare facilities during the Covid 19 period. It is no longer logical to maintain it, and the lack of accountability it allows can only lead to a lowering of healthcare standards. Thank you.

Russ PayneSupportMerrimack, NHfor MyselfFeb 24, 2026

Healthcare facilities , pharmaceuticals and DHS need to be held accountable. Free men take care of themselves better than collectivist dictators . I support bill 1071 to restore freedom in healtcare.

Cynthia WhitakerOpposeWeare, NHfor MyselfFeb 24, 2026

Repealing liability protections for health care facilities that acted in good faith and in accordance with public health guidance during the COVID-19 pandemic would set a deeply troubling precedent for how we respond to future public health emergencies. During an unprecedented crisis characterized by rapidly evolving science, resource scarcity, and federal and state directives that changed week to week, health care administrators and clinical staff made decisions under conditions of extraordinary uncertainty — not out of negligence or indifference, but out of a genuine effort to follow the best available guidance from the CDC, CMS, and state health departments. Holding facilities legally liable for outcomes that resulted from compliance with those very directives would effectively punish institutions for doing what was asked of them by the public health system itself. This creates a chilling effect that would discourage future compliance with emergency guidance at precisely the moments when coordinated, system-wide adherence matters most. It would also divert critical institutional resources away from patient care and into prolonged litigation, disproportionately burdening safety-net hospitals and rural facilities that were already operating at or beyond capacity. Rather than undermining the public health infrastructure that communities depend on, lawmakers should pursue targeted accountability mechanisms that distinguish between good-faith compliance and genuine institutional negligence — a distinction this repeal fails entirely to make

Francis HayesOpposeCanterbury, NHfor MyselfFeb 24, 2026

The research by credible psychiatric scientists shows that such involuntary hospitalizations for people with substance abuse disorders do not help the patient or the public health needs of the community. Francis Hayes, MD ret.

William OlsonSupportBristol, NHfor MyselfFeb 24, 2026

Please support HB1071. There’s plenty of proof now that there should be no immunity from harm for pushing these unproven vaccines and drugs.

George HildrethSupportDerry, NHfor MyselfFeb 23, 2026

I support this bill to remove liability from NH Healtcare practioners and facilities

Kimberlee BraughtOpposeKeene, NHfor MyselfFeb 23, 2026

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. I for o e would rather n ot live through another pandemic where we are guessing g and hoping for the best as far as how to engage Healthcare practices. Evidence based practices should always be the standard of care.

Sharon M HoweSupportHollis, NHfor MyselfFeb 23, 2026

I support HB 1071.

Tina HoodSupportNew Ipswich, NHfor MyselfFeb 23, 2026

I support this bill.

LAWRENCE HURDSupportPlaistow, NHfor MyselfFeb 23, 2026

You all may not like what I am going to say but this the facts. We as citizen of the great country are the sovereign, we elect you to follow the rules of the road that is our state Constitution and or Federal Constitution. You do not have the right to mandate to us nor stand in the way of justice, That is what you are doing I think the state is responsible as well with all the panic and volition of our constitutional rights. i think it is high time you read these documents and act accordingly. We will not stop we are waking up and this is going to bite you all in the butt I personally am tired of the volition's of our rights that come from God not you or any body convened or elected

Georgia LoneySupportPortsmouth, NHfor MyselfFeb 23, 2026

I can’t see any justification for the immunity.

Luisa MattaSupportBedford, NHfor MyselfFeb 23, 2026

Strongly in support of this bill

Michelle SlackSupportHudson, NHfor MyselfFeb 23, 2026

I believe I should have the right to make my own decisions .

tom lutherSupportclaremont, NHfor MyselfFeb 23, 2026

Greetings from Sullivan County I support this bill to end immunity from prosecution for the medical industrial complex. This is the only way to preserve our rights, Sue those who violate them. It will likely make healthcare more expensive, but I know of no other means to prevent shoddy care, since competition is illegal in government healthcare.

Joshua CusterOpposeMilton Mills, NHfor MyselfFeb 23, 2026

Oh fuck this Qanon Bullshit.

CORY STONESupportDover, NHfor MyselfFeb 23, 2026

No facility should receive immunity from bad decisions.

Jonny BurgessSupportLoudon, NHfor MyselfFeb 24, 2026

Position recorded without written comment.