Bill Text: NH HB1239 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to eligibility for the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-19 - Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Voice Vote 02/19/2020 House Journal 4 P. 15 [HB1239 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2020-HB1239-Introduced.html

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HB 1239 - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2020 SESSION

20-2474

05/10

 

HOUSE BILL 1239

 

AN ACT relative to eligibility for the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Fowler, Rock. 20; Rep. Abramson, Rock. 20

 

COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill provides that the department of health and human services shall enable participants in the food stamp program to complete the renewal process electronically if the household includes a member with an illness, injury, or disability.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

20-2474

05/10

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty

 

AN ACT relative to eligibility for the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  New Paragraph; Public Assistance; Eligibility for Assistance.  Amend RSA 167:4 by inserting after paragraph V the following new paragraph:

VI.  The department shall enable participants in the Supplemental Assistance Nutrition Program (SNAP), also known as the food stamp program, to complete the renewal process electronically if the household includes a member with an illness, injury, or disability.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.