Bill Text: NH SB415 | 2022 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Making an appropriation to the department of health and human services for the purpose of increasing rates paid to homeless shelters.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-31 - Pending Motion Inexpedient to Legislate; 03/31/2022; Senate Journal 7 [SB415 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2022-SB415-Introduced.html

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SB 415-FN-A - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2022 SESSION

22-2897

05/08

 

SENATE BILL 415-FN-A

 

AN ACT making an appropriation to the department of health and human services for the purpose of increasing rates paid to homeless shelters.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Kahn, Dist 10; Sen. Sherman, Dist 24; Sen. Whitley, Dist 15; Sen. Watters, Dist 4; Sen. Rosenwald, Dist 13; Rep. Ames, Ches. 9; Sen. Cavanaugh, Dist 16; Sen. Prentiss, Dist 5; Sen. Perkins Kwoka, Dist 21; Sen. D'Allesandro, Dist 20; Sen. Soucy, Dist 18; Rep. Amanda Bouldin, Hills. 12

 

COMMITTEE: Finance

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services for the purpose of increasing rates paid to homeless shelters

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

22-2897

05/08

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Two

 

AN ACT making an appropriation to the department of health and human services for the purpose of increasing rates paid to homeless shelters.

 

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

 

1  Appropriation; Homeless Shelters.  In addition to any other amounts appropriated, the sum of $9,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, and the sum of $9,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, are hereby appropriated to the department of health and human services for the purpose of increasing rates paid to homeless shelters to $20 per person, per night.  The governor is authorized to draw a warrant for said sums out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect June 30, 2022.

 

LBA

22-2897

12/23/21

 

SB 415-FN-A- FISCAL NOTE

AS INTRODUCED

 

AN ACT making an appropriation to the department of health and human services for the purpose of increasing rates paid to homeless shelters.

 

FISCAL IMPACT:      [ X ] State              [    ] County               [    ] Local              [    ] None

	Estimated Increase / (Decrease)
STATE:	FY 2022	FY 2023	FY 2024	FY 2025
Appropriation	$9,000,000	$9,000,000	$0	$0
Revenue	$0	$0	$0	$0
Expenditures	$0	$9,000,000	$0	$0
Funding Source:	[ X ] General            [    ] Education            [    ] Highway           [    ] Other

 

METHODOLOGY:

This bill appropriates $9 million in FY22 and $9 million in FY23 for the purpose of increasing rates paid to homeless shelters to $20 per night.  The Department of Health and Human Services provided information during the FY22/23 budget process stating that these would be the amounts necessary to raise rates above the budgeted figure of $8.80 per night.  Although the bill contains an appropriation in FY22, it does not contain language making that appropriation nonlapsing, so it is likely that only the FY23 appropriation will be available to the Department for the purposes of the bill.

 

AGENCIES CONTACTED:

Department of Health and Human Services