Bill Text: NH HB1347 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to administration of the New Hampshire refugee resettlement program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-09-20 - Executive Session: 10/09/2024 01:00 pm Legislative Office Building 205-207 [HB1347 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2024-HB1347-Introduced.html

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HB 1347  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2024 SESSION

24-2187

05/08

 

HOUSE BILL 1347

 

AN ACT relative to administration of the New Hampshire refugee resettlement program.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. Edwards, Rock. 31; Rep. Stone, Sull. 8; Rep. Janvrin, Rock. 40; Rep. Aron, Sull. 4; Rep. True, Rock. 9; Rep. Harley, Rock. 30; Rep. Love, Rock. 13; Rep. Colcombe, Hills. 30; Sen. Gannon, Dist 23

 

COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill requires that department of health and human services funds under the refugee resettlement program shall first be fully expended to provide for the state's efforts to support the social determinants of health for United States citizens.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-2187

05/08

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to administration of the New Hampshire refugee resettlement program.

 

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

 

1  Department of Health and Human Services; Duties of the Department; Refugee Resettlement Program.  Amend RSA 161:2, XVIII to read as follows:

XVIII.  Refugee Resettlement.  Administer the New Hampshire refugee resettlement program as funded by and in cooperation with the United States Department of Health and Human Services under the Refugee Act of 1980; provided that state funds and assistance shall first be fully expended to provide for the state's efforts to support the social determinants of health for United States citizens.  Programmatic resources may be used for beneficiaries of federal resettlement programs after the department certifies that United States citizens have been served and removed from wait lists maintained for each state funded service.

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