Bill Text: NH HB1672 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relative to tenants in section 8 public housing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-03-07 - Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Voice Vote 03/07/2024 House Journal 7 P. 18 [HB1672 Detail]

Download: New_Hampshire-2024-HB1672-Introduced.html

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HB 1672  - AS INTRODUCED

 

 

2024 SESSION

24-2663

10/08

 

HOUSE BILL 1672

 

AN ACT relative to tenants in section 8 public housing.

 

SPONSORS: Rep. A. Lekas, Hills. 38; Rep. Layon, Rock. 13

 

COMMITTEE: Judiciary

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill provides that in Section 8 rental assistance or other public housing, a housing authority shall allow a family member as a tenant who has satisfactorily completed a substance use disorder treatment or rehabilitation program.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

24-2663

10/08

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four

 

AN ACT relative to tenants in section 8 public housing.

 

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

 

1  New Paragraph; Housing Authorities Law; Rentals and Tenant Selection.  Amend RSA 203:10 by inserting after paragraph III the following new paragraph:

IV.  In the operation or management of Section 8 rental assistance or other public housing assistance, a housing authority shall allow a family member who has satisfactorily completed a substance use disorder treatment or rehabilitation program as a tenant, provided that upon any violation of the terms of the family member's tenancy, the housing authority may restrict the tenant eligibility of the family member.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect upon its passage.