Bill Text: NH SB152 | 2021 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relative to affordable housing program funding.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-06-03 - Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Voice Vote 06/03/2021 House Journal 8 P. 153 [SB152 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2021-SB152-Amended.html
SB 152-FN-A - AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE
03/04/2021 0450s
2021 SESSION
21-1026
06/08
SENATE BILL 152-FN-A
AN ACT relative to affordable housing program funding.
SPONSORS: Sen. Gray, Dist 6
COMMITTEE: Health and Human Services
-----------------------------------------------------------------
AMENDED ANALYSIS
This bill:
I. Requires the department of health and human services to submit a State Plan Amendment to the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services.
II. Permits an extension of the timeline for repayments to the homeless housing and access revolving loan fund for emergency circumstances.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
03/04/2021 0450s 21-1026
06/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty One
AN ACT relative to affordable housing program funding.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Department of Health and Human Services; Housing Assistance. The department of health and human services shall, no later than December 1, 2021, submit to the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services a 1915i State Plan Amendment to provide supportive services to assist individuals and families in obtaining housing.
2 Homeless Housing and Access Revolving Loan Fund. Amend RSA 126-A:63 to read as follows:
126-A:63 Homeless Housing and Access Revolving Loan Fund. There is hereby established a non-lapsing and continually appropriated homeless housing and access revolving loan fund. The fund shall be administered by the department of health and human services with advice and recommendations from the governor's interagency council on homelessness. To be eligible, an applicant shall have no permanent address and shall be residing temporarily in a shelter for the homeless, a hotel, a motel, the home of another household designed for occupancy by only one household, or entirely without shelter. Funds shall be used solely to provide loans for the first month of rent and security deposit for homeless individuals and families. Repayment terms of the loans shall be determined by the department in consultation with the interagency council and shall be based on need. Such repayments shall commence no later than 120 days after the loan is disbursed, provided that the time line for such repayments may be extended with the approval of the commissioner for emergency circumstances or other good cause shown.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect July 1, 2021.
21-1026
2/8/21
SB 152-FN-A- FISCAL NOTE
AS INTRODUCED
AN ACT relative to affordable housing program funding.
FISCAL IMPACT: [ X ] State [ ] County [ ] Local [ ] None
|
| |||
| Estimated Increase / (Decrease) | |||
STATE: | FY 2021 | FY 2022 | FY 2023 | FY 2024 |
Appropriation | $0 | $5,000,000 | $5,000,000 | $0 |
Revenue | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Expenditures | $0 | Indeterminable | Indeterminable | Indeterminable |
Funding Source: | [ X ] General [ ] Education [ ] Highway [ X ] Other - Federal Matching Medicaid Funds | |||
|
|
|
|
|
METHODOLOGY:
Section one of this bill requires the Department of Health and Human Services to submit to the federal Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services a 1915(i) State Plan Amendment to provide supportive services to assist individuals and families in obtaining housing. The Department assumes there will be no fiscal impact related to drafting and submitting the proposed amendment. The Department states that as of February 2021, it is working on determining what the financial impact will be if the amendment is approved and supportive services must be made available to assist Medicaid-eligible individuals and families in obtaining housing. The Department notes that the bill contains no appropriation for this purpose, but assumes that any general fund expenditures would be matched by federal Medicaid funds.
Section two of the bill appropriates $5 million in each of FY 2022 and 2023 to the NH Housing Finance Authority for the purpose of providing finance or state matching funds for affordable housing.
Section three amends RSA 126-A:63 relative to repayments of loans from the Homeless Housing and Access Revolving Loan Fund. This section is not expected to have a fiscal impact.
AGENCIES CONTACTED:
Department of Health and Human Services and New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority
