HB 1047 - AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
1Feb2024... 0099h
2024 SESSION
24-2355
11/08
HOUSE BILL 1047
SPONSORS: Rep. Meuse, Rock. 37; Rep. W. Thomas, Hills. 12
COMMITTEE: Science, Technology and Energy
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AMENDED ANALYSIS
This bill directs the department of health and human services and department of business and economic development to investigate and submit a legislative report regarding the effectiveness of state outreach to residents without computer, tablet, smartphone, or other electronic device access.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
1Feb2024... 0099h 24-2355
11/08
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
I. The department of health and human services, in conjunction with the department of business and economic affairs, shall conduct an investigation to determine whether residents who lack a computer, tablet, smartphone, or other electronic device capable of providing access to Internet content, emails, or text messages, are able to access critical state outreach information.
II. The department commissioners, or their designees from both departments, shall jointly conduct the investigation. The investigators may contact other departments or agencies to gather data, to seek technical support, or ascertain other information in furtherance of this investigation.
2 Duties. The investigators shall determine the impact and effectiveness of communications outreach by state agencies on economic and health care initiatives impacting residents who lack a computer, tablet, smartphone, or other electronic device capable of providing access to Internet content, emails, and text messages, including:
I. Estimating the size of this population and how or if it differs across different regions of the state.
II. Identifying how agencies have approached, planned, and executed communication outreach to these audiences in the past.
III. Assessing the results of efforts and lessons learned from agency successes and failures described under paragraph II.
IV. Identifying the financial costs of key failures and substandard results to the state and to members of the impacted population.
V. Examining best practices used by other states or entities trying to reach similar audiences with similar information.
3 Report. The departments shall issue a joint report on their findings and recommendations, to the speaker of the house or representatives, the president of the senate, the house clerk, the governor, and the state library on or before November 1, 2024.
4 Effective Date. This act shall take effect upon its passage.