HB 1323 - AS INTRODUCED
2000 SESSION
HOUSE BILL HB 1323
AN ACT relative to local public assistance to nonresidents.
COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
This bill provides that a resident of New Hampshire who invites a nonresident who is poor and unable to support himself or herself to live in such resident's home shall be considered by the town or city to be financially responsible for such nonresident for a period of 30 days.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
00-2517
05/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand
AN ACT relative to local public assistance to nonresidents.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Local Public Assistance for Nonresidents. Amend RSA 165:1-c to read as follows:
165:1-c Nonresidents.
I. Any person, poor and unable to support himself or herself, who is temporarily in a town or city which is not his or her residence, and who does not intend to make it his or her residence, shall be provided such temporary assistance as is reasonable and necessary by such town or city. Such town or city may, if requested, cause such person to be returned to his or her residence.
II. Any resident of New Hampshire who invites a nonresident who is poor and unable to support himself or herself to live in such resident's home shall be considered by a town or city to be financially responsible to the nonresident for a period of 30 days from the date the nonresident begins to live in the resident's home.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2001.