HB 658-FN-A - AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE
22mar01...0302h
17may01...1058h
2001 SESSION
05/09
HOUSE BILL 658-FN-A
AN ACT relative to the homeless prevention fund.
COMMITTEE: Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
The bill makes families who are threatened with homelessness the highest priority of the homeless prevention fund.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
22mar01...0302h
17may01...1058h
01-0987
05/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One
AN ACT relative to the homeless prevention fund.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Housing Finance Authority; Program Design; Families on the Verge of Homelessness Given Highest Priority. RSA 204-C:83, III is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:
III. The goal of the program is to give emergency support to keep a family in its existing housing while providing assistance to stabilize the family. The program shall give the highest priority to low income families who are on the verge of homelessness due to expenses beyond their control, such as due to a severe rent burden, medical expense, or major car repair necessary to maintaining a job. The program shall also give priority to very-low-income persons or families in which:
(a) One or more of the adults in the family is working or in an employment training program.
(b) There is a minor child or children.
(c) There is one or more disabled persons as defined in 42 United States Code, Section 12102.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect July 1, 2001.
LBAO
01-0987
2/8/01
HB 658-FN-A - FISCAL NOTE
AN ACT relative to the homeless prevention fund and making an appropriation therefor.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Department of Health and Human Services and the New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority have indicated this bill would increase state general fund expenditures by up to $1,000,000 in FY 2003. There will be no fiscal impact on state, county and local revenues or county and local expenditures.
This bill appropriates up to $1,000,000 from the general fund in FY 2003 to the homeless prevention fund established within the New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority.
METHODOLOGY:
The Department of Health and Human Services assumed that donations or grants from private persons or entities would be sufficient for the general fund appropriation to be used as state match.
The New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority assumed that if an equal amount of private funds were donated, this bill would result in the expenditure of the $1,000,000 appropriation. The Authority indicated that any additional administrative costs would be to the Authority and would not require additional state funds.