HB 1245-FN - AS INTRODUCED
2001 SESSION
10/01
HOUSE BILL 1245-FN
AN ACT requiring applicants for recreational licenses issued by the fish and game department to provide his or her social security number.
This bill requires that all recreational license applications of the fish and game department record the social security number of the person applying for the license.
This bill is a request of the department of health and human services.
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01-2266
10/01
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand One
AN ACT requiring applicants for recreational licenses issued by the fish and game department to provide his or her social security number.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Support of Dependent Children; Social Security Number Required on Certain Licenses. Amend RSA 161-B:11, VI-a to read as follows:
VI-a. The social security number of any applicant for a professional license, commercial driver's license, occupational license, [or] marriage license, or recreational license issued by the fish and game department shall be recorded on the application, provided that if the use of a number other than the social security number is allowed, the applicant shall be so advised. Any application required by this section to contain a social security number shall be confidential and not subject to the right to know law. The use of such number shall be limited to proceedings or actions to establish paternity or to establish or enforce support and shall only be provided to or entered in any out-of-state or federal data base for those cases for which the department is providing services.
2 Fish and Game; Form of Licenses; Social Security Number Added. Amend RSA 214:8 to read as follows:
214:8 Form. The executive director shall prepare licenses, game tags, permits, stamps, and such other forms as determined necessary to comply with all licensing requirements of title XVIII. Applications for licenses shall record the applicant's social security number in accordance with RSA 161-B. Such license, when issued to the licensee, shall bear the date of issuance, and shall contain the name, age, color of eyes, and residence of the licensee and such other information, including affidavits, as may be requested by the executive director. The license, to be valid, shall be countersigned by the licensee on the face of the license in the space provided.
3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
LBAO
01-2266
9/17/01
HB 1245-FN - FISCAL NOTE
AN ACT requiring applicants for recreational licenses issued by the fish and game department to provide his or her social security number.
FISCAL IMPACT:
The Department of Health and Human Services stated this bill will have a significant but indeterminable impact on state revenue and expenditures. The Fish and Game Department stated that this bill will increase state fish and game restricted expenditures by an indeterminable amount in FY 2002 and each year thereafter. There is no fiscal impact on county and local revenue or expenditures.
METHODOLOGY:
The Department of Health and Human Services stated the exchange of data between the Fish and Game Department and the Department of Health and Human Services by using social security numbers will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of locating absent parents. This will result in an unknown number of additional child support orders and additional child support collections. Federal law requires the recording of social security numbers on recreational licenses as a condition of an approved state child support plan. If the state does not have an approved plan, it is not eligible for $10 million in administrative funding for the Department's Office of Child Support Enforcement or for $1 million in performance incentive payments. There could also be sanctions of up to 5% of the Temporary Assistance of Needy Families (TANF) block grant for failure to comply. The Department further states the passage of this bill would also require computer system programming costs. The Department is unable to calculate this cost, but it is anticipated not to be significant.
The Fish and Game Department is unable to determine the fiscal impact of recording the social security number on the license application. Since the Fish and Game multi-license form, which includes the majority of licenses, functions as both the application and license, some sort of change in the process would be required to comply with the bill. Currently, it costs the Department $45,000 to $50,000 to print and mail the multi-license form to license agents. This reprinting would be necessary because the statue has an effective date in the middle of the license year. The Department further states that this bill does not define nor specify which recreational license applications would require social security numbers. It is not known to what extent the Department may have to change the licensing process to ensure confidentiality. The Department also assumes it would not be required to verify the applicant's social security number.