Wolf, Merr.

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Health and Human Services ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── AMENDED ANALYSIS This bill directs the department of health and human services to apply for and participate in the SNAP elderly simplified application project and makes an appropriation to the department for this purpose.

The bill also makes an appropriation to the department of health and human services to begin participation in the Summer EBT program.

This bill also authorizes disaster relief aid for municipalities that suffer certain damage in natural disasters.

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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 Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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2125h 06/13/2024 2271CofC 24-2907 05/10 STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Four AN ACT relative to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and the Summer EBT program and making appropriations therefor and relative to providing disaster relief funding to municipalities after a natural disaster.

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

358:1 New Paragraphs;

The department shall apply for and participate in the elderly simplified application project within the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAThe(SNAP). department shall include in its biennial budget request under RSA 9:4 funding for any administrative costs related to administering the SNAP elderly simplified application.

358:2The Appropriations.department shall include in its biennial budget request under RSA 9:4 funding for any administrative costs related to administering the SNAP elderly simplified application.

2 Appropriations.

The sum of $667,500 for the biennium ending June 30, 2025, is hereby appropriated to the department of health and human services for the purpose of funding systems and technology Amendment to SB 499-FN - Page 2 - costs associated with the summer EBT program established by section 1 of this act for the summer of 2025.

CHAPTER 358 SB 499-FN - FINAL VERSION - Page 2 - IV.

358:33 Purpose.Effective Date.

TheThis purposeact ofshall thetake emergencyeffect responseJuly and1, recovery2024. fund is to provide immediate liquidity for towns suffering a disaster to allow time for the town to go through the steps necessary to petition for state or federal emergency funds.

ItAmendment isto SB 499-FN - Page 3 - 2024-1917h AMENDED ANALYSIS This bill directs the intentdepartment thatof thishealth grantand wouldhuman beservices reimbursableto fromparticipate statein orthe federal orsummer disasterEBT reliefprogram programs.and the SNAP elderly simplified application program and makes appropriations to the department for this purpose.

358:4 Emergency Management Powers;

Governor;

Disaster Declaration.

Amend RSA 4:47, III to read as follows:

III.

The power to make, amend, suspend, and rescind necessary orders, rules, and regulations to carry out the provisions of this subdivision in the event of a disaster beyond local control;

provided that civil liberties shall on no account be suspended, nor shall the United States Constitution or the New Hampshire Constitution be suspended.

The governor may declare a disaster in the event of a natural disaster or severe weather event in one or more municipalities.

358:5 New Section;

Homeland Security and Emergency Management;

Municipal Road and Bridge Disaster Relief Funding.

Amend RSA 21-P by inserting after section 37-d the following new section:

21-P:37-e Disaster Relief Procedures.

CHAPTER 358 SB 499-FN - FINAL VERSION - Page 3 - A municipality may request infrastructural disaster relief more than once in a calendar year, but shall not receive more than $25,000 in grant money in a calendar year.

Requests shall be filed with the joint legislative fiscal committee within 45 days after the governor's declaration.

Moneys shall be distributed from the New Hampshire disaster relief fund established in RSA 21-P:46-a.

The joint legislative fiscal committee may decide to appropriate a lesser amount to the request based on available funding.

358:6 Emergency Response and Recovery Fund;

Disaster.

Amend RSA 21-P:46 to read as follows:

21-P:46 New Hampshire Emergency Response and Recovery Fund.

There is hereby established a New Hampshire emergency response and recovery fund.

The fund shall provide a source for the matching funds required as a commitment to secure federal emergency management agency relief assistance grants for costs incurred in disasters declared by the President of the United States.

The fund shall also provide a source for emergency funds to be dispersed to municipalities that have incurred damage from natural disasters.

The fund shall be nonlapsing and continually appropriated to the department of safety.

358:7 Effective Date.

I.

Sections 1-2 of this act shall take effect July 1, 2024.

II.

Sections 3-6 of this act shall take effect upon passage.

Approved:

August 02, 2024 Effective Date:

I.

Sections 1-2 effective July 1, 2024 II.

Sections 3-6 effective August 2, 2024