Bill Text - SB67 (2009)

(New Title) relative to funding certain AIDS services organizations and relative to certain operating budget reductions for fiscal year 2009.


Revision: April 2, 2009, midnight

SB 67-FN-A – AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE

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2009 SESSION

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SENATE BILL 67-FN-A

AN ACT relative to funding certain AIDS services organizations and relative to certain operating budget reductions for fiscal year 2009.

SPONSORS: Sen. Fuller Clark, Dist 24

COMMITTEE: Health and Human Services

AMENDED ANALYSIS

This bill clarifies the funding for the human immunodeficiency virus through the New Hampshire Care program within the department of health and human services and certain AIDS services organizations.

This bill requires the legislative branch to lapse $700,000 to the general fund on June 30, 2009.

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Nine

AN ACT relative to funding certain AIDS services organizations and relative to certain operating budget reductions for fiscal year 2009.

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

1 Human Immunodeficiency Virus; New Hampshire Care Program; Grants to AIDS Services Organizations. Amend 2007, 367:1 and 367:2 to read as follows:

367:1 Department of Health and Human Services; Human Immunodeficiency Virus [Prevention], New Hampshire Care Program. The department shall expend [the sums of $500,000 in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008 and $500,000 in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009] 50 percent of any newly appropriated unrestricted general funds in the state fiscal years ending June 30, 2010 and June 30, 2011 for the [human immunodeficiency virus prevention program] New Hampshire Care program in the department of health and human services for the purchase of antiretroviral drugs. The department shall fund the program from funds appropriated to the department [in the state operating budget in fiscal years 2008 and 2009].

367:2 Department of Health and Human Services; Grants to AIDS Services Organizations. The department shall distribute [to the specified agencies the total sum of $500,000 in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2008 and the total sum of $500,000 in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009 for grants] the remaining 50 percent of any newly appropriated unrestricted general funds in the state fiscal years ending June 30, 2010 and June 30, 2011 to the following AIDS services organizations: a Community Resource Network (ACORN) in Lebanon; AIDS Response-Seacoast in Portsmouth; AIDS Services for Monadnock in Keene; the Greater Manchester AIDS Project; and Southern New Hampshire HIV/AIDS Task Force in Nashua. The department shall fund said grants from funds appropriated to the department in the state operating budget [in fiscal years 2008 and 2009]. The awarding of such grants to the specified agencies by the department of health and human services shall be on a per capita basis. The administration of these grants by the department of health and human services shall follow the procedures established by the [Boston Public Health Commission AIDS Program, both for eligibility and billing] New Hampshire Care program.

2 Operating Budget; Legislative Branch. 2009, 1:2 is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:

1:2 Operating Budget; Legislative Branch; Lapse of Appropriation. The legislative branch shall lapse $700,000 to the general fund on June 30, 2009. The lapse required by this section shall be in addition to the reductions required by 2008, 296:3.

3 Effective Date.

I. Section 1 of this act shall take effect July 1, 2009.

II. The remainder of this act shall take effect June 30, 2009.

LBAO

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SB 67-FN-A - FISCAL NOTE

AN ACT relative to funding certain AIDS services organizations.

FISCAL IMPACT:

The Department of Health and Human Services states this bill will increase state expenditures by $1,000,000 in FY 2010 and FY 2011. This bill will have no fiscal impact on state, county, and local revenue, or county and local expenditures.

METHODOLOGY:

The Department of Health and Human Services states this bill directs the Department to expend $500,000 in FY 2010 and 2011 for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention program in the Department for purchase of antiretroviral drugs, and $500,000 in FY 2010 and FY 2011 for grants to AIDS services organizations. This bill does not contain an appropriation, rather it directs that funding for both programs come from the Department’s FY 2010 and 2011 state operating budget appropriations, which have not yet been established.