Revision: March 10, 2021, 2:01 p.m.
Senate Executive Departments and Administration
March 10, 2021
2021-0776s
04/05
Amendment to SB 143-FN
Amend Part II of the bill by replacing section 1 with the following:
1 Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children; Unauthorized Payments; Recovery by State. RSA 167:17-a is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:
167:17-a Unauthorized Payments; Recovery by State. Any sums paid to or on behalf of any person for any public assistance program under the provisions of RSA 167 as a result of any failure to report collateral resources pursuant to each program’s requirements, false statement, misrepresentation or concealment of or failure to disclose the receipt of property, wages, income, or resources by such person, or by any person legally liable for such person's support, or in the case of supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP) benefits overpaid in error, without regard to the reason for such SNAP benefit overpayment, if required by federal law, may be recovered through administrative or judicial process, in an action brought by the state or the commissioner of the department of health or human services, or his or her designee, against such individual. This recovery shall be limited by the provisions of RSA 161:10. The commissioner of the department of health and human services shall recover any unauthorized payments by reasonably adjusting current and future grant amounts received by the person violating the provisions of this section, or through the return of the overpayment through repayment to the department. A person who knowingly, and with malfeasance, assists a recipient or other person in obtaining an overpayment shall be jointly and severally liable for the overpayment.
Amend Part VIII of the bill by replacing section 3 with the following:
3 New Section; Duties of Towns; Cybersecurity. Amend RSA 31 by inserting after section 103-a the following new section:
31:103-b Cybersecurity. The governing body, or chief administrative officer or designee of any political subdivision, who knows of or suspects a cybersecurity incident within such political subdivision, or within any vendor acting as an agent of the political subdivision, shall immediately report such incident, upon discovery, and shall disclose all known information and interactions to the New Hampshire cyber integration center of the department of information technology. The state shall hold harmless a governing body, or chief administrative officer or designee of a political subdivision, for failing to report a cyber security incident because they were unaware such incident had occurred.