Revision: Aug. 9, 2023, 8:31 a.m.
CHAPTER 219
SB 172-FN - FINAL VERSION
2023 SESSION
23-0854
06/04
SENATE BILL 172-FN
AN ACT allowing court-appointed guardians to receive Temporary Assistance to Needy Families benefits.
SPONSORS: Sen. Carson, Dist 14; Sen. D'Allesandro, Dist 20; Sen. Whitley, Dist 15; Sen. Rosenwald, Dist 13; Sen. Soucy, Dist 18; Rep. Long, Hills. 23; Rep. McMahon, Rock. 17; Rep. W. MacDonald, Rock. 16
COMMITTEE: Health and Human Services
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ANALYSIS
This bill permits court-appointed guardians to receive Temporary Assistance to Needy Families benefits.
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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
23-0854
06/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three
AN ACT allowing court-appointed guardians to receive Temporary Assistance to Needy Families benefits.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
219:1 Public Assistance to Blind, Aged, Or Disabled Persons, and to Dependent Children; Definitions. Amend RSA 167:6, V to read as follows:
V. For purposes hereof, a person shall be eligible for aid to families with dependent children who is a needy child 17 years of age or under or 18 years of age, a full-time student in a secondary school as defined by the commissioner of the department of health and human services, and reasonably expected to complete the program before reaching 19 years of age; who has been deprived of parental support or care by reason of death, continued absence from the home, or physical or mental incapacity of a parent, or the unemployment of his or her parent who is the principal wage-earner; and who is living with his father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, brother, sister, stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, stepsister, first cousin, nephew or niece, uncle, [or] aunt, or court appointed guardian (including relatives of half-blood, relatives of preceding generations as denoted by the prefixes of grand, great, or great-great, adoptive parents and their relatives to the same degree as blood relatives and spouses of the above relatives even after the marriage is terminated by death or divorce) in a place of residence in the state maintained by one or more of such relatives, or a court appointed guardian as his or their home; or who is an otherwise eligible parent or needy caretaker relative with whom such child lives. For purposes of this section, a child who meets the above requirements shall be eligible, even if the child was removed from the home of a relative as a result of a judicial determination and was placed in a foster home and care, when the care and placement of the child are the responsibility of the department of health and human services or another public agency which meets federal requirements and the state plan, and when the child received or would have been eligible to receive aid to families with dependent children in the month in which court proceedings were initiated except that such a child need not have lived with a specified relative. No person shall be eligible to receive such aid while receiving old age assistance, aid to the needy blind, or aid to the permanently and totally disabled.
219:2 New Hampshire Employment Program and Family Assistance Program; Definitions. Amend RSA 167:78, XXIII to read as follows:
XXIII. "Specified relative" means a father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, brother, sister, stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, stepsister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew, or niece (including relatives of half-blood, relatives of preceding generations as denoted by the prefixes of grand, great, or great-great, adoptive parents and their relatives to the same degree as blood relatives, and spouses of the above relatives even after the marriage is terminated by death or divorce) or court appointed guardian who provides care and parental control to a dependent child.
219:3 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2024.
Approved: August 04, 2023
Effective Date: January 01, 2024