Bill Text - HB601 (2024)

Relative to state participation in the Medicaid direct certification program for free and reduced price school meals.


Revision: Dec. 21, 2022, 12:45 p.m.

 

2023 SESSION

23-0698.0

10/05

 

HOUSE BILL [bill number]

 

AN ACT relative to state participation in the Medicaid direct certification program for free and reduced price school meals.

 

SPONSORS: [sponsors]

 

COMMITTEE: [committee]

 

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ANALYSIS

 

The bill requires the department of education to seek participation in the Medicaid direct certification methodology for school meals program for free and reduced price meals for students in public kindergarten, elementary, and secondary schools.

 

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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

23-0698.0

10/05

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three

 

AN ACT relative to state participation in the Medicaid direct certification program for free and reduced price school meals.

 

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

 

1  Department of Education; Application for Medicaid Direct Certification Program; Public Kindergarten, Elementary, and Secondary Schools.  The department of education shall seek participation in the Demonstration Projects to Evaluate Direct Certification with Medicaid administered by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).  The department of health and human services shall assist the department of education as needed in pursuing and implementing this new direct certification methodology.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect upon its passage.