1996 SESSION

3430L
96-2493
03/08

HOUSE BILL 1218-LOCAL


AN ACT requiring local welfare departments to notify a landlord whose welfare recipient tenant has requested that the welfare department stop sending rent checks to the landlord.


SPONSORS: Rep. Christie, Rock 22; Rep. E. Scanlon, Rock 19


COMMITTEE: Municipal and County Government


 

ANALYSIS

This bill requires local welfare departments to notify a landlord whose welfare recipient tenant has requested that the welfare department stop sending checks to the landlord.


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EXPLANATION: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
 Matter removed from current law appears in [brackets].
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.


3430L
96-2493
03/08




HB 1218-LOCAL

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE


In the year of Our Lord
One Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety-Six

AN ACT

requiring local welfare departments to notify a landlord whose
welfare recipient tenant has requested that the welfare
department stop sending rent checks to the landlord.


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

1 New Section; Notification to Landlord Required for Termination of Rent Assistance. Amend RSA 165 by inserting after section 4-b the following new section:
165:4-c Notification Required for Termination of Rents Paid by the Municipality to Landlord. Whenever a person receiving assistance under this chapter requests the termination of rent payments to the owner of the property, the municipality shall inform the owner of the rental property of such termination within 2 business days.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.