HB1773

I oppose this bill.

Why are we trying to be a nanny state? There are a bunch of people who live close enough to VT, Mass, and Maine that they can just go shopping there if they want to. If the stores have to spend $ to recode all these products they’ll have to pass that cost along to everyone. And for what? So a diabetic can’t buy lifesavers with SNAP?

attacks on SNAP are ludicrous. Address the huge grifts of Free Stater and Republican greed.

I am strongly opposed to this bill.

This is another roundabout attempt to destroy the SNAP program.

Please oppose HB1773 because it places the decisions of distant state administrators over individual decisions. The decisions concern the freedom to be able to choose your own food. Respect those who are in need know what they need better than a government agent.

SNAP is such a vital resource for the elderly who are already struggling with rising healthcare costs, high electric bills and everything else that is going up- including Medicare. I have worked in the nonprofit sector for over thirty years, I have seven years experience as a SHIP counselor in NH as well as a Senior Medicare Patrol. This role has given me a close look at how seniors are doing and I can tell you they are severely struggling to keep up with the high costs. SNAP provides food these seniors would not have. There is no reason to support this bill! Please oppose HB 1773! Thank you, Lori Raymond

Snap benefits are essential for our citizens with low incomes. Do not repeal this support. Many of these families need these benefits to feed their children and so they can be successful in school.

I definitely support ensuring that needy families have access to healthy food, but that's not what this bill does. Families with children have enough challenges, and kids are picky. I don't see a need for the government to limit their dietary choices even further by imposing this kind of legislation on them. This is government overreach. Please vote no on this bill.

This terrible bill is very harmful to Granite Staters in need. It restricts what food SNAP recipients are able to buy, and shames people for trying to purchase food. I urge you to Oppose this bill.

I am a strong supporter of food availability for all.

This bill will have a negative impact on local businesses here in Hudson, and doesn't improve anyone's health. I don't see any advantage to this proposed restriction.

There are so many important issues to address, Why are you wasting time trying to impeach Karen Liott-Hill when the Attorney General has already ruled that she has done nothing wrong/unethical? This is an extreme example of government's ability to waste taxpayer dollars over non-issues.

Please vote no on HB1773. Families relying on SNAP have a hard enough time without facing additional restrictions and regulations. Poor children deserve birthday cakes. Kids eating a potentially repetitive diet of rice and beans or whatever was available at the food pantry deserve an occasional treat of their choice. And honestly, SNAP is such a small amount of money that whatever it costs to administer this new rule would just be silly. Please oppose.

SNAP is federally funded, so this won’t save NH money — but it will add bureaucracy, cost retailers more, and create stigma at checkout. It limits food choice without clear evidence it improves health outcomes. For those reasons, I oppose HB 1773.

We know that over-consumption of sugary snacks is not good for people's health. However, a blanket ban on these for SNAP recipients is a ridiculously paternalistic and degrading to those who need help to feed their children. This is not the kind of legislation that protects the liberty of individuals, particularly those most vulnerable.

Please vote ITL. Ms Liot Hill has already been cleared of any wrong doing by the NH Attorney General.

Please vote ITL. Ms Liot Hill has already been cleared of any wrong doing by the NH Attorney General.

I oppose this bill as it dictates what food SNAP recipients are able to buy, creates a fiscal crisis for local businesses, shames people for trying to purchase food, and fails to improve health for recipients.

Just because families need help buying food, parents should not have to forfeit their right to choose what to feed themselves or their children.

Store clerks would then have to police what a person is purchasing?

People in NH are struggling to eat. Why are you adding restrictions to the food SNAP recipients are able to buy? These are families, elderly, veterans, the working poor struggling to eat and you are going to make it harder for them, and shame them, for trying to purchase what they can find or afford. If you truly want to improve the diet or health of struggling people in NH there are better ways to do it. This is just mean.

Another example of legislative overreach trying to coerce recipients to live a certain way.

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