Bill Text: HI HB530 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended


Bill Title: Homelessness Awareness Month

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-04-26 - Act 050, 4/25/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1150). [HB530 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB530-Amended.html

 

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO.  17

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 530

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 530 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to designate November as "Homelessness Awareness Month" to promote public awareness of homelessness as a significant problem.

 

     Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice, Catholic Charities Hawaii, Waianae Civic Center, and several individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Human Services provided comments.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 530 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Housing,

 

 

 

 

____________________________

RIDA T.R. CABANILLA, Chair

 

 

 

 

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