Bill Text: HI HB869 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Department of Human Services; General Assistance Program

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-06 - Passed Second Reading and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Cachola, Say excused (2). [HB869 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB869-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  131

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 869

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 869 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE GENERAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to allow the Department of Human Services to use other funds appropriated to the Department in determining the allowance for General Assistance to Households Without Minor Dependents Program recipients.

 

     The Department of Human Services, Legal Aid Society of Hawaii, and an individual testified in support of this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 869 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

 

 

		____________________________ MELE CARROLL, Chair