Bill Text: HI SB1100 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Department of Human Services; General Assistance Program

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-04-26 - The conference committee deferred the measure. [SB1100 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB1100-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1039

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   S.B. No. 1100

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

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 S.B. No. 1100, S.D. 1, 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 find alternative means to help fund the State's General Assistance benefit payments by allowing the Department of Human Services to draw from other funds appropriated to the Department other than those specifically allocated to the General Assistance Program.

 

     The Department of Human Services, Legal Aid Society of Hawaii, Catholic Charities Hawaii, and one individual submitted testimony in support of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Requiring the Department of Human Services to submit to the Legislature a report detailing the funds used and calculations made for General Assistance pursuant to this measure for fiscal year 2012-2013 no later than 20 days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2014; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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 S.B. No. 1100, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1100, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MELE CARROLL, Chair