Bill Text: HI SB2319 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Homeless; Housing; Substance Abuse; Mental Health; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-03-08 - (H) Referred to HSG, HUS/HLT, FIN, referral sheet 41 [SB2319 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB2319-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2643

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2319

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2319, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HOMELESS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to better assist individuals facing or experiencing homelessness by funding various homeless and housing programs.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from Catholic Charities Hawaii; Hawaii Disabilities Rights Center; Leeward Housing Coalition; United Self Help; International Game Developers Association Honolulu; Hawaii Catholic Conference; and one individual.  Your Committee received written comments on this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Department of Human Services; and Partners in Care.

 

Your Committee finds that homelessness continues to be one of the State's most significant and challenging social problems.  According to a recent report, fourteen thousand two hundred homeless individuals were served through shelter and outreach programs in fiscal year 2011.  Your Committee notes that homeless service providers estimate that six thousand homeless people in the State need shelter each night.  To continue to address the problem of homelessness, adequate funding and coordinated efforts at all levels are necessary.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the appropriation and subsidy amounts to unspecified sums to facilitate further discussions; and

 

     (2)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of style and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2319, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2319, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair