STAND. COM. REP. NO. 454

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 527
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Human Services and Housing, to which was
referred H.B. No. 527 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE HALE
     KOKUA PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the Hale
Kokua program, which assists the homeless of Hawaii by
authorizing payments of state grants and monthly rent supplements
to interested property owners who provide rental space to
employed homeless families or individuals.

     The Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii
submitted testimony stating support for the homeless, but
withholding support for any appropriation not consistent with the
State's Executive Budget request.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by appropriating $1
for each year of fiscal biennium 1999-2001 for the purpose of
further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Human Services and Housing that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of H.B. No. 527, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 527, H.D.
1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.


 
 
                                 STAND. COM. REP. NO. 454
                                 Page 2

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



                                   ______________________________
                                   DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair