STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1640

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.C.R. No. 126
                                     




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Human Services and Housing and Labor and
Public Employment, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 126 entitled: 

     "HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE CONVENING OF A
     HUNGER AND FOOD SECURITY TASK FORCE TO DEVELOP A SYSTEM FOR
     PROVIDING VALID AND RELIABLE ESTIMATES OF HUNGER AND FOOD
     INSECURITY,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to determine
the magnitude of Hawaii's hunger and food insecurity problem by
requesting the Office of Community Services (OCS) to convene a
Hunger and Food Security Task Force (Task Force) to develop a
system of providing valid and reliable estimates of hunger and
food insecurity.

     The Maui Food Bank and Grace Bible Church testified in
support of this measure.  The University of Hawaii's College of
Social Sciences and College of Tropical Agriculture and Human
Resources, OCS, and the Hawaii Food Bank commented on this
measure.

     Your Committees find that to be able to formulate sound
policies to deal with the need for food assistance, the State
must have a valid and reliable means of determining the magnitude
of its food insecurity problem.  The Task Force is an attempt to
address this issue.


 
 
 
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     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Human Services and Housing and Labor and Public
Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees
concur with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 126, and
recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Human Services
                                   and Housing and Labor and
                                   Public Employment,

                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
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TERRY NUI YOSHINAGA, Chair         DENNIS ARAKAKI, Chair