STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1772

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.C.R. No. 169
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health and Human Services, to which was
referred H.C.R. No. 169 entitled:

     "HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE USE OF
     INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to express the legislature's
recognition and support of individual development accounts (IDA).

     IDAs are effective and important mechanisms for asset
building that should be used to complement existing income-based
social policy in Hawaii.  The federal Assets for Independence
Act, signed by President Clinton on October 27, 1998, authorizes
an IDA demonstration project to establish local IDA programs.
This measure requests the Department of Human Services, the
Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii, and the
Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to
collaborate with IDA practitioners and support organizations to
assist in the development of IDAs in Hawaii and ensure that IDA
accounts, including any earned interest, will be disregarded in
the determination of benefits or eligibility for services that
account holders may receive from state agencies.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Health and Human Services that is attached to this
report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of
H.C.R. No. 169 and recommends its adoption.


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



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                                   SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 
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