STAND. COM. REP. NO. 496

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1122
                                     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. 1122 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO UNCLAIMED FINANCIAL
     ASSISTANCE BENEFITS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of the bill, as received by your Committee, is
to broaden the scope of the financial assistance benefits which
revert back to the State under certain circumstances.

     Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the
Department of Human Services (DHS).

     Your Committee finds that when such unclaimed balances are
recovered, they should revert back to DHS instead of to the State
general fund.

     Therefore, your Committee has amended the measure by
requiring that the unclaimed balances revert back to the
program's appropriation from which the funds were expended.

     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. 1122, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1122, H.D.
1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.


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



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                                   DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair