STAND. COM. REP. NO. 177-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2860
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Human Services and Housing, to which was
referred H.B. No. 2860 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR WORK PROGRAM
     SERVICES FOR TWO-PARENT FAMILIES RECEIVING AFDC-S,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to increase work program
services by appropriating $1,500,000 for two-parent families
receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children funded by the
State or Temporary Assistance to Other Needy Families (TAONF)
funds.

     The Legal Aid Society of Hawaii testified in support of this
measure.  The Department of Human Services and the American
Friends Service Committee testified in support of the intent of
this measure.

     Your Committee finds that two-parent families, under this
bill, are part of the State-funded TAONF Program.  TAONF is
currently providing work program services under contract to up to
600 individuals through Goodwill on Oahu and up to 480
individuals through Insights to Success in west Hawaii.  These
1,080 slots are available to serve an average caseload of 10,211
TAONF adults.

     An additional $1,500,000 would revise the work program
capacity to 2,760, leaving 5,326 adults who need to obtain

 
 
 
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employment.  This measure would expand work program services to
this group.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Reducing the appropriation to $1 for purposes of
          further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for
          purposes of clarity and style.

     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. 2860, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2860, H.D.
1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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



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                                   DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair