STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2512

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2059
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2059, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WELFARE REFORM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to increase the assistance
allowance as based on a percentage of the standard of need for
recipients of welfare aid.

     Specifically, this bill raises the assistance allowance from
sixty-two and one-half percent to sixty-five percent of the
standard of need for exempt households and households in which
all caretaker relatives are minors, living independently with
minor dependents and attending school.  This bill also raises the
ceiling on the assistance allowance from sixty-two and one-half
percent to sixty-five percent of the standard of need for all
other households.

     Your Committee finds that this bill will allow aid to be
increased to a more humane and appropriate level to keep abreast
with changing times and inflation.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
2059, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 
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                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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