STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2232

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2856
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Health and Human Services and Government
Operations and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2856
entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC ASSISTANCE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of
Human Services (DHS) to record in the Bureau of Conveyances
agreements or liens with public assistance recipients.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this
measure from the Department of Human Services.

     The DHS is required under current law to require that any
person applying for or receiving assistance under DHS programs
enter into an agreement with the DHS to repay the amount of
assistance benefits if the person owns real property which is not
the person's home.  This measure requires that either the
agreement or a lien to the same effect be filed in the Bureau of
Conveyances to protect the State's interest.  This measure also
requires the DHS to include in its annual report to the
legislature, a list of agreements and their values held by the
DHS on real property.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by making
technical, nonsubstantive changes to reflect preferred drafting
style, clarity, and consistency.


 
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     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Health and Human Services and Government Operations
and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees are
in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2856, as
amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the
form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2856, S.D. 1, and be referred to
the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Health and Human
                                   Services and Government
                                   Operations and Housing,



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ROD TAM, Chair                     SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair

 
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