Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 129, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to assist Temporary Assistance to Needy Families recipients by allowing them to pursue education and training beyond high school as an employment plan to comply with Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program requirements.

Your Committee finds that the University of Hawaii and the Department of Human Services have collaborated to create a transitional program for Temporary Assistance to Needy Families recipients attending a post-secondary school called the Bridge to Hope program. The State has implemented a mirror program to support low-income, two-parent families through the Temporary Assistance to Other Needy Families program.

Specifically, this bill expands the Bridge to Hope program to cover Temporary Assistance to Other Needy Families recipients as well as Temporary Assistance to Needy Families recipients. This bill also appropriates $1 for fiscal year 2003-2004 and $1 for fiscal year 2004-2005 to fund one outreach position in the Bridge to Hope program.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this bill to take effect on July 1, 2013, for the purpose of promoting further discussion, and by making technical nonsubstantive changes for purposes of style and clarity.

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 H.B. No. 129, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 129, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.