STAND. COM. REP. 943
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2003
RE: S.B. No. 1580
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2003
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Human Services and Housing and Health, to which was referred S.B. No. 1580 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ADVOCACY FOR HUMAN SERVICES,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is, among other things, to:
(1) Appropriate state matching funds for federal funds available for nonrecurring adoption expenses and to contract with a nonprofit legal services provider to provide assistance to adoptive families;
(2) Appropriate funds for a grant-in-aid to a nonprofit legal services provider to obtain additional federal supplemental security income benefits; and
(3) Appropriate funds for a grant-in-aid to a nonprofit legal services provider to implement a two-year pilot project to maximize federal benefits available to Hawaii residents eligible for benefits under both Medicaid and Medicare.
The Legal Aid Society of Hawaii submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Department of Human Services submitted testimony in support of the intent of this bill. The Hawaii Disability Rights Center submitted testimony in opposition to this bill.
Your Committees find that this bill will directly help children, disabled and elderly individuals, and families. It will also enable the State to access federal funding available for these purposes that is currently not being pursued adequately.
Your Committees have amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for purposes of style, clarity, and conformity.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Housing and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1580, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1580, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Education.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services and Housing and Health,
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____________________________ DENNIS A. ARAKAKI, Chair |
____________________________ MICHAEL PUAMAMO KAHIKINA, Chair |
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