Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Human Services and Housing, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 199 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this resolution is to request the Department of Human Services and the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to examine issues relating to public assistance involving incentives and requirements to work and income and asset thresholds that may act as disincentives to work.

Your Committee has amended this resolution by deleting its contents and replacing it with a request to the Hawaii Work Force Development Council, the University of Hawaii, and VSA arts of Hawaii-Pacific that they jointly convene a task force to examine strategies for systems change to create access to small business development and careers in creative industries for people with disabilities in Hawaii.

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 concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 199, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 199, H.D. 1.