Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2333 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the general assistance program.

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

Your Committee finds that this emergency appropriation is for a public purpose and will assist a vulnerable segment of the community.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2333, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2333, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.