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. 3199 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the general assistance payments for adults who are temporarily unable to work.

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

The Benefit, Employment, and Support Services Division of the Department of Human Services provides a monthly benefit to disabled adults without minor children who are temporarily unable to work due to the disability, or pending a social security eligibility determination. Your Committee finds that, without an appropriation, the Division will have to reduce the $418 monthly general assistance payments.

Your Committee has amended this measure to reflect the amount of the current monthly general assistance benefit.

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. 3199, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3199, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.