STAND. COM. REP. NO.  928

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

RE:   H.B. No. 1097

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1097, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ASSISTANCE FOR AGED, BLIND, AND PERMANENTLY AND TOTALLY DISABLED PERSONS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to help ensure assistance to one of the state's most vulnerable populations in a fiscally responsible manner by basing public assistance amounts under the State-funded Assistance for the Aged, Blind, and Permanently and Totally Disabled public assistance program on caseload and the total amount appropriated by the Legislature.

     The Legal Aid Society of Hawaii opposed this bill.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1097, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair