STAND. COM. REP. NO.  263-10

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2010

RE:   H.B. No. 2565

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2565 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DEATH BENEFITS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to ensure a standard of equal treatment of both state and federal governmental benefits by providing a state Lump-sum Death Benefit in an amount equal to the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) Lump-Sum Death Benefit for deceased medical or financial assistance recipients who are ineligible for the SSA benefit.

     The Department of Human Services supported this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by changing the effective date to January 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

     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 H.B. No. 2565, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2565, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

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JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair