STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1234-12
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2012
RE: S.B. No. 2568
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2012
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2568 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HOMELESS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
Upon consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by deleting its substance and inserting the provisions contained in H.B. No. 70, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, which was introduced in the 2011 Regular Session, the purpose of which is to:
(1) Establish a return-to-home program to provide eligible homeless individuals with assistance in being reunited with family and relatives in the individual's home state;
(2) Require the Department of Human Services to adopt rules to develop the program and adopt standards for its implementation; and
(3) Appropriate funds for the 2012-2013 fiscal year to implement the program.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2568, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2568, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Housing,
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____________________________ RIDA T.R. CABANILLA, Chair |
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