STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1593

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   S.B. No. 1101

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1101, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE INTERIM ASSISTANCE REIMBURSEMENT SPECIAL FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to help reduce the need for future emergency appropriations for the Department of Human Services' General Assistance Program by:

(1)  Establishing the Interim Assistance Reimbursement Special Fund into which interim assistance reimbursements from the federal Social Security Administration, in addition to appropriations made by the Legislature and other designated revenues, will be deposited for reimbursements for state-funded financial assistance payments and programs for recipients who are retroactively approved for Federal Supplemental Security Income; and

(2)  Appropriating funds out of the Interim Assistance Reimbursement Special Fund for FY 2013-2014 to be used for state-funded financial assistance payments and programs that support and assist recipients to qualify for supplemented security income.

The Department of Human Services, Legal Aid Society of Hawaii, and Goodwill Industries of Hawaii, Inc. supported this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to facilitate further discussion; and

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     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 S.B. No. 1101, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1101, S.D. 2, H.D. 1.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair