STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2836

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2793

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2793, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO POVERTY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to reduce the incidence of intergenerational poverty and dependence on public benefits by requiring the Department of Human Services to use an integrated and multigenerational service delivery approach in delivering human services.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Human Services and Hawaii Primary Care Association.

Your Committee finds that providing programs and services that maintain a high level of service integration, quality, and intensity across multiple generations will help to advance the goal of the Department of Human Services to reduce intergenerational poverty in the State and the human and financial costs associated with poverty.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

(2) Making technical nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2793, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2793, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair