STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1665

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2021

RE: S.B. No. 1127

S.D. 1

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2021

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1127, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make an emergency appropriation to the Department of Human Services to fund general assistance payments in the current fiscal year, beginning July 1, 2020, and ending June 30, 2021.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness, Department of Human Services, Catholic Charities Hawai‘i, Partners In Care, Hawaii Primary Care Association, PHOCUSED, and two individuals.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the appropriation amount to the Department of Human Services from $5,400,000 to $3,200,000 for fiscal year 2020-2021;

(2) Making it effective upon its approval; and

(3) Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of 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. 1127, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1127, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair