STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1735

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 224

H.D. 2

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2023

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 224, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to establish, appropriate moneys for, and require legislative reports for, a two-year public housing tenant upward mobility pilot program.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Hawaii Public Housing Authority.

Your Committee finds that many public housing tenants lack training or experience needed to obtain gainful employment. Your Committee finds that a pilot program that provides part-time, on-the-job paid training, as proposed by this measure, may be a vehicle for these tenants to learn skills, increase their incomes, and eventually transition out of public housing.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the appropriation from $500,000 to an unspecified amount to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

(2) Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for 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 H.B. No. 224, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 224, H.D. 2, 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