STAND. COM. REP. NO. 963

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: H.B. No. 613

H.D. 1

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 613, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOMELESS YOUTH,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Make the Safe Spaces for Youth Pilot Program a permanent program within the Office of Youth Services; and

(2) Provide funding for a permanent Safe Spaces for Youth Program within the Office of Youth Services.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Human Services; Office of the Public Defender; Hawaiʻi State Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Plus Commission; Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition; Hawaiʻi Health & Harm Reduction Center; Hawaiʻi Youth Services Network; Pride at Work - Hawaiʻi; Imua Alliance; Democratic Party of Hawaiʻi; Rainbow Family 808; Opportunity for Youth Action Hawaiʻi; and nine individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Office of Youth Services.

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 H.B. No. 613, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair