STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3293

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2512
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B.
No. 2512 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
     PAYMENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of
Human Services to increase as well as reduce financial assistance
payments to non-exempt households with minor dependents.

     Your Committee finds that increasing assistance allowances
can sometimes serve as a work incentive to enable families to
become self-sufficient within the five-year time period allowed
for public assistance benefits under the Personal Responsibility
and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act.

     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.
2512 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.


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



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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