STAND. COM. REP. NO.  913-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2269

      S.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2269, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to meet the social service needs of public housing tenants as well as provide them with life achievement opportunities while furthering the education and experience of social work students by authorizing the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to partner with the Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work at the University of Hawaii to establish work study programs at public housing and state low-income housing projects.

 

     The Hawaii Public Housing Authority, Community Alliance for Mental Health, United Self Help, and a concerned individual testified in support of this measure.  The Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work at the University of Hawaii supported the intent of this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2269, S.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Higher Education.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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MARK J. HASHEM, Chair