STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1119

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 519

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 519, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Human Services to administer Housing First programs for homeless individuals.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Human Services, Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice, Catholic Charities Hawaii, Community Alliance for Mental Health, Partners in Care, Institute for Human Services, Inc., and one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that homelessness is a systemic problem in the State and that Housing First programs provide housing and support services for chronically homeless individuals.  Accordingly, your Committee finds that this measure would support programs that provide services and protections to the homeless population in the State.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

 

     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. 519, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 519, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.

 

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

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair