THE TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2014
Senator Suzanne Chun Oakland, Chair |
Senator Josh Green, Vice Chair |
NOTICE OF HEARING
DATE: |
Saturday, January 25, 2014 |
TIME: |
10:00 AM |
PLACE: |
Conference Room 229 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street |
A G E N D A
RELATING TO YOUTH. Requires the office of youth services to coordinate a five-year safe places for youth pilot program to establish a network of safe places where youth can access safety and services. Establishes the position of safe places for youth program coordinator. Establishes rules to allow minors to consent to enter the safe places program and provide immunity from liability to safe place providers and other related service providers. Makes appropriation.
|
HMS, WAM |
|
RELATING TO PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES. Establishes and appropriates funds for the medicaid buy-in program for workers with disabilities. Effective 7/1/14.
|
HMS, WAM |
|
RELATING TO THE DISPOSITION OF THE CONVEYANCE TAX COLLECTIONS TO THE RENTAL HOUSING TRUST FUND. Restores the allocation of conveyance tax collections to the rental housing trust fund to fifty per cent beginning 7/1/2014.
|
HMS, WAM |
|
RELATING TO HOUSING. Making an appropriation for the construction of micro apartment housing units.
|
HMS, WAM |
|
RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING. Appropriates funds for the rental housing trust fund to build affordable rental housing projects, including projects with micro units, family units, and elder housing units.
|
HMS, WAM |
|
RELATING TO HOUSING. Authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds and the appropriation of funds for deposit into the rental housing trust fund and the dwelling unit revolving fund for the purposes of financing affordable rental housing development and infrastructure development.
|
HMS, WAM |
|
RELATING TO HOUSING. Makes an appropriation to improve the existing public housing stock and increase the supply of public housing units in the State.
|
HMS, WAM |
|
RELATING TO ELDERLY HOUSING. Appropriates funds for the redevelopment, design, and construction of the Hawaii public housing authority administrative offices on School street and the creation of an elderly-only housing complex.
|
HMS, WAM |
|
RELATING TO UNIVERSAL CHILDREN'S SAVINGS ACCOUNTS. Creates a Universal Children's Savings Account Program under the Department of Budget and Finance. Establishes and appropriates funds into the Universal Children's Savings Account Trust Fund.
|
HMS, WAM |
|
RELATING TO THE HAWAII PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY'S ADMINISTRATION OF THE FEDERAL HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER PROGRAM. Allows only original household members to retain a federal housing choice voucher. Requires vouchers to be returned to the Hawaii public housing authority when all original members are no longer in the household. Allows minors who survive the original head or co-head of the household and were added to the household to retain the voucher until the last of the minors reaches the age of twenty-one.
|
HMS, WAM |
|
RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Establishes the Hale Kokua Program, within the Department of Human Services to incentivize homeowners statewide to set aside dwelling units for rental by families or individuals classified as employed but homeless. Appropriates funds.
|
HMS, WAM |
|
RELATING TO LOW-INCOME HOUSING. Authorizes the issuance and appropriate of general obligation bonds to fund low-income housing tax credit loans.
|
HMS, WAM |
|
RELATING TO THE HOMELESS. Requires mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment without the possibility of parole for crimes that cause death or inflict serious or substantial bodily injury upon a homeless individual or family. Subjects crimes that inflict serious or substantial bodily injury upon a homeless person to extended terms of imprisonment if the defendant knew or reasonably should have known the person was homeless.
|
HMS, JDL |
|
RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS. Prohibits provider agencies from requesting or requiring homeless individuals from purchasing goods or food commodity under a food distribution program or any food stamp or coupon under a food stamp plan, or an EBT card or similar debit card type device, in exchange for services.
|
HMS, WAM |
|
RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING. Requires the Hawaii public housing authority to designate a resident manager at each federal public housing complex and state low-income public housing project. Effective 7/1/2015.
|
HMS, WAM |
|
|
|
|
Decision Making to follow, if time permits.
Click here to submit testimony to the Senate Committee on Human Services.
Testimony may be submitted up to 24 hours prior to the start of the hearing.
FOR AMENDED NOTICES: Measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored. If a measure is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.
If you require auxiliary aids or services to participate in the public hearing process (i.e. ASL or foreign language interpreter, or wheelchair accessibility), please contact the committee clerk at least 24 hours prior to the hearing so that arrangements can be made.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT (808) 586-6130.
|
|
_____________________________________ Senator Suzanne Chun Oakland Chair |
|
|
|