STAND. COM. REP. NO.  920-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2647

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2647, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the City and County of Honolulu to establish the Work for a Day Pilot Program to connect homeless individuals willing to work with job opportunities.

 

     The Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness and the City and County of Honolulu Department of Community Services provided comments.  A concerned individual opposed this measure.

 

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Adopting the amendments provided by the City and County of Honolulu Department of Community Services, which include:

 

          (A)  Clarifying the City and County of Honolulu's (City) responsibilities regarding the analysis, administration, and implementation of the pilot program;

 

          (B)  Allowing the City to designate a service provider to carry out the purposes of the pilot program;

 

          (C)  Allowing the City to determine the organizations at which homeless individuals may be connected with work opportunities;

 

          (D)  Specifying that payment to the homeless individuals for work performed shall be paid from the pilot program's funds;

 

          (E)  Ensuring that homeless individuals who perform work under this pilot program are not considered employees of the State or City;

 

          (F)  Providing that if the City is unable to come up with a pilot program by a certain date, the remaining funds shall be transferred to the Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness;

 

          (G)  Indemnifying the State and City from liability arising out of the planning, administration, or implementation of the pilot program; and

 

          (H)  Requiring that the City submit reports to the Legislature on the progress of the pilot program;

 

     (2)  Requiring that the State and City provide matching funds for the pilot program;

 

     (3)  Changing the pilot program length to an unspecified number of years; and

 

     (4)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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. 2647, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2647, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair