STAND. COM. REP. NO.  302

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1347

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1347 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to assist the Department of Human Services in administering the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program by appropriating funds to the Department for the hiring of any necessary staff; the improvement of the Department's electronic systems capacity; and the contracting of any needed services to effectively implement and spread awareness of the Program.

 

     The Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice supported this measure.  The Department of Human Services supported the intent of this measure.

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1347, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1347, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

 

 

 

 

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DEE MORIKAWA, Chair