STAND. COM. REP. NO.  395

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

 

RE:   H.B. No. 874

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Human Services and Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 874 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to require that a percentage of funds in the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Special Fund be used to provide housing for residents who qualify for Social Security disability benefits and are diagnosed with a life-long serious mental illness.

 

     An individual testified in support of this measure.

 

Your Committees have amended this measure by changing its effective date to July 1, 2075, to encourage further discussion on this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Human Services and Health that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 874, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 874, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 


 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Human Services and Health,

 

 

____________________________

DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair

 

____________________________

DEE MORIKAWA, Chair