STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1502

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2019

RE: S.B. No. 398

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Human Services & Homelessness, to which was referred S.B. No. 398, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Require the Department of Human Services (DHS), in partnership with the State Procurement Office, to establish and implement a training program on government procurement and other procedures for nonprofit organizations that offer homeless outreach services or manage homeless housing programs in rural areas of the State; and

(2) Appropriate funds to establish and implement the training program.

The Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness, DHS, Hawaii Youth Services Network, and two individuals testified in support of this measure. The State Procurement Office provided comments on this measure.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Removing the requirement that DHS adopt rules pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act to establish and implement the training program;

(2) Deleting the amounts of the appropriations;

(3) Changing its effective date to January 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion; and

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

Should this measure by heard by the Committee on Finance, your Committees respectfully request that it consider appropriating $270,000 for each year of Fiscal Biennium 2019-2021 for the establishment and implementation of the training program specified in this measure.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Human Services & Homelessness that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 398, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 398, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Human Services & Homelessness,

______________________________ JOY A. SAN BUENAVENTURA, Chair

____________________________ AARON LING JOHANSON, Chair