STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1956-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: S.B. No. 2457

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2457, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO IMMIGRANT RESOURCE CENTERS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Office of Community Services, to restore funding for immigrant resource centers with an outreach component.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Community Services, Hawaii Friends of Civil Rights, Hawai‘i Coalition for Immigrant Rights, Catholic Charities Hawai‘i, The Legal Clinic, Americans for Democratic Action Hawai‘i, Common Cause Hawaii, Health Committee of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i, and one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Department of Human Services, and Department of Budget and Finance.

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 S.B. No. 2457, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair