STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 231
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2023
RE: H.B. No. 224
H.D. 2
Honorable Scott K. Saiki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Thirty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2023
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 224, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HUMAN SERVICES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The
purpose of this measure is to:
(1) Establish a two-year Public Housing Tenant Upward Mobility Pilot Program to provide public housing tenants with training and work experience necessary to fulfill minimum qualifications for future part-time and full-time employment; and
(2) Appropriate funds for the pilot program.
Your Committee finds that the Hawaii Public Housing Authority serves the State's most disadvantaged populations, including families earning less than thirty percent of the area median income, the disabled, and the elderly. Your Committee further finds that some public housing residents lack adequate training or experience to find gainful employment. This measure will empower public housing residents by enabling them to learn valuable work skills to enhance their family's wellbeing.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount; and
(2) Changing the effective date to June 30, 3000, to encourage further discussion.
Your Committee respectfully requests your Committee on Finance, should it deliberate on this measure, to consider an appropriation amount of $500,000.
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. 224, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 224, H.D. 2, and be referred to your Committee on Housing.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,
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____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair |
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