STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1011-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 1834

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1834, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to increase the Department of Human Services' Homeless Programs Office's base budget.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from Parents and Children Together; Aloha United Way; Hawaiʻi True Cost Coalition; and one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness; Department of Human Services; Department of Land and Natural Resources; Office of Housing and Community Development of the County of Hawaiʻi; The Institute for Human Services, Inc.; Catholic Charities Hawaiʻi; Partners In Care; and one individual.

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 H.B. No. 1834, 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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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair