STAND.
COM. REP. NO. 569-24
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2024
RE: H.B. No. 2084
H.D. 1
Honorable Scott K. Saiki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Thirty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2024
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Health & Homelessness and Corrections, Military, & Veterans, to which was referred H.B. No. 2084 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOMELESSNESS,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to authorize and appropriate funds for a Vacated Encampment Clean Up Task Force to identify potential state agencies to enter into intergovernmental agreements to coordinate the clean up of vacated homeless encampments located on lands managed by the United States Army Garrison Hawaii.
Your Committees believe that entering into intergovernmental agreements to identify and clean up vacated homeless encampments on parcels of land where ownership and management of the land may fall under multiple jurisdictions will ensure the State takes a coordinated approach to addressing a public health and safety issue.
Your Committees have amended this measure by:
(1) Establishing the Vacated Homeless Encampment Clean Up Task Force in session law, rather than statute;
(2) Amending the composition of the task force;
(3) Amending the scope and duties of the task force;
(4) Requiring the task force to submit a report to the Legislature prior to the Regular Sessions of 2025 and 2026;
(5) Deleting the appropriation to the Department
of Land and Natural Resources;
(6) Changing the appropriation to the Department
of Transportation to an unspecified amount;
(7) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000,
to encourage further discussion; and
(8) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.
Your Committees respectfully request your Committee on Finance, should it choose to deliberate on this measure, to consider an appropriation amount of $5,000,000.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health & Homelessness and Corrections, Military, & Veterans that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2084, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2084, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health & Homelessness and Corrections, Military, & Veterans,
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____________________________ MARK J. HASHEM, Chair |
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____________________________ DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair |
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