STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2220

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3118

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Health and Human Services and Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 3118 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMERGENCY PUBLIC ASSISTANCE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds and authorize the Department of Human Services to provide temporary emergency assistance, case management, and other recovery services following the period covered by an emergency proclamation and establish an emergency management program within the Director of Human Services' office.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Human Services and one individual.

Your Committees received comments on this measure from the State Procurement Office.

Your Committees find that the Department of Human Services currently is not authorized to provide temporary emergency public assistance and recovery services beyond the emergency or disaster declaration period to people or organizations affected by emergencies and who require additional assistance and services. This measure will allow the Department of Human Services to continue the provision of much needed recovery services beyond the declared emergency period.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting language to limit the Department of Human Services' exemption from the procurement code to two years;

(2) Inserting an effective date of December 31, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Human Services and Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3118, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3118, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Human Services and Public Safety and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

________________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair

________________________________ JOY A. SAN BUENAVENTURA, Chair