STAND. COM. REP. NO. 789-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 1967

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. 1967, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING VICTIM SERVICES FUND,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to change the administrator of the Human Trafficking Victim Services Fund from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to the Department of the Attorney General.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of the Attorney General; Office of Community Services; Hawaiʻi State Democratic Women's Caucus; Imua Alliance; Kapalama Neighborhood Security Watch; 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. 1967, 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