Bill Text: HI HB727 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: TANF Funds; Allocation of Expenditures

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [HB727 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB727-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  479

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

 

RE:   H.B. No. 727

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 727 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE TO NEEDY FAMILIES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to help provide necessary social safety net services during an extended period of economic difficulty by appropriating Temporary Assistance for Needy Families monies to fund cash benefits, employment training and family stability programs, and teenage pregnancy education programs.

 

     Goodwill Industries of Hawaii, Inc.; Hawaii Youth Services Network; Planned Parenthood of Hawaii; About Face Family of Programs; Workforce Development Molokai; and several concerned individuals supported this bill.  The Department of Human Services (DHS) supported the intent of this measure.  The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and a concerned individual provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Making DHS the non-exclusive expending agency for appropriations for teenage pregnancy education programs and employment training programs and other services enabling families receiving benefits to remain intact permissive;

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     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. 727, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 727, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

 

 

		____________________________ JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair