STAND. COM. REP. NO. 834-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2154
                                     H.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
2154, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMMUNITY SERVICES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to transfer the Office of
Community Services (OCS) from the Department of Labor and
Industrial Relations to the Department of Human Services.

     The Hawaii Community Action Directors Association, the
Hawaii County Economic Opportunity Council, Maui Economic
Opportunity, Incorporated, the Honolulu Community Action Program,
Kauai Economic Opportunity, Incorporated, and Ka Lima O Maui
testified in support of this measure.  OCS, the Hawaii Foodbank,
the Pacific Gateway Center, Catholic Charities, and the Hawaii
Building and Construction Trades Council testified in opposition
to this measure.  An individual commented on the measure.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Deleting the Progressive Neighborhoods Program and the
          Hawaii Office of Economic Opportunity from the programs
          under OCS;

     (2)  Adding the Community Service Block Grant Program as a
          program under OCS; and


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

     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.
2154, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2154, H.D.
2.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Finance,



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair