STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1114

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 868

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 868 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ELIMINATING THE ASSET LIMIT ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENT FOR THE TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES PROGRAM,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to eliminate the asset limit for participants in the Temporary Assistance For Needy Families program (TANF).

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Human Services, Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice, Catholic Charities Hawaii, Community Alliance for Mental Health, Legal Aid Society of Hawaii, and one individual.

 

     Your Committee finds that elimination of the TANF asset limit will reduce administrative burdens and will have minimal effect on caseload and benefit costs because few applicants and current recipients have substantial resources or assets.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 868, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair