STAND. COM. REP. NO. 616-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2512
                                     




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.
2512 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
     PAYMENTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to encourage and support
employment for public assistance recipients by enabling the
Department of Human Services (DHS) to adjust financial assistance
benefit payments.

     Specifically, this bill allows DHS to increase the
assistance allowance for non-exempt households to provide work
incentives or services under part XI of chapter 346, Hawaii
Revised Statutes, the Dependent Adult Protective Services Law.

     DHS testified in support of this measure.

     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.
2512 and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair