STAND. COM. REP. NO.  227-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2162

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2162 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GOVERNMENT ISSUED IDENTIFICATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Homeless Programs Office of the Department of Human Services to develop or expand assistance and public outreach for individuals to obtain and maintain government issued identification.

 

     The Department of Human Services and Helping Hands Hawaii supported this measure.  The Governor's Coordinator on Homelessness supported the intent of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

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

 

     (2)  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. 2162, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2162, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

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DEE MORIKAWA, Chair