Bill Text: HI HB2286 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; Food Stamp Program; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-15 - (H) Passed Second Reading as amended in HD 1 and referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Belatti, C. Lee, M. Lee, Tokioka excused (4). [HB2286 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2286-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  413-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2286

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 2286 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to help more Hawaii families in need of assistance by appropriating $2,000,000 for fiscal year 2012-2013 for the Department of Human Services (DHS) to:

 

     (1)  Increase staffing; and

 

     (2)  Improve DHS' electronic system's capacity,

 

to respond to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's mandate to expand eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

 

     The Hawaii Health Authority and several concerned individuals supported this bill.  DHS supported the intent of this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Deleting the amount of the appropriation;

 

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

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of 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. 2286, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2286, 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