Bill Text: HI HB874 | 2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Housing.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-17 - Re-referred to HHS, FIN, referral sheet 1 [HB874 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2018-HB874-Amended.html
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TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2017 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO HOUSING.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that persons with severe persistent mental illness often require specialized residential services. However, the high cost of housing creates a shortage of available homes for these individuals, and the severely mentally ill often become homeless. The legislature further finds that the development of project-based housing as a bridge to permanent housing is difficult to develop due to high costs.
Accordingly, the purpose of this Act is to authorize the use of the mental health and substance abuse special fund to provide housing for persons with a life-long serious mental illness.
SECTION 2. Section 334-15, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
"(a) There is established a special fund
to be known as the mental health and substance abuse special fund into which
shall be deposited all revenues and other moneys collected from certification
programs and treatment services rendered by the mental health and substance
abuse programs operated by the State. Notwithstanding any other law to the
contrary, the department is authorized to establish separate accounts within
the special fund for depositing moneys received from certification programs and
from each mental health and substance abuse program. Moneys deposited into the
respective accounts of each program shall be used for the payment of the
operating expenses of the respective program[.]; provided that
per cent of all pre-deposit moneys shall be used for housing
for residents who qualify for social security disability benefits and are
diagnosed with a life-long serious mental illness."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2075.
Report Title:
Housing; Mental Illness; Mental Health and Substance Abuse Special Fund
Description:
Requires use of an unspecified percentage of funds in the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Special Fund to provide housing for residents who qualify for Social Security disability benefits and are diagnosed with a life-long serious mental illness. (HB874 HD1)
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