Bill Text: HI SCR60 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: "Step-Up" Program; Hawaii Public Housing Authority; Department of Labor and Industrial Relations

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-04-22 - Report adopted; referred to the committee(s) on FIN with none voting aye with reservations; none voting no (0) and Carroll excused (1). [SCR60 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SCR60-Introduced.html

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THE SENATE	S.C.R. NO.	60
TWENTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE, 2013
STATE OF HAWAII

SENATE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

 

urging the hawaii public housing authority to INITIATE THE sponsorSHIP PROCESS FOR the united states department of housing and urban development "Step-up" program to provide new employment and training programs for public housing residents and other low-income people.

 

 

     WHEREAS, residents residing in Hawaii Public Housing Authority housing projects currently have very few job training opportunities available to them that provide real economic, long-term empowerment; and

 

     WHEREAS, "Step-Up" is a national program developed by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development in cooperation with the federal United States Department of Labor and the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Offices to provide jobs and job training opportunities on Department of Housing and Urban Development assisted construction to residents of public housing and other low-income people; and

 

     WHEREAS, "Step-Up" has been authorized and used successfully on the mainland for approximately twenty years, but never implemented in Hawaii; and

 

     WHEREAS, public housing authorities are authorized to sponsor "Step-Up" programs, which entail organizing and administering all components of the program, and are encouraged to work with local training providers, such as non-profits, who know and administer workforce development and job training programs; and

 

     WHEREAS, "Step-Up" participants can earn wages that are excluded from income for rent determination purposes, yet provide real economic opportunities and upward wage earning potential, thus enabling them to graduate from public housing to other permanent, unsubsidized housing options, which in turn frees up units for those on waiting lists; and

 

     WHEREAS, there are currently over 10,000 individuals and families on the waiting lists for public housing; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twenty-seventh Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2013, the House of Representatives concurring, that the Hawaii Public Housing Authority is urged to initiate the sponsorship process with the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, the United States Department of Labor, and the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to start a Hawaii "Step-Up" program; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Executive Director of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority, the Director of Human Services, the Field Office Director of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Director of Land and Industrial Relations.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

"Step-Up" Program; Hawaii Public Housing Authority; Department of Labor and Industrial Relations