STAND. COM. REP. NO. 749-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2431
                                     H.D. 2




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.
2431, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HOUSING AND COMMUNITY
     DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF HAWAII,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to give public housing residents
input into housing policies and procedures that affect them by:

     (1)  Establishing a Resident Advisory Board to advise the
          Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii
          (Corporation) in matters relating to the planning and
          administration of housing programs; and

     (2)  Allowing two public housing residents to serve on the
          Corporation Board of Directors (Board).

     The Affordable Housing and Homeless Alliance testified in
support of this measure.  The Corporation and the Governor's
Office testified in support of this measure with suggested
amendments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Deleting the requirement that the Board be composed of
          one public member who resides in state low-rent public
          housing; and


 
 
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     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for
          purposes of clarity and style.

     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.
2431, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2431, H.D.
2.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair