STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2706

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2576
                                        S.D. 2




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2576, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STATE OWNED PUBLIC HOUSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to establish a State Resident
Advisory Board.

     Currently, federal law requires tenants to be represented on
a public housing agency board.  This bill complies with the
federal law by establishing a State Resident Advisory Board that
selects representatives to the State's public housing agency -
The Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii.

     Additionally, the bill requires the Housing and Community
Development Corporation to convene a State Public Housing Forum
which selects the members of the State Resident Advisory Board
and also charges the Housing and Community Development
Corporation with the overall responsibility of executing the
provisions of the bill.

     Your Committee has amended the bill by deleting the proposed
number of members in the State Resident Advisory Board to allow
for further discussion on this matter.


 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
2576, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2576, S.D.
2.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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