STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2269

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 3159
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Government Operations and Housing, to
which was referred S.B. No. 3159 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 measure is to address the inequity
between the rights of tenants protected by the landlord-tenant
code and the rights of tenants subject to the rules of the
Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii (HCDCH).
This measure amends section 521-7, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to
apply the landlord-tenant code to the HCDCH and homeless
facilities falling under its jurisdiction.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from an
individual.  In its testimony, the Legal Aid Society supported
the measure provided that the HCDCH retains its authority to
evict its own tenants under its own internal eviction process.

     Testimony in opposition to this measure was received from
the HCDCH, the Institute for Human Services, Homeless Solutions,
Gregory House Programs, and Catholic Charities Community and
Immigrant Services.

     Your Committee finds that the current administrative process
of the HCDCH for lease terminations or evictions in public
housing was found to satisfy the requirements of due process by
the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development.

 
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Your Committee also finds that under current law, HCDCH homeless
housing projects are able to evict persons committing serious
rule violations.

     Your Committee has amended this measure to eliminate the
application of the landlord-tenant code regarding lease
terminations and evictions.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Government Operations and Housing that is attached
to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of S.B. No. 3159, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B.
No. 3159, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and
Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Government
                                   Operations and Housing,



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                                   ROD TAM, Chair

 
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