Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 539, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to establish Resident Advisory Boards in federal public housing projects, to involve:

(1) Federal public housing residents; and

(2) Section 8 tenant-based housing assistance recipients,

in the development of the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii's (HCDCH) Public Housing Agency Plan and any significant amendments or modifications to that plan.

HCDCH testified in support of this measure.

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. 539, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.