Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 540, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require that at least one public member on the Board of Directors of the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii be a person who is directly assisted by the Corporation under the federal public low-rent public housing or federal section 8 assistance program.

Your Committee finds that the purpose of this bill is to comply with the requirements of the federal Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998, and finds that this bill will enable compliance and ensure continued receipt of federal public housing assistance.

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 H.B. No. 540, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.