Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Human Services and Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 543 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to remove the requirement for the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii (HCDCH) to ensure that a compliance audit by an independent auditing agency is done every fiscal biennium period.

Testimony in support of this bill was submitted by HCDCH and the Institute for Human Services, Inc.

Your Committee finds that the estimated cost of the audit would cost much more than the amount budgeted. Further, other compliance audits are already in place. These funds could be used by other service providers of homeless assistance.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 543 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.