STAND. COM. REP. NO.839
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2001
RE: H.B. No. 73
H.D. 2
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. 73, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to provide funding for homeless assistance.
Specifically, this bill:
(1) Restores adequate funding levels to state homeless programs;
(2) Maintains adequate funding to support additional shelter inventory;
(3) Increases funding levels for homeless assistance by providing a deeper subsidy for those families losing their welfare benefits;
(4) Establishes the Kikala-Keokea housing revolving fund to provide low interest loans to people displaced from Kalapana and who have been denied loans from traditional financial institutions; and
(5) Repeals the Hale Kokua Program.
The Department of Community Services of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, Hawaii County Economic Opportunity Council, American Friends Service Committee, Hawaii Catholic Conference, Catholic Charities, Kalihi-Palama Health Center, the Institute for Human Services, Inc., and the Affordable Housing and Homeless Alliance testified in support of this bill. The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism supported the intent the bill.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Changing the appropriation amounts to $1; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity and style.
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. 73, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 73, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair |
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