STAND. COM. REP. NO.1318
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2001
RE: S.B. No. 123
S.D. 1
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 S.B. No. 123, S.D. 1, 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:
(1) Restore funding to homeless assistance programs;
(2) Maintain adequate funding to support additional shelter inventory;
(3) Increase funding for homeless assistance by providing a deeper subsidy for families losing welfare assistance;
(4) Provide housing or self-help housing in the Kikala-Keokea area;
(5) Establish the Kikala-Keokea Housing Revolving Fund (Fund) to provide low-interest loans for home construction for Kikala-Keokea leaseholders who have been denied loans from traditional financial institutions;
(6) Appropriate moneys to the Fund; and
(7) Repeal the Hale Kokua Homeless Assistance Program.
The Department of Community Services of the City and County of Honolulu, Kalihi-Palama Health Center, Partners in Care, the Institute for Human Services, Inc., and Hawaii Catholic Conference submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism submitted comments on this bill.
Your Committee has amended this bill by deleting all provisions except the repeal of the Hale Kokua Homeless Assistance Program.
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 S.B. No. 123, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 123, S.D. 1, 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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