Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 1636 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to establish the Hawaiian Housing Finance Corporation as a means to remedy a shortage of housing and related facilities for native Hawaiian people on Hawaiian home lands.

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs and the State Council of Hawaiian Homesteads testified in support of this bill. Hui Kako`o `Aina Ho`opulapula testified in opposition to this measure. The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands testified in support of the intent of this bill.

Your Committee finds this measure will enhance community development to benefit Hawaii residents of native Hawaiian ancestry.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(2) Deleting Part III concerning urban renewal;

(3) Identifying the regional housing authorities;

(4) Adding an appropriations section with a blank amount;

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1636, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1636, H.D. 1.