Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 1286, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to improve the coordination of certain state programs by transferring the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii (HCDCH) from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism (DBEDT) to the Department of Human Services (DHS) for administrative purposes.

HCDCH, DBEDT, DHS, and the Department of Human Resources Development testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

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. 1286, 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. 1286, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.