Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1286 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to transfer the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii from within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism for administrative purposes to within the Department of Human Services for administrative purposes.

Your Committee finds that there is a continuing need to provide financing for infrastructure and other elements that lead to the development of low income housing for Hawaii's citizens, and that there remains a strong need to continue the construction, maintenance, and operation of rental housing for the State's neediest low income families and individuals to provide them with an affordable quality of life.

Your Committee agrees with the placement of the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii into the Department of Human Services for administrative purposes, which will enhance the coordination of low income housing and housing for the homeless with necessary supportive social services. Your Committee further finds that this measure will allow the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to focus on its core economic development mission.

Upon further consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1286, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1286, S.D. 1.