Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Human Services and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2928 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to eliminate redundancy and duplication in rental housing trust fund awards by abolishing the Rental Housing Trust Fund Advisory Commission (Advisory Commission).

The Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii (HCDCH) and Affordable Housing and Homeless Alliance testified in support of this measure. A concerned individual opposed this measure.

Your Committee notes that the Advisory Commission was established when the Hawaii Housing Authority, Housing Finance and Development Corporation, and the Rental Housing Trust Fund Commission were consolidated into HCDCH, and is no longer necessary because it duplicates functions already performed by HCDCH.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2928, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2928,

H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.