STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1255-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2928

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 2928, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE RENTAL HOUSING TRUST FUND ADVISORY COMMISSION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

(1) Eliminate redundancy and duplication in rental housing trust fund awards by abolishing the Rental Housing Trust Fund Advisory Commission (Advisory Commission); and

(2) Removing the chairperson of the Advisory Commission from the board of directors of the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii and replacing the chairperson with a representative of low-income housing.

The HCDCH and Affordable Housing and Homeless Alliance submitted testimony in support of this measure with amendments. The Department of the Attorney General offered comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2010, to facilitate further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

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. 2928, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2928, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair