STAND. COM. REP. NO. 20
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2005
RE: S.B. No. 179
S.D. 1
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2005
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 179 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to amend the law relating to housing.
Your Committee has amended this measure by inserting language that:
(1) Requires the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii (HCDCH) to hold a public hearing on a proposed housing project in the community plan area in which the project is to be located;
(2) Extends the time period for county approval of the proposed project from forty-five days to seventy-five days from submission of the plan by HCDCH; and
(3) Exempts county decisions on proposed amendments to an approved project from the above seventy-five day deadline.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 179, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 179, S.D. 1, and be recommitted to the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing, for further consideration.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing,
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____________________________ RON MENOR, Chair |
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