Report Title:

State Rent Supplement Program

Description:

Modifies the maximum amount that a owner of a rental unit may receive under the state rent supplement stipend. (SD1)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1721

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005

S.D. 1

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO LOW-INCOME HOUSEHOLD RENTERS.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 201G-231, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"[[]§201G-231[]] Rent supplements. The corporation [is authorized to] may make, and contract to make, annual payments to a "housing owner" on behalf of a "qualified tenant", as those terms are defined in this subpart, in [such] amounts and under [such] circumstances as are prescribed in or pursuant to this subpart. No payment on behalf of a qualified tenant shall exceed a segregated amount of [$160] $           a month."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.