STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3440
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: H.B. No. 2966
H.D. 2
S.D. 2
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2006
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2966, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to effectuate the implementation plan prepared by the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii to create two separate state housing agencies as required by Act 196, Session Laws of Hawaii 2005.
Specifically, the measure:
(1) Divides the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii into the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, and the Hawaii Public Housing Authority;
(2) Makes technical and conforming amendments to relevant statutory provisions; and
(3) Appropriates funds for the implementation of the plan.
This measure is a result of the implementation plan prepared by the Corporation for the reorganization of the State's housing functions, in compliance with Act 196.
Your Committee finds that the burden of administering the public housing projects in the State has overshadowed the ability of the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii to finance and develop affordable housing. Accordingly, as required by Act 196, Session Laws of Hawaii 2005, the measure statutorily effectuates the splitting of the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii into two organizations so that the resultant entities will be able to more effectively concentrate on their respective purposes.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Deleting the authority of each agency's board of directors to set the salary of its respective executive director and executive assistant;
(2) Deleting the proposed amendment that would allow the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to hire its own attorneys;
(3) Establishing that the teachers' housing program established under this measure is to be repealed on July 1, 2008, to coincide with the start date of the Department of Education's teachers' housing program established under Act 204, Session Laws of Hawaii 2005;
(4) Changing the sunset date of Act 227, Session Laws of Hawaii 2002, to coincide with the implementation of this measure to avoid conflict in administering public housing eviction procedures;
(5) Changing all the appropriation amounts to $1;
(6) Deleting section 33 of the measure as received by your Committee that superfluously directs the Revisor of Statutes to exercise functions that the Revisor is already authorized to do, and performs on an ongoing basis;
(7) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050; and
(8) Make technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, style, and consistency.
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 H.B. No. 2966, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2966, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair |
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