STAND. COM. REP. NO. 456
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2005
RE: H.B. No. 691
H.D. 1
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2005
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 691 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE RENT SUPPLEMENT PROGRAM,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to remove the $160 cap on rent supplement payments under the State Rent Supplement Program.
The Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii and Affordable Housing and Homeless Alliance testified in support of this bill. A concerned individual provided comments.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Specifying that a qualified tenant may not have an income exceeding 60 percent of the area median income; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 691, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 691, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Housing,
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____________________________ MICHAEL P. KAHIKINA, Chair |
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