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. 780 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to help alleviate homelessness in Hawaii by authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds for the planning, design, and construction of homeless shelters in the Counties of Hawaii, Maui, and Kauai, and the City and County of Honolulu.

The Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii opposed this bill.

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. 780 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.