Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1854 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to raise the rent supplement payment that may be made by the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii to a housing owner on behalf of a qualified tenant.

Your Committee finds that the rent supplement payment ceiling should be raised; however, your Committee has amended this measure by leaving the payment ceiling unspecified to facilitate further discussion on this matter.

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 S.B. No. 1854, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1854, S.D. 1.