STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2338
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2006
RE: S.B. No. 2332
S.D. 1
Honorable Robert Bunda
President of the Senate
Twenty-Third State Legislature
Regular Session of 2006
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing and Human Services, to which was referred S.B. No. 2332 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purposes of this measure are to:
(1) Amend the definition of "public housing project" for purposes of evictions from federal public housing; and
(2) Amend references to the time period in which a public housing tenant has to request a grievance hearing in the written notice of eviction, to conform to the recently amended grievance procedure rules.
Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii and the Department of the Attorney General, with recommended amendments.
Your Committees find that this measure is required to remove obsolete statutory references that are to be repealed pursuant to Act 196, Session Laws of Hawaii 2005, and to limit applicability of the statutory eviction process to federal public housing.
Your Committees have amended the measure to:
(1) Amend the definition of "tenant" in section 201G-51, Hawaii Revised Statutes, for purposes of evictions from federal public housing;
(2) Limit the exclusion of residence or occupancy in a public housing project or complex from chapter 521, Hawaii Revised Statutes (residential landlord-tenant code), to evictions from federal public housing;
(3) Substitute "business days" for "days" throughout the measure; and
(4) Make technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity and style.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing and Human Services that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2332, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2332, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing and Human Services,
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____________________________ SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair |
____________________________ RON MENOR, Chair |
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