Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2455 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to Hawaii Habitat for Humanity to fund the building of two hundred homes, as well as for capacity building for Habitat affiliates and administration costs.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by Hawaii Habitat for Humanity and three individuals. The Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii supported the intent of the measure.

Your Committee finds that the cost of this measure is far less than the cost of providing shelter for two hundred homeless or at-risk working families, or the cost of building two hundred affordable rental housing units.

Your Committee has amended the measure to make technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2455, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2455, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.