STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1458

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1361

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1361, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make housekeeping amendments to chapter 356D, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority.

     Your Committee received comments in support of this measure from the Hawaii Public Housing Authority and the Hawaii Community Development Authority.

     Your Committee finds that on July 1, 2006, the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii under chapter 201G, Hawaii Revised Statutes, was divided into two agencies:  the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation under chapter 201H, Hawaii Revised Statutes, and the Hawaii Public Housing Authority under chapter 356D, Hawaii Revised Statutes.  Not all applicable provisions of chapter 201G, however, were codified in chapter 356D, as intended by the Legislature.

     This measure corrects this oversight to provide the version of chapter 356D that was intended by the Legislature.

     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 H.B. No. 1361, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair