STAND. COM. REP. NO. 305

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 1352

       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 Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Affordable Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 1352 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to make technical and housekeeping amendments to various sections of the Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) and the Session Laws of Hawaii 2006, relating to the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation's programs.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation (HHFDC) and three members of the Maui County Council.

     Your Committee finds that this measure is a housekeeping matter that will correct inadvertent mistakes that occurred following the repeal of chapter 201G, HRS, and the transfer of the enabling laws of the HHFDC to chapter 201H, HRS.

     Upon the recommendation of the HHFDC, your Committee has amended this measure by deleting the new definition of "elder or elderly" and adding the definition for "elderly housing project," in order to comply with existing federal law.  Your Committee also amended the effective date to make this measure effective upon approval, rather than, upon approval, having its provisions retroactively apply from July 1, 2006.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Affordable Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1352, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1352, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Affordable Housing,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair