STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2549

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 435

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Human Services and Public Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 435 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this short form measure is to amend the laws relating to public housing.

     Your Committee finds that a measure authorizing the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to include certain incentives, including price preferences or scoring bonuses, would be beneficial to promote the construction of affordable housing in the State. 

     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by inserting provisions that authorize the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to include, as part of a request for proposals for the construction or renovation of a public housing project, a price preference or scoring bonus for an offeror who proposes to redevelop concurrently adjacent real property.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services and Public Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 435, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 435, S.D. 1, and be recommitted to the Committee on Human Services and Public Housing, for further consideration.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services and Public Housing,

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SUZANNE CHUN OAKLAND, Chair