STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1329

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

RE:   H.C.R. No. 205

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 205 entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING A STUDY ON ESTABLISHING A VETERANS PREFERENCE IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND OTHER STATE AND COUNTY PROGRAMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to request the Legislative Reference Bureau to conduct a study on establishing preferences for veterans and their surviving spouses in affordable housing and other state and county programs.

     The Legislative Reference Bureau (LRB) commented on this concurrent resolution.

     Your Committee finds that a preference for disabled veterans, their widows, and dependent parents, in the selection of tenants for state low-income housing projects, already exists under state law.  Information about this law, however, does not appear to be widely-known.  Accordingly, your Committee has amended this concurrent resolution to call for the dissemination of information about this law to the public, instead of requesting LRB to conduct a study on similar programs.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 205, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committees on Human Services and Health in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 205, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Housing,

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RIDA CABANILLA, Chair