STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1158

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

RE:   S.B. No. 773

      S.D. 2

      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 Committees on Housing and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred S.B. No. 773, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for several housing and homeless programs and projects in recognition of the possible availability of federal funds through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Public Law 111-5.

     The Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting, Kalihi-Palama Health Center, and Partners in Care supported this bill. Catholic Charities Hawaii and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs supported the intent of this bill.  The Hawaii Public Housing Authority opposed this bill.  The Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation offered comments.

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

     (1)  Blanking out the amounts of all appropriations except for the $5,300,000 appropriated in Part V for homeless services; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for style, clarity, and consistency.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Housing and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 773, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 773, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Housing and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,

____________________________ KEN ITO, Chair

____________________________ RIDA CABANILLA, Chair