STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2365

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2108

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2010

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Education and Housing, to which was referred S.B. No. 2108 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HOUSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to increase from one to two the minimum number of members on the Board of Directors of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority who are directly assisted by the Authority under the federal low-rent public housing or federal Section 8 Tenant-Based Housing Assistance payments program.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by one individual.  Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by one state agency.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

     Your Committee finds that residents of Hawaii Public Housing Authority housing projects provide a valuable and unique perspective to the Board of Directors of the Authority.  This measure ensures that their views are appropriately represented on the Board.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by expanding the criteria that the two public members of the Board of Directors of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority be directly assisted by the Authority under the federal low-rent public housing or Section 8 Tenant-Based Housing Assistance program to also include those who have been formerly assisted by the Authority under those federal programs.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2108, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2108, S.D. 1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

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

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair