THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2010

 

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND HOUSING

Senator Norman Sakamoto, Chair

Senator Michelle Kidani, Vice Chair

 

 

MEASURES DEFERRED TO FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2010

 

DATE:

Friday, February 19, 2010

TIME:

1:30 p.m.

PLACE:

Conference Room 225

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURE(S):

 

SB 2122

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO RESEARCH.

Requires the department of education, the University of Hawaii, and the department of labor and industrial relations to share data to support research that will improve educational and workforce outcomes and meet the longitudinal data requirements of the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

 

EDH/HRE/LBR

SB 2108

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Increases 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 from one to two.

 

EDH

[Measure added 02-17-10]

SB 2408, SD1

        (SSCR2103)

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO HOUSING DEVELOPMENT.

Amends the criteria for approval by the Hawaii community development authority of substitute reserved housing projects to be constructed within and outside of the geographic boundaries of the authority's jurisdiction.  (SD1)

 

WTL, EDH

[Measure added 02-17-10]

SB 2525, SD1

        (SSCR2183)

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO LANDS CONTROLLED BY THE STATE.

Authorizes the department of Hawaiian home lands and the board of land and natural resources to transfer title in fee simple to lessees of homestead lands.  (SD1)

 

WTL, EDH

[Measure added 02-17-10]

SB 2554

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO NET ZERO ENERGY CAPABLE NEW HOMES.

Mandates that all new single-family residential home construction shall be net zero capable by 2015.

 

ENE/EDH

[Measure added 02-17-10]

SB 2473

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO HOUSING.

Allows grandchildren of elderly housing project residents to temporarily reside with the residents in certain family crisis situations.  Affords residents evicted for raising grandchildren-in-crisis in their housing project units, priority status to return to project housing.

 

HMS/EDH

[Measure added 02-18-10]

 

 

 

 

 

No testimony will be accepted.

 

FOR AMENDED HEARING NOTICES:  If the notice is an amended notice, measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If there is a measure that is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 808-586-8585.