STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1293

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.C.R. No. 168

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 168 entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING A MANAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL AUDIT OF THE HAWAII PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this concurrent resolution, as received by your Committee, is to request the Auditor to perform a management and financial audit of Hawaii Public Housing Authority (HPHA), for fiscal year 2006-2007, to present.

     The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) commented on this measure.

     Act 178, Session Laws of Hawaii 2006 (Act 178), was enacted in acknowledgement of the State's obligation to native Hawaiians by requiring HPHA and other departments and agencies that collect receipts from the lands within the public land trust to determine and transfer to OHA a portion of those receipts.  Section 5 of Act 178 required an accounting by departments and agencies that use or manage public lands by January 1 of each year.  Your Committee notes the testimony of OHA, which indicated that HPHA has never submitted a report in compliance with Act 178 since 2006.

     Upon consideration, your Committee has amended this concurrent resolution by:

(1)  Deleting its contents and inserting substantive language, the purpose of which is to request HPHA to carry out its accounting and reporting responsibilities under section 5 of Act 178; and

(2)  Amending the title of the concurrent resolution to reflect:  "HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE HAWAII PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY TO CARRY OUT ITS RESPONSIBILITIES UNDER SECTION 5 OF ACT 178, SESSION LAWS OF HAWAII 2006."

     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. 168, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Legislative Management in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 168, H.D. 1.

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

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RIDA T.R. CABANILLA, Chair