STAND. COM. REP. NO.  100-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2302

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 2302 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1)  Address economic revitalization by temporarily exempting from the state and county civil service persons hired or contracted to perform specified work relating to vacant public housing units or capital improvement projects; and

(2)  Improve public housing inventory by appropriating funds from general obligation bonds and the rental housing trust fund to renovate public housing units that are uninhabitable.

Hawaii Public Housing Authority testified in support of the measure.  An individual testified in opposition to the measure.  The Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation, Catholic Charities Hawaii, EAH Housing, and Housing Hawaii commented on the measure.

     Upon consideration, your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Deleting the appropriation from the Rental Housing Trust Fund for renovating public housing units that are uninhabitable; and

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Housing that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2302, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2302, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committees on Economic Revitalization & Business and Labor & Public Employment.

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

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RIDA T.R. CABANILLA, Chair