STAND. COM. REP. NO.  785-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 755

      H.D. 3

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 755, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC HOUSING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to streamline the public housing eviction process by conforming procedural requirements to federal law.  Specifically, this measure:

     (1)  Changes the notification and eviction hearings process for tenants who face eviction; and

     (2)  Reconfigures the size of the eviction board from a minimum of three members to a minimum of one member and a maximum of three members.

The Hawaii Public Housing Authority and Kewalo Hawaiian Homestead Community Association testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2012.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 755, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 755, H.D. 3.

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

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair