STAND. COM. REP. NO.  791

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

RE:   H.B. No. 532

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 532, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Hawaii Public Housing Authority to include, subject to any federal law or regulatory limitations, the value of all motor vehicles registered to all tenants of dwelling units as assets in the calculation for determining income eligibility for state low-income housing.

The Hawaii Public Housing Authority supported this measure.  The Community Alliance for Mental Health and Hawaii Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice opposed this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Clarifying that the Hawaii Public Housing Authority must include the value of all motor vehicles registered to any tenant, rather than all tenants, of a dwelling unit when determining whether the tenant's annual net income and assets are within established maximum limits for state low-income housing qualification;

(2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to facilitate continued discussion; and

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

     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. 532, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 532, H.D. 2.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair