STAND. COM. REP. NO.  370-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 2286

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Housing, to which was referred H.B. No. 2286, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING ON HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to support an increase in the inventory of affordable housing units by extending the affordable housing credit program under the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands until June 30, 2019.

A concerned individual supported this bill.  The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands supported the intent of this bill.  The Department of Planning and Permitting of the City and County of Honolulu opposed this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1)  Extending the affordable housing credit program under the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands until June 30, 2025; and

(2)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate discussion.

Your Committee respectfully requests that should your Committee on Finance choose to consider this measure, your Committee on Finance determine whether extending the sunset date until June 30, 2025, is preferable to extending the sunset date until June 30, 2019.

     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. 2286, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2286, H.D. 2.

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

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MARK J. HASHEM, Chair