STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1340
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: H.B. No. 888
H.D. 2
S.D. 1
Honorable Donna Mercado Kim
President of the Senate
Twenty-Seventh State Legislature
Regular Session of 2013
State of Hawaii
Madam:
Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 888, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DISPOSITION OF PERSONAL PROPERTY ON PUBLIC HOUSING PROPERTIES,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide the Hawaii Public Housing Authority with a streamlined process for disposing of property that has been abandoned on or seized from state low-income housing projects.
More specifically, this measure:
(1) Repeals the present process for the disposition of abandoned property through a public auction; and
(2) Establishes an expedited process for the disposition of both abandoned and seized property through a public auction for property that meets a certain monetary threshold value and through other appropriate means for property that does not meet the threshold value.
Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Hawaii Public Housing Authority.
Your Committee finds that this measure will simplify the procedures the Hawaii Public Housing Authority must follow to dispose of abandoned or seized property by reducing storage time prior to disposition and requiring publication and auction only where the estimated value of the abandoned or seized property exceeds a specified threshhold. Your Committee believes this measure will reduce costs related to storage, notice, and disposition for abandoned or seized articles that are of little monetary worth.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 888, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,
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____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair |
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